Mawr

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by Mawr 5mo ago
Frankly, this just reads like FUD. See the official explanation on why the PR in question wasn't merged: https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio... "Therefore, to implement this feature w
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by Mawr 5mo ago
Then you haven't been paying attention to the space. At all. Every single new post-Go language, like Rust & Zig, ships with an opinionated autoformatter and a single go-to command to manage builds, packaging, etc. And how many new
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by Mawr 5mo ago
> Zig, Rust, and the likes are only viable in niches where C is viable Pretty much correct, yes. > Zig will become THE C replacement and that will let me iterate at the speed of JS or Python with performance of C or Rust. Fundamentall
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by Mawr 5mo ago
Thankfully some of us have taste.
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by Mawr 5mo ago
> Some of it may even raise your insurance costs. > [...] > The information they harvest can include [...] whether you buckle your seatbelt, drive too fast or brake too hard. In a way this is good -- I want bad drivers to be incent
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by Mawr 5mo ago
Says you, while sitting comfortably on a couch sipping coffee, with zero risk of death, able to take as much time as you'd like to analyze the situation, with perfect information available and a fresh, unstressed mind. Everybody's
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by Mawr 5mo ago
If you want to have something or someone to blame then all of it. However, you want future flights to become safer, then none. Make your pick. Your response is very human, but also deeply irrational. In practical terms of safety it is irre
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by Mawr 5mo ago
> It baffles me again and again how people can just dismiss these things. Because risk is relative, and not as you seem to think, absolute and binary. The risks are being dismissed because they're so tiny, that they're irreleva
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by Mawr 5mo ago
> I definitely fully understand the trade-offs of returning result/error unions vs handling thrown exceptions. Exception handling is clearly superior to me. Then you definitely don't understand the tradeoffs after all, and&#x2F
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by Mawr 5mo ago
I used a hard drive for a few applications several years ago. One time, the drive got corrupted and all the data was lost. That was the day I stopped using hard drives.
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by Mawr 5mo ago
Cool collection of self driving edge cases, thanks. How are any of them related to Waymo using or not using a particular sensor, LIDAR or otherwise?
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by Mawr 6mo ago
You're arguing based on pure hypotheticals. > Nuclear reactors are inherently a very risky business, Well, let me introduce you to airplanes — flying is inherently risky, and so many people have died on commercial flights. We shou
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by Mawr 6mo ago
Hmm well, we have some "smart traffic lights" where I live that are always red unless a vehicle goes over a metal detecting loop under the road in front of them. Guess how well that works for any vehicle that's not a car. Rul
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by Mawr 6mo ago
Well, if you genuinely find it interesting, I can explain why they don't: 1. Cyclists live and die by inertia. Getting up to speed on a bike requires a lot of effort and every application of brakes erases that spent effort, which feels
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by Mawr 6mo ago
As a general rule, the the frequency illusion[1] and the negativity bias[2] are a thing and combined make shallow, single-datapoint arguments like yours instantly invalid. [1]: "The frequency illusion is a cognitive bias in which a pe
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> By being a pedestrian or cyclist, you’re literally in other people’s workplace. Are you actually serious right now? If I'm walking/cycling to work , which I usually am, then what? Is your job more important than mine? How ca
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by Mawr 6mo ago
It definitely is a real problem, although I cannot say with certainty whether it's a significant enough problem to make curbside lanes worse than roadway lanes.
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by Mawr 6mo ago
Not directly. I can sit in a room full of drunk people and my health will be unaffected, but a single smoker will cause me active harm.
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> Smoking is already banned in public spaces In what countries? Certainly none I've heard of. Smokers are incredibly obnoxious. Smoking at a bus stop? Why not? Under open windows? Sure. On sidewalks, so that I have to breathe that s
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> guess how that turned out? Well, I don't hear colleagues at work saying they're going for a "meth break", so... pretty well, I'd say?
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by Mawr 6mo ago
This gets easier to answer once you consider that, unlike an alcoholic, a smoker directly harms others around him, not just himself. And that's just on top of all the indirect damage. And then, even as for strictly the damage he does t
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> the Tesla is moving quite slow for the left lane driving. And before you say it, yes there are lots of people speeding in highway left lanes too. Is that code for "the Tesla was following the law by driving within the speed limit
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> and at that time the prevailing wisdom was to never buy a pre-built That's still the case, and always will be — with a pre-built you're at the very least paying for someone to assemble it for you, so it's always going to
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by Mawr 6mo ago
People aren't uniformly distributed over entire areas, making such comparisons completely wrong and pointless. > US has a density of 37. Just LOL. No, the US does not consist of 300 million people evenly spread over that large of an
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> over 10,000 miles without intervening, including a cross-country trip. You realize that a cross-country trip makes that achievement weaker , not stronger, right? That's just a bunch of highway driving, which is the easiest to aut
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by Mawr 6mo ago
There's no way to model what a "tricky situation" may be to an opaque and ever-changing piece of self-driving software. It may fail in random ways at random times — it's completely, 100% unpredictable. Therefore, you hav
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by Mawr 6mo ago
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment. I wa
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by Mawr 6mo ago
Bonus: Replacing "Tesla fans" with "AI fans" and "FSD" with "model" works too.
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by Mawr 6mo ago
> Binary search beats SQLite. This was unexpected. Plain sorted files with a hand-rolled index outperform SQLite's B-tree by about 1.7x at every scale. SQLite does more work per lookup than a hand-rolled binary search, even for a si
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by Mawr 6mo ago
False negatives are a huge issue when designing safety systems. It is not the case that "more warnings = more better".

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