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by proto_lambda 4y ago
Have you seen modern C++? It has had new syntax bolted on every couple years for the past few decades, the result is quite phenomenal.
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
> The thing they rewrote also worked great in production. It didn't for them, that's why they rewrote it. > Rust is being sold as magically making software safe and people selling that completely ignore the fact that logical
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
It's an idiom: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/save_someone%27s_bacon
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
You mean the tale of someone rewriting a very complex and fiddly software from scratch, having it work great in production, and then using the ecosystem's great tooling to easily find and eliminate even more bugs than what the language
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
The module system is something that some people struggle with for a while, but every feedback I've heard so far is "it actually makes complete sense, I don't know why I didn't get it earlier". There just seems to be
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
0.6kWh / 5min * 60min/1h is still 7.2kW. It only needs to handle those 7.2kW of heat loss for five minutes, not continuously, but the power doesn't change.
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
No, US homes are typically 240V split-phase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
This still assumes that intelligence agencies are good at keeping their backdoors to themselves, which is not necessarily the case.
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
What's a CGRA?
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
> The service [...] doesn't force you to a particular workflow. I've never actually used it, but isn't that exactly what it does? As far as I know, it only allows submitting patches using emails, not using the "pull r
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
Not completely, but everything is extremely slow and many requests result in "No server is currently available to service your request". The status page is completely green, of course: https://www.githubstatus.com/
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
I'd proceed with caution. Apparently it doesn't support Wayland, so when you run it under Wayland it offers you a "Fix it!" button that, when clicked, runs sed on some gdm system config files to revert it to X11 (nevermi
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
This is clearly intended for the industrial market, not for consumers. Price tends to be much less of an issue there.
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
OP seems to be conflating the concepts of cargo (the rust build system with dependency management functionality) and crates.io (the main and default package repository today). It is totally possible to use cargo without ever touching crates
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
"starting fresh with no baggage" also means starting fresh with no drivers. Having drivers for a wide range of hardware is a major factor in operating system adoption.
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
I'm sure there are web developers that are also Rust developers and vice versa, but the vast majority of developers I know that belong to either of those groups don't belong to the other.
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by proto_lambda 4y ago
I can sympathize with the need to have all required source code in the repository and not having to fetch a bunch of dependencies at build time. Thankfully, cargo already offers a solution here: `cargo vendor` will download all the specifie
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by proto_lambda 5y ago
A funny piece, but oh boy that author sure has some Opinions they had to squeeze in there.
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by proto_lambda 5y ago
Huh, that is a bit suspect. https://redcrossredcrescent.org/ refuses connection, the HTTP version just redirects to the IFRC homepage. The only backlink to that domain I can find is this tweet, and I have no idea if the twi
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by proto_lambda 5y ago
Yes, it does! Here's a an example of such an app being used, courtesy of the Lunteren fire brigade (video with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoK_QOvm8n8&t=882s