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solmag··on GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021
Why is Rustc not enough?
solmag··on High blood pressure cases double in 30 years
This is actually a good observation, unreasonably downvoted. Obesity appears to be a viral disease, looking at its growth. Now the question to answer is, is the viral spread of obesity explained by social contagion or by bacteria.
solmag··on An Introduction to JQ
That title though.
solmag··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
Too many bluechecks publicly roasted.
solmag··on OnlyFans’ inexplicable ban on porn might be explained by this BBC investigation
Their current payment processors probably didn't tolerate the amount of child porn on it and the amount of underage grooming occurring, and their options were probably to switch to services porn sites do actually use, which take a bigger cut.

But this doesn't stop the absolutely gone people raging about some abstract idea of freedom to post asshole pics on the internet. Cobalt mines.

solmag··on Modern Compiler Front End Course – Aleksey Kladov
I've gone through a few compiler courses over the summer and this is among the best resources I've found (UPenn, CMU & Siek's "Essentials of Compilation"). It has a unique approach among them, it is the first lecture series that assumes a modern approach, that is, it ties compiler frontend to developer experience and IDE.

Highly recommended to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge about compilers and/or make their own language IDE/LSP friendly.

solmag··on Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
Does anyone here know how to get a good dev env. setup for Racket/Scheme in Windows 10 and VSC? I've tried the Magic-Racket LSP but it doesn't work with WSL2 because of some GTK dependency.
solmag··on Multicore OCaml: May 2021
I use WSL2 with Ocaml, works fine.
solmag··on Vivaldi 4.0
I would love to use Vivaldi but it is by far the slowest browser I've tried to use.
solmag··on NFT’s aren’t a harmless digital fad – they’re a disaster for our planet
BTC and crypto merely is a price discovery mechanism for the demand for energy consumption (as they act as a proof of energy).

As such, it is not itself the disaster, rather than the first unobstructed signal of some underlying cause (inflation).

solmag··on NFT’s aren’t a harmless digital fad – they’re a disaster for our planet
People really do be misunderstanding the significance of Bitcoin being priced in USD. An inversion of what it means in almost every context.
solmag··on Ask HN: Why are hacker news readers so obsessed with Rust?
There's always bias. And it's a nice language.
solmag··on Government lays out plans to protect users online
"Social media firms will have to remove harmful content quickly or potentially face multi-billion-pound fines under new legislation."

To a surprise of no one, it has nothing to do with 'protecting users online'.

solmag··on Ask HN: Vanilla JavaScript vs Web GUI Frameworks
I don't think it is such an obvious yes that it's unproductive or wrong to start with 'basics', or fundamentals.

Learning MDN/Javascript.info will get you far wrt. JS.

The best-practices/current-year-way of writing React will change like 5 times before you're done with fundamentals and you've probably missed nothing.

solmag··on OCaml is 25
Applies to ML family of programming languages in general.
solmag··on Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?
This is a trick question and chasing it is largely a waste of time.

The application or method of your choice will only organize your knowledge (more correctly, represent it) if you already have done it yourself in your thoughts.

I just use nicely formatted markdown files these days. There's no magic application that'll do it for you.

solmag··on Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
It's going to turn out bad. Great site for now.
solmag··on Rust-Analyzer Architecture
Rust-Analyzer is much better than whatever IDEA/Clion uses IME.
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