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Comment · 7 days ago
So, lean-zip "outperforming an equivalent Rust package that crates.io says has been downloaded over a billion times". Yes, zlib-rs has only been downloaded 200 million times... But it is way faster!
Comment · 17 days ago
Hahaha, in the case of Sweden and Russia, the aggression has historically been the other way around!
Comment · 4 months ago
Without comma's it might require a re-parse.
Comment · 4 months ago
Currently, what are the countries that are most primarily focused on the welfare of their people? Those I would consider good countries.
Comment · 4 months ago
Would be nice if you could make a version people can run in their browser..!
Comment · 4 months ago
This is an example of a single html-file that I serve: https://basketball.4e4.in It weighs in at around 30 KB including a favicon, and it's quite functional.
Comment · 4 months ago
In that case, definitely learn Rust, it will expand your thinking about programming and be useful. Zig would just be too similar to C.
Comment · 4 months ago
Note that this is the webpage: https://tejaswigowda.com/ffmpeg-webCLI

Works really well. It does say "100% local. Data never leaves your browser." but indeed, a icon that does not a cloud-upload would be clearer.

Comment · 5 months ago
What has not been talked about here yet, and which isn't directly about AI, is this: "The benchmarks are neutral-to-faster, and the binary shrank by a few megabytes"

This says more about Zig versus Rust, and I was surprised by it, that a "direct translation" of this kind would give a somewhat faster and smaller binary.

Comment · 5 months ago
He meant `command which`
Comment · 5 months ago
An exclamation mark instead for impure would solve that.
Comment · 5 months ago
That drastically reduces my level of interest (in spite of the write-up sounding very intriguing).
Comment · 5 months ago
But then the call makes more sense: `describe {role: "admin", name: "alice"};`
Comment · 5 months ago
What do you mean by "nuclear fleets"??
Comment · 5 months ago
But if dirtyfrag is mitigated, copyfail is still active...

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