Xelbair

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by Xelbair 1y ago
>it's there to prevent entire websites from breaking because some small widget in the bottom right corner breaks, for example. the issue is that it prevents that, but also allows you to send complete corrupt data forward, that can c
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by Xelbair 1y ago
depends on use case, i don't think one language can fit all cases. 100% correctness is required for systems, but it is a hindrance in non-critical systems. or robust type systems require high compilation times which hurt iterating on t
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by Xelbair 1y ago
JS's issue is that it allows you to run an objectively wrong code without throwing explicit error to the user, it just fails silently or does something magical. Seems innocent, until you realize what we use JS for, other than silly web
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by Xelbair 1y ago
as much as i can yes. I try to avoid JS, as it is a horrible language, by design. That does include TS, but it at least is useable, but barely - because it still tied to JS itself.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Given how patriot act survived many terms of both republicans and democrats i highly doubt it. It is a extremely convenient act for whoever is in power.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
They represent whole of EU, and by EC's words they focus on interests beyond benefit of their own countries so they already have to do that. in theory at least.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Or just make European Commission be directly elected in such system: - candidate needs to be proposed in country - EU wide elections are held, candidates can only gather votes outside of their own country. - Votes are weighted by amount of
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by Xelbair 1y ago
I don't care if it is expensive for them. I'm not running their business, I'm their customer - it is inconvenient for me. And frankly any pay-as-you-go scheme should be regulated to have maximum spending limit setting. Not on
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by Xelbair 1y ago
You can do whatever you want inside the garden, but moving away from it is becoming increasingly harder and harder - hence walled garden. you can't bring your software with you, you can't bring your licenses with you, and all serv
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by Xelbair 1y ago
It's even simpler. People who wanted that kind of treatment and walled garden already moved to apple's ecosystem, and people who do not want this stayed with windows. Now more and more of my non-technical friends are moving toward
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by Xelbair 1y ago
even if average american is... then launch that cesspool of feature in US only.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
the issue is how do you prove the content was written by AI? > But then, you have to define these things. E.g.: freedom of person "A" to kill person "B" infringes on person "B" freedom of come and go and not
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Going straight for the loaded question and making extra assumptions? nice. the issue with it isn't just in itself, but the fact that there's no way to make it without abuse.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
i would like to remind you that Germany was one of the biggest recipients of russian gas in Europe, and worked actively to keep it flowing despite the war, and didn't try to break away from their dependence for a very long time. It&#x2
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by Xelbair 1y ago
I see no way to have censorship and freedom and common good at the same time, so good of society is out of question - unless you don't value freedom at all. It is a tool that entrenches current powers that be, system wise. Who decides
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Go was always 80% there,but the last missing(hard) 20% wasn't ever done. It is infuriating because it is close to being good, but it will never get there - now due to backwards compatibility. Also Rob Pike quote about Go's origins
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by Xelbair 1y ago
i have seen in my life two guid collisions already. and i'm not that old. One of them was genuine - generated by different systems, and it was caught when loading data from one to another - object had same ID, but different underlying
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Pointless as you could easily diversify by having your family members be official patent holders
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Just deny the same patents and put a exponential fee for resubmitting if found to be the same patents.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
If IP laws and patent laws were created to protect right holders from abuse of bigger players on the market, and they are used to actually entrech those players... They need a drastic reform.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Look, I've been visiting Britain as a tourist for years(since more than 10 years ago) - mostly to visit my friends who live there. Each time i come there it's worse than previous trip, and your whole infrastructure feels oppressiv
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by Xelbair 1y ago
> We could trust the government to be good no. you cannot. ever. even if you have perfect faith in current government, you're one election away from something different. CCTV is also extremely ineffective in crime prevention in gene
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Definitely not current legislation at least, which is making things worse for everyone.
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by Xelbair 1y ago
eh, they had short blip in the relatively recent history, especially with developers, in mid 2010s. With dotnet core 1-3 - open source cross platform .net, that was modern, fresh and clearly a project done by developers for developers. add
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by Xelbair 1y ago
you have very narrow definition of police state. Over here under communist times it was definitely a police state - there were no ID checks, crime was rampant, but everyone could be observed at any moment and be arrested/dissappeared a
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by Xelbair 1y ago
From tourist point of view UK felt to me like a police state, and I'm leaning more towards the former view. Cameras everywhere, non-stop reminders that you're being watched, being tracked everywhere(including which train car you&#
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by Xelbair 1y ago
the issue is that incentive structure is different from some of those that you've mentioned. Steam makes the most money if it bridges interests of consumers and publishers together - they don't profit by screwing over the customer
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by Xelbair 1y ago
fatigue. same idea has been pushed since forever(you can include ACTA and other copyright protectionist movements like that as its originators too) over and over again. People need to protest all the time and win, legislators can just keep
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Yet it is still not a perfect solution. Arguably worse, for possible freedom of speech aspects, than current state. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...
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by Xelbair 1y ago
Now make sure that only someone over 18 can generate token, and that token cannot be given to 3rd party for reuse.

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