bengl3rt

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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I only read the paper (and the code in the paper) but not the complete source code, so maybe this would become clearer if I had, but...

Does Rust fundamentally guarantee that if you make a struct, its fields will lay out in memory in the order that you defined them? Can it be used to interact with APIs (really ABIs) who expect a C struct (or pointer to one)?

I think my main frustration with stuff like Go and Swift in this case is that their structs are not binary-compatible with C structs in this way because they rearrange things to be better aligned/packed/whatever.

Comment · 2 years ago
emailed you subject "Hacker News ping"
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Papers, Please is on Steam :)
Comment · 3 years ago
rstp-simple-server is fantastic, I use it for all kinds of stuff and appreciate how easy it is to deploy. More software should eschew having a million dependencies and focus on doing one thing WELL :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Have you succeeded at using quicat to do what this is doing?
Comment · 3 years ago
"Before Fariq can attempt to get back into the cockpit, Zaharie reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize."

I really want to believe that a single switch doesn't control whether people in the back of the plane can breather or not...

Comment · 13 years ago
On MBTA police scanner I hear hipsanic, possibly wearing a cowboy hat, with blood on him
Comment · 13 years ago
Some friends of mine have actually made a business out of this over at http://testloft.com

From what I understand the phone won't stop ringing so clearly there is strong demand for something like this out there.

Comment · 13 years ago
Off topic, but...

Luxury car rental company? Please tell me more (like do you have a website??)

I ask because I know of a couple of luxury car rental companies, but there is one ore more things about each of them that make them exceedingly unpleasant to deal with. I would be interested to try doing business with a luxury car rental company that is run by people who also read HN - seems to be a good signal for not-totally-fucked-up business practices.

Comment · 14 years ago
Can they now?

http://www.apple.com/displays/ still says that only MBP and iMac can do it.

Comment · 14 years ago
I have lived there in the past. Now prefer the much-maligned suburbs (specifically, Mountain View).

Uber and Lyft and self-driving cars will shortly solve drinking and driving and then my final complaint about the suburbs will be gone.

Comment · 14 years ago
San Francisco is charming, yet now grossly-expensive.

Except it's not charming at all... it's much colder than the rest of California (it honestly feels like a different planet), MUNI absolutely sucks compared to any transit system in the civilized world (NYC/Europe/parts of Asia), and the homeless problem is the worst I've seen in any major urban center.

San Francisco has a long way to go before I'd consider it a world-class city.

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