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by ATsch 5y ago
As I understand it, the crates themselves are not stored on github, but the crate index is, as it uses a git repo to get "free" delta compression and auditing.
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I can't personally speak to the effectiveness of all of the systems humans have lived under or seriously proposed, but I'm fairly certain that among them capitalism is pretty unique in being a system where a paperclip maximizer ca
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by ATsch 5y ago
Capitalism is a system where, so it is claimed, atomized individuals pursuing their "rational self-interest" produce an inherent moral and societal good. This is to be aided by a lack of regulation and interference by non-market f
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In the original context I read the statement "either google is screwed or society is screwed" as referring to the lawsuit, not Google's behavior. That is, to project some of my own opinions: If something like this is not enou
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If there's one thing I've learned from the world of think tanks it's that you have to be extremely critical when someone starts arguing about the woes of SMEs.
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I agree in the general case but I think there are uses for it that only go slightly beyond the fully automatic version. For example selectively encrypting less frequently needed sensitive fields can give you more granular access control and
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As defines so much of society and what people claim is "human nature", there is no need for shadow governments or deep states when you have power structures and incentives. Those scale, conspiracies don't.
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Very glad to hear this, the X11 mechanism has been causing issues for me for a long time, as detailed in the article.
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I am aware, as you might be able to gather by reading past the first sentence of my comment. Of course if you'd just said what you needed the binary tree for, I could have given you a better answer. If you don't have a use case in
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No, I probably would use the BTreeMap in std instead, assuming I want a search tree. Which is even better, because the primary reason you use binary trees in C is that they are easy to make intrusive. But if I want a priority queue instead
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> The above statements are then wrong or patronizing or completely misses the point. I think more what's more going on is that longtime Rust programmers can get frustrated by the sheer volume of people who have never used Rust but d
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The changes since 2018 have been very minor
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Cryptocurrency is much better understood as a social phenomenon than a technical one. The reason for the hype is very simple, people who have already bought into it greatly benefit financially from creating more hype. They also have a lot t
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I think it's kind of sad that, with all of the services offering an object store, nobody has created a better API standard than cloning the weird and clunky S3 API.
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Since I know someone will ask for a source, here's one: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2020/the-gas-trap-repor... > Silvia Pastorelli explained that companies “have been consistently over-estimating
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The gas infrastructure currently deployed is already far sufficient to serve that purpose. It is a good argument for not tearing it down, but not for building more. Conflating these two has been a great success by the fossil fuel industry.
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These policies were introduced precisely so that people like you could defend them as "not racist" while still having the same net effect. We have more than ample documentation of it to the point that the only reason to disagree i
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I'd strongly dispute that this is "part of the solution" because the forces increasing prison population (Bolsenaro ran under "tough on crime" policies) and the ones instituting this program are one and the same. Th
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The program is called "Redemption through Reading” and the officials statements are in similar vain. The implications are pretty clear. It's only made worse by how only select people can participate. That is on top of Brazil'
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This is such a condescending understanding of why most crime happens. Especially in a country with as much wealth disparity as Brazil.
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The toilet paper shortage is kind of a bad example, because it was caused by a very real and sudden shift in demand from the very seperate commercial and personal toilet paper manufacturing markets.
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They can take their content, but not their audience, making the whole thing rather useless. The only thing that enables that in film is the relative neutrality of cinemas and streaming platforms.
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Not really. I can't easily find any statistics, but I just based it on the fact that a few years ago roughly half of my techy friends used XMPP. Many ran their own servers and all of the clubs had one. The work one had hundreds of user
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In my experience (which was echoed by coworkers requests to resend messages, until we switched) there are a select few happy paths where it works reasonably well and a lot more where it doesn't. You seemed to agree with that in your or
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> It would be nice if I could, say, post a picture or an emoji in one xmpp client and have it displayed in all other clients that are capable of sending emojis and pictures. I don't personally think multi-device will ever be solved
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I don't think recognizing it as labor needs to change how you feel about doing it at all. I'm doing labor that makes HN more monetarily valuable right now by writing replies and I'm obviously fine with that. And as to almost
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Yes it is. That is what they make their money off of, the difference between what they earn off of the labor of the video creators and the money they pay out. If nobody uploaded videos, youtube could not sell attention just like if no steel
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This is very naive but more importantly, there are more than enough engineers out there that there's no need to risk creating a hostile workplace by employing bullies anywhere in your organisation. Why are you so intent in employing
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Sorry, but a good architect bully is not a bit better than a bad manager bully.
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My unfortunate conclusion is that a large portion of people in this industry are either like this or wish they could get away with being like this. The amount of people who always reply about how they don't see any issues is enough pro

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