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by BlackFly 1y ago
It is difficult to talk about the shape of the event horizon because the ordinary definition of a sphere is "surface where all points are equidistant from a given point" is already complex in a differentiable manifold, but even mo
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Making a copy differs from taking an existing object in all aspects: literally, technically, legally and ethically. Piracy is making a copy you have no legal right to. Stealing is taking a physical object that you have no legal right to. Wh
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by BlackFly 1y ago
When you eliminate problems in people's lives, they do not suddenly feel that they have no problems. Instead they lower the bar for what they consider a problem. If the bar gets lowered too far, suddenly the previously minute things ar
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by BlackFly 1y ago
In order to hold someone accountable for their actions you need to allow them a choice in the first place. Disallowing children from making choices is one way of protecting them from the consequences of a bad decision: by not allowing them
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Here is a decade old study talking about that: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4249
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Yeah, science.org is editorializing. The actual investigators say > While viruses are a likely end-stage cause of colony death, other stressors such as nutritional stress and agrochemicals may have also played significant roles. because
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Proton is explicitly suggesting that a company can choose to help a government with an authoritarian agenda, so they agree with you that a company has no obligation to protest. They make no assertions as to whether corporations should be ab
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Author notes that there is still a standing offer to answer questions for free "if time allows" but doesn't get any inquiries. I believe this shows that it isn't due to fame or the payment making the author seem more leg
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by BlackFly 1y ago
The article expressly suggests not wrapping/embedding those errors but instead putting the errors into context. That suggestions starts with the sentence "Define errors in terms of the problem, not a solution" and explicitly
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Well apparently 43% of American inmates are incarcerated for drug related offenses. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen... This article claims that about 32k people in 2021 were for cannab
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by BlackFly 1y ago
> How does general relativity relate to the idea of time being a universal, linear, forward-moving "entity"? TAI provides a time coordinate generated by taking the weighted average of the proper times of 450 world lines tracked
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Yeah, this is basically the argument of the op. That somewhere in the 70s, that whole genre started to target critics as the audience instead of the general population and sales have been dwindling since that alienation.
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by BlackFly 1y ago
According to the author this isn't the case, but the take is complicated: > People don’t read books or short stories in magazines anymore because they’re too busy scrolling? There’s data on this: according to the National Endowment
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Did I say AI didn't work for me? Nope, so it is unclear to me why you are projecting some kind of perceived deficit onto me. The difference between me and the person I responded to is that I feel I understand the perspective of the OP
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Debuggers absolutely help in distributed environments, in the exact same way that they help with multithreaded debugging of a single process. It is certainly requires a little bit more setup, but there isn't some essential aspect of a
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by BlackFly 1y ago
The tools are not mutually exclusive. I also do quite a lot with print debugging, but some of the most pernicious problems often require a debugger. > It takes less time to decide where to put print statements than to single-step to the
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by BlackFly 1y ago
One of the many ways that search got worse over time was the promotion of blog spam over actual documentation. Generally, I would rather have good API documentation or a user guide that leads me through the problem so that next time I know
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by BlackFly 1y ago
As much as I would love thieves to lose access to stolen property, I'm not willing to give a kill switch to my property to these companies specifically and most companies in general. Worse, in most jurisdictions that I am aware of it i
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by BlackFly 1y ago
What fraction of all total soft plastic is collected by supermarket take back schemes compared to road side curb collection (where only 10% of municipalities "support" its recycling)? I have a strong prior that they can achieve su
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Java BigInteger is signed. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/math/BigInteg... You deserialize with a leading 0x80 you don't get a working key. You can check the bit or you can
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by BlackFly 1y ago
You missed the forest for the trees. Since my claim is that > people who care and have your interests in mind that have valuable insights about the problems of the language and so understand constructors and destructors but don't ma
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by BlackFly 1y ago
> Should the committee do some breaking changes to make HN commenters happier, who don’t even use the language? As phrased, you clearly want the answer to this question to be no, but the irony there is that that is how you kill a languag
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by BlackFly 1y ago
I would say the answer is to replace both with explicit init unless you explicitly say some equivalent of "Trust me, bro," to the compiler. Some structs/data (especially RAII structs backing real resources) have no sensible d
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Is https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm not what you are looking for?
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by BlackFly 1y ago
Bikes just don't take up nearly as much space as cars and don't really block each other as much: gridlock is a problem for cars but not really for bikes. In the Netherlands there are a number of famous intersections where there ar
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by BlackFly 1y ago
If you understand how it will work then that is just a decision to be made and a decision (although design is not necessarily easy) isn't what I would call hard: it is the ordinary work. By difficulty I mean bugs and bugginess, and bug
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by BlackFly 1y ago
I would say that RAII is very explicit: Resource Acquisition Is Initialization. When you initialize the struct representing the resource you are acquiring the resource. If you have a struct representing a resource you have the resource. Kno
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by BlackFly 1y ago
The truth is that by the time you are a senior developer, you will have encountered the lessons that make rust worth learning but may not have truly understood all the implications. Many people will think, I have a garbage collected languag
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by BlackFly 1y ago
That really doesn't explain the model because you have completely left out the distinction between exclusive/shared (or mutable/immutable) borrows. Rust made a large number of choices with respect to how it permits such borro
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by BlackFly 1y ago
I always wonder why people compare Latex with word and not with the single most popular document markup (especially here): HTML + css + javascript. The problems are quite similar, "How do I center a div?" vs "How do I keep th

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