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Understanding of DVD video menus for films and series. The technical details of how menus were implemented and what functions were available for creating menus, a look at the influence of aspect ratios and how menu designs changed and became more ambitious...
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Rust already has most of what I want from error handling: explicit control flow, errors as values, and concise propagation with ?. The friction comes when deciding what to put in the error half of Result. We often end up choosing between precise types that...
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I didn’t expect this to be the second post after the announcement, but here we are. The short version is that I’ve decided to wind down the Casuarina Linux project. Things will continue as-is until the end of October 2026. After which, depending how my...
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These lines are very difficult for me to write because I feel like digging my own grave. AI systems are improving by leaps and bounds. From the early 2022 fumbling release of ChatGPT, which couldn’t correctly count the number of a’s in my name (it claimed...
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Why `specialArgs` in `lib.evalModules` is considered an antipattern.
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How per-item RwLock reads became expensive in our read-heavy workload, how using lock-free has improved performance, and where a simple RwLock remained a good fit.
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News and information from Gentoo Linux
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Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by user [...]
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A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - Release v0.46.0 · jj-vcs/jj
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Using agents to build property-testing machinery, then turn the findings into small, reviewable fixes.