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Well all of the linker script is just two standard memory map files, one for the 2040 and one for the 2350, so really it suggests that this needed very little code to make this work. The 6.4% shell represents a shebang line, two comments, and a single `set -e` call, after all.

This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.

Previous versions of the Rust compiler don't just up and disappear just because I moved to a new workstation or setup a new build server. I understand it's not optimal to rely on a download always being available, but even then, that is not at all exclusive to any single language. Why would earlier versions of Rust be susceptible to this but not something like gcc? I don't see it.

Dating apps would go out of business if they did their job, because success means leaving the platform. They make more money if they hold out a carrot and make it difficult to succeed.

This is also true of those services that "delete" your data from data brokers. Their entire business model relies on them failing to do their job.

Even considering that one can personally control their own chat service is already a pretty big leap in technical knowledge. Many, many average users don't even know that's an option, nevermind how it's even done.

Every single website on the internet just says "whoopsie doodle, me made an oopsie" instead of just telling me what the problem is. This so-called mistake is so widespread that it has been the standard for at least a decade.

I agree it's a mistake, but I don't believe that it's viewed that way by anyone making the decision to do it.

Deno Sandbox 6 months ago

It's stated under the "Sandboxes?" heading.

Deno Sandbox gives you lightweight Linux microVMs (running in the Deno Deploy cloud) ...

All of those are optional restrictions, not mandatory. On Windows, it's (practically) mandatory.

Maybe some Windows wizards could get around the mandatory restrictions, but an average Linux user can get around the optional ones.

I've had a lot of fun training Markov chains using Simple English Wikipedia. I'm guessing the restricted vocabulary leads to more overlapping sentences in the training data. Anything too advanced or technical has too many unique phrases and the output degrades almost immediately.

I'm skeptical that it's of any use considering it's only going to be installed by people who specifically want to dislike. It seems more likely that the like/dislike ratio is going to be heavily skewed towards dislikes just by the stated purpose of the plugin and who it appeals to.

I spent far more time writing my own generator with Babashka than I have putting actual content on the site. I was almost disappointed when I finished it. It doesn't support compiling stuff like TS or Elm, but the only JS on my site is a console.log that says there's no other JS on the entire site.

Do you enjoy working for a manager whose opinions change every time they read something? Do they sound like an effective manager? Have you ever had a boss that needed to think the ideas were theirs before they'd sign off, even normal, everyday process stuff? It heavily implies they don't know anything at all about what they're doing or talking about.

I like writing C and still write C from time to time, but I've migrated to Rust for my hobbyist embedded projects and I just cannot imagine going back. It took me some time to work out how to get Embassy working smoothly, but now I just have a project template that's (for my purposes) absolutely rock solid. Rust and Cargo made embedded fun again for me.

Basically all of my struggling now is entirely based around hardware specifics rather than ironing out kinks in my code and I'm into that.