Programming

Someone once told me somewhere, that if I am trying to learn rust, I should learn C first, so that I know how to shoot myself in the foot, learning to avoid doing so, so that the borrow checker of rust doesnt seam to unforgiving (since you somewhat know, what happens if you dont follow best practices). So thats what I did (somewhat) for the past 6 months. I wrote some stuff in C, but mainly I had quite of a deep dive into operating systems (mainly linux), working mechanics of memory and the CPU and a lot more (I will try to make a list of the stuff I learned and the ressources used below). My question to you is, if there are any additional concepts/things I should learn beforehand, to start learning rust.

This is a question regarding the frontend framework Slint

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I’m a hobbyist and butcherer of python code. Quite often i’m jumping between multiple laptops / desktops playing around with different projects. Just wondering what the best workflow is or suggestions people have around syncing projects so I can edit and work on projects regardless of the computer. Is this something that people generally manage through github?? Thanks in advance for the thoughts!

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So how do you implement fork() on a system that have a global memory model and thus don't actually have per-process memory mapping?

I need it to get low level access to some PlayStation Dualsense controller features, such as adaptive triggers and setting colors.

The Hideout is a browser-based place to play social deduction games with friends or randoms.

I hope it’s ok to ask for some feedback here. Of not, please let me know. The rules did not sound like against it

I’ve recently started to get into containerized development (of LaTeX documents for now) using VSCode with the Dev Containers Extension. While compilation and everything works fine, I’m a bit annoyed by the very barebones shell of my podman container in the integrated terminal. I’m used to zsh with syntax highlighting and autocompletion, I like to use neovim to write my commit messages (even when I’m using VSCode to write my code) and of course I need git and ssh to push to my git forge.

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I’ve been thinking, would it be worth creating a separate community for AI coding related articles and discussion? I know there is !Aii@programming.dev, however AI coding has a lot of overlap with !programming@programming.dev.

This question comes mainly from curiosity. I’m not quite sure how to phrase it best. Especially in a title. But I’m wondering if say you have one thread writing to a variable of an essentially primitive type and one thread reading them at the same time if there’s any likelihood of the read happening while the variable is half written causing either weird values or undefined behavior.