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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Incidentally the same labels make Gmail fundamentally incompatible with the way IMAP works causing lots of weirdness whenever you use any standard email client not specifically designed for Gmail.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Isn't it illegal under GDPR? It seems to be the exact same thing Facebook tried to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Personal hygiene is one big reason for me, though obviously there are smaller options than a full multitool like a small Swiss army knife. I just need a small pair of scissors on me 24/7, that's not negotiable.

Having a basic screwdriver always with me also helps from time to time. Sometimes as a screwdriver, sometimes as a small crowbar.

Ironically, the first thing I would ditch from my multitools and Swiss army knives would be the blade. Scissors do most things I need just as well or better, and the blade is just a liability in lots of jurisdictions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Consumers? Probably no. Geeks and hackers? Damn yes!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And what do the companies take away from this? "Cool, we just won't leave you any other options."

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

It's a nice wallpaper though for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Subsidise how? They were using their existing plan as intended and even willing ditch the grey-area parts. If CF cannot afford to offer their plans as they are, they should change the offered plans, not hunt for easy prey.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With some sprinkle of libraries such as anyhow and thiserror the Rust errors become actually pleasant to use. The vanilla way is indeed painful when you start handling more than one type of error at a time.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

Go is like that abusive partner that gives you flowers and the next day makes you feel like shit. Then another day you go to an expensive restaurant and you tell yourself that maybe it's not so bad and they still care. And the cycle continues.

Rust is an autistic partner that sometimes struggles with telling you how much they care, is often overly pedantic about technical correctness and easily gets sidetracked by details, but with some genuine effort from both sides it's very much a workable relationship.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

An int& reference is just as much of a variable as int* const would be (a const pointer to a non-const int). "Variable" might be a misnomer here, but it takes just as much memory as any other pointer.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If the hard mode merely makes everything into a bullet sponge with huge HP bar, no thanks. I'm perfectly fine with some games just being easier and others just being harder. Or having multiple well thought out difficulty options, but only if they are actually well thought out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

never mind, I looked it up. It’s a “reference” instead of a pointer. Similar, but unlike a pointer it doesn’t create a distinct variable in memory of its own.

I'm almost sure it does create a distinct variable in memory. Internally it's still a pointer, specifically a const pointer (not to be confused with a pointer to a const value; it's the address that does not change). Think about it as a pointer that is only ever dereferenced and never used as a pointer. So yes, like the other commenter said, like an alias.

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