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Kamil Galeev on why Putin's victory is not guaranteed(threadreaderapp.com)
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Charlie Chaplin: The Final Speech from The Great Dictator(youtube.com)
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by Comevius 5y ago
Flutter uses Skia, Harfbuzz and FreeType under the hood. The last two is used by almost every other software for text shaping and rasterization. You should open an issue if your font configuration is not applied, although on Android, iOS an
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Low PPI displays require subpixel antialiasing which is not yet supported. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/63043
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Thanks for the correction, haven't kept up with React Native for a while. It indeed uses Facebook's own JS engine. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/10/26/toward-hermes-being-...
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by Comevius 5y ago
Flutter is becoming the belle of the bal outside of Western countries where venture capital to hire specialists with a 7 figure salary is generally available.
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- Flutter widgets can be made pixel perfect replicas of native UI components. - Supporting older platforms is much easier with Flutter. - You can use native UI components with Flutter if you want to, and mix them with Flutter widgets. - Flu
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by Comevius 5y ago
Canada did good. The courts will do the rest. It's a democratically elected government, the public gave it this power and approved it's use. This is what the Canadian public wants. The protesters are part of a fringe far-right mov
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This was one year after similar group attacked the American Capitolium. Holding critical infrastructure hostage, threatening the government and harassing people is not peaceful. Invoking the Emergencies Act after 3 weeks was warranted after
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Who pays for writing comments on HN? Asking for a friend.
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The Emergencies Act is specifically for when there is an urgent and critical public order emergency. It's invocation is going to be ratified by the Parlaiment today. The police unfortunately dropped the ball, they tried that option too
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Canada only enacted the Emergencies Act when things got out of hand. This was separatist group that for a time took control over the border, threatened and blockaded critical infrastructure and committed thousands of crimes (bribery, threat
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There would be fewer holdouts if anti-vaccine activism would not be a lucrative market for fraudsters. But ultimately this is natural selection. Civilization kept stupid people alive, now there is a counterweight against stupidity. Sounds s
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Learning from failure can be a luxury. Poor people can't afford to fail, and rich people can fail constantly, and still succeed. Nobody ends up learning anything.
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In Zig you can return error unions (either a value or an error) from functions. Values can be null unions (either a value or null). For example !?u64 is a type that's either an error, a null or a 64-bit unsigned integer.
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Google got away with distributing 11,000 lines of code from Oracle's proprietary Java implementation. It was considered fair use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_... . The conditions you
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I rather use Mozilla Public License 2.0, Eclipse Public License 2.0, or EUPL 1.2 for copyleft purposes. Strong copyleft as a concept has no legal reality. Linking a program to another don't produce a derivative work. https:/&#x2F
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Cryptocurrencies are taxed in most countries, but many people don't report their capital gains from them properly on their tax returns. It's however when you start participating in the economy, including cashing out is where they
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Isn't this the case of one library being faster than another? Not sure how this is a language benchmark. A C++ library with your data-oriented approach would be just as fast. If anything with Rust you had to work harder to avoid hidden
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Custody services and trading platforms are subject to courts. Cold wallets and trading peer-to-peer only gets you so far. People keep forgetting that we live in a society. If you create a terrorist organization for example and people send y
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This is the kind of physics that's both exciting and boring to me as an outsider. Exciting because black holes are mysterious and how do they work, but boring because there is a gravitational singularity there, which is fancy talk for
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Rob Jackson is to be applauded for trying. Not sure we can muster an effort as big as nature. The Global Methane Pledge is already ambitious. Earth will likely become inhabitable in a few decades. We are addicted to growth and shareholder v
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He is constantly engaged in stock manipulation, so now governments are bad because they are the only ones who can hold him accountable. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so consequences are not in his dictionary. That's fit
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It's always regulation bad, big corporation good, and don't you dare questioning why the supply chain is so fragile while shareholders and executives are making bank. It's fragile because corporations make money, but they don
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They will be busy. Cryptocurrencies created a world without accountability. Now the internet is bursting with criminal activity. We need a new sheriff in town. They won't be able to catch big fishes like a16z, they are very white-colla
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The Russian military is literally in an attack position along of hundreds of kilometers of the border in Russia, Belarus and the Black Sea. Russia deployed critical combat capabilities, including ballistic-missile systems, electronic-warfar
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I come here to learn and occasionally to vent my frustration about the dark patterns and fraud people in the tech industry rely on to make money, making the world a worst place while claiming the opposite. Though more often than not it&#x27
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Skip lists are so simple conceptually, I'm managing to make them concurrent, verifiable and even persistent. For reference this is a concurrent skip list that a high school student could implement. It's beautiful. https:/&#x
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Russia is in control whether or when they attack. The United States was not wrong disclosing their intel. Most of the Russian military is at the border, so the threat of invasion is present. Ukraine is surrounded by more than 150,000 troops
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70% of the Russian military is at the Ukrainian border. Russia started a war 8 years ago that already killed around 10000 soldiers and 3000 civilians. They annexed Crimea 8 years ago. I don't think that Biden's poll numbers has an

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