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ok so I was going to ask what fread() does when it partially reads an object, but then I didn’t, because I realised the whole point of it working with “objects” must be so it can ensure the file position is at an object boundary if an error occurs.

JOKE’S ON ME, THIS IS C

unix users really think it’s ok to write shit like ‘Any created files will have mode “S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH”’

[NSCharacterSet illegalCharacterSet]

are there any memory allocators that support partial freeing? suppose i’m doing a character encoding conversion and i cheaply estimate the amount of space required. after conversion i’ll find out maybe as much as half of the space isn’t actually needed. what if i could tell the allocator i don’t need it, so it can re-use it if possible, without moving the rest of my allocation?

hey Biden, make the DoJ investigate the freight rail companies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQTjLWIHN74

why did they name it iOS? if there’s one lowercase letter prefix I associate with Apple, it’s k

warning: variant `µLaw` should have an upper camel case name
  --> src/audio.rs:21:5
   |
21 |     µLaw,
   |     ^^^^ help: convert the identifier to upper camel case: `ΜLaw`
   |
   = note: `#[warn(non_camel_case_types)]` on by default

this is a caf appreciation post. share if you love core audio format ☕️

cargo add why are you spending several minutes with a maxed-out cpu core and no network activity “updating the index”. please i just want to add a tiny dependency. it doesn’t even have dependencies i don’t already have…

personally I think they should Gerfewer