Memorising passwords via spaced repetition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722863 Not sure if it's ingenious or an indictment of password inconvenience.
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I'm not sure if I should use the term "text diff" or "textual diff" to refer to a conventional, line-oriented diff of text in difftastic.
Any opinions? Which seems clearer to you?
A funny side effect of building software in Rust: my machine OOMs much more during development.
I'm not entirely sure why. I think Rust makes it easy to allocate data quickly, and sooner or later you write an infinite loop when coding.
I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.