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Today I learnt about clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr, which complains about t.clone() on a Rc<Thing>. You write Rc::clone(t) instead, so it's obvious it's a cheap clone. It's a nice approach, because it makes the expensive clones more obvious.

Running a package manager host for a popular language is really expensive. TIL that Python costs several million dollars per year!

When someone says "you should use the cloud", I'm never sure if they mean: 1: use a virtual server rather than running your own hardware, or 2: use hosted services rather than running your own e.g. database 2 is often surprisingly expensive IME.