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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.

good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Check out the crate indexmap. Check its dependants too if you want to see how higher level abstractions can be built utilizing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The biggest problem with these cameras would be the fact that they are probably relatively easy to hack, especially for other enemy state actors, although none of them specifically comes to mind 😉🤐

And despite the negative context, and possible usual fabrication involved, the only surprise in that farcical reporting for me was how the BBC let slip the fact that the Taliban are providing power and water services to the population at a level that is functional and beneficial enough for the supposed threat of withholding them to be seen as of consequence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

What happens if you use an out of range array subscript a[n]? Does that always return an option type?

It never returns an option type. This Index interface happens to be actually noisy as implemented for some std types. Although you can implement it however you like for your own data types (including ones just wrapping the std ones). And we have checked access (example) and unchecked access (example) as methods.

It's actually astonishing the lengths you're taking to NOT learn anything, to the point of just imagining things about Rust that are supposedly done wrong compared to Ada.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Wrapping and Saturating are available as data types in std. Checked can't be a (useful) data type as-is because it by definition changes the type of the return value of operations (Option<T> instead of T). But you can trivially add a noisy/signalling wrapper yourself if you wish to (basically doing checked ops and unwrapping all results). An example of something offering a noisy interface is a crate named noisy_float.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Rust supports wrapping, saturating, and checked operations, which allows you to precisely define the behavior you want from your math operations, and avoiding ever hitting an (unchecked) overflow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

VLC was never great in its own right.

If there is something historical to talk about, it's how shit Windows was for both not providing basic functionality in a minimally serviceable media player. And worse, how it couldn't get the basics of OS-ing right in being susceptible to DLL hell and other similar issues.

In other platforms where such inadequacies were never present, VLC never became a big deal, because..VLC was never great in its own right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't downvote people, but since you asked.

here has been a zlib in Ada for many years, doing its job quietly.

Who asked?

Speed comparable to the C version, probably not beating it, but not trailing by much in any case.

There is no one C version. The version being referred to is the original zlib, which happens to be the worst implementation of four possible zlib back-ends available in the flate2 crate. Besides the original zlib and zlib-rs, there is zlib-ng and cloudflare_zlib, both of which are also (still) implemented in C.

So being comparable to the original zlib is hardly something to shout about. In fact, individual hobbyists have been beating that implementation just for fun for many years.

Rust is safer than C but less safe than Ada from what I can tell.

Rust (edited for clarity) looks to me to be about halfway between C and C++ in complexity, with a bunch of footguns removed, and using implicit move semantics (“borrowing”) more than C++ does, and the notorious borrow checker is simply the compiler making sure you don’t make RAII mistakes because of that.

That's a lot of inaccurate waffling that could have been entirely written by an LLM, except it's probably too wrong for it to have been done so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Signal has been questionable for years. The way it's been pushed hardly, and how Moxie is emeritus, while much more questionable people are in control, doesn't fill one with confidence, and does ring some alarm bells. The relative proximity to some in the US establishment should be enough to do that. And the way some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as "Russian Propaganda" and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.

Frankly, I would trust something like Wire more than Signal. And there are other options too.

Ideally, something with good security/privacy and is fully P2P would become popular. But those apps/networks never make it mainstream, which is unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Source? What is the percentage of trolls that were even chased and successfully denonymized?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, religion is obsolete, I'm tellin' yeah.. for real this time. We have ~~Fortran~~ Rust* now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sVc8lkTfrk

Also, right-wing parties will lose all future elections because they are dying out of old age.. for real this time.

And Gazans were living the best time of their life when the other side of the uniparty was in control.. for real!

* I'm actually a Rust user 😄

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is like the worst example possible, considering Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.

But that might be too disruptive to the current echo chamber.

 

Users removing their entire Reddit history might block people from reaching useful info that was in that history. Think of people, who may not be Redditors themselves, searching in the future via google, or whatever, for some useful info that was in your deleted history, just because you wanted to feel good about yourself sticking it to spez, or just because you blindly followed the manic sheeple who advised you to do so.

Deleting your entire Reddit history does not help the cause, not proactively anyway.

What would help the cause is people knowing that a very useful/knowledgeable/interesting user, as evidenced by their Reddit history, has abandoned their platform. Even better, if people knew that the useful/knowledgeable/interesting user has moved to a new platform called Lemmy.

Whether you are planning to leave Reddit completely, or you are splitting your time between here and there, leaving a message like the one below at the end of comments, and/or in its own stickied post in your profile, would be much more helpful than trying to erase your Reddit history:


𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆.

𝗦𝗼, 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆-𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁:

𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻-𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗺𝘆.𝗼𝗿𝗴/𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀


If it's possible to do this to old messages in batch, that would be great, as long as it can be done without triggering automatic Reddit admin alarms.

Getting a copy of your Reddit history via a GDPR request is something you definitely should do.

Saving a lot more of old.reddit in the Internet Archive would also be helpful and great.

But as things stand, do not erase your Reddit history!

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