This doesn’t change it to a png, but your image viewers recognize it as webp. You should just associate .wepb with your image viewer in the OS.

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* Swedish developer of the year

Don’t get me wrong, he does great work, but your post should mention it somewhere.

Rust doesn’t allow type inference in function signatures, c++ does with auto. IIRC, they recommended against using it, because of -you guessed it- compile time.

You could save 0.64 bit per char more if you actually treated you output as a binary number (using 6 bits per char) and didn’t go through the intermediary string (implicitly using base 100 at 6.64 bits per char).
This would also make your life easier by allowing bit manipulation to slice/move parts and reducing work for the processor because base 100 means integer divisions, and base 64 means bit shifts. If you want to go down the road of a “complicated” base use base 38 and get similar drawbacks as now, except only 5.25 bits per char.

Unless you only copy and compare you have to decode it, or implement more complicated logic for everything from searching to concatenation (which is normally just memcopy).

The standard xkcd on making another thing:

https://xkcd.com/927

On frameworks specifically, I recommend the song:

We’re gonna build a framework,
cause we wanna use one,
but don’t wanna choose one

We’re gonna build a framework
We didn’t like the others,
So we’ll write another

I never understood why they don’t add just a little syntactic sugar. You don’t need much to take it from a mess of brackets to something comprehensible.

It was in the original design, but not the first implementation. By the time someone got around to it, people where used to S-expressions.

I can’t comment whether learning C first improves your rust, but it certainly makes you appreciate what the rust compiler does.
Also learning rust improved my C.

C++ already has much more of the required language constructs, which is why there is already an attempt to add borrow checking to C++ called circle. Until that standardizes, I wouldn’t expect it in C.

I think you should make the overwhelmingly likely case crash in a controlled way, but provide a way to handle it for people who truly want to keep going in such strange conditions.

In rust I would panic in now(), but also provide a alternative call that returns a result named something like try_now(), similar to Vec::with_capacity and Vec::try_with_capacity.
In languages that provide them, you could also throw a runtime exception that can be ignored and just bubbles up to main unless explicitly caught.

If a system was made to show blogs by the author and gets repurposed by a LLM to show untrusted user content the same code becomes unsafe.

As if a white space sensitive language protects from this fuckery.

• How many thin spaces are one level of indentation?
• Will anyone notice a hair space?
• Who can tell the difference between a space and a figure space? they are the same size in a mono spaced font

Anyone able to find the prime factors of 35 in their head is able to outperform state of the art quantum computers.

Rust has monomorphisation like C++ and every function has the aliasing guarantees of restrict, a keyword rarely seen in C code bases use and C++ doesn’t even support.
This means you can get more optimisations while writing in an intuitive style, where C/C++ requires some changes to the code.

On the other hand rustc has some hiccups with argument passing and rvo. One could argue that that’s just the compiler while the aliasing problems are part of the language in the C/C++ case, but while there is only one rust compiler its performance is the languages performance.

For most use cases they are about equally fast.

Its probably the usual closed source, but maybe not, I can’t take more of the abbreviation soup.

The other big danger is a attacker from the inside, and unless they have a amazing solution in their confidential jira, they just declared it not a problem.

This is how I read it:
They did a review of some of the tests, but ran all.
The source code was reviewed in its entirety.
They found vulnerabilities, but because “[…] these potential vulnerabilities would be exploitable only by a vendor insider attack.
No open issues remain for this area of review.”
Problems and discrepancies they found are in an attachment to another report and in jira, both of which are confidential.

Why would we need to store energy for more than an day? We only need to smooth out the difference between supply and demand.
The mayor advantage of the European grid is the disconnectedness over long distances. There are always enough places where the sun shines or the wind blows.

I am not arguing that nuclear should have been phased when it was, as that resulted in more coal and gas, but that clinging to it now is a mistake.
Building a new nuclear power plant in Germany would take a decade if things went well. Until then grid battery storage can mature and demand adjustment projects can be rolled out. It’s probably also easier to convince germans to accept pumped hydro where they live over nuclear.

With the same amount of money you can build so much more renewable generation and storage than nuclear.