The memory leaks section just feels like an introduction to smart pointers as though they’re some complex concept. Also, the page is showing its age by mentioning the now-removed auto_ptr instead of something like unique_ptr.

Anyway, scrolling down a little more:

Why can’t I assign a vector<Apple*> to a vector<Fruit*>?

This actually comes up in C# with arrays. Copying their example here:

object[] array = new String[10];
// The following statement produces a run-time exception.
// array[0] = 10;

It may have been a design mistake not to make C#'s arrays invariant, though I don’t know the state of that debate today.

When should a programmer use C over Python?

They both solve different kinds of problems. C# has a lot of overhead built into the language compared to C++, but it is also a lot easier to write. Unless you need C++ or prefer it due to experience/performance/etc, there’s no reason to choose it over C#, JS, Python, or any other language really.

So to answer your question, thet should use C++ if they need to or will work more effectively in C++, or if the contributors want to.

The anti-Rust circlejerk is strong, wow.

I have loads of software written in Rust installed, many of which I compile myself. Not once has the language choice been an issue that I’ve had with the software. Some of that software may be missing features, but that has little to do with the language and more to do with my decision to install v0.1.4 of the software.

Python, on the other hand…

And while we’re on the topic of coreutils, why does every C and C++ project I look at require me to install dozens of random libraries myself? I guess because they’re dynamically linked, which is cool and all, except the page to install each dependency has an encyclopedia of a README written in 1984 in a text file. It’s not usually an issue, just annoying.

You’re right. The only reason someone would write something in Rust is to change the license. Nobody would use Rust for any other reason, nor would they use any other language for that purpose.

I’ve heard the younger generation tends to prefer 21 or 67 long functions instead.

• Nushell - because open blah.json | get foo.bar.2 just works. It also just works with yaml and any other formats I want to support (you can define custom commands to support any extension you want).
• uv/fnm - good tools for Python and JS
• Starship - nice looking prompt with useful info
• zoxide/fzf - because z myproject saves enough time and effort to justify using it over cd most of the time
• Carapace as my default completer for better completions on most common tools
• Gitui - super nice git tool. I still use git directly a lot, but Gitui’s interface is more convenient for staging changes

This wouldn’t be “illigal”, but if that’s the case Annas Archive should be “fine”… (I know that they are distributing, and this is the fight)

I don’t know much about European law, but redistribution changes things a lot here in the US. At least here, it then gets into copyright law, and you’d be reproducing copyrighted works without authorization (the Internet Archive attempted to get around this with books by getting legitimate copies of the books, digitizing them, then “lending” the digital copies of those books).

So if I prefer to download the Anna’s dataset instead of scrape myself, would this be illigal?

No idea in Europe. In the US, it might be, depending on what the contents of the work are. I believe Anna’s Archive would count as piracy in this case, though scraping directly from Spotify might not be because they are redistributing the music with authorization from the copyright holder. It gets pretty confusing, honestly.

Regardless, if you aren’t doing things at large scale, even if you are breaking a law by downloading pirated content, it’s unlikely anyone will care. People usually only really start caring if you start redistributing stuff, so as long as you aren’t hosting what you’re scraping, you’re unlikely to run into any trouble.

There’s no obvious answer to your question without more information (for example, where are you?) but I’m not aware of scraping being illegal anywhere, with some exceptions. For example, in the US (where I am), as long as you’re not doing “illegal hacking” to scrape your data, you’re probably fine.

There are TOSs that websites like to impose as well. If you have to agree to one to access any data, you should follow it. Breaking the TOS isn’t really “illegal” in a criminal sense (in the US), but you may expose yourself to anything from being blocked from the site to a lawsuit. Bypassing blocks might also be illegal, though you’d have to speak to a lawyer to know more about that.

It’s illegal

Sauce? Also, where?

Skills Are the New CLI

4th paragraph:

Skills don’t replace CLIs.

Great start.

Anyway, skills are basically an alternative to tools. I believe Anthropic made a big deal about them. They come with all the same downsides using an LLM at all comes with, which means they’re fallible, nondeterministic, and possibly even an attack vector. But hey, it saves you remembering a few flags for git so whatever I guess.

Wtf?

(Clojure is (parentheses (diluted with (Java))).)

A quick search might answer your question, but at its core, it treats people as the vulnerability rather than anything software related.

People talk about security here occasionally, though there are places to discuss it. Also, bugs are the most common source of vulnerabilities (though social engineering is a much more common type of attack), so the response seems reasonable to me.

Regarding hacking, for white hat I believe there are communities, though I’d imagine there’s overlap with cybersecurity communities. I don’t know of, nor would I recommend, anything black hat.

how do you fit guitar practice into a dev schedule?

working as a web dev, 8+ hours at a keyboard. by evening my hands are tired and i just want to zone out.

been trying to do 20 min before work instead. it’s not much but it’s consistent. any other devs who play — how do you manage it?

You can run rustc directly! You just need to pass about 30 different parameters to it as well as a list of all the dependencies you use and…

Look, it works for small projects.

It’s one of the major supermarket chains in NL, which I guess isn’t that obvious to most people, but I miss shopping there because the chains where I am have rotten, moldy produce and AH always had fresh produce and packs of relatively cheap stroopwafel.

Also, related to the post, I’d almost rather be sweeping the floor there. I don’t want to sweep floors, but it’d mean I live there, so yeah.