You can also use let else.

let (Some(count\_str), Some(item)) = (it.next(), it.next()) else {
    panic!("Can't segment count item pair: '{s}'");
};

But really it’s the exact same as other languages, it just forces you to handle it better. C-based languages will return 0/null/-1 and you’ll have to check all 3 of those because they might not mean the same thing. How is that better?

The vast majority of mongols are in china, not mongolia.

Well they’re still able to block 99% of the “script kiddies” that just download a cheat to feel better about themselves. I feel like besides at the top 0.01%, this is by far the largest portion of cheaters.

I suppose it could be considered a trade-off? There’s the obvious advantages of longevity and possible size(?), it van still be viable in some niche uses where that matters. Github’s code vault from a while back could have benefited from that.

This is explicitly stated to be for cold storage though. It doesn’t have to be fast at all. And they’re supposedly aiming for 500mbps soon.

EAC is notoriously less invasive than vanguard. The repo you linked doesn’t even have a fraction of what you’d need to hide from vanguard.

There are SO many things to hide. In theory it sounds possible, in practice just not.

To name a few, you’d have to hide:

• cpu jitter/latency
• interrupt behavior
• page table behavior
• msr access
• cache invalidation patterns
• IOMMU
• PCIe inconsistencies
• boot sequence
• driver timing
• CPUID

And so much more. It’s almost impossibly hard to hide all that. Even if you could, a tiny mistake at one point or a stealth update and you’re banned.

In comparison, avoiding vanguard and cheating on a legit windows machine is trivial. DMA cards are expensive but impossible to detect. DP/HDMI + mouse hooks are another impossible to detect option.

Did you read the article? 30mbps is faster than a lot of people’s internets. It’s not fast, but for a prototype, it’s not bad.

That sounds VERY unlikely. I’m gonna need a source for that (with vanguard) or I’m calling bullshit

For the AUR I agree, I use arch on my daily computer. What I’m more confused about is Nix, I still can’t see the general usecase, besides the obvious niche ones.

What’s wrong fedora? I’ve barely used it but it’s what I usually recommend to non tech savvy people, specificially the kinoite version (KDE + atomic updates).

South park has an entire season about this. They basically tried to make the new Star Wars as nostalgic as possible to people who liked the original trilogy.

Wait you mean rebels are gone and the empire too? Let’s do resistance vs first order then. Let’s make a planet that’s almost the same as tatooine. A villain that’s almost the same as Vader, with a similar ending. And the list goes on. Hell let’s even bring a quick force heal (previously unheard of/impossible) from someone who’s totally untrained. That’ll teach em.

But imo the most frustrating part was when Rey at the end decided that she was a Skywalker. Like, what??? They could have made it end with “Rey who? Just Rey” to mean that we aren’t defined by out family’s actions, but instead she decided she belonged to someone’s family she hardly knows.

Since forever. I can’t say for windows since I haven’t used it in forever but almost all sensible algorithms take it in consideration. There are also many factors, such as what filesystem (ext4…) you use. You can’t account for them all. Usually you simply add a small “overhead” constant per file, so smaller files get that many times while big ones only get it once.

File size is taken into account, but it’s just one factor among many.

That’s so wrong. It always fluctuates because the speed itself always fluctuates. It’s only easy when you know it doesn’t fluctuate because you’re not using the computer at the same time.

But really it’s just how it will always be. How do you estimate transfer speed? Use the disk speed / bandwidth limit? Can’t do that since it’s shared with other users/processes. So at the beginning there is literally zero info to go off of. Some amount of per-file overhead also has to be accounted for since copying one 100gb file is not the same as copying millions of tiny files adding up to 100gb.

Then you start creating an average from the transfer so far, but with a weighted average algorithm, since recent speeds are much more valued, but also not too valued. Just because you are ultra slow now doesn’t mean it will always be slow. Maybe your brother is downloading porn and will hog the bandwidth all day, or he’ll be done in a few seconds.

So to put it simply, predicting transfer time is pretty much the same as predicting the future.

In theory there aren’t, but at the top of basically all esports and even games like chess, there are no women. Why is that? Are men more competitive?

“pika” on its own is a sudden flash of light. This onomatopeia is very old (edo era old). What kind of light flashes do you think you’d find 400 years ago? There was pretty much just lightning. Not to be confused with the repeated “pika pika” which like the other commenter said indicates more of a glimmer or shiny and is way more common today.

That’s… what I said?

Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.

There’s a pattern to it. I don’t know what it is, and I’m not sure anyone knows consciously. But for example, when creating new words (eg. fantasy/sci-fi context) there usually isn’t any confusion as to what that word’s gender will be, it just sounds bad with the wrong pronoun. There are a few exceptions of course, same as “autobus” and “avion” which technically have a gender assigned but people toss a coin every time.