Refreshing how far RC managed to take me without my even realising that I was learning something! Tiniest of nits: conflates lossless and lossy compression with the ZIP example.

OP: Rust feels impractical. ATS: Hold my beer.

One more reason to switch to 24h time? 0:)

front page?

Maybe, but it seems odd that someone would refer to a submission by a numeric ranking that changes constantly.

If you wish to refer to the submission uniquely in the subject, as of a few years ago anyways they requested appending ` (1235676423)` to the end of it with the ?id=1235676423 of the comment/post/whatever that you're writing about. I tend to do so more in emails sent from a keyboard than from a mobile phone for UI reasons.

Hey I’ve seen people use email addresses as unique, immutable identifiers so who knows what crazy thing people will do.

Okay, I guess. Half of that is a far more understandable mistake, and the other half makes things easier for everyone.