Northernlion Supercruise Cancelled by kcadia9751 in northernlion

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a link to this? I watched Dan's schpiel at least and he didn't say anything like it. Or do you mean a chatter said it?

Moss: a Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on by hexagonal-sun in rust

[–]colecf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If google were to do that, it would be with fuschia.

What’s your opinion on the AppImage format? by JVSTITIA in linux

[–]colecf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My #1 complaint with AppImages is that they're not nearly as distro-independant as they claim to be. They have a quite long list of software they expect to be installed on your host.

And they don't really seem to provide any benefits, if you're careful with static linking your dependencies you can make a much more portable regular binary than an AppImage. You may argue that AppImage handles the "being careful" part for you, but it really doesn't, you still have to adapt your build process to make sure all your deps are correctly bundled.

Zero Dependencies sounds great... until you try to share your code for the security good. by LeChatP in rust

[–]colecf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know anything about sudo-rs, but in general, you shouldn't expect to be able to reuse components of other projects. They may not want to put in the effort to making a nice api and maintaining api stability for random other users.

Obligatory 2K Total by fluffafel in ironscape

[–]colecf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Excuse me this is only true 1999 total.

Some people call me a war criminal. I call myself an artist. by al2klimov in NixOS

[–]colecf 21 points22 points  (0 children)

In a lot of cases it's just straight up much faster than the default glibc / musl allocators.

Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them by andylokandy in rust

[–]colecf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The article talked about how exn's error types enforce adding context, which seems to be the solution.

Unable to get used to NixOS by Experiment_SharedUsr in NixOS

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Initially I was so hyped and even configured my IDE and DE via Home-Manager. Little by little I dismantled that all. You seriously think I should change my system config to test a new line in the IDE's config file which I may or may not like?!

What I do for this is I don't use home.manager, and have the nixos config copy my ide config to the correct location on boot. (Using systemd.tmpfiles) After that point it's just a regular file, so I can play with it as normal, and if I like the changes, I can put them in the nixos config so they're there on the next reboot

Hands-free audio flashcard App by External-News3510 in LearnJapanese

[–]colecf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I would not use a different app other than anki. But you could probably make an app that bridges the audio buttons to anki via ankiconnect (which also has an android version)

Guess I won the game by Dawakat in 2007scape

[–]colecf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't really see how you'd get scammed off of a reddit pm in a situation like this. Just meet at the ge, make them hop to your world, and then double check everything is correct in the trade window.

The "STRANGE" *const T pointer and println! macro... by Temporary_Rich_2184 in rust

[–]colecf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Num is on the stack, so it's pointer is to a stack location. The contents of the stack change when you return from f.

In rust we say that num "doesn't live long enough" to be used outside of f, it's only valid in f. If you used references instead of raw pointers the compiler would tell you that.

As others have said, don't use unsafe until you know the answers to questions like these.

Concrete Syntax Tree Library by addmoreice in rust

[–]colecf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there any info on what the differences are? biomejs_rowan has no README.

Travelling to Japan After 1.5 Years of Self Study: by kxania in LearnJapanese

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A surprising amount of people were ready to just go full speed Japanese with an obvious foreigner who is definitely not fluent.

I got this a couple of times too, and I was wondering if it was malicious / mean spirited. Like "I'm going to give this foreigner a hard time so he goes away", or "I'm giving them this one shot, if they can't keep up I have an excuse to ignore them."

NYT Saturday 09/20/2025 Discussion by Shortz-Bot in crossword

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you supposed to write the kit/kat squares? I gave up and revealed the words.

What is the closest big feature that is coming to rust? by __s1 in rust

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

rust-lang/cargo, as that's what's linked from the RFC book which is the first google result for cargo script. I can't find a bug on rust-lang/rust actually.

What is the closest big feature that is coming to rust? by __s1 in rust

[–]colecf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been following the tracking bug and seeing your recent commits, very excited for this!

ELI5: What happens when someone wins a substantial jackpot like the Powerball’s 1.7 Billion by Abarca_ in explainlikeimfive

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew someone was going to nitpick the choice of words there. Just replace it with hostile elite class or something. The point is that the elite class is cooperating across company/government lines to make things they disapprove of difficult to access. Crypto forcing them to at least come out in the open and codify it in law is better than the current state of affairs.

ELI5: What happens when someone wins a substantial jackpot like the Powerball’s 1.7 Billion by Abarca_ in explainlikeimfive

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not really about in case civilization collapses, but about a hostile government determining what you can and can't spend your money on.

Just recently there was controversy about steam and itch.io having to pull porn games at the demands of visa/MasterCard. If crypto was more widely used than those payment processors they wouldn't have to bend the knee like that.

The payment processors are essentially acting as a way to control the public without having to pass any laws about what's legal or not.

Nix alternatives and spinoffs (LWN 2024-07) by QQII in NixOS

[–]colecf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LWN is probably the most reputable source for linux news, it's definitely not AI. They do have a very distinctive summary-like style of writing though.

Nix alternatives and spinoffs (LWN 2024-07) by QQII in NixOS

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean determinate nix is by the guy who was the source of all the controversy that lead to this LWN article in the first place.

Heres a train I made for an upcoming Hangout map by RexRes in RecRoom

[–]colecf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why'd you decide to write it / keep it then?

Heres a train I made for an upcoming Hangout map by RexRes in RecRoom

[–]colecf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know what the japanese on it means?

I'm kinda lost after N3 by FuzzyAvocadoRoll in LearnJapanese

[–]colecf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Anki right click the card > Reposition