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mindri0t | 1 year ago | on: Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights

Reading the notes it appears it was implemented by Michał Muskała who also implemented Jason (and seems it is faster too)

mindri0t | 3 years ago | on: How I went about learning Rust

To build on this, his Crust of Rust series videos are excellent deep dives targeted at the same stage of learning as the book.

mindri0t | 3 years ago | on: Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming

I believe the game programming one you are thinking of is “hands on rust” by Herbert Wolverson. I haven’t read all of it, the parts I have read are quite good but I’m not big into games so I switched over to rust in action.

mindri0t | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour

>but if encountered again, it will be known that it was previously seen

But when you see it again you have personally identified the individual have you not? Doesn’t that by definition mean it is identifiable if you are able to determine the identity later?

This is something that advertisers/supermarket points schemes etc used to do when they didn’t have consent to share personal data, hash it and align it with what they already had so effectively they shared the subsets of interest anyway. I remember at university when some guys from yahoo sponsored a hack event, they literally gave a guest lecture boasting about doing this with Sainsbury’s to squeeze through a legal loophole back in 2013.

mindri0t | 4 years ago | on: Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc

This plus when a vulnerability is discovered and you are a million versions behind facing practically a ground up rewrite to get back to API compatible it is extremely hard to deal with. There is some balance to be had by waiting for things to become tested and stable rather than always defaulting to the bleeding edge, and maintaining a reasonable cadence of dependency management. You don’t always need to be on the latest version but you always need to be ready to be on the latest version

mindri0t | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

Have you tried SingleSPA? I’ve used it in the past to get React apps inside an old AngularJS app to replace parts of it over time and it worked pretty well. Docs say it works with Vue as well but I don’t have any direct experience with Vue at all far less for this kind of task so I’m not really sure it will work but it is worth looking at https://single-spa.js.org/

mindri0t | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

I agree with your point however it just goes to reinforce that part of the failure of teams is that it kind of does a lot of things but it does all those things really badly. If they had some notion of a product vision, some focus, some opinions and executed on those with a users first attitude then it might not be in such a sorry state and it would probably be a whole lot easier to deliver great native experiences. IMHO a big part of the problem is this idea of just throwing features at applications without designing an actual product that seems to be extremely popular but always dreadful. Do less and deliver excellence, don’t do everything half arsed and throw more adverts at the resulting problem.

mindri0t | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

How would that work in the case where the link display text is not the address? Normally pasting without formatting discards the fact that some text like “download other file” is a link.

mindri0t | 5 years ago | on: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

I’m personally quite a big fan of the trackpad and gestures but I understand that they take some getting used to. If they are causing you frustration then you can turn them off under system preferences > trackpad in the “scroll and zoom” and “more gestures” sections. I’d recommend keeping most of the scroll ones and disabling most of the others, then one by one turning on any of the ones you think would be most useful as you get more used to them.

As for the Safari issue, I have no idea off the top of my head.

mindri0t | 5 years ago | on: The benefits of note-taking by hand

I have the first iteration of it and it is very very nice in terms of feel but I found it impacted screen quality more than I could tolerate. I believe this has improved in later versions and I’m somewhat tempted to try one of the current ones. I was really torn when I took it off, it does feel like paper and it even feels nicer with your hands not just the pencil, at the time it really damaged colour accuracy and also made the screen look like it was composed of rainbow crystals, it had a tiny prism effect on every element of the matte surface.