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Microsoft just open sourced their STL implementation! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-msvcs-stl/

@alva Compare and Swap in a loop would have the same result I guess. Although with quite a difference of what happens behind the covers.

@alva Sounds like "Living on my own" by Freddie Mercury.

But it's definitely strange that this happens in language. Essentially increasing the "no" by saying it twice instead of negating it like boolean algebra.

"Smooth GNOME experience in a wie variety of devices" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAjPRr5SGoY&feature=youtu.be

@alva 🤔 seems you are correct. I definitely have code without including the New header anywhere but using placement new. But I think the header is probably included transitively via some other standard header.

Every day you learb something new.

@alva I'm 99% certain this is not the case.

@alva Yeah Rust is a tool that you can use to make things fast, but it's up to the programmer to use it that way.

But to be fair, if you solve the same problem both in idiomatic Rust and Python without particularly optimising anything, it is not unlikely that the Rust code runs faster and with less memory. (but also that writing it took longer)

@alva And writing a C++ API for a C++ Library is utterly impossible. There are so many choices to make and all of them are wrong.

@alva I'm struggling with similar thoughts. It's not that I want to grow it forever, but I definitely prefer it long, but this heat is seriously making me consider cutting it right off.

@alva I think some subsystems have test-suites (some of the file systems and graphics subsystems I think). There are also some independent building and fuzzing efforts.

But in the end we users are often the first line of testing (especially early adopters).

@alva First look at the jslib implementation of the crypto looks alright.

@alva This article is missing some crucial information: https://help.bitwarden.com/article/what-encryption-is-used/
Based on what they are writing the security could be either quite ok or utterly broken. I think I need to look at the code, I didn't find a whitepaper.
What is suboptimal though is the choice of key derivation function. PBKDF2 is not memory hard, so it can be bruteforced efficiently on FPGAs and ASICS. (Or GPUs)

@alva You should ask yourself two questions: Whom do you trust more, your ISP or your VPN provider. Your ISP or some central DNS over HTTPS provider (e.g. cloudflare).

Also uMatrix is great.

Instead of a VPN if you really want privacy, use Tor. I use VPN only to get around region locks.

@alva Because there is no tax in kerosine on flights inside Europe probably.

@alva I have to admit I have been an iOS developer for a while and all in all I quite liked it. Not that I would use an iPhone or that I am not thankful for not having to use macOS anymore.

But seeing SwiftUI really makes me want to write an App again. Can't there be such a thing for Rust and as free software?

@fructose_dealer@quey.org This worries me because of the things that can happen with Lithium Ion batteries. Wouldn't want it to ignite or explode up there.

@cafou At first I thought this was actually real 🙈

I quite like the idea of the new operator, although I think it looks ugly.

Mozilla-Survey about JavaScript evolution: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/javascript-and-evidence-based-language-design/

I published my first rust library: https://crates.io/crates/adjacent-pair-iterator