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[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 14 points 5 months ago

Not just a great fight, but also the boss with the best lore.

Extremely powerful giant warrior learns gravity magic so he can keep riding his best skinny horse friend. Aww.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 9 points 7 months ago

I'd wait. I feel like consoles must be getting close to a hardware refresh now.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

This is going to be an effective way to tank the Google/Yelp review score of your restaurant. And pay toilets are also stupid in Europe, I say that as a European.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

"Military intelligence Two words combined that can't make sense"

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Same here. Lifelong tinnitus in one ear without measurable hearing loss. Presumably due to a severe ear infection.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

I'd never heard of this mission. A nuclear-powered drone flying around Titan? That's so retro-sci-fi I can't even

 

Chinese property development groups financial difficulties are not over yet

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well hopefully you can't harm your computer with userland programs. Windows is perhaps a bit messy at this, generally, but Unix-like systems have pretty good protections against non-superusers interfering with either the system itself, or other users on the system.

Having drivers run in the kernel and applications run in userland also means unintentional application errors generally won't crash your entire system. Which is pretty important..

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Romania offers as much as €11,500 to people buying an electric vehicle.

Imagine if up to €11,500 per person could go to funding public transportation.

I like cars. They're useful, and EVs are probably the future. But directly subsidizing EVs seems somewhat wasteful. Makes as much sense to me as a tax break for buying a new iPhone.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It helps with compile time. I don't know why exactly rust macros are slow, and precompiling them helps. Unfortunately, it means distributing a binary along your build process which I personally think is not worth the few seconds of build time speedup.

Btw I do think it is a technically clever solution to improving build times. I'm convinced serde's author is trying to improve the project and this does address one of the common complaints. Clever solutions are not always the right ones though.

 

People are finding out how to protect homes against extreme weather in this changing climate

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe more of a World News article than Politics?

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

This article is quite restrained while more mainstream media writes about a "potential fifth force of nature". E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66407099

At least it seems we may find out relatively soon which is the right answer.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Great comment. However let's not forget the history of many exotic materials which were made practical to manufacture after their useful properties were found. Consider many types of semiconductors, blue LEDs, carbon fiber, etc. All once super expensive but now commonplace. This makes me at least somewhat optimistic that if a material is useful enough (and a superconductor would be revolutionary) fabrication will be solved. Hopefully.

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