[-] Anders429@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

I've never heard of any badger song.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

About ten years back, I had moved away from home and was living in a small town with no Internet in my apartment. The only internet connection I had was the local library.

I remember being so surprised at the amount of viruses on those dumb computers. I wondered what the heck people were doing to them to get them in that state, and then one time I saw some dude looking up porn and just downloading whatever programs the pages he came to told him to.

Anyway, I'm glad I have Internet in my apartment now.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, you ever tried to look back through a long thread on Discord? It's impossible. If you want to read the original message that started the thread, good luck, you'll be scrolling all day and may never get there. How anyone can claim that's "easy to use" is beyond me.

Discord works for quick discussions happening right now, and that's it.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem they're addressing is that some sites they were scraping from have begun instituting measures to stop them. The site went from working beautifully to working barely at all, with most sources either loading incredibly slowly or failing to load at all. I followed the discussions a bit on their discord, and it seems like the first recommendation was for users to host their own proxies. From what I see on the site's initial splash, that still is one of the recommendations. I'm guessing they also rolled out the browser extension as an alternate method for users who don't want to set up a proxy, since they were getting tons of people on thsir discord complaining about it being too hard or whatever.

But yeah, who knows if the extension is safe. The project is open source, so you can always examine it for yourself. But at that point you may as well just host your own proxy.

Edit: looked into it a bit more; the extension's originally proposed purpose seems to be to get around CORS restrictions on certain sources. Seems the original proposal was here: https://github.com/movie-web/movie-web/issues/581

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I'm curious to see whether this survey shows that the amount of jobs programming Rust has increased.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

You gonna do Rust again?

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I usually agree with his takes, but I can't watch more than a minute and a half of a video of his, because it's always an unscripted rant. It's fine though, he usually gets his point across in the first minute anyway, and then repeats himself for another ten minutes.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Should be titled, "demotivating a programmer with a specific personality type." Sure, some good programmer you know doesn't value money; that doesn't mean every skilled programmer won't value it.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Cheaper? Yes, I guess so, depending on how you measure cost. More useful? Absolutely disagree.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

For #2, there isn't anything stopping a separate auth system not through GitHub. Really just needs someone to own the implementation. See https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326#issuecomment-216662599 for past discussion surrounding this.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

If you want to go one step further, a lot of game development uses a generational index, where the index is both a value and a generation, allowing you to know whether the index you currently have stored references an object that has already been destroyed and replaced by another object. Basically every ECS framework I've ever seen uses this pattern.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Have you tried the Book?

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