Conquer The Lawn (Page 2)

A Survey of Rust

A half-hour to learn Rust - fasterthanli.meIn order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means? In this article, instead o...fasterthanli.me [https://fasterthanli.

language design

Union Types vs Sum Types

Null-tracking, or the difference between union and sum types [https://blog.waleedkhan.name/union-vs-sum-types/]

software development

Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course Summary

I attended Udi Dahan’s Advanced Distributed Systems Design course (see https://particular.net/adsd ) in late February. It is an excellent course - definitely one of those “take the opportunity if you get it” situations. Perhaps the greatest thing about the course is the exposure to a completely different

reloading

All About Primers

I just ran across an outstanding article on primers. It's an excellent comparison of various primers. Outstanding resource. Bookmark these and copy them in case they ever get taken down! A PRIMER ON PRIMERSWhile searching around for some info I stumbled on to this thread and its too good not

backups

Backing up a directory in Linux with duplicity and Backblaze B2

Back up your server to Backblaze B2 with DuplicityAmazon S3 has been around for more than ten years now and I have been happily using it for offsite backups of my servers for a long time. Backblaze’s cloud backup service has been around for …David Keen [https://davidkeen.com/

language design

Nullable Types as Union Types

Why nullable types?A few weeks ago, we announced Dart null safety beta, a major productivity feature intended to help you avoid null errors. Speaking of null values, in the /r/dart_lang subreddit a user recently asked…DartBob Nystrom [https://medium.com/dartlang/why-nullable-types-7dd93c28c87a]

christianity

Pay close attention to what is never said

Per https://www.planobiblechapel.org/tcon/notes/html/nt/1john/1john.htm, "John did not say that every spirit that denies Jesus, but every spirit that does not confess Jesus (v. 3). Often heretical teaching masks its deviations from the truth by simply failing to affirm important biblical truth. Rather

golang

Go has eliminated the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code

What Color is Your Function? – journal.stuffwithstuff.com [http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/]

math

10 Secret Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught You

10 Secret Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught YouHaversine? Exsecant? An introduction to obsolete trig functions and why we don’t use them anymore Scientific American Blog NetworkEvelyn Lamb [https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/10-secret-trig-functions-your-math-teachers-never-taught-you/] Excerpt from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/10-secret-trig-functions-your-math-teachers-never-taught-you/

software development

Deploy at EOD? Deploy on Friday?

Ultimately, the decision to deploy at end-of-day or on fridays, or at EOD on a Friday comes down to the degree to which you trust the assumptions that are baked into your deploy process. Deploy processes generally put a lot of faith in tooling, monitoring, logging, etc. If those things

humor

boy [n.] - a noise with dirt on it

parsing

Just Use a GLR Parser

Following up on https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/which_parsing_approach.html, I have just about come to the same conclusion independently. I have spent the last two years trying to make PEG parsers support left recursive rules that parse left associatively. My many failures at implementing support for

Medium.com has the same business model as Elsevier

Medium.com is a wretched company. Of all companies, they decided to replicate Elsevier's business model - take quality content from content producers at no cost, slap the Medium name on it, and put it behind a paywall. No thanks. Don't think I will. Guess I don't need to read

communication

In Favor of Plain English

How to write in plain EnglishPlain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.Plain English CampaignSuper User [http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html]

how-to

Easiest way to share files on a LAN

SnapdropInstantly share images, videos, PDFs, and links with people nearby. Peer2Peer and Open Source. No Setup, No Signup. [https://snapdrop.net/]

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DIY 3D printed bullet feeder

DIY bullet feeder - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4305343

esp32

Pocket sized ESP32 WiFi capture tool

The Hash Monster: ESP32 Tamagotchi For WiFi CrackingWould you like to have a portable WiFi capture tool that fits in your pocket? A device that saves PCAP captures into micro sd card to later review them on Wireshark or crack those WPA / WPA2 passphrases. Sounds like something out of the

how-to

Ventoy - a tool for easily building bootable USB thumb drives

ventoy/VentoyA new bootable USB solution. Contribute to ventoy/Ventoy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubventoy [https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy]

unicode

Unicode in Five Minutes

Unicode In Five Minutes ⌚Richard Harris [https://richardjharris.github.io/unicode-in-five-minutes.html]

how-to

Keybase Alternative

Per https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom, Keybase has been acqui-hired by Zoom. My take is that Keybase is effectively a dead product, so what are viable replacements? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103386 asks the same question. So far, I've only found a couple of tools that do some

guns

SBR vs Pistol Brace

security

Side Channel Eavesdropping

Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb’s VibrationsThe so-called lamphone technique allows for real-time listening in on a room that’s hundreds of feet away.WIREDAndy Greenberg [https://www.wired.com/story/lamphone-light-bulb-vibration-spying/]I recall hearing about a similar technique used back in the 70s where the spy

If you have a minivan then 7.62x39 is for you!

Sure, .300 Blackout would be nice, but it's a rich man's caliber. If you have a minivan, you aren't rich, so 7.62x39 is what you want to be buying.

ammo

Fiocchi is pronounced Fee-oh-kee

Call 1 (417) 725-4118 [tel:4177254118] and the receptionist says "You have reached Fiocchi Ammunition." She pronounces it "Fee-oh-kee", with the emphasis on the "oh" sound. Boom, you learned something new today.

Self Host or Pay for Hosting

It seems like every day I see someone on HN reporting that their account at some well known SaaS product has been disabled and they've been locked out of their work. SaaS products are nice, sure, but they are risky, especially if your work or significant part of your life