TehPers

The memory leaks section just feels like an introduction to smart pointers as though they’re some complex concept. Also, the page is showing its age by mentioning the now-removed auto_ptr instead of something like unique_ptr.

Anyway, scrolling down a little more:

Why can’t I assign a vector<Apple*> to a vector<Fruit*>?

This actually comes up in C# with arrays. Copying their example here:

object[] array = new String[10];
// The following statement produces a run-time exception.
// array[0] = 10;

It may have been a design mistake not to make C#'s arrays invariant, though I don’t know the state of that debate today.

On which instance? Australia has that as a law, from my understanding, and given your instance’s ccTLD, I would assume the law applies to that instance.

When should a programmer use C over Python?

They both solve different kinds of problems. C# has a lot of overhead built into the language compared to C++, but it is also a lot easier to write. Unless you need C++ or prefer it due to experience/performance/etc, there’s no reason to choose it over C#, JS, Python, or any other language really.

So to answer your question, thet should use C++ if they need to or will work more effectively in C++, or if the contributors want to.

You’re right. The only reason someone would write something in Rust is to change the license. Nobody would use Rust for any other reason, nor would they use any other language for that purpose.

Windows XP is Rustless if you’re looking for that. Same with TempleOS.

That’s a question of API, not type system.

It’s only enforced because of Rust’s strict type system. Python, on the other hand, lets you do whatever you want by comparison, and complains only at runtime. I’ve seen far too many **kwargs for my liking.

And FD types (e.g. OwnedFd, BorrowedFd) are already in std.

My example would be a thin wrapper around these, most likely. It’s only an example of what I’m trying to convey, though.

I’ve heard the younger generation tends to prefer 21 or 67 long functions instead.

Many of their TOCTOU issues are something a type system can help with. Require operations to execute on a fd handle directly rather than using convenience functions.

let fd = FileDescriptor::new(path);
fd.delete()?;
fd.create(mode)?;

let is_root = fd == FileDescriptor::new("/"); // does (dev, inode) comparison internally
// etc

The uutils devs would need to create that themselves, but OpenOptions seems to get them part of the way there at least.

More than C would.

• Nushell - because open blah.json | get foo.bar.2 just works. It also just works with yaml and any other formats I want to support (you can define custom commands to support any extension you want).
• uv/fnm - good tools for Python and JS
• Starship - nice looking prompt with useful info
• zoxide/fzf - because z myproject saves enough time and effort to justify using it over cd most of the time
• Carapace as my default completer for better completions on most common tools
• Gitui - super nice git tool. I still use git directly a lot, but Gitui’s interface is more convenient for staging changes

You’re right, I should buy from Apple instead.

Patel hasn’t made any statements towards being a Nazi. Fuck Omarchy, and fuck him for supporting the development of it, but that itself doesn’t make him a Nazi. Framework still makes a damn good laptop, and it has forcefully pushed laptop development in a positive direction. Lenovo sort of did too with Thinkpads, but that’s the closest equivalent that comes to mind, and even that’s a stretch. So, unless there’s someone better out there, I’m still recommending Frameworks to people.

Last time I tried scanning and printing on Windows, it took me over an hour to get the device recognized, the right drivers installed, the printer to actually receive the print job, and so on. Printers are just shitty pieces of hardware, Linux or not.

This wouldn’t be “illigal”, but if that’s the case Annas Archive should be “fine”… (I know that they are distributing, and this is the fight)

I don’t know much about European law, but redistribution changes things a lot here in the US. At least here, it then gets into copyright law, and you’d be reproducing copyrighted works without authorization (the Internet Archive attempted to get around this with books by getting legitimate copies of the books, digitizing them, then “lending” the digital copies of those books).

So if I prefer to download the Anna’s dataset instead of scrape myself, would this be illigal?

No idea in Europe. In the US, it might be, depending on what the contents of the work are. I believe Anna’s Archive would count as piracy in this case, though scraping directly from Spotify might not be because they are redistributing the music with authorization from the copyright holder. It gets pretty confusing, honestly.

Regardless, if you aren’t doing things at large scale, even if you are breaking a law by downloading pirated content, it’s unlikely anyone will care. People usually only really start caring if you start redistributing stuff, so as long as you aren’t hosting what you’re scraping, you’re unlikely to run into any trouble.

There’s no obvious answer to your question without more information (for example, where are you?) but I’m not aware of scraping being illegal anywhere, with some exceptions. For example, in the US (where I am), as long as you’re not doing “illegal hacking” to scrape your data, you’re probably fine.

There are TOSs that websites like to impose as well. If you have to agree to one to access any data, you should follow it. Breaking the TOS isn’t really “illegal” in a criminal sense (in the US), but you may expose yourself to anything from being blocked from the site to a lawsuit. Bypassing blocks might also be illegal, though you’d have to speak to a lawyer to know more about that.

It’s illegal

Sauce? Also, where?

Seems like that might just be curl. I’d guess it’s because they ended the bug bounty program for curl.

It’s good to see that the reports they get now are high quality bug reports now!

Skills Are the New CLI

4th paragraph:

Skills don’t replace CLIs.

Great start.

Anyway, skills are basically an alternative to tools. I believe Anthropic made a big deal about them. They come with all the same downsides using an LLM at all comes with, which means they’re fallible, nondeterministic, and possibly even an attack vector. But hey, it saves you remembering a few flags for git so whatever I guess.

Wtf?

(Clojure is (parentheses (diluted with (Java))).)

A quick search might answer your question, but at its core, it treats people as the vulnerability rather than anything software related.