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by Taywee 4y ago
Is there anything in the announcement that says that people who installed K-9 mail would find that it has silently turned into Thunderbird? I'd assume this would involve a separate install, as it'll probably have a separate app I
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Is there a murder ballad that doesn't center the murderer? I'm skeptical if it's actually about the sex and not just that most murders are committed by men, and people are most interested in the murderer and the murder itself
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Haven't female murderers been treated about the same? I think it's more just people's fascinations with the motivations and feelings behind murder than some misogynistic stuff. To make that claim, you really would have to com
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"political" means more than left and right.
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A number of things really jump out to me: * How are "sexual violence" and "childhood" actually defined here? * Most people who I know who were victims of sexual violence as children were victimized by other children arou
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It's not about "harmful to society" in this case, but more "illegal, attracting attention from entities that make hosting the service much more painful and difficult". More than once, I've had thoughts about de
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> Depending on the type of world we're in, it might also have freed people to pursue more fulfilling calls. On the flipside, it might have removed multiple jobs for people who may have had entirely satisfactory lives. I feel like th
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by Taywee 4y ago
You can set "showdead" in your profile settings to "Yes" to view flagged comments.
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by Taywee 4y ago
I'm so irritated with Spotify. Deezer is a bit better, but not a hell of a lot. I was a CD buyer and music pirate for a very long time, and while music streaming has helped me find a lot of new music, it has come with many frustratio
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by Taywee 4y ago
I've got a similar thing. I wrote a bespoke time-series database in Rust a few years ago, and it has had exactly one issue since I stood it up in production, and that was due to pessimistic filesystem access patterns, rather than the
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by Taywee 4y ago
That's right. And they still have the wonky "shared object in an ar archive" setup for shared libraries. For passers-by: Linux has static libs as .a files, indexed ar archives with object files in them, and ELF shared objects
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Not that commenter, but I'm also a C++ programmer by trade who uses Rust wherever I can. Often, I can't use Rust because of platform support (AIX in my case), or because I need to use libraries or existing C++ code that uses heav
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by Taywee 4y ago
Just a little bit ago, there was this submission on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31560298 The article in question (quite short), has this passage, which reminded me of your comment here: >> Positivist disp
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That sounds supremely fascinating. I love the idea of the blending of psychology with the supernatural, and the blurring of the lines between. I'll have to check out that movie, thank you for the recommendation.
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I've never found something as neat and easy as a singular event or story that challenges it. I've felt it challenged by the profound feeling of human connection, though. The very rare chance meeting with my wife that set up the re
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You could make the same argument for a huge amount of human creative and technical endeavors. Many of the things humans do in general are amazing, and even magical when you step back and really consider the amount of cumulative knowledge an
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I didn't go in wanting my atheism to be shattered, just challenged. I enjoy being challenged, and I really enjoy demonology as well. On a simple level, I was hoping for something more profound, entertaining, or interesting on some leve
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Interesting article, but I found the ending unsatisfactory. Like the author, I went in wanting my perceptions to be challenged and my beliefs to be undermined, but after it all, I'm as steadfastly atheist and nonspiritual as ever. I wa
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Every project here is skunk works. It wasn't made this way in response to growth predictions, but developer fancy. Our entire staff of programmers has never exceeded 5.
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Why not? "You have to reimplement a huge amount of current and future behaviors that just work for MPAs" is definitely an argument against SPAs. That's extra work, extra potential for bugs, extra potential for accessibility p
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Personally, I have a negative reaction because we have an app that is used regularly by only a couple hundred users, developed by three programmers. The move to even a partial SPA with modals took forever, and we already had a completely un
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Which issues do Firefox fail to solve?
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I've seen some quite decent low poly Catan models. You can do quite a lot with primitives.
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How is HTTPS supposed to work without crypto?
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The most common way that we are all victims is the inevitable deaths of us and everybody and everything that we care about, and no billionaire is yet immune to that. Maybe one day we can simply not die, but until then, we are all victims of
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Or perhaps the passage itself was more relevant than the source. I strongly disagree that Americans have a dearth of decent writings. Dozens of the greatest authors of the past few centuries were American. I know it's fashionable to
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In my personal experience, I make and abandon a ton of Rust projects because it's such a fun language, and I really enjoy starting new projects in it. I get an idea, get excited about how I can model the types and relationships in Rust
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According to Wiktionary, it's been used since at least 2001. I was similarly confused.
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Would you turn down millions of dollars in no-strings-attached donations if you were running a charity? What was the negative result of those donations that you can point to? I'm not a fan of Google or Facebook, but I also don't
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This is the kind of sunset you love to see. Retirement because they succeeded and therefore became redundant, rather than due to failure. If there's one organization I love to see succeed, it's the EFF.

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