brendanzab

September 2022:

This has spread to a far wider audience than I had anticipated - probably my fault for using a title that is in hindsight catnip for link aggregators. I wrote this back in 2021 just as a bunch of personal thoughts of my experiences using Rust over the years (not always well thought through), and don't intend on trying to push them further, outside of personal experiments and projects.

Managing a living language is challenging and difficult work, and I am grateful for all the hard work that the Rust community and contributors put in given the difficult constraints they work within. Many of the things I listed below are not new, and there's been plenty of difficult discussions about many of them over the years, and some are being worked on or postponed, or rejected for various good reasons. For more thoughts, please see my comment below.

My personal list of Rust gr

feeedback

/*
source: stackoverflow.com/a/52171480
author: stackoverflow.com/users/815680/bryc
license: i think CC BY-SA 4.0 stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
*/

// fastest and simple string hash function (10^9 hashes => zero collision)

// keys 20 length => 1050 hash/ms
// keys 50 length => 750 hash/ms

Jake-Shadle

# We'll just use the official Rust image rather than build our own from scratch
FROM docker.io/library/rust:1.54.0-slim-bullseye

ENV KEYRINGS /usr/local/share/keyrings

RUN set -eux; \
    mkdir -p $KEYRINGS; \
    apt-get update && apt-get install -y gpg curl; \
    # clang/lld/llvm
    curl --fail https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | gpg --dearmor > $KEYRINGS/llvm.gpg; \

TolgaBagci

cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm "Your Virtual Machine Name" --cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 00100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff
VBoxManage setextradata "Your Virtual Machine Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct" "iMac11,3"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your Virtual Machine Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion" "1.0"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your Virtual Machine Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct" "Iloveapple"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your Virtual Machine Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey" "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your Virtual Machine Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC" 1

0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

giuliano-macedo

// you need this in your cargo.toml
// reqwest = { version = "0.11.3", features = ["stream"] }
// futures-util = "0.3.14"
// indicatif = "0.15.0"
use std::cmp::min;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;

use reqwest::Client;
use indicatif::{ProgressBar, ProgressStyle};

PoignardAzur

About variadics in Rust

This is an analysis of how variadic generics could be added to Rust. It's not a proposal so much as a summary of existing work, and a toolbox for creating an eventual proposal.

Introduction

Variadic generics (aka variadic templates, or variadic tuples), are an often-requested feature that would enable traits, functions and data structures to be generic over a variable number of types.

To give a quick example, a Rust function with variadic generics might look like this:

g1eny0ung

Open Source is Not About You

The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects.

Just because someone open sources something does not imply they owe the world a change in their status, focus and effort, e.g. from inventor to community manager.

As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.

If you have expectations (of others) that aren't being met, those expectations are your own responsibility. You are responsible for your own needs. If you want things, make them.

Phate6660

Cryptography

https://github.com/spieglt/cloaker - password-based file encryptor (NOTE: uses Qt)
https://github.com/str4d/rage - file encryption tool and librarary that uses the age format

Media

https://github.com/mohanson/gameboy - gameboy emulator
https://github.com/bartwillems/lyriek - fetch the lyrics of a song playing in an mpris-compatible player
https://github.com/JakeStanger/mpd-discord-rpc - discordrpc for mpd

lf94

WHEN WILL BROWSERS BE COMPLETE?
A short exploration into the end game of web browsers.

This article may seem to be about bashing Google but it isn't. It's just about
reflecting on the current state and how much longer we should see ourselves
here.

So what is the Web? Well we can agree the Web is a conglomerate of standards
proposed by the W3C. So what do those standards define?