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Re:Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:02AM (#47958731)
I've been recently trying to port my simple program to Mojo to find out how the language looks like and feel. And the comptime feature (which inspired by Zig I think) is absolute joy to use. It helps a lot that the syntax looks like Python also. Excited to see how the language will become in the future particularly for its memory safety paradigm.
Oh, that is absolutely how all of mobile game ads now are designed. It will deliberately fail a very simple task to poke our desires of "Huh, I can do better than that"
Re:Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel, powered by Pi on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:13AM (#47086026)
Neat! Anything like this but for MS Word?
Re:Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:43AM (#46973389)
One day I'm trying a modified Windows (bloat stripped) from team-os. And the difference is night and day. My old laptop finally can run Windows 10!

I wonder though if there are more open and trusted modified Windows being developed out there because trying random modified Windows in team-os is not getting me some confidence

Re:Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:56AM (#46884263)
After watching the dubai lamp videos on YouTube, I wonder how many hours this lamp will last
Re:Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:34PM (#46549466)
His videos are gold! I'm really impressed
Recently I've found Cromite and sure glad I did! Finally I've found my Kiwi browser replacement. It is also feels faster than both Firefox and Brave on Android (though YMMV).
Many people use PyO3 for that
Re:We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:19PM (#44906872)
I vaguely remember that there is a new language that promises "Safety across FFI boundary", but can't recall the name
Re:Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:16AM (#44787018)
I'm just starting my second attempt at using NixOS last week because suddenly, my SSD failed and I have limited amount of time to configure my second laptop to get to work. This time I don't think that installing Arch will be the best choice to get to the last state of my laptop as fast as possible (I'm using dotfiles management, but not all things can be automated). And I'm ready to try NixOS again.

The only thing that makes me confident this time, is that I can use LLM to help me. There is absolutely no way I could try Nix again without using LLM. The first attempt at using it just makes me anxious because of docs alone.

And what makes me stick using it? Nix-ld. I think embracing impureness and doing things incrementally will help alleviate the vertical learning curve that is Nix.

After all of this learning curve? I finally can see the rainbow that I can only dreamed of in the past.

Awesome! Thanks for making this!
Re:# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @03:28AM (#44497874)
from Niko's post:

> In the past, we were blocked for technical reasons from expanding implied bounds and supporting perfect derive, but I believe we have resolved those issues. So now we have to think a bit about semver and decide how much explicit we want to be.

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