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Re: on Monday May 08, 2023 @03:10PM (#35865774)
Hey folks, author of the post here. I'll be sticking around for a while after posting to answer any questions!
Re:Ask HN: How are you holding up? on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:55AM (#23613946)
It can be a good antidepressant, but definitely won't help anxiety. I've recently quit coffee as well and it's done wonders for my anxiety.

https://www.goodrx.com/blog/does-coffee-caffeine-cause-anxie...

Re:Deno 1.0 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:35PM (#23174617)
This hasn't been a thing in Go for a long time. Go dep and now go modules fix this.
While it's clear that writing tools from the start in Rust can prevent memory leaks, this project isn't a great example. It won't be safe until the community refactors it out and fixes all the c2rust unsafe calls.
Re:The JED Programmer's Editor (2017) on Saturday May 02, 2020 @08:16PM (#23055927)
I used to work at a very small network engineering shop where JED was the primary terminal editor used (mainly because it was the CTO's flavor of choice). It's lightweight and easy to learn with Emacs keybindings, but I'd never use it for doing anything more than quick edits and scripting.

These days, though, an editor not providing Vim emulation pretty much counts it out for me

Re:QUIC – Will It Replace TCP/IP? on Thursday April 02, 2020 @03:09PM (#22762443)
"nothing is worse off if it is encrypted" is a pretty big oversimplification. Layer 7 proxies and firewalls frequently use packet data to make more intelligent decisions about where to route packets, whether to drop packets, whether to modify packets, etc.