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  • Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

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  • For Boomers, cars was the latest tech that everyone was fiddling with. This caused even the boomer that wasn't very interested , to know quite a lot. For later generations, car became more of a means of transportation, and the knowledge of cars was only for specialists. For gen X, computers were the high tech thing, everyone was fiddling with. Most gen x can setup a printer if they have to. For later generations, computers are just tools, and the knowledge is only for specialists.

  • Announcing Rust 1.81.0

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  • fs::exists() was a nice little improvement that I didn't know about until I read this announcement.

  • How can we return to techno-optimism?

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  • Producing products that the users wants, and that solves tje users real problems. And not trying to make products as addictive as possible, to harvest as much user data as possible to sell.

  • One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"

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  • The problem is that C is a prehistoric language and don't have any of the complex types for example. So, in a modern language you create a String. That string will have a length, and some well defined properties (like encoding and such). With C you have a char * , which is just a pointer to the memory that contains bytes, and hopefully is null terminated. The null termination is defined, but not enforced. Any encoding is whatever the developer had in mind. So the compiler just don't have the information to make any decisions. In rust you know exactly how long something lives, if something try to use it after that, the compiler can tell you. With C, all lifetimes lives in the developers head, and the compiler have no way of knowing. So, all these typing and properties of modern languages, are basically the implementation of your suggestion.

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  • It is making the tracking protection part of containers obsolete, this is basically that functionality but built in and default. The containers still let you have multiple cookie jars for the same site, so they are still useful if you have multiple accounts on a site.

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  • Container tabs are still useful, as they let you use multiple Cookie jars for the same site. So, it is very easy to have multiple accounts on s site.

  • How to learn Rust?

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  • Biden introduces Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at Nato summit

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  • Have he said something even close to the stupidity of Trump? Like suggesting bleach against Covid? Why should all Trump opponents be measured with a different scale then Trump. Could you imagine the number of headlines required if Trump would get a headline every time he does anything on this scale?

  • Russia's war-driven economy is so hot that the World Bank upgraded it to a 'high-income country'

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  • Well, not sure an inflation, twice the size of the GDP is positive for a country...

  • How programmers comment their code

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  • Rust has a HUGE supply chain security problem | Sylvain Kerkour | July 2, 2024

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  • Well.... it is true that it doen't have all these crates like Url included in the rust standard library, and hence it is not official. On the other hand Url was created by Mozilla to be used in Firefox, hence it is a quite competent crate that is very well maintained. And my guess is that the http crate may have the same kind of origins... but I'm not entirely sure about that.

    And even Java that includes quite a lot, still didn't get a good Http library until very recent, until then you had to rely on some obscure library created by the unknown organization Apache... so...

    As a developer you always have to think about what libraries you use, and if you trust them... that goes for pretty much any language.

  • Started learning Perl

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  • Well, Perl is great for small scripts that works on large texts, that you process with regex. I still use Perl from time to time, for that kind of scripts. Also commandline, instead of awk/sed...

  • Started learning Perl

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  • I learend it in the 90s, and was working on a large Perl codebase 2005 and a couple of years forward. And 20 years, it still started to feel dated, and 15 years ago it was just so out dated it hurt. So, starting to learn Perl 20 years ago would not have been great :) However, the things making Perl horrible, is pretty much threre in Python also with the addition of significant whitespace... so technically, going from Python to Perl might actually be a step in the right direction.... Now, if you excuse me, I will hide behinde this huge rock for a while to let the incoming projectiles settle.

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    Rust Analyzer Changelog #240

    rust-analyzer.github.io /thisweek/2024/07/01/changelog-240.html

  • JetBrains RustRover Is Released and Includes a Free Non-Commercial Option

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  • I used to use IntelliJ Rust as my primary rust IDE, but when they switched to Rust Rover I stopped using it. Not sure why actually, possibly since I used Java with IntelliJ it was already my go to IDE, so using it for Rust was natural. I also guess, that I had nvim with rust-analyzer working, so that was available at my finger tips already. So, I might have switched over anyway... who knows.

    Anyway, it is good to see more options available, and I hope it is getting so good that it is worth the money.

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    Types Team Update and Roadmap | Rust Blog

    blog.rust-lang.org /2024/06/26/types-team-update.html

  • COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch

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  • No, it is not based on Gnome. It is a full DE environment written in rust.

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    Rust Container Cheat Sheet

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    Rust Analyzer Changelog #239

    rust-analyzer.github.io /thisweek/2024/06/24/changelog-239.html
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    Ownership - Without Boats

    without.boats /blog/ownership/
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    Rust Analyzer Changelog #238

    rust-analyzer.github.io /thisweek/2024/06/17/changelog-238.html

  • America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring

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  • The problem with assassin the Russian economy, is to do it faster then it commit suicide.

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    Announcing Rust 1.79.0

    blog.rust-lang.org /2024/06/13/Rust-1.79.0.html
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    Rust Foundation - Announcing the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium

    foundation.rust-lang.org /news/announcing-the-safety-critical-rust-consortium/

  • What was your latest improvement to your Linux setup?

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  • Not the latest, but one of the biggest improvements was the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. Now I have programmed the keyboard to have VIM navigation at the keyboard level. The latest was switching to neovim and setting it up properly.

  • xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation

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  • Of course cars would loose if you tried to use it to travel across the Atlantic...

  • xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation

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  • But per mile measurement for flying implies that every mile of a flight is equally dangerous, but the truth I'd that it is most dangerous to start or land, which is a per trip occurrence. The take off and landing is equally dangerous whether you travel a long or short distance in between.

  • xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation

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  • And the question is am I going to die on this trip? And there the real statistics are pretty clear, cars are safer.

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    Gitoxide April

    Welcome Eliah, and gitoxide for GitButler

    github.com /Byron/gitoxide/discussions/1375
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    Rust Analyzer Changelog #235

    rust-analyzer.github.io /thisweek/2024/05/27/changelog-235.html
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    LazyCell/LazyLock stabilized in nightly

    mastodon.social /@rust_discussions/112506175731510945
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    This Week in Rust 548 · This Week in Rust

    this-week-in-rust.org /blog/2024/05/22/this-week-in-rust-548/
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    Rust Analyzer Changelog #234

    rust-analyzer.github.io /thisweek/2024/05/20/changelog-234.html
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    NeoVim 0.10 Released!

    neovim.io /doc/user/news-0.10.html
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    This Week in Rust 547 · This Week in Rust

    this-week-in-rust.org /blog/2024/05/15/this-week-in-rust-547/
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    Rustls Can Now Work With Nginx Via New OpenSSL Compatibility Layer - Phoronix

    www.phoronix.com /news/Rustls-With-Nginx
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    Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

    hacks.mozilla.org /2024/04/porting-a-cross-platform-gui-application-to-rust/
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    This Week in Rust 543 · This Week in Rust

    this-week-in-rust.org /blog/2024/04/17/this-week-in-rust-543/
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    How can Rust be so fast in the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks?

    kerkour.com /rust-fast-techempower-web-framework-benchmarks
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    Thoughts on the xz backdoor: an lzma-rs perspective | Blog

    gendignoux.com /blog/2024/04/08/xz-backdoor.html