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Van Geiklswijk et al describe supplemental melatonin as “a chronobiotic drug with hypnotic properties”. Using it as a pure hypnotic – a sleeping pill – is like using an AK-47 as a club to bash your enemies’ heads in. It might work, but you’re failing to appreciate the full power and subtlety available to you.
Computing professionals' actions change the world. To act responsibly, they should reflect upon the wider impacts of their work, consistently supporting the public good. The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct ("the Code") expresses the conscience of the profession.
Posted on April 12, 2018 by Bill
Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
Following is my proposal to improve the state of Linux touchpad drivers. It’s a cause I have spent almost a year of my spare time researching in depth. The first section, below, surveys the landscape of today’s available Linux touchpad drivers. The second section (“The Journey Here“) gets into greater depth describing the current failings of available choices. The third section (“The Path Forward“) proposes my best ideas for how we might be able to realize a Linux touchpad driver with polish level matching a Macbook Pro.
Pesto alla trapanese is Sicily's answer to Liguria's more famous basil-rich pesto sauce. They have a lot in common, as both are full of fresh basil, nuts, garlic, olive oil, and cheese. But where Ligurian pesto uses pine nuts, this one uses almonds, then adds juicy tomatoes on top of that. You can make this recipe the traditional way, with a mortar and pestle, for best results, or use a food processor for a sauce that's less work and still excellent.
Testing is a controversial topic. People have strong convictions about testing approaches. Test Driven Development is the most prominent example. Clear empirical evidence is missing which invites strong claims. I advocate for an economic perspective towards testing. Secondarily, I claim that focussing too much on unit tests is not the most economic approach. I coin this testing philosophy Lean Testing.
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The term brutalism is often associated with Brutalist Architecture, however it can apply to other forms of construction, such as web design. This website explains how.
Salted salmon, or shiozake (often shortened to shake), is a staple of the Japanese breakfast table and has been since time immemorial. While salted salmon is readily available for purchase in Japanese supermarkets, it can be difficult to find in the United States. This recipe approximates the flavor and texture of Japanese salted salmon by curing the salmon and letting it rest in the refrigerator on paper towels overnight. Serve the salmon with plenty of white rice, miso soup, and pickles, as well as any other dishes you have lying around that seem appropriate.
A series where I work through a project and talk about some of my thought processes behind the design and implementation.
The Telnet BBS Guide is the largest active listing of Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet! We list a total of 440 BBS and related systems with brief and detailed descriptions and a downloadable text-version listing suitable for listing on your BBS or for as a download for others to view and use.
TL;DR: Open source crates like Nickel.rs and the MongoDB Rust Driver make it possible to create RESTful APIs in the Rust language. In this article, we cover how to do GET, POST, and DELETE requests on user data. Check out the repo to get the code.
In this post I am going to walk through the creation of a webservice in Rust. This is a Getting Started post that will serve as a foundation for future posts. The webservice will return a static json response to start. There are a few different options for web frameworks in Rust, but practically all of them use the underlying HTTP library called hyper. I am most familiar with nickel, so we will be using that. Once the code is complete, we will be creating a release build that is a completely static (standalone) binary. We will then be able to deploy this binary on any modern Linux distro, including Ubuntu and Alpine Linux.
Where do we begin?
Well I know that a web server basically sets up a connection to a network port and then recieves requests via text and then responds via text using the HTTP protocol. Lets define what a basic request and response looks like so that we can shoot for that when building our server. Here is a basic HTTP request and response.
Note: This blog post does not work with rustc 1.19.0 or later due to a regression in rust 1.19.0. Use the following to set rust 1.18.0 up:
$ cd /path/to/project
$ rustup install 1.18.0
$ rustup override 1.18.0
In this post we are going to hook our basic webservice up to a database. The webservice will accept a request for /orders, query the database for orders and return a json response. I will be using PostgreSQL in this example. There is a pure Rust PostresSQL driver written by Steven Fackler (sfackler) that I think is well done. That being said, the mysql crate looks well done too.
This post goes into a fair amount of detail. You can skip right to the TL;DR for the final solution.
If you have ever worked with HTTP in Rust, you have probably referred to the hyper crate. Hyper provides a safe abstraction over HTTP and offers both a client and server type. It is also the foundation for frameworks such as Iron and Nickel.
One of the coolest things about hyper is that its server can be started with anything that implements the Handler trait. There is one required method called handle and it denotes how the type which implements it should respond to an incoming connection.
Rocket is a new Rust web framework that has been released to the public late last year. It aims to provide a simple way to write and maintain fast and safe web applications.
I have been waiting for something like this for quite some time, from the way it looks it tries to be the Rails of the Rust world.
One part of that is being able to easily test your applications. After all, without tests it is almost impossible to be confident that the output conforms to what is expected, especially in an evolving codebase.
I’ve been recently wanting to try out stainless as well. Stainless is a plugin that allows you to write tests easier through a macro like syntax. Especially the before_each part of testing seemed very useful. Check out it’s project page for some example!
The Dewa Sanzan, the three sacred mountains of Dewa, are located in the middle of Yamagata Prefecture. They are Mount Gassan (1,984 meters), Mount Yudono (1,504 meters), and Mount Haguro (414 meters).
You can use PixaTool to get 8bit / Pixel style images or videos, optimize your PixelArt or game assets just adding some cool effects. Works as a PixelArt converter or PixelArt conversion tool. To keep updated: @DavitMasia
There are a several ways to run Ansible on a local system that I could find whilst searching the net. In this I’m covering three of the ones that were the most popular or the most prevalent. The first two seem great for their different contexts, and the third is not as necessary but worth considering perhaps.
Being able to do this can be very useful for setting up your own machines or workstations (dotfiles anyone?) at least in the event that you don’t want to use traditional scripting. Also when creating playbooks that involve interacting with developer API’s this is an important component - see the “more information” section at the end, for a link to an example of this.