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ilurkedhereon Vue Native

I'm confused. Wouldn't "native" imply it uses platform widgets rather than HTML?

ilurkedhereon Why Crystal Is My Next Language

Thanks. Next time I write a Fibonacci function, this will surely be a great resource.

ilurkedhereon Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

The example in the getting started section comparing Python Qt isn't very convincing.

ilurkedhereon Writing a Microservice in Rust

That does seem a bit painful to me. Maybe it will get better with some Rust macro DSL though...

ilurkedhereon Announcing Rust 1.24.1

Very good

ilurkedhereon GM Apples That Don’t Brown to Reach U.S. Shelves This Fall

If your goal is environmental health, using less land, less water, then you're better off tackling the larger cause: animal production. It dwarfs crops by those metrics.

ilurkedhereon Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda

OK so it's a $4 ESP8266 and maybe something else that plugs into the OBDII port. Why do I need this?

ilurkedhereon Defending a website with Zip bombs

Was thinking more about a maximum length for the decompression stage.

ilurkedhereon Language Server Protocol, Rust and Emacs

How does it compare with racer-mode? Does it have roughly the same functionality or is one a subset of the other?

ilurkedhereon Defending a website with Zip bombs

Wouldn't all but the most naive scanners use time-out settings, maximum lengths on bytes read etc?

ilurkedhereon FuncShell – A Haskell-based alternative to awk

In typical usage, do you need the type hints much? I saw ":: Float" in there for the df example, for instance.

ilurkedhereon Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App

What makes Uber uniquely asshole-like?

ilurkedhereon JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

How power efficient is this? Just curious because iOS was mentioned as a target.

ilurkedhereon How to Run a More Secure Browser

How does this compare with the Qubes OS approach?

ilurkedhereon The Idea of Lisp

I use Common Lisp, and now sometimes Clojure. I don't get why folks call Clojure a modern-Lisp. I miss the cons cell abstraction, the multiple values support, condition system, the fast start-up times, the native compilation, and executables.

Stacktrace in Clojure with no possibility to restart also make me sad.

ilurkedhereon Can We Put the 16GB “Pro” Myth to Rest?

Disk cache buffers. It's what's left after all your applications are resident, and often impacts IO performance.

ilurkedhereon How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment

Thorium based reactors, anyone?

ilurkedhereon TypeScript Seals My Penchant for JavaScript

What on Earth is "enterprise-level type checking"?

ilurkedhereon PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Finally! It's exactly what we need since there are currently no scripting languages available in Unix user-land for when you need to do something beyond /bin/bash

ilurkedhereon Librevault: Open source zero-knowledge peer-to-peer file sync

Very nice. It seems a lot less janky than Syncthing (web UI, constant process restarts)

ilurkedhereon Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal

Looks like https://www.getme.com/ is sticking around

ilurkedhereon VPN Comparison Chart

Often I forget to disconnect from IVPN while playing low latency games like FPS. I mostly don't notice.

ilurkedhereon Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

Pi user here. Anyone know what the point of Windows 10 IoT is?

ilurkedhereon We Need a Better PC

2015 Macbook user here. Still possible to burn legs.

ilurkedhereon A MOS6502 assembler implemented as a Rust macro

Lisp user here.

This reminded me of https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502 where the opcodes are defined using a defasm macro https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502/blob/master/src/cpu.lisp... and implemented here https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502/blob/master/src/opcodes....

Are Lisp macros pretty much on par with Rust macros?

ilurkedhereon Marc Andreessen Pro-Colonialism Tweet Riles India Tech World

Interesting... Did the British also leave with the knowledge of how to maintain it?

ilurkedhereon The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List

Aren't fighter pilots obsolete at this point?

Much of the complexity in the craft is centered around keeping the poor bastard flying it, alive. Then there are pretty tight limits on how much acceleration the human body can receive. Pilot-less craft don't have those limitions, so I figure they should be much more maneuverable and less expensive.