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by timidger 2y ago
Beyond All Reason
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by timidger 3y ago
From the footnotes/references: > 2. Forthcoming article, Kris De Decker, Low-tech Magazine. The veracity of their claim is still in question, but based on that I'm going to assume good faith that they have facts to back up thei
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by timidger 3y ago
Your solution to a privacy problem vis-a-vis mega corporations involves moving your transaction to a public block chain?
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by timidger 3y ago
It's not (just) that python is "easier" to learn than python (which I dispute - lisp is as easy to learn as a first language as any other. Depending on the language it may be a difficult second language though). The world had
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by timidger 3y ago
I think the opposite, though I admit I'm very negative on NFTs and crypto. IIRC their NFT snoos came out well after the NFT bubble. A probably not insignificant amount of Dev time went into this, and I can't imagine it got much tr
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by timidger 3y ago
I always love to see reddit leaking onto this site
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by timidger 4y ago
> you sure nginx is even going to be around in, say, 15 years? Considering it's been around longer than that, yes I think it will be around in 15 years
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by timidger 4y ago
I have no doubt these technologies will improve, but there's another argument to be made. The tech will get better and we'll be all the worse for it. Stoll argued the tech will not be good enough, but paid little thought to the ra
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by timidger 4y ago
I agree, that is a weak reason to dislike macros. I dislike them primarily because of the additional complexity they add that isn't always justified. All of the more complex macros I wrote I regret, especially the one I did at my last
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by timidger 4y ago
It was probably very true 10 years ago, for some of them it has become less true
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by timidger 4y ago
Lack of server side decorations in the core spec, and limitations of wlroots, are unrelated so I'm not sure what they're getting at (except to support the larger idea that Wayland is poorly designed, which I disagree with. However
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by timidger 4y ago
Author here. Certainly part of the ugliness of wlroots-rs is my fault (unsafe code + macros is not a fun combination). However, I tried quite a few ways to make this safe and ergonomic. Perhaps some better way exists that I missed, but even
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by timidger 4y ago
Depending on how you want to define fraudulent, it already has https://youtu.be/eYzzPBq8GDU
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by timidger 4y ago
This is a client library only (at least according to the title). There would need to be an equivalent server library implementation, not to mention all of the necessary non Wayland protocol code (libinput, drm, etc). Still the easiest means
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by timidger 4y ago
> I think part of his Rust criticism was towards the attempt to make Sway use wlroots-rs and it not fitting his idea. That was never a goal, not for Sway and not for wlroots-rs. I wrote that to port Way Cooler, it was no different from t
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by timidger 5y ago
I use it to check if an app uses xwayland when I use sway
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by timidger 5y ago
Do you have a link to that discussion?
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by timidger 5y ago
I haven't done any Linux work (except for some stuff with device tree that I've mostly forgotten), but that post I made about Way Cooler may not be generalizable to all C APIs. It's also possible that I simply was not creativ
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by timidger 6y ago
That is not a good reason for choosing such charged language. You can get your point across without comparing a venerable (if flawed) programming language to one of the most feared class of diseases that kills millions each year. I think th
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by timidger 6y ago
No traditional utility company does what Google has routinely shown to do as in the original post though. There's still a bill to pay and expectations of reasonable service (I assume if I just left my tap on and drew as just electricit
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by timidger 6y ago
I found your point hard to agree with, until I mentally replaced "HTML" with "bash" at which point I was enlightened of how important context is. Though I was hired to work with languages $X and $Y at $dayjob, many, many
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by timidger 6y ago
Which you'd never write in practice since `expect` exists
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by timidger 6y ago
Out of curiosity what's wrong with git add -i? That's what I use to stage parts of a file.
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by timidger 6y ago
As a software developer that, at one point in a job, was forced to confront hardware head on because the code I was writing was firmware, I'm guessing they mean something like Kermit. A simple tool to get the output from an embedded de
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by timidger 6y ago
I'm not convinced totally that's the case, but I'm definitely more open to that idea after that job. I've stopped using macros in my side projects and I avoid projects that use them now.
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by timidger 6y ago
Clippy catches a lot and I can't imagine coding without rustfmt. But there's more to style guides than formatting and Clippy lints. Some designs will pass Clippy (or worse, lead to Clippy warnings far past the point where a redesi
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by timidger 6y ago
That's because they implemented egl streams, nothing has changed majorly since then. There's been a lot of talk, but no action towards unification. The ball is entirely in Nvidia's court and they continue to work together on
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by timidger 6y ago
Because the version of web browser and the kernel more or less doesn't matter because they care way more about backwards compatibility than the "vast majority of software". The kernel doesn't break user space. Web browse
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by timidger 6y ago
Funny... filtering out these type of extensions was my intern project 2 years ago at Google.
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by timidger 7y ago
Your edit to your original comment was important information I was missing - you are correct that that would probably work. With how wlroots-rs is setup it does require the upgraded resources to not be leaked because their drop impl decreme

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