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dochtman

8,644karma·837submissions·August 2, 2010
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Professional Rust maintainer.

https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/ https://github.com/djc https://xavamedia.nl/

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Pretty obviously LLM-generated.
2d ago·view thread
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I don’t think it’s completely unfair to say that the Neo is based on a chip that was first announced in Sep 2024 while the Intel chip is from Apr 2026. Also, I think the battery life most people are p…
7d ago·view thread
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> I wonder if someone could create a GitHub account using my name and claim ownership of them... AIUI the crates are actually linked to the account via a different identifier, not directly to the u…
2mo ago·view thread
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GitButler now employs/has hired the gitoxide maintainer, I think? So no doubt they’re aware. I guess they found that gitoxide isn’t good enough and/or to expensive to extend/improve for…
2mo ago·view thread
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A lot of Let’s Encrypt is not the software but a bunch of auditing and process that ensure compliance and make it legible to the required auditors.
3mo ago·view thread
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That's the policy, but we've been a bit more conservative in practice. `main` currently targets 1.88, but that's only because a security issue in the time crate has forced our hand (one…
5mo ago·view thread
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I'd bet a supermajority of Swift commits comes from Apple developers. Pretty sure the rust-lang/rust commit authors would be much less centralized.
6mo ago·view thread
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See also: https://github.com/1jehuang/mermaid-rs-renderer Just submitted a HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=46807750 …
6mo ago·view thread
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I think the way Rust checks borrows also makes it a lot more feasible to avoid allocations/copies; not because it is impossible to do in C, but because doing it in C requires writing very careful…
7mo ago·view thread
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There’s also a compounding effect: I’ve heard from a hardware vendor that they spend a lot of time optimizing OpenSSL to get the most out of their silicon, so for their customers they suggest using Op…
7mo ago·view thread
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How is the HiDPI situation, and font rendering? Last time I tried it on my M1 Max with Asahi it still looked substantially worse.
8mo ago·view thread
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I'm pretty sure private PKIs are an option that is pretty straightforward to use. Security is still a lot better because the root is communicated out of band.
10mo ago·view thread
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When I asked about financial support, the Senior Principal Software Engineer from Mozilla I talked to said "Mozilla has no money". To be fair, we've gotten a great amount of code contri…
10mo ago·view thread
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I would argue that regexes are often more complex than simple parsers.
11mo ago·view thread
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(2021)
1y ago·view thread
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CRLite is awesome, and it deserves more usage; notably most non-browser clients on Linux machines don’t get any revocation handling at all.
1y ago·view thread
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Tauri seems interesting. It combines a Rust core with the platform-native browser engine for presentation. Of course a potential downside is rendering incompatibilities between engines/platforms.
1y ago·view thread
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No, they don’t. Selling support contracts is actually hard. GPL/AGPL preclude widespread adoption (these days) — the grandparent explicitly mentioned “permissive” licenses.
1y ago·view thread
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IIRC derive and attribute macros via declarative macro definitions are coming soon, which probably obviates this? https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/143549 …
1y ago·view thread
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Does this work on macOS? On mobile (Firefox on iOS) why does this site keep putting animations in my face?
1y ago·view thread
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We tried this when we were benchmarking and it was not significantly better than the Arc<RwLock<_>> that we're using now.
1y ago·view thread
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Did you file an issue or ask in the rustls Discord channel? We're happy to help.
1y ago·view thread
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Curious what this would look like written in Rust, using the windows-rs bindings.
1y ago·view thread