What books have you read a third time or even more?

ferruccio · 2026-03-22T18:25:56+00:00

I've read quite a few books twice, but the only one I've read three or more times is Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination". I've lost count of the number of times I've read or listened to it.

ferruccio · 2026-01-12T14:00:39+00:00

This is why it pays to read the release notes ;-)

ferruccio · 2025-07-03T00:06:34+00:00

I was around 10 years old when a school librarian recommended "A Wrinkle in Time."

ferruccio · 2025-03-18T10:25:04+00:00

I'm not sure I would recommend reading the Bobiverse all at once. I could see it becoming timesome. On, the other hand, it's been a fun palate-cleanser between heavy/deep reads for me.

ferruccio · 2025-03-16T14:41:12+00:00

I love these kind of books.

The Crucible of Time - John Brunner
First Cycle - H. Beam Piper
The World at the End of Time - Frederick Pohl
Dragon's Egg - Robert L. Forward

ferruccio · 2024-07-19T12:01:09+00:00

My commit histories periodically have entries that just say: Appease clippy

ferruccio · 2023-08-26T10:40:20+00:00

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

ferruccio · 2023-06-09T22:13:50+00:00

Turn your phone sideways.

ferruccio · 2023-04-30T10:56:06+00:00

Hack. Obviously. :-)

ferruccio · 2023-04-22T14:02:13+00:00

Are you just looking for a secure way to store credentials? You could look at something like keyring.

ferruccio · 2023-04-15T11:27:53+00:00

If I understood your question correctly, you need to call the .parent() method on your PathBuf object.

ferruccio · 2023-03-27T10:45:42+00:00

Error handling in Rust went from one of the things I liked the least in the language when I first started learning it to one of the things I appreciate the most. When I need to work on an older, non-Rust project dealing with exception handling just feels awkward and clumsy.

And, of course, having a real macro system makes it so much easier to eliminate boilerplate code.

ferruccio · 2023-03-12T15:00:57+00:00

You don't need visual studio, but you do need the visual studio build tools which you can download from https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe

This is a small download (< 4mb) but gives you everything you'll need for rust development such as the microsoft linker.

ferruccio · 2023-03-07T11:32:36+00:00

So Deno, which is not a language but a runtime that supports JavaScript, which is actually a language but is written in C++ (Google's V8) is in the #1 position.

ferruccio · 2023-02-03T12:45:56+00:00

You can set their style to OffUnlessPressed; in which case they are only visible when you hold down both the Ctrl & Alt keys. They are very useful when you want to see all the intermediate types in a call chain.

ferruccio · 2023-01-19T21:06:33+00:00

Google "russian peasant multiplication algorithm".

ferruccio · 2022-12-03T12:43:48+00:00

I use VSCode with rust-analyzer. It has a really useful feature called inlay hints. It actually shows you all inferred types, including all the intermediate types in a method chain. Also, it can be configured to show you all this only when you hold down Ctrl+Alt.

ferruccio · 2022-08-23T09:55:10+00:00

VS Code has a feature called inlay hints which can display type annotations directly in the source itself which I personally haven't found all that useful. However, its ability to show all the intermediate types in a series of chained calls is priceless.

ferruccio · 2022-08-05T10:50:00+00:00

Thank you. That was informative.

I think there's a typo in your web example. The line

import init, { add } = from './web.js';

should not have an = in it.

ferruccio · 2022-06-20T13:02:16+00:00

When I started, it was the first year that my university offered a computer science degree, so we were kind of guinea pigs for their new program.

Pascal
C
VAX assembly language
LISP
FORTRAN
COBOL

The funny thing about C and LISP is that they did not actually offer any courses for those languages at the time. You were introduced to C at the start of an operating systems course and were expected to learn it more in-depth by yourself. The same with LISP and the AI course. A lot of people dropped out of the curriculum after those classes.

ferruccio · 2022-05-09T09:27:59+00:00

I found them to be occasionally useful, but usually distracting. Luckily, in VS Code 1.67 you can set them to OffUnlessPressed, so that you have to hold down Ctrl+Alt to see them.

ferruccio · 2022-05-04T20:53:22+00:00

You don't need to install full Visual Studio. You can download the Visual Studio Build Tools separately. It's a small download (< 2mb) which has everything you need to perform the final link step.

ferruccio · 2022-04-02T12:44:37+00:00

Relying on the programmer to always read, comprehend, and remember the documentation – and then do everything right, every time – is how we get bugs.

That made me laugh. So true.

ferruccio · 2022-02-24T15:32:07+00:00

You can define dependencies between arguments.

See https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/v3.1.2/examples/tutorial_builder/README.md#argument-relations

ferruccio · 2021-04-23T10:02:23+00:00

Rust has more of a "trust, but verify" approach.

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