thekingofravens
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5 months ago
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on: Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]
And when it does finally make something that works in Rust, its admittedly far more trustworthy than AI code in other languages. It does struggle a lot though.
thekingofravens
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5 months ago
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on: Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]
Python was my first language and that is precisely how it felt. I would be at a convention or conference and mention python and it seemed like people didn't care, had a negative opinion or just didn't use it. It was treated as something only semi-programmers did, like people whose job wasn't actually programming, business analysts or scientists.
Then one day python was suddenly top of the charts, probably post python 3 (old timers hated it but it really improved ergonomics) but not immediately so. Rather later on when they fixed the performance loss from 2->3 (which looking back as a primarily Rust coder now, was a hilarious argument that community had internally because even my worst, most quickly cobbled together rust code beats some of my best python code at the same task performance wise).
thekingofravens
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5 months ago
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on: Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]
PDF handling came to mind as absolutely horrible experience.
If you want to make a pdf, the choices were either:
1. Very low level, getting into the nitty gritty implementation details of PDF.
2. Very High level, only suitable to make the equivalent of a word document with very little control of layout
3. Typst, which is nice externally but honestly very difficult to use as a library.
4. mupdf over C FFI can get you mid-level pdf generation. Mid level as in you control layout but aren't using an editor to inspect the generated raw instructions in a PDF. Then you have unsafe everywhere or time spent with FFI making basic wrapper/abstraction negates the benefits.
Oh and for the first 3 the relevant docs for using it in this way are out of date and you will need to look at source code.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
That depends what they know. As this article describes, Amazon is like a federation of mini-companies. So the right team is Great.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order
Agreed. Videos can be nice as a support item for things that are visually oriented, but they do not replace a proper manual.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: “The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says
I know I won't spend a penny on a service like stadia or xbox game pass. Even if it does have good here and now offerings. Games are the last category of software you can still generally "buy" these days and get permanent access with a one-time payment.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: $200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here
Right there with you guys. I was a little angry looking at this. For a moment it gave me hope I could actually buy one.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: International Mail Service Suspensions
Knowing our government you may have predicted a future reality.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
They are already here, put "Aukey Webcam" into the search and you will find a very suspicious AUKEYPOWER brand.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
Yeah there is a lot of interest in knowing what dumb models exist for 4k
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: White House Launches US Digital Corps
I never even heard of code for America until I read this comment.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
I couldn't agree more. In high school and grade school, nothing mattered really, so games were just fun. However, I noticed there came a time recently when myself and all my friends had to choose between video games and failing college (or not going to college). Almost everyone I knew well enough to keep tabs on post high school chose video games. A total of 9 people and only 2 (myself included) were able to get gaming under control enough to make it. The others had their ambition sucked away by video games, and are starting to seriously regret their lives now.
So while I think their approach is far too extreme, I can understand why they would be very concerned about video games.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)
There are so many terrible conditions like this in our food supply, forced labor, 80 hour weeks at frito lay, and so on. So the question I am left with is, what can I eat to avoid this, if anything?
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
Avoiding this cycle of crap is my personal favorite thing about Linux.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: Death Valley hits 130 degrees, near world record
Doesn't 130 degree water like burn skin or something? Would it be dangerous just to be outside in that condition?
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
I see everyone quitting jobs like FedEx that honestly have nothing to do with remote work (it was never an option) and still probably counting towards this statistic. There are larger forces at play than that debate right now.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: Russia reports 'unprecedented' hacking campaign aimed at government agencies
He won't. The political party that elected him is split now. Half of them want him back, but half want to move on, so he is gonna just lose again.
thekingofravens
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4 years ago
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on: I can only think that modern front end development has failed
I know this won't count for much, but as an amatuer programmer who has done a lot of web scraping at my job due to having a restricted corporate environment, its a breath of fresh air to work with the few websites that actually assign IDs to elements, don't autogenerate all graphic elements and feel like whoever wrote them actually cared. Especially if you are trying to parse it with something stupid like Excel VBA. Trying to reverse engineer what happens when you click a button on a site with 20 event listeners tied to "submit" is a freakish nightmare.
thekingofravens
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5 years ago
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on: Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test
They aren't dogs. They understand a lot more than you would expect.
thekingofravens
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5 years ago
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on: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet
I should say that if you are touchscreen user, wayland solves a lot of problems. I literally can't get touchegg or other crummy solutions to work in xorg for gestures, but in wayland with gnome it just works.
