Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)EP
Posts
94
Comments
4,382
Joined
5 yr. ago

  • I mean, it's kind of the whole point of this article, to explore why they felt it was a good idea to try to create a programming language. Bashing other languages and coming up with reasons why none of the existing ones would do, is kind of the whole point. And they do self-reflect and admit that their reasons were ultimately not good enough from a purely objective point of view.

  • Ah, in that case, I have a lifehack for you, too. You can actually buy instant spaghetti smoothie in the store. Just mix the powder with water and it's done. The brand is called "Flour".

  • Lifehack for cooking spaghetti in a tiny pot like that:

    1. Take however much you want to cook out of the package and hold it in one bundle in your hand.
    2. Set it down vertically in the middle of the pot.
    3. Now, let it go with the tiniest amount of spin. With a bit of practice and luck, it should fall outwards in all directions, forming a spiral of spaghetti.
    4. Once the spaghetti become soft, you can start pushing them inwards into the water much sooner, because they're not at such a harsh angle to the wall of the pot.
  • I mean, B does make some amount of sense, if you realize that it's supposed to give you the maximum among the parameters (so you'd normally call it as Math.max(5, 3) === 5).

    Well, and you can call that with zero parameters, because you can spread an array into it, which might have zero length. And then given these conditions, and if you don't want to throw an error, then -Infinity is kind of the least bad remaining option, as it's likely to generally work with the rest of your logic.

  • I also have basically only my personal experience to go off of (from studying computer science), but I never had to plug hardware into my laptop. Printers were available over the network and the one time we worked with hardware, they had dedicated lab PCs there, which had the necessary software pre-installed.

    From what I've heard on the internet, that's quite a common theme. Lots of hardware equipment is ridiculously expensive, so you don't go buying new equipment when accompanying software doesn't work on newer operating systems anymore. Instead, you keep a PC around with that old OS and the software, specifically for operating that hardware.

  • Weil die eingebaute Taschenrechner-App bei Android an's Unbenutzbare grenzt. Wer ist auf die Idee gekommen, dass man in dem Textfeld nicht einfach seinen Cursor irgendwo reinsetzen und editieren kann? Da habe ich einen vollwertigen Computer in meiner Hosentasche, aber die App hat trotzdem die Limitierungen eines physikalischen Taschenrechners. (┛ಠ_ಠ)┛彡┻━┻

  • In this case, it's about vulnerability reports, not about vulnerable code being contributed. There's a bounty for any found vulberability in Curl, and then because telling an AI to try to find a vulnerability is essentially free, you'll have lots of people looking to make a quick buck by just reporting whatever the AI spat out, no matter how nonsensical it is.

  • Damn, those pipes look useful. Can use them to send stdout from one command to the stdin of another, as you'd expect. But you can also easily send stuff to stdin from Rust code (and of course, easily read from stdout and stderr, too): https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/io/fn.pipe.html#examples

  • I guess, kinda? In my head, a Verein is definitely more of a hobby/socialising thing, but I do have to say that "club" certainly doesn't feel impactful enough. Like, Germany as a whole would fall apart, if you took the Vereine away.

    For example, the Red Cross is an e.V. here. There's e.V.s that support the local voluntary firefighters (although those are also organized by the municipality). We've got big-ass nature preservation e.V.s that do really important work in suing awful corporations. Local sports organizations and orchestras and whatnot are also organized as e.V.s. And perhaps the most relevant in this community is the KDE e.V., which helps organize/assist the wider KDE community.

    So, yeah, some of them definitely do work that one might expect from a charity...

  • It's easy to set up a cache, but what's hard is convincing your devs to use it.

    Mainly because, well, it generally works without configuring the cache in your build pipeline, as you'll almost always need some solution for accessing the internet anyways.

    But there's other reasons, too. You need authentication or a VPN for accessing a cache like that. Authentications means you have to deal with credentials, which is a pain. VPN means it's likely slower than downloading directly from the internet, at least while you're working from home.

    Well, and it's also just yet another moving part in your build pipeline. If that cache is ever down or broken or inaccessible from certain build infrastructure, chances are it will get removed from affected build pipelines and those devs are unlikely to come back.


    Having said that, of course, GitHub is promoting caches quite heavily here. This might make it actually worth using for the individual devs.

  • I also remember there being a tiny shitstorm when Google started proxying package manager requests through their own servers, maybe two years ago or so. I don't know what happened with that, though, or if it's actually relevant here...

  • For Rust, as I understand, crates.io hosts a copy of the source code. It is possible to specify a Git repository directly as a dependency, but apparently, you cannot do that if you publish to crates.io.

    So, it will cause pain for some devs, but the ecosystem at large shouldn't implode.

  • It's gonna be problematic in particular for organisations with larger offices. If you've got hundreds of devs/sysadmins under the same public IP address, those 60 requests/hour are shared between them.

    Basically, I expect unauthenticated pulls to not anymore be possible at my day job, which means repos hosted on GitHub become a pain.