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Rust Commercial Network Launches to Bring Commercial Rust Users Together

rustfoundation.org
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Autism and Vaccines

cdc.gov
18 points·by thesuperbigfrog·8개월 전·7 comments

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)

marshallbrain.com
33 points·by thesuperbigfrog·2년 전·25 comments

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thesuperbigfrog
·8일 전·discuss
Recklessly discarding OpenSSL errors is really bad and could lead to security vulnerabilities.

Calling ERR_clear_error before operations is widely recommended: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/discussions/23025

which matches the blog author's point.

How widespread is this OpenSSL error discarding practice? It might explain a lot of security vulnerabilities.
thesuperbigfrog
·25일 전·discuss
stdx is on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/stdx

But it seems to be a placeholder crate of sorts and is not Kerkour's stdx.

It does re-export several other crates, but has not been maintained or updated in a long time.
thesuperbigfrog
·27일 전·discuss
Here is a nice setup that works well:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/use-workshop-to-run-opencode-...
thesuperbigfrog
·지난달·discuss
>> Something that I had heard is that it is because Mormons use a different baptism, which is not Trinitarian. However, it seems that it is Trinitarian, although this trinity is different from that of Christians (even though they still say "the Father", "the Son", and "the Holy Spirit").

I had not heard that so I looked it up:

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Catholic baptism:

“I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” The matter is the water poured over the head of the recipient. Traditionally, the one being baptized has water poured over them or is fully emerged in water three times.

Source: https://ascensionpress.com/blogs/articles/the-ultimate-guide...

(Some) Protestant baptism:

Each candidate is presented by name to the Celebrant, or to an assisting priest or deacon, who then immerses, or pours water upon, the candidate, saying

N., I baptize you in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Source: https://www.bcponline.org/Baptism/holybaptism.html

(Some groups do it differently, but this seems to be common.)

Mormon baptism:

73 The person who is called of God and has authority from Jesus Christ to baptize, shall go down into the water with the person who has presented himself or herself for baptism, and shall say, calling him or her by name: Having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

74 Then shall he immerse him or her in the water, and come forth again out of the water.

Source: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-test...

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I am not an expert, but they all seem mostly the same to me?
thesuperbigfrog
·지난달·discuss
Really?

What are some major Linux distributions that are only headless?

What is the market share of those Linux distributions compared to Linux distributions that have a GUI desktop?
thesuperbigfrog
·지난달·discuss
Most Linux server distributions would be expected to be headless.

"General purpose" Linux distributions (not "server") typically would include a GUI desktop.
thesuperbigfrog
·지난달·discuss
This looks like a really nice feature to see what goes into Rust binaries.

This post says that it is experimental, but does not say where it is used.

On my Ubuntu VM, it works with bat like the example shows, but does not work with the new Rust "ls":

  ubuntu@resolute:~$ cargo audit bin /usr/bin/ls
      Fetching advisory database from `https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db.git`
        Loaded 1107 security advisories (from /home/ubuntu/.cargo/advisory-db)
      Updating crates.io index
  error: No dependency information found in /usr/bin/ls! Is it a Rust program built with cargo?
  error: parse error: No dependency information found! Is this a Rust executable built with cargo?
  
  ubuntu@resolute:~$ ls -lah /usr/bin/ls
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 30 16:50 /usr/bin/ls -> ../lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/ls
  ubuntu@resolute:~$
Still, this is a nice feature to have.
thesuperbigfrog
·2개월 전·discuss
If you like psy electronic music, there is 'The Mystic Didgeridoo':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbhhLhb3zc8
thesuperbigfrog
·2개월 전·discuss
Greg Kroah-Hartman has been maintaining Linux for decades.

If he says that Rust is helping Linux maintainers to do their work more effectively, that is great news for Linux. I am excited to see the work advance.

I was skeptical of Rust until I gave the language a try for Advent of Code one year. I found it interesting, but I was uncertain about how it would work in a real codebase.

Later at $JOB, I migrated a troublesome C codebase to Rust as an experiment and the results were eye-opening. We discovered errors in the C code we had not realized were present. We were able to structure the code in a way that was easier to understand. The rewritten code was slightly faster, but much easier to understand and maintain.

It really is a game changer.
thesuperbigfrog
·2개월 전·discuss
It is also available as a snap:

https://snapcraft.io/space-cadet-pinball
thesuperbigfrog
·2개월 전·discuss
Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu Linux) has remote software engineer jobs:

https://canonical.com/careers/6707824

Their hiring process is a bit strange compared to other tech companies.
thesuperbigfrog
·2개월 전·discuss
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Newbie is similar.

rosettacode.org also has other tasks: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
thesuperbigfrog
·2개월 전·discuss
>> should not be rolled out in an LTS edition.

The Rust coreutils were first rolled out in the previous release which was not LTS:

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-q...
thesuperbigfrog
·3개월 전·discuss
>> Vegetarianism is such a bad label lol

Agreed. I was expecting to find AI-generated vegetarian recipes.

Actually, I wonder if they would be any good.
thesuperbigfrog
·3개월 전·discuss
I fear that you are correct.

Perhaps if people become desperate enough something might happen, but keeping people divided is a strategy to prevent resistance.

It seems like we are sliding closer everyday to George Orwell's 1984. I wonder when Hate Week starts . . .
thesuperbigfrog
·3개월 전·discuss
>> Why? And also: What can be done to change this in the future?

Two corrupt political parties that are owned by monied interests thanks to Citizens United, decades without campaign finance reform, and rampant "gifts" and extortion.

Neither party represents the people or their needs. They take money and make money. Laws are written by monied special interests. Members of both parties have been doing insider trading for decades, but now it is on naked display, bold and unashamed, as if it to say, "what are you going to do about it?"

Drastic systemic changes are needed on the order of a Constitutional Convention, but it is doubtful that it will happen without tremendous public outcry.
thesuperbigfrog
·3개월 전·discuss
> if Rust can't do OOP (assumption)

Rust handles basic OOP, but not all of the characteristics seen in C++ or Java:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-01-what-is-oo.html
thesuperbigfrog
·3개월 전·discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRImYairm1A

There is not a good way to "guard ships on the sides" against hundreds of Shahed drones or small seaborne drones.

They would overwhelm any defenses and only a few would need to get through to destroy a tanker.

If multiple tankers are together in a line the risk becomes greater: more targets for the drones to hit and any fires or explosions on one tanker might spread to other tankers.
thesuperbigfrog
·3개월 전·discuss
George's personal home page (seems to be a mirror: https://www.bkinzel.de/misc/ghg/index.html) with the grill lighting video and the TWINKIES experiments (original site gone, but archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20060101093459/http://www.twinki...) were amazing web sites in the late 90s.
thesuperbigfrog
·4개월 전·discuss
Maybe the Ubuntu transition from GNU coreutils to uutils coreutils is going well?