Xirdus

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by Xirdus 3mo ago
I didn't say it's nice to downsize. I said it's possible to downsize.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
That's why I said "worse come to worst". Where I'm from, it's not that uncommon to drive 3 hours to work, and as a result have no social life outside closest family. People do it because the alternative is homelessn
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
The food also became qualitatively different over the same period. We're not eating the same meat, bread, fruits, cheese etc. that our grandparents did at our age. Durable goods became much less durable, too. Furniture is the biggest o
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
You can to a degree. You can buy/rent a way too small house/apartment for your large family (what many immigrants do). You can also get roommates. If worse comes to worst, you can move another hour or two away from the big city.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
I don't know about the first half of those 50 years, but over the second half (2001-today), transportation - or at least cars - got significantly more expensive. Disappearance of cheap new cars + massive supply reduction of used cars
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Because despite geographical location, Australia is a western country, and all western countries are like that.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
In the past, the vast majority used not to.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
> Try to actually use it on a site and chances are you'll get an ADA complaint. I really doubt that. We've had 2 decades of godawful letter-based CAPTCHAs and I don't think anyone got into legal trouble because of it?
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
People didn't write tests not because it was boring, but because they didn't have time to do it because implementation is more important. That problem didn't go away - it's just instead of not having time to do tests, no
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Not from what I've seen. Still lots of 1.0's, 0.1's etc. counted as 0.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
I really wish the analysis didn't cut off at exactly 10 numbers. Rerunning the query with higher LIMIT, I noticed the following: - The very next two numbers are 100 and 0. While 100 is consistent with the article's explanations, 0
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
It's marketing. Attach yourself to some wildly more popular brand for no reason other than to boost your own popularity. Like JavaScript did with Java.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
I'd say checking out a malicious branch is in the same category as downloading a malicious attachment. By which I mean, it's kinda on you.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
The biggest obstacle to huge refactoring has always been minimizing the risk of bugs, not losing any features, and ensuring compatibility with the existing ecosystem. The reason it's become easier in the age of AI is because we stopped
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Using the allocator interface is only required if you allocate, which in this context you explicitly don't. If you want to use static preallocated memory in Rust, you'd have to use #[no_std] and only have access to the core part o
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Is it nonsense to say C doesn't have any protections?
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Why do you recommend the living definition of not having any protections whatsoever for protection?
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
The funny thing is that Rust works perfectly fine with statically preallocated memory. It's not even against its idioms - most code will work with zero changes. In a way, the borrow checker is the perfect tool for this situation, since
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
I like my datacenters like I like my railway infrastructure - covered in enough protective layer of rust that it will never suffer structural damage even when running for years under extremely heavy load.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
If you literally want one and only one allocator instead of the Rust's built-in one, that's been supported for years[1]. Almost 8 years, to be precise. It's very easy to implement and works with the entire standard library an
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
p<=0.05 is so easy to achieve for actual positive results (just increase sample size) that I don't think it's productive to treat any result with p>0.05 as positive evidence for any purpose other than deciding to rerun the s
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
I'd say it's very sensible to assume absence up front before there's convincing evidence of presence. Sure, personal biases influence our evidence thresholds a lot, and often people demand unfair rigor that cannot be practica
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Evidence can be strong or weak. Every positive study result is evidence of presence, usually strong evidence. Every negative study result is evidence of absence, usually very weak evidence.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Note that we didn't call it junk DNA until we learned a whole lot about how DNA works and formulated a theory in which junk DNA doesn't do anything for good reasons. In a way, lack of understanding prevented us from calling it jun
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
These single letter names are getting out of hand.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Ah, the one where invalid assumptions lead to invalid conclusions. Got it. Explains the invalidity of your conclusions.
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
According to what logic?
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
Whether we like it or not, em dashes are effectively verboten in online discussions and blog posts if you want people to take you seriously. If the idea that excessive hyphenation is an AI tell gains traction, it too will become impossible
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
> What if there was one day a year where it was expected for people to speed through your neighborhood at 20 over the speed limit, which ends up with a bunch of people driving into houses with their vehicles? You mean All Saints Day (1st
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
> Stealing electricity is already illegal. So is shooting a house with fireworks. I'm against a general ban on doingelectrical work yourself, and against a general ban on fireworks.

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