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by dralley 6d ago
There is a rustc_codegen_clr which transpiles to .NET https://github.com/fractalfir/rustc_codegen_clr
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by dralley 11d ago
>overhaul Firefox to be all our Rust as Quantum was aiming towards That was not in fact the purpose of project Quantum
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The Secret Agents Behind Russia's Olympic Doping Machine [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dralley 15d ago|0 comments
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by dralley 16d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs
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by dralley 20d ago
It has supposedly dropped to below 10% (but higher on average in rural areas than in cities, and of course that's just smoking, not the use of other nicotine products) https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/u-s-smoking-rate
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by dralley 21d ago
They've mostly switched to vapes now. It's still annoying, but at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets. Seeing the sidewalks / parks outside of the main train station in Prague covered in cigarette butts as
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by dralley 27d ago
DRM = Direct Rendering Manager. GPU scheduling.
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by dralley 27d ago
The latency isn't that bad, it's reasonable for a compatibility shim.
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by dralley 27d ago
>and intentionally stifled improvement on xorg Open source developers are not required to spend their time prioritizing your priorities. You just have to look to Xlibre to see that a lot of contributions are quite bad quality, and in a C
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by dralley 27d ago
Xorg's security (and X11 in general) is objectively terrible - this is not even a debatable question.
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by dralley 27d ago
Xorg isn't neglected for "ideological reasons", it's neglected because development is work - and most of the people with knowledge of the problem domain decided they didn't want to work on Xorg anymore, and most of
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by dralley 27d ago
Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol. A lot of the "existing functionality" that it broke has nothing to do with displays, it's stuff that got crammed into Xorg at some point whether it ma
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by dralley 1mo ago
Well for years HN was complaining that Mozilla was trying to fix that, because it broke XUL extensions.
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by dralley 1mo ago
Websites already can barely be assed to care about supporting Firefox users, doing adblocking by default is a great way to get websites to start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to
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by dralley 1mo ago
MozillaVPN is a paid service.
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by dralley 1mo ago
Mozilla doesn't sell user's data, they sell user's search traffic. Not the same, given that the latter requires a service rendered.
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by dralley 1mo ago
>Mozilla should've finished rewriting Firefox completely in Rust to give them an Unique Selling Point. They didn't because of management's hubris to build their own mobile operating system to take on Google (its largest fi
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by dralley 1mo ago
Everyone complains about the CEO pay but it's not that significant compared to the overall budget. The actual $$ historically goes to spending on high end office space in San Francisco, Paris, and other expensive cities and paying sal
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by dralley 1mo ago
> But the CEO could get off his fat ass and do his job finding an actual business model HN would complain (and indeed has complained) every time they try to find a non-Google source of revenue. The advertisement for the Disney movie wit
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by dralley 1mo ago
HN is incredibly inconsistent and two-faced about which Mozilla side projects are "frivolous" and which ought to be defended to the death. Rust was a side project, asm.js was a side project that turned into WASM, IIRC LetsEncrypt
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by dralley 1mo ago
> and "cargo check" can catch compile issues without a full build. You only have to compile when you actually want to test the behavior, which tends to be right on the first try more often as a result of the strict compiler.
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by dralley 1mo ago
I don't think Rust is particularly worse than Go in any of these respects. - LLMs have clearly been trained on a lot of Rust as well - Compile times are counterbalanced by strong compiler with excellent error messages, and "cargo
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by dralley 1mo ago
It's not that hard.
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by dralley 1mo ago
For whatever reason, maybe not even logical ones, Go repulses me. I don't know why exactly, I like the idea of Go, but the aesthetics rub me wrong. I think it's the use of pointers and "if err != nil {}" error handlin
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by dralley 2mo ago
Cutting off the binding of the book to separate the pages makes them easier to scan, that's part of the reason why they do it destructively.
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Anatomy of a Formula 1 front wing [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dralley 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dralley 2mo ago
This is the post I responded to >> The proof this site is misnamed is that a post criticizing systemd gets downvoted, probably by people who have never questioned why an [[ init system ]] needs to become half the operating system. So
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by dralley 2mo ago
The systemd init isn't half an operating system any more than the coreutils "ls" utility is half a userspace. The systemd project has many different components but they're independent, they are not all literally part of
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by dralley 2mo ago
I'd be happier if it was 24 hours by default, with an increased timeout configurable behind 2FA.
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by dralley 2mo ago
Most of those don't require fingerprints or photos. Those that require addresses, do so because they're literally billing and/or shipping items to you. And none of them is comparable to physically entering another country.

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