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DreadY2K··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
> If it is just a land tax, however, you can game it by building as much as possible on it

That's not gaming it, that's the tax working as intended. We need more housing, so if that gets people to build more of it, that's a win.

DreadY2K··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
How long until support gets added for repos with merge queues? I'd love to use this at $WORK and so would my coworkers, but we can't turn off the merge queue so we can't use stacked PRs until they can mix.
DreadY2K··on Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
Not GP but I feel like there's a continual process of the stdlib adding some new functionality to make one such crate redundant (e.g. is-terminal in 1.70), but it isn't done yet.
DreadY2K··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
I noticed my 13 thermally handles being on a soft surface (like a bed or a couch) very poorly, it gets quite warm to the touch and runs the fans hard even at rest. Does the improved thermals of the 13 pro also help this case?
DreadY2K··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Similar story here. Mine is 3 years old, and the battery is about 80% of its original capacity and the touchpad occasionally drops clicks, but otherwise it's still working great! Also the charging cable frayed, but I have plenty of those cables around.
DreadY2K··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
> how, after 6 months' travel in deep space, will they accomplish anything at a Mars base, even mere survival?

I expect the answer is spin gravity. Have a long cable with a counterweight on the other end, spin it at some rate. We would need some studying about the exact impacts (how hard is it to learn to start/stop compensating for Coriolis forces?), but it'd be much easier than full weightlessness.

DreadY2K··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
> e.g. a family member or your boss can tell you who to vote for and force you to submit that vote.

Where i live, you can show up in-person on election day to override a mailed ballot, if you're in a situation like that.

DreadY2K··on Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
> I’m only claiming that it’s memory safe and I am defining what that means with high precision

Do you have your definition of memory safety anywhere? Specifically one that's precise enough that if I observe a bug in a C program compiled via Fil-C, I can tell whether this is a Fil-C bug allowing (in your definition) memory unsafety (e.g. I'm pretty sure an out-of-bounds read would be memory unsafety), or if it's considered a non-memory-safety bug that Fil-C isn't trying to prevent (e.g. I'm pretty sure a program that doesn't check for symlinks before overwriting a path is something you're not trying to protect against). I tried skimming your website for such a definition and couldn't find this definition, sorry if I missed it.

I typically see memory safety discussed in the context of Rust, which considers any torn read to be memory-unsafe UB (even for types that don't involve pointers like `[u64; 2]`, such a data race is considered memory-unsafe UB!), but it sounds like you don't agree with that definition.

DreadY2K··on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
I don't have sources on hand, but my understanding is that there are a lot of people who come to CA without a good plan nor a social support network, become homeless, and then people misinterpret that situation as them coming here while homeless, which then gets misinterpreted as homeless people being intentionally shipped here.
DreadY2K··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
Maybe this isn't the case for you, but a number of creators I watch have some videos that they only upload to Nebula. So it's worth it for me to see those videos I otherwise wouldn't ever get to see.
DreadY2K··on Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
There's a lint for indexing an array, but not for all maybe-panicking operations. For example, the `copy_from_slice` method on slices (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.co...) doesn't have a clippy lint for it, even though it will panic if given the wrong length.
DreadY2K··on The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”
I got 48%, so no not everyone does.
DreadY2K··on French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
Ah yes, because Signal is famously the app you use to be alone and not interact with anyone else
DreadY2K··on Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
Will it be possible to upgrade my current framework laptop to the new 16" form factor? It feels like it should be a possible upgrade, but I haven't seen anything saying that it will be possible, so I'd like to confirm.
DreadY2K··on Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
If you pick the DIY version, that is an option. I got mine with no OS preinstalled and no MS tax, and it was easy enough to install Manjaro.
DreadY2K··on EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business
Those things are fine, but many companies will e.g. register a separate company in a tax haven, give that company a piece of IP, and then have that company charge the original company for all of their profits. That way, the company has no profits to report, but the money wasn't reinvested in any way, just routed around profits taxes.
DreadY2K··on SPACs collapse as $11B of deals are called off within an hour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...
DreadY2K··on Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
In my experience, LibreOffice Draw usually messes up the formatting of any PDFs I open in it. Nothing entirely unsalvageable, but text gets slightly moved around and winds up overlapping other text in a way that's annoying for future readers of the document.
DreadY2K··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
How does this compare to other companies that dig tunnels?
DreadY2K··on I don’t know how to count that low
I read it as "the database could increase in size by several orders of magnitude and still fit in memory"
DreadY2K··on Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
If you run an advertising company, you could probably just pay people a small amount of money to get their browsing history and their FLoC id, and enough people would take you up on that offer that you'd get that data (and maybe also demographics), without having to do any work to reverse-engineer.
DreadY2K··on Intel Problems
Many people do code against some sort of VM, but there are still people writing code in C/C++/Rust/Go/&c that gets compiled to machine code and run directly.

Also, even if you're running against a VM, your VM is running on an ISA, so performance differences between them are still relevant to your code's performance.

DreadY2K··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
But is it ideal for a "Hello, world" program to follow all best-practices? In my opinion, a "Hello, world" program should do the bare minimum to print "Hello, world" to the screen, and no more, so that it represents the language at its most basic.
DreadY2K··on Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
But what if I want to show off to my friends how smart I am by rattling off a gazillion digits of pi off of the top of my head? I need more than 10 digits to do that...

/s

DreadY2K··on Scrollbar Blindness
Firefox has a bookmarks sidebar that pops up if you press Ctrl+B (or buried inside the hamburger menu, but Ctrl+B is the easiest way to access it). You can put the bookmark in there, and then only open the bookmarks menu when you want to access it.
DreadY2K··on Code only says what it does
One thing that I like about Rust is that they actually allow you to merge those two into one. In your documentation of anything, you can include code snippets, and those code snippets become tests that can ensure that the documented behavior still applies to the current code.
DreadY2K··on Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present
I'm a current college student, and my school costs about $80k per year, counting tuition, room & board, supplies, etc., before financial aid. That would be $320k for 4 years, well over a quarter of a million.

I'm personally getting a significant amount of financial aid, so that it will end up costing much less than that for me, but I know people who are paying full price.

EDIT: I'm an undergrad at a 4-year university.

DreadY2K··on Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode
I also use it on the rare occasions where I need to log in on someone else's computer. This way, I know all my logins will be ended when I close the browser.
DreadY2K··on A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
The article mentions that they tried that and the crawler ignored it.
DreadY2K··on DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
Theoretically, server-side analytics could use the user-agent strings and other headers in the request to have infallible analytics. In practice, a lot of server-side analytics in practice rely on third-party tracking scripts (like Google Analytics) and other such practices that get blocked by tools like Privacy Badger, etc.
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