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Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:34AM (#49740549)
You have been able to for a while with rust-gpu https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:41AM (#48132673)
+1,009,257 -4,024

wild

Heavily speculating but it's not unreasonable that the recording process impacts the game fps. Eg if you had 2 processes trying to max out your CPU it'd be less efficient than doing them one after the other because they're fighting for resources, doing context switching (losing cache etc).
Re:Atlas – Terraform but for Database Migrations on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:25PM (#30041873)
Seems very similar to https://www.prisma.io/migrate.
Re:Free Postgres databases for small projects on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:10AM (#30019813)
kind of giddy thinking about multi-region supabase handled by fly, sky is the limit
Re:Bevy game engine 0.6 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:02AM (#29860339)
There are a number of techniques available to shrink wasm size in rust, this is the best collection of them I'm aware of https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/reference/code-size.htm....

Please also consider Unity web used to be significantly worse and it took multiples of bevy's lifetime for it to get to where it is now :)

Re:In Defense of Async: Function Colors Are Rusty on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:21PM (#29816657)
Tangential but the slab concept is actually really neat, basically a userland allocator for a specific type, or a vector that gives you the key inserted at depending on how you prefer to think. https://docs.rs/slab/.
Re:Databases in 2021: A Year in Review on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:44AM (#29735213)
Thanks for point it out, after a quick glance it actually looks like something I want to learn more about. Takes the niceties from prisma.io schema tooling and bring it closer to postgres.
Re:Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:02AM (#27957605)
I only learnt about the logging and tracing crates existed from this blog post and I've already started using them, so thank you!
Re:Against SQL on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:29AM (#27792240)
This is a great article and you can tell the author has deep experience with SQL from the way they speak and the other projects they're involved in.

I think many of the comments here are missing the point by saying "Oh you can get around that issue in that example snippet by doing X Y Z". Sure there are workaround for everything if you know the One Weird Trick with these 10 gotchas that I won't tell you about... but that just makes the authors point.

We can do better. We deserve better.

What could things look like if you could radically alter the SQL language, replace it altogether, or even move layers from databases or applications into each other?

Who knows if it will be better or worse, but I'd like to find out.

Re:Postgres to TypeScript Interfaces and Enums on Sunday June 20, 2021 @08:35PM (#27575104)
sqlx is able to do this, but using compile time macros. For a typescript project you'd possibly need a running process reading your source files for queries and probing the database for what will come back.

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/#compile-time-verificati...

Can you blame people for getting fatigued from this kind of news? (Also it's been 16 years ;) )

Every 6 months there is a new use of graphene that promises 10x something, new cancer treatment that is revolutionary, new AI that can solve the worlds hardest problems ...

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

Re:Analysis of blood markers predicts human lifespan limit on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:47AM (#27290427)
There's a lot of interesting people in this space

Many I've discovered through this podcast, which features a number of people on the above list as guests: https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/

> uMatrix has been discontinued. The repository has been archived.

It still works.

Last year I made Kondo, to clean up all the dependencies files from software projects you're not actively working on (eg node_modules). Awesome if you about to Zip up a bunch of old projects for archiving, or just want to reclaim disk space without deleting anything of value.

It was an experiment in Rust, and I even made a little GUI too!

https://github.com/tbillington/kondo

Re:Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world? on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:17AM (#27171193)
Eg, Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701477

Re:Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world? on Saturday May 15, 2021 @10:13PM (#27170638)
> They are extinct, so supporting his hypothesis

Or they were hunted to death by organised groups of early humans.

Wales are probably only surviving because their environment is so foreign to humans.

Re:The Humble img Element and Core Web Vitals on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:37AM (#27013094)
Oh that's awesome, thank you for linking!
Re:The Humble img Element and Core Web Vitals on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:27AM (#27006130)
Would be nice to be able to declare

"Use this size image when the img is being rendered at x size/width/height", size could depend on css, width/height properties, or just imposed by a parent element.

Choosing an image size based on the size of the entire screen is a hack that we've just accepted because we don't have a more precise tool.

Yes, you can technically achieve it with JS, but that's a crutch, and less helpful for page load.

Re:The Deno Company on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:15AM (#26620446)
This is super cool to see! Deno is really refreshing coming from node fulltime.
Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:04AM (#26410364)
> Is the status page relevant though?

What's the point of a status page then if it does not show you the status? I don't want to be chasing down twitter handles and support pages during an outage.

Re:How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:42PM (#26280739)
Mate.. how are you going to get your uber anyway without internet?
Is it also a repo we can pull for updates?
Re:Compilers are hard on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:22AM (#25856692)
I think not enough people appreciate just how amazing TS type system is, I often want to use it in pretty much every other language I use.
Re:The Big Little Guide to Message Queues on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:44PM (#25599883)
Could you purge conditionally? Eg Purge where message importance < critical.
Re:Web Authentication Methods Compared on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:44PM (#25525118)
Just tried webauthn.io. Doesn't even work :/ I clicked register and it said "Use your security key now or cancel". What does that even mean? What's a security key? Is it a setting in my browser? I have lastpass installed, can it use that? Is it supposed to integrate with the Mac keychain somehow? Gave me no options but cancel.

Pretty underwhelming if that's the future of web auth..

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