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  • Still better than Joe Piscopo

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  • Don't take career advice from Joe Piscopo.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • FYI, Tidal is approximately the same price as Spotify and there are several tools floating around on GitHub which will allow you to download high quality flac files from that service.

  • Godot veteran says 'AI slop' pull requests have become overwhelming

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  • Let me clarify: I did not mean 'accecpt' as in 'accept and merge changes into the code', but as 'accept mail at this address'.

  • Godot veteran says 'AI slop' pull requests have become overwhelming

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  • Often yes, but not necessarily. The GPL requires you to distribute the source code. But I'm not aware of any requirements to accept changes from anyone else.

  • Godot veteran says 'AI slop' pull requests have become overwhelming

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  • Not quite correct. The GPL (any other free software license I'm aware of) doesn't require you to accept changes from anyway. You can develop a piece of software and release it under the GPL without accepting public pull requests.

    Free software licenses protect your rights to do certain things with the source code (the distinction from 'source available' software being exactly what is explicitly protected), but it doesn't require you to accept or entertain changes from anyone who wants to make them--essentially you can force them to fork the project in those cases.

  • With the right design, even UPS doesn’t park in the bike lane

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  • In my neighborhood there was a bike lane separated from the motor traffic with concrete bollards.

    They removed the concrete bollards and replaced them with these shitty plastic ones... because people kept driving their cars into them.

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  • Emperor Shōwa

  • Gojira needs more body positivity

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  • rustmas

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  • Not really, because rust doesn't have exceptions. Instead you are encouraged to handle every possible case with pattern matching. For example:

     rust
        
fn maybe_add_one(number: Option<u8>) -> u8 {
    match number {
        None => 0,
        Some(i) => i + 1,
    }
}

    Option

    <u8>

    is a type which can either be some 8bit unsigned integer, or none. It's conceptually similar to a Nullable<int> in C#.

    In C# you could correctly implement this like:

     csharp
        
public int MaybeAddOne(int? number)
{
    if (number.HasValue)
    {
        return number.Value + 1;
    }

    return 0;
}

    In rust, you can call Unwrap on an option to get the underlying value, but it will panic if the value is None (because None isn't a u8):

     rust
        
fn maybe_add_one(number: Option<u8>) -> u8 {
    number.unwrap() + 1
}

    In some cases unwrap could be useful if you don't care about a panic or if you know the value can't be None. Sometimes it's just used as a shortcut. You can likewise do this in C#:

     csharp
        
public int MaybeAddOne(int? number)
{
    return number.Value + 1;
}

    But this throws an exception if number is null.

    A panic isn't the same as an exception though, you can't 'catch' a panic, it's unrecoverable and the program will terminate more-or-less immediately.

    Rust provides a generic type Result<T, E>, T being a successful result and E being some error type, which you are encouraged to use along with pattern matching to make sure all cases are handled.

  • rustmas

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  • Yes it is. Typically you'd do some pattern matching to handle every possible case, but Unwrap is often used as a shortcut.

  • rustmas

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  • It's more like a method that can throw an exception. Rust doesn't really have exceptions, but if you have a Result

    <T>

    or Option

    <T>

    type you can Unwrap it to get just the T. But if there's no T to get (in the case of an Error type for Result for None for Option) the call panics.

  • Cursed worm by Stitchywithliviee

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  • Leto II Atreides

  • Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race

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  • I don't know why, but if I had to guess, because it was easier to get the amendment to the city charter passed if they excluded the general election. Once they prove it works maybe it will be easier to expand the scope.

    I haven't heard him mention it, but I bet he would be in favor of it.

  • Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race

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  • Only in the primary, not in the general election.

  • Andrew Cuomo Gets Torched From All Sides in NYC Mayoral Debate

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  • If Mamdani doesn't win this election I am going to crash the fuck out.

  • I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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  • Well no, the Canonical distribution is Ubuntu.

    /s

  • Smöl

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  • Rotifers are multicellular animals and have organs, and they are a lot smaller than this. Maybe not as cute though.

  • Serious: What is going to take to face the fascist threat in America?

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  • For 98% of Dems (the politicians, I mean--I don't think the percentage is as high among the general population) being weak ass babies is what they want. "Norms and traditions" is their ideology.

  • What are some of your favorite Master System memories?

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  • My favorite Master System memory is playing Double Dragon with my dad.