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verbatim commented on Introducing tmux-rs   richardscollin.github.io/... · Posted by u/Jtsummers
denysvitali · 6 months ago
I like the initiative, but all this effort for ... unsafe Rust? I know it's a hot topic, and I hope the end goal is to have a memory-safe (and faster) tmux. I just hope the author doesn't stop here :)

Edit: As pointed out below, I'm stupid, it's stated in the article and I didn't read that part

verbatim · 6 months ago
At the end of the article he states that the next step is to work toward safe Rust.
verbatim commented on AntiX Linux 23 Released   antixlinux.com/antix-23-r... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
generalizations · 2 years ago
I don't get it. True to the name, AntiX seems to define themselves by what they're against; but I don't really see why I'd use it instead of say, Alpine.
verbatim · 2 years ago
Puzzling that the page has a headline declaring it "Proudly anti-fascist", but has nothing in the FAQ/About explaining what that means in this context.
verbatim commented on Writing Python like Rust (2020)   oatzy.github.io/2020/05/1... · Posted by u/behnamoh
abdullahkhalids · 2 years ago
But why do we have to import any? They should be part of the core language by now. The lack of boldness of Python core developers is sometimes very annoying.
verbatim · 2 years ago
Most of it is part of the core language now.
verbatim commented on Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices   oculus.com/blog/a-single-... · Posted by u/superted
tobrien6 · 5 years ago
Just make a burner Facebook account. You can do so with a burner email. Annoying, but not horrifying.
verbatim · 5 years ago
You can make a burner email account that doesn't track you around the web, and other places.

Is it possible to do that with a Facebook account?

verbatim commented on How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be   jalopnik.com/you-have-no-... · Posted by u/clouddrover
uptown · 6 years ago
Perhaps it's just my eyes getting older, or changes to headlight tech and/or car design is a contributing factor, but modern headlights at night seem more blinding than I ever remember them being in the past.
verbatim · 6 years ago
I have the same issue. My suspicion is that this is going to be analyzed as a serious safety concern at some point.

It seems that headlights got much brighter to benefit the driver behind them, without any consideration that they blind everyone else -- and also reduce the ability for peoples' eyes to adjust to dim conditions. That can't be a good trade-off.

verbatim commented on The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving   espn.com/espn/story/_/id/... · Posted by u/chris_overseas
scarface74 · 6 years ago
It is still just calories in and calories out. Some people naturally have a higher metabolism and a higher basal metabolic rate. It still doesn’t change the equation.

Yes, it’s a well known fact that if you eat too few calories, that your metabolism slows down - and you burn less calories. That doesn’t make anything that the original poster said scientifically valid.

I saw all sorts of crazy crap that people believed would help them lose weight and tone when I was a part time fitness instructor like excercises that would help them spot reduce (no such thing) to people who tried to come into my classes wearing those plastic bags because they thought it would help them lose weight. They reported me to management plenty of times for not allowing them to come to my class like that and I would budge.

verbatim · 6 years ago
> It is still just calories in and calories out.

The problem with this line of thinking is the "just".

Sure, physics says it's calories in and out, and we all agree that mostly makes sense.

But -- how do you measure how many calories are going out? Sleep is known to have an impact on weight. How does one translate their sleep quality or sleep issues into a better "out" measure? How do you know how many calories are going out during all of the other things you do during the day? What about the thousands of assorted complex processes going on in your body that you aren't really aware of?

For the "in"... ok, so you studiously track everything you eat. What's the efficiency that your body absorbs all of the calories from the food you ate? How many of those calories pass through and aren't actually consumed? Is eating 1000 calories of lettuce really the same thing as eating 1000 calories of pork?

If fixing this for people was just about "the equation", weight loss would be a lot easier to solve.

"Calories in, calories out" is one of those things that sounds great, but is not nearly as practical for people to actually implement as people like to imagine.

verbatim commented on List of selfie-related injuries and deaths   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... · Posted by u/CaptainZapp
jacquesm · 6 years ago
I've coined the term selficide for this.
verbatim · 6 years ago
Presumably most of these are accidental, which makes that an ill-fitting term.
verbatim commented on FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/dsgerard
fetus8 · 6 years ago
I had a similar experience recently, and contacted Amazon. I talked to two separate people in two different departments, one that was supposedly a delivery logistics group. I was able to provide a statement regarding where to leave packages from now on. It's seemingly working so far, but we'll see what happens in a month or so.
verbatim · 6 years ago
I made a similar call after an Amazon courier recently left two packages on the roadside nowhere near my house (where they are normally left at the door).

They added instructions to my account indicating which door the packages should be left at. So far, about 50% of the deliveries have been at a different door, but at least they've made it to the house.

verbatim commented on Why does unsubscribing from a newsletter take “a few days”?   twitter.com/Joe8Bit/statu... · Posted by u/scop
verbatim · 6 years ago
I've always assumed that the answer is that due to the way email works, mail can, in certain (rare) situations, end up stuck in a queue somewhere between mail servers and not delivered until a couple days later.

Saying that unsubscribing takes a few days means that in the off-chance that this happens, the sender has some coverage against annoyed users who have one of these mails delivered after unsubscribing.

But this is just my guess.

verbatim commented on Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications   reddit.com/r/freesoftware... · Posted by u/lelf
sli · 7 years ago
Windows 8.1 was absolutely determined to convince me that my brand new i5 was incompatible with Windows 8.1. MS hasn't stopped with the incompatibility garbage.
verbatim · 7 years ago
In a world where CPUs now require microcode updates to run securely, it's not very obvious that this is bad behavior.

Maybe erring on the side of safety here makes sense?

u/verbatim

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