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CUViper··on FreeDNS
Isn't it FreeBSD?
CUViper··on Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
Just apply Betteridge's law of headlines.
CUViper··on IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
Synergy still exists, but barrier has forked again to input-leap.
CUViper··on Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
Intel's compilers are now based on LLVM too.
CUViper··on Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
Whenever I hit the age gate in the Steam store, I just bump the year to continue, so January 1st it is!
CUViper··on Let rand = main as usize (2022)
Even if a pointer was guaranteed correct at the time of creation, it can't be known safe to dereference in the future unless you put a lifetime on it, and then it's just a reference.
CUViper··on XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
Best practice is to resolve them early now: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/hardening-elf-binaries-using-...
CUViper··on Enough with the dead butterflies (2017)
The crescent moon is often depicted with the dark part transparent too, e.g. with stars in that space.
CUViper··on The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
Rust is backwards compatible when you stick to stable features, but the kernel uses unstable features that can and do incur breaking changes.

https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2

CUViper··on Digression 3: Corrosion – Rust Never Sleeps
There was also https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode
CUViper··on This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times
Then extrapolate "random guy trying to follow dtolnay's lead."
CUViper··on Debian riscv64
RV64GC is mentioned here: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V#Hardware_baseline_and_ABI_cho...
CUViper··on Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
Fedora 38 removed the filter: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnfilteredFlathub
CUViper··on When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
In the conclusion:

> We fully expect to continue offering the Zulip Cloud Free plan indefinitely,

CUViper··on My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
ntcompatible.com was a great resource for this - I spent a lot of time in those forums.
CUViper··on International Orange
If pure red is at 0° hue, and orange at 30°, then that engineering value at 3° is much closer to red. The other two at 18° and 19° better fit the reddish-orange description, still more orange than red, while safety orange is up at 28°.
CUViper··on The age 30 crisis and seasons of a man‘s life
Parenting is like being an NPC in that magic of childhood. You get to live through that again, just not as the main character. I imagine that starts again as a grandparent, but I'm not there yet.
CUViper··on When Rust hurts
Probably the addition of `thread::scope`.
CUViper··on RISC-V SBC VisionFive 2 Officially Shipped
There are a few where it does win though -- I wonder what characteristics favor VisionFive in those?
CUViper··on I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
> Why not offer 1 million for the signed contract?

If I were offered that out of the blue, I'd be wondering what true value I'm holding to make that signature so important.

CUViper··on Show HN: OKSolar: Improving Solarized using the OKLab perceptual colorspace
Base16 does that: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
CUViper··on Why does calloc exist? (2016)
That doesn't work for multiplication -- e.g. in 8-bit, 20 * 20 wraps to 144.
CUViper··on A 20 Year Old Chipset Workaround Has Been Hurting Modern AMD Linux Systems
It's a little ambiguous, but the word before is important -- "Sampling certain workloads with IBS" -- so that "with" clause is talking about the sampling method, not the workload style.
CUViper··on Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
Yes -- they dropped the "Mega" in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games

CUViper··on Ask HN: More pleasant and efficient Path to Learning Rust?
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
CUViper··on An O(1) Generic Blog Post About Rust
That's experimental syntax that means something like "maybe const" -- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/67792
CUViper··on Wordle and grep
Here's 32 boards: https://duotrigordle.com/
CUViper··on Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Throw those into Copilot for filmmakers and away you go!
CUViper··on Restartable Sequences in Glibc 2.35
In the LWN comments, mjw said that Valgrind just forces an ENOSYS error.
CUViper··on Parsing Decimals four times faster
It can be applied more generally. If you're focusing on improving the performance of something that only takes 10% of your time, then the other 90% will still dominate.
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