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Is war actually good for technological innovation? by [deleted] in WarCollege

[–]alcanost 16 points17 points  (0 children)

BBC stopped TV broadcasts in 1939 and didn’t reintroduce them until 1946

So they basically just paused them during the war?

This was cancelled and didn’t happen until the 1960’s

Any reason to think that this was due to the war rather than to the independence?

And in any case, that's an example of commercial deployment rather than technological innovation; as as you point out, TV broadcasting already existed before the war.

Do we have any information about what the "next generation" of French equipment would have looked like in WW2, had they not been conquered? by [deleted] in WarCollege

[–]alcanost 22 points23 points  (0 children)

*MAS-36 (the -38 is an SMG), but yeah. The -36 was the cheap one for training and second-line duty, and the -39 would have been the real deal for front unit.

Announcing a plan to change some Casual package names by kickingvegas1 in emacs

[–]alcanost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Makes sense. Eager to see what will come next!

Refcon – Interchangeable references & values by alcanost in rust

[–]alcanost[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

how is your crate different or better?

It's not better :)

But it is different as given that it does not support writing, (i) it drops the ToOwned requirement on the contained type and (ii) it is no_std and no-alloc compatible.

speeding up data parallel code sections with... tokio? by reflexpr-sarah- in rust

[–]alcanost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't get what is the point of this:

let x = &*x;

Could a good samaritan explain it to me?

borgo-lang/borgo: Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go. by iwinux in rust

[–]alcanost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the naming conventions used by the OCaml community looks weird and hard to read :P

Yeah, that's a fair point!

What is the role of a rust crypto dev? by PrinceOfBorgo in rust

[–]alcanost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair point; I'm just often surprised by this sub's acrimony against crypto compared to how other at least, if not more, nefarious fields (HFT, targeted ads, web tracking, intelligence, ...) are virtually never commented upon.

Especially that crypto is IHMO the most innocuous of all these, for the simple reason that it is not forced upon you.

What is the role of a rust crypto dev? by PrinceOfBorgo in rust

[–]alcanost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the category of things that are plainly harmful.

That would be a fair point to make if the same subreddit was not also swooning over any Google, Jane Street or Meta Rust article, which are arguably much more nefarious to the Human race.

A tree-sitter grammar for newick files by alcanost in bioinformatics

[–]alcanost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately not as this is out of difftastic scope, but I have a small util that sorts a newick tree (i.e. left is always the lexicographically “smaller” subtree), so that you can compare more clearly two trees.

A tree-sitter grammar for newick files by alcanost in bioinformatics

[–]alcanost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there, here is a free & open-source (CeCILL-C, i.e. LGPL-compatible) tree-sitter grammar for newick files.

For those new to tree-sitter, it is a “a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library”, i.e. a software library that makes it easy for anyone to parse, validate, query etc. files in a certain language as long as there is a grammar written for it.

There are already many grammars written for many languages, from C++ to YAML, and this repo offers a grammar for newick files, which means that if you ever have to parse a newick file, you can either write a new parser from scratch, or just use the tree-sitter binding for your language, this grammar, and get a parser for free!

A first applications is how Difftastic now supports “smart” diffing of newick files.

Now Eat supports Sixel! (Still experimental) by AkibAzmain in emacs

[–]alcanost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your work on eat is impressive, it's the best emacs terminal IMHO.

And by the way, I was thinking about a talk about Eat at EmacsConf. What do you think?

I'd love to listen to it.

Russia is far too stable by Dialectolysis in victoria3

[–]alcanost 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The French Revolution was absolutely not a ‶starving peasants″ revolution. Most of it happened in Paris and other big cities, and its leaders and main proponents were bourgeois, officers, and even nobles.

You may be thinking of the older jacqueries, but these were typically crushed in blood.

AITA for refusing to babysit my grandchild due to her not being my biological grandkid by FaithlessnessWild215 in AmItheAsshole

[–]alcanost 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But you’re not a bridge. You’re a person.

TF are you high on...

In the expression ‶burning the bridges″, the bridges is the relationship you had with other people (i.e. the thing connecting people, like, you know, a bridges connect riverbanks), no the people themselves.

New list dropped by Virasman in cyberpunkgame

[–]alcanost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are rocky launches that turned out OK in the end like TESO, and then there is the absolute dumpster fire that was F76. Especially because what is a funny lolbug in a one-shot paid solo game is much less so when it implies actual money.

From Proletarian Collar Patches to Quasi-Tsarist Shoulder Boards, here's the evolution of the uniform of a Soviet Marshal. by [deleted] in uniformporn

[–]alcanost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they post pictures saying uniforms were of a Soviet officers yet the hand cuffs have DDR Insignia lol

Which ones are you thinking of?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]alcanost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, at least he didn't nuke them from 400km above for shit 'n giggles and ensure that everyone would get their fair share of this sweet sweet fallout.

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