I’m not following, do you need the bitlocker key when Linux is on a separate disk? is there something extra you need to keep in mind compared to just running windows?

it says you need to have smart features on for this to work. I went looking for how to turn it off, but aparently in the EU, UK, Japan and others it’s off by default

who makes a list of pizza styles and leaves off Neapolitan?

I don’t think anybody got from your comments that you’re pro trump

frankly, I think you are mistaken about what it means to be political. It isn’t strictly about one party vs another. you can talk about politics without explicitly supporting or disliking a political party.

being political at the core is about policy.

and this is why star wars was political from the start. it wasn’t just a cool story, it was meant in part to make you sympathise with the rebels, and dislike the empire. And crucially, to link the rebels to Vietnam and the empire with the US and Nixon. it shows a dislike of what the US was doing, what the party in charge was doing, and perhaps to turn people away from that.

saying all that isn’t political is like saying Bob Dylan wasn’t political because he didn’t support one or another party

I distinctly remember early Facebook and its predecessors being filled with red-eye pictures

If the point of Lemmy is just to generate as many comments as possible with everyone just assuming whatever they want about linked articles without reading them I’ll quickly leave again. I’m here for informed discussion, not for a competition in generating engagement

except for c++ it was just to avoid a single function call, not extra indirection. also on modern compilers size() will get inlined and ultimate instructions generated by the compiler will likely be the same

why comment if you don’t even want to read the article? python lists are not linked lists, they’re contiguous with a smart growth strategy.

good thing about the terminal is it scares most general users so much that they won’t touch it even with instructions. There will be many issues, but I don’t think people running random commands in the terminal will be common

hadn’t heard of them but they played as an opener to a concert I went to. rather disappointed in the vocals (which consisted mostly of drunk shouting), though the backing band was obviously good. perhaps I’m not punk enough to appreciate it though

Which language would you say is not memory safe then? Is there any serious language out there where you should expect memory issues if you don’t make any mistakes?

sure, maybe, but performance doesn’t matter for deciding if a language is memory-safe or not. And C++ isn’t memory-safe by any commonly used interpretation of that word.

You may of course decide that the downsides of memory-safety aren’t worth it for your use-case, that is a separate issue

I agree that experienced users can write code that leaks less than in C, leaving aside the bottomless pit of despair that is undefined behaviour. But the the language isn’t memory safe, it doesn’t even prevent you from returning a reference to a local or helpnwitg iterator invalidation. you don’t have to jump through any hoops to enable making that mistake.

well, its possible to check if a rust equivalent would be riddled with raw pointers: just check the Servo code base.

personally I think its a good thing to have another browser implementation, regardless of specific choices they make about language or license

this right here is the issue, people don’t even remember the size smartphone used to be. I’ve got a phone that’s one of the smallest available that still have decent hardware. the screen is still 6.1 inch. your example of a reasonable size is 6.3 inches.

what op and I are actually looking for is something around 5 - 5.3 inches instead, like smartphone used to be. For that size, all that is available today is no-name chinese phones with shit hardware and no support. the big brands are busy selling 6.2 inches as “compact” where it used to be considered phablet size

seems like there’s an issue with case 3. the person_id and from surveillance_records doesn’t match up with the person_id in the hotel_checkins table when joined on hotel-checkin_id

haaave you heard about our lord and saviour Typst?

same layout algorithm as LaTeX, but:

• simpler markup
• sane, consistent scripting language
• fast compilation, including incremental updates so you can have a process watching your file and instantly create a new PDF on changes
• easy collaborative editing through their web app
• actually understandable error messages

I think Ukraine should definitely join, but right now we desperately need to reform the veto system before taking any more members

To be a positive impact, they just need to be less carbon intensive thans the energy they displace. According to the first results on google, (presumably utility-scale) solar is about 12 times less carbon intensive than natural gas and 20 times compared to coal. So as long as you’re replacing base load and not utility solar, balcony solar could be as much as 10 times less efficient and still come out a net positive.

Keep in mind also that these numbers keep improving as solar panel manufacturing becomes more efficient and starts using more green energy itself over the coming decades