Thiez

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by Thiez 8y ago
I have a hard time imagining software companies benefitting from copyright extension. The vast majority of software is obsolete literally decades before copyright expires, in most cases the source code will be lost or otherwise unavailable
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by Thiez 8y ago
1) users often use the same username and password on various websites, despite this being dumb (because it's so convenient) 2) if you ask such a stupid question you probably won't be able to properly secure the machine hosting thi
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by Thiez 8y ago
This matches my experience. I automatically switch to QWERTY when I use someone else's computer, to the point where I get confused when I use the computer of one of my colleagues that also uses Dvorak. If you set up some shortcuts to s
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by Thiez 8y ago
Their slogan is "we can't make it more enjoyable, but we can make it easier" ("Leuker kunnen we het niet maken, wel makkelijk"). I haven't yet have to file taxes in any other country but when I compare my exper
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by Thiez 8y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that (all else being equal) a mixed diet is healthier than a vegetarian diet because in a mixed diet you consume less chemicals through fruit and vegetables?
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by Thiez 8y ago
So any url with url parameters (e.g. `?foo=bar`) are forbidden as values? Seems like a rather big sacrifice to make for simplicity.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Surely any species that manages interstellar travel will have a much easier time growing sentient beings to eat on their own planet(s), rather than going to other solar systems, lifting the people there out of their gravity well into space,
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by Thiez 8y ago
Lying can be perfectly okay under consequentialism, which also goes way back. Personally I'm not very convinced of ethical theories where lying is unethical in all circumstances (sorry Kant), and I suspect I'm not the only one. St
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by Thiez 8y ago
Where are the modern borders in this parallel? I suppose the US borders on Canada and Mexico, but it would be rather impolite to refer to their people as barbarians, and defense from the attacks of those countries is not where all the money
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by Thiez 8y ago
I do not. I don't live in the US either. Is that relevant? I never suggested that WhatsApp doesn't have to obey the law in the countries it wishes to operate in. But it seems very strange to me that a discussion about the moral an
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by Thiez 8y ago
Are you implying that whenever more than two people have a conversation on any chat application, the government should have the right to read along, for our own protection?
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by Thiez 8y ago
If only a judge would rule that such faith in the magic black box is no longer 'good' once it has made, say, 3 mistakes. At that point the user of the AI should understand that it isn't perfect and be obligated to manually ch
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by Thiez 8y ago
If negotiation is not a skill that affects your job performance it seems unfair that it has such a big influence on your pay.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Doesn't everyone imagine themselves to be one of the 'good guys'? Surely the 'bad guys' in your example will also be telling themselves they just have to do some bad things to defeat a truly bad foe. Does it even ma
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by Thiez 8y ago
There are techniques to identify a person based on their writing. Perhaps software could be developed that takes a sample of a persons writing, and then modifies text to match their style. Of course one would have to be careful that the int
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by Thiez 8y ago
Exactly, the clear ownership in Rust allows you to skip the defensive copying that so often happens in Java. Of course you get this property in most languages that do not use garbage collection, but I few restrict mutable aliasing.
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by Thiez 8y ago
The VAT is still specified on the receipt. So you can see it just as clearly, and the mental arithmetic to calculate whan you have to pay is much simpler.
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by Thiez 8y ago
That is actually down from the 129 they allegedly smoked in the 1980s.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Those tiers wouldn't fly under the GDPR, at least not the free one.
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by Thiez 8y ago
> It taught me two things: what some of the noises, the vibrations, and the movements were; and how hard it is to actually crash a plane. Once you made it in the air, you'll want to try crashing your plane in the game (explosions! f
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by Thiez 8y ago
Sure, you can hint with OR: `x = x | 0; x = (x + x) | 0;`. Bitwise operators always work on 32 bit integers in js. I'm not sure whether the js vms actually need or use this information.
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by Thiez 8y ago
North or South Holland? I never get them in Overijssel and Gelderland. But whenever I visit Germany I always end up with a wallet filled with those crappy tiny coins (exacerbated by the fact that many places are cash only there, compared to
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by Thiez 8y ago
That's fair. A part of me still wonders how many people would notice if bank started to round differently tomorrow :-)
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by Thiez 8y ago
Not really, although I imagine this might become possible once 'const generics' stabilizes. Then you'd be able to define a generic type with a certain precision (of course you can do this today but you have to define a differ
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by Thiez 8y ago
Why would that be so bad? Most interest (that I have to deal with) is calculated monthly or yearly. Even if my bank chooses to always round in their advantage (so round down when interest is paid to me, and up when interest is paid to them)
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by Thiez 8y ago
C#'s decimal has the strange property that it can be a constant (with `const`), but it cannot be a parameter in a custom attribute. It is magical like that.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Except for the breaking changes every edition, of course.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Well if you only use libc like the assembly server does, I imagine you can use `#![no_std]`. Your Rust will use `unsafe` a lot and be very unidiomatic, but small. Is using the system allocator for binaries on stable yet?
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by Thiez 8y ago
It's referring to them as 'the millennials of Norway', short: 'Norway's millennials'. You are correct that those millennials would be Norwegians.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Doesn't that same argument (about not having existed at all) apply to all forms of birth control, including abstinence? Almost every time a woman menstruates the 'tragedy' of someone not existing has potentially occurred. To

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