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Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:09PM (#50222648)
Isn't it FreeBSD?
Re:Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire? on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:09PM (#45851139)
Just apply Betteridge's law of headlines.
Synergy still exists, but barrier has forked again to input-leap.
Re:Tilde, My LLVM Alternative on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:11AM (#42813791)
Intel's compilers are now based on LLVM too.
Re:Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number! on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:52AM (#41257431)
Whenever I hit the age gate in the Steam store, I just bump the year to continue, so January 1st it is!
Re:Let rand = main as usize on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:36AM (#40609167)
Even if a pointer was guaranteed correct at the time of creation, it can't be known safe to dereference in the future unless you put a lifetime on it, and then it's just a reference.
Re:XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis on Saturday April 13, 2024 @02:13AM (#40020908)
Best practice is to resolve them early now: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/hardening-elf-binaries-using-...
Re:Enough with the dead butterflies (2017) on Sunday March 03, 2024 @07:19PM (#39585794)
The crescent moon is often depicted with the dark part transparent too, e.g. with stars in that space.
Re:The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade on Sunday February 18, 2024 @10:51AM (#39420022)
Rust is backwards compatible when you stick to stable features, but the kernel uses unstable features that can and do incur breaking changes.

https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2

Re:Corrosion: Rust Never Sleeps on Sunday September 24, 2023 @09:14PM (#37638654)
Re:This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:12PM (#37274704)
Then extrapolate "random guy trying to follow dtolnay's lead."
Re:Welcome Debian riscv64 on Sunday July 23, 2023 @09:48PM (#36842107)
Re:Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:08PM (#36144350)
In the conclusion:

> We fully expect to continue offering the Zulip Cloud Free plan indefinitely,

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:15AM (#35449594)
ntcompatible.com was a great resource for this - I spent a lot of time in those forums.
Re:International Orange on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:52PM (#35415650)
If pure red is at 0° hue, and orange at 30°, then that engineering value at 3° is much closer to red. The other two at 18° and 19° better fit the reddish-orange description, still more orange than red, while safety orange is up at 28°.
Re:The Age 30 Crisis and Seasons of a Man's Life on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:52PM (#34859970)
Parenting is like being an NPC in that magic of childhood. You get to live through that again, just not as the main character. I imagine that starts again as a grandparent, but I'm not there yet.
Re:When Rust Hurts on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:47AM (#34805365)
Probably the addition of `thread::scope`.
Re:RISC-V SBC VisionFive 2 Officially Shipped on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:21PM (#34342230)
There are a few where it does win though -- I wonder what characteristics favor VisionFive in those?
> Why not offer 1 million for the signed contract?

If I were offered that out of the blue, I'd be wondering what true value I'm holding to make that signature so important.

Re:Why Does Calloc Exist? on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:50PM (#33586093)
That doesn't work for multiplication -- e.g. in 8-bit, 20 * 20 wraps to 144.
It's a little ambiguous, but the word before is important -- "Sampling certain workloads with IBS" -- so that "with" clause is talking about the sampling method, not the workload style.
Yes -- they dropped the "Mega" in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games

Re:An O(1) Generic Blog Post About Rust on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:11AM (#31244511)
That's experimental syntax that means something like "maybe const" -- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/67792
Re:Wordle and grep on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:12PM (#31057845)
Here's 32 boards: https://duotrigordle.com/
Re:Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:52PM (#30808870)
Throw those into Copilot for filmmakers and away you go!
Re:Restartable Sequences in Glibc 2.35 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:46AM (#30313166)
In the LWN comments, mjw said that Valgrind just forces an ENOSYS error.
Re:Parsing Decimals four times faster on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:27PM (#30105035)
It can be applied more generally. If you're focusing on improving the performance of something that only takes 10% of your time, then the other 90% will still dominate.

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