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Great Command Line Tools Developed in Rust

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GQL

GQL is a query language with a syntax very similar to SQL with a tiny engine to perform queries on .git files instance of database files, the engine executes the …

Summary of Collections in Rust

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The module std::collections has a good summary on popular collection data structures in Rust and when to use them.

  • Sequences: Vec, VecDeque (double-ended queue), LinkedList (doubly-linked list)
  • Maps: HashMap, BTreeMap …

Tips on Fax

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Many institutions (especially healthcares) in the US still accept fax only in this morden tech era. It is inconvenient and expensive for many people to access fax. If security isn't a …

Python Distribution

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  1. When people talks about Python, it usually means the CPython implementation which you can download from . There are other interesting Python implementations such as PyPy (Python implementation in Python), Jython (Python …

NeoVim: liblua5.1-luv.so.0 Not Found on Debian

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liblua5.1-luv.so.0 is not present under /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/. Manually make a symbolic link from liblua5.1-luv.so.1.0.0 resolved the problem.