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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
VSCode/Atom/Sublime all operate broadly the same way. To continue the car analogy, there's a wheel right in front of you, two or three pedals by your feet and a gear stick next to you. In this analogy, emacs' accelerator
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Murray is not the most... reliable person ever, though. He certainly engages in some odd conspiracy theories (see, for example, his stance that Russia was not responsible for using Novichok in Salisbury in 2018)
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Murray is a known conspiracy theorist, he went off the deep end some time ago...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
IANAL or legal expert, but: Magistrates' courts are where criminal cases are first dealt with in English law. If the offence is indictable then the next step will be to move the case to the crown court (unless the offence is an "e
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
v1 of iPlayer used bittorrent, but these days it's all streaming.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>As a question for someone who knows better - does this mean that you can download single files within torrents themselves? Most torrent clients can do this already, but depending on how the torrent was created and the size the files inv
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>I guess mobile internet was its downfall as few people want to seed from a mobile connection. CGNAT has a lot to answer for, too
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
NH discussion of part 1 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24254048
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As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics(ecorax.net)
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Anti-nuclear sentiment seems to be one of those things that became widely fashionable, and Pro-nuclear became demonized. There was a concerted effort to connect all nuclear power with nuclear weapons in the 80's and 90's.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe. Look at Fukushima for example. How many people died as a result of the accident? Wikipedia lists only one. There'll probably be a few hundred in the coming de
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The shift from nuclear to coal in Germany and Japan after Fukushima has caused on the order of 10,000 deaths. The total number of deaths caused directly by the actual accident at Fukushima was what, one ? We'll perhaps have a couple
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>What's a reasonable way to protect yourself here? Refusing to travel to the United States would prevent this from happening.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>This is the behavior I’d expect from a serial killer. Yes, they're police in the United States...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The Metrolink in Manchester,[0] the UK's largest tram network, is a good counter-example. The expansion of the network been consistently well delivered over the last ~decade. The Airport Line opened a year ahead of schedule,[1] the T
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Servo was always a research project around writing a rendering engine and not an attempt to create a whole new browser product.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
They used to be the "RISC-V Foundation", but changed name when they moved.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
One important question not touched on my the blog post: Where will the Foundation be located? Will is be US-based like Mozilla, or will it be somewhere else, like Europe? A couple of foundations have moved away from the US in recent years,
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That too, but I was referring to the Novichok poisonings in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
It's not like Russian agents go around attacking The West, doing things like interfering in elections or launching chemical warfare in Western nations is it? Oh, wait, yes - that's exactly what they've done.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>In theory, mail-in voting carries these same problems, and we're about to hold the largest mail-in voting election ever. And the president is - right now - conducting a denial of service attack on it. If that doesn't show that
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>The only drawback is the ability to prove who you voted for, That's pretty much the biggest problem to have in any election...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>You cannot argue much with a public algorithm doing public tabulation, where you can literally follow your vote. But that also means the guy with the big wrench can follow your vote and so see whether you voted the way he told you or no
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Am I the only one still against network-based, and to a lesser extent electronic-based, voting? No, you're not. Electronic voting of any kind is a horrendously bad idea and it should be rejected at every possible opportunity b
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> It's refreshing to see an assumption of incompetence rather than malice To mis-quote Arthur C Clarke, any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Well for one Rust has a very nice type system
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> Adjusting prices by demographic is so common in many industries. And often illegal. Discrimination based on sex/gender or age is (usually) prohibited in Europe, for example, unless there are very compelling grounds to do so.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
"Controversial Election"? Now that's an understatement if I've ever seen one... I don't think elections in Belarus have ever been seen to be free and fair.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Looking at the linked demo site[0] the wasm file is 476kb (133kb compressed with brotli). [0] https://rustmart-yew.netlify.app/
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>The reversed-domain-name convention makes sure you'll never get two different groups claiming the same name Surely that's only true at any one instant? Domain names change hands all the time. For example: All non-EU citizens i

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