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lor_louison Garry Kasparov -The Fall of Putin Is Inevitable

I’m pretty sure intelligence in programming does not transfer to other domains. This is someone who wasted years of their life to become a really great programmer. An accomplishment in the world of startups for sure, but with no actual consequence.

lor_louison Unbuffered I/O Can Make Your Rust Programs Much Slower

I am not all that knowledgeable about rust but I think that if you really want to decrease the numbers of system calls when interacting with files, writev and readv should be considered. I wonder if BuffWriter/Reader could be made to use it, as it would have the same "atomic" behaviour and would forgo the need to concat strings. Still, the char*s could become invalidated once the system call is made.

lor_louison Show HN: Clippy in the Python Interpreter

A stupid idea, but if you want to contribute please create a PR.

lor_louison I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)

Can you link the textbook? I'd be interested in reading it.