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by dayvster 11mo ago
Well I discussed this with the Author briefly and that's a huge undertaking and he is working on it but the results especially desired results will take time.
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by dayvster 11mo ago
Yea as the author of the article that's what I'm wondering too this is scheduled to be "released" in a couple of days. I basically figured I wouldn't need to do much more than not link it anywhere on my website or s
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by dayvster 11mo ago
Author of the article here again. Since I've seen multiple people complain about this I've dropped adsense completely as they were pretty invasive with tracking and the amount of ads. I'm currently testing carbon ads and then
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by dayvster 11mo ago
Oooh that's a good one, saved for later!
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by dayvster 11mo ago
That is precisely what prompted me to write this article, it was an update to a piece of software I require to use for work that suddenly just stopped working properly. That's actually a point I wish I touched upon more in the article,
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by dayvster 11mo ago
Do you really wish to go into stuff that has very little to do with the article itself? I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive. I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which u
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by dayvster 11mo ago
Harsh but fair, I strongly encourage you to keep your shields up and or adblocker turned on. Sorry you couldn't enjoy the article though.
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by dayvster 11mo ago
Author of the article and owner of the site here. Google changes the amount and placement of the ads depending what "ad market" you are from so US and other similar countries might experience more ad placements than lower ad marke
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by dayvster 11mo ago
good catch, appreciate it! it was indeed a mistake on my part, line-height got applied to code blocks as well as the paragraphs I fixed it now so that codeblocks do not have a very loose line height.
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Is Odin Just a More Boring C?(dayvster.com)
3 points by dayvster 1y ago|0 comments
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by dayvster 1y ago
Some of it is the fault of AI and the belief that software is super easy to create now and maintenance won't be an issue in the future, mainly by folks who have very little to no experience with writing software but attempt it via the
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by dayvster 1y ago
Yes! I could not agree more with this sentiment. We over-analyse, over discuss, over plan and over optimize before we even write the first import or include. Some of my best ideas came to me as I was busy programming away at my vision. Ther
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by dayvster 1y ago
Cool but I don't know how credible this information is. From what I've read on how they got that data and came to these numbers it does not exactly inspire a high degree of confidence
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by dayvster 1y ago
Woah that's wild, so this gives credence to some more spiritual stuff out there.
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by dayvster 1y ago
Making a broad statement like there has never been a memory safe C program is a bit of a dickish thing to say. especially when you phrase it as > Can you provide examples for it? Because it honestly doesn't seem like it has ever bee
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by dayvster 1y ago
har har... have my upvote!
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by dayvster 1y ago
> The Rust community should be upfront about this tradeoff - it's a universal tradeoff, that is: Safety is less ergonomic. It's true when you ride a skateboard with a helmet on, it's true when you program, it's true f
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by dayvster 1y ago
this is an excellent example do you mind if I examine it a bit closer and perhaps use it in my article?
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by dayvster 1y ago
Then we're sort of in agreement. I don't think you need the ritual and complexity that rust brings for small and simple scripts and CLI utilities...
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by dayvster 1y ago
Uh I'm confused, so you think my take is bad because memory safety should not matter ?
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by dayvster 1y ago
I can guarantee you that none of it was written by ChatGPT or any other LLM. As for the Ads, even though it's my site, I'd urge you to turn on adblocker, pi-hole or anything like that, I won't mind. I have ads on there yes, b
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by dayvster 1y ago
> Seasoned Rust coders don’t spend time fighting the borrow checker No true scotsman would ever be confused by the borrow checker. i've seen plenty of rust projects open source and otherwise that utilise Arc heavily or use clone and
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by dayvster 1y ago
yea but, that's extremely edge case, or at least I have not yet encountered a need for that personally.
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by dayvster 1y ago
Segfaults go brrr. All jokes aside, it doesn’t actually take much discipline to write a small utility that stays memory safe. If you keep allocations simple, check your returns, and clean up properly, you can avoid most pitfalls. The real c
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by dayvster 1y ago
I have not given any of those 3 a fair enough shot just yet to make a balanced and objective decision. Out of all of them from what little I know and my very superficial knowledge Odin seems the most appealing to me, it's primary use c
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by dayvster 1y ago
Not quite, it can translate C into zig using the `translate-c` command that it comes with. But it compiles directly into machine code
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Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools(dayvster.com)
206 points by dayvster 1y ago|397 comments
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by dayvster 1y ago
the comments on the gist are rough. Must we saturate every aspect of our lives with Politics? Yes it's annoying that people disabled your access because of your location, but at the end of the day it is what it is. US companies get hef
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by dayvster 1y ago
Zoxide is a bit more than just that, it creates and index as you are using it, the more you CD into dirs the higher priority they will be.
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by dayvster 1y ago
Zoxide is amazing and I can't live without it since I switched to it.

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