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by _zagj 10mo ago
He was a product of his era and environment. Frankly, finding a boomer Jew like him, who grew up in NYC in the 50s and 60s, who doesn't harbor a significant degree of suspicion and animus (along with covert envy) towards white people (
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One of his most famous quips was: > Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. Then he died alone, in a hotel room in France, supposedly by his own hand, with the belt of his silk bathrobe as the implement--d
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> Did it fail 13 years to get to v0.0.1 is a success? Look at how much progress Ladybird has made in a fraction of that time. Remember that these people are constantly starting rewrites of C and C++ projects (when they're not demand
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If anything, from a security standpoint, this is one of the bigger issues with a rewrite in Rust. Besides the "MIT EVERYTHING" mindset, Rust people are also similar to JS devs in having projects with huge supply chain attack surfa
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Clearly, the fact that Servo failed must be indicative of shortcomings in Mozilla itself, and not Rust the language, its ecosystem, or its users.
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Could you elaborate on GPT-based stock analysis?
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You sound like you're doing pretty good for yourself. Take care.
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>I live in Germany and I'm not afraid of Russia. That's one of the most "German" things that's ever been said on HN.
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What if they have really high karma scores on reddit?
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There are almost 200 countries on Earth, yet for these types, you could probably count the number of "acceptable" destinations for emigration on one hand. It's like Hasan Piker threatening to leave the US (the country he prof
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The Swiss have guns. Though their roads probably aren't well-suited to Cybertrucking
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> Also, it came from reddit therefore it is fake. Reddit is a dumpster fire, if we're being generous it's a website for playing around with creative writing exercises. The not so generous interpretation is that reddit users are
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Reminds me of the "fat acceptance" and "healthy at any size" nonsense that went right out the window as soon as Ozempic became widely available. You can bet these people will, hypocritically, show no less eagerness than
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> I am surprised no one offered the "rust" advice yet) ADA/SPARK already owns this space.
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There was a comment recently by HN's most enthusiastic LLM cheerleader, Simon Willison, that I stopped reading almost immediately (before seeing who posted it), because it exuded the slop stench of an LLM: https://news.ycomb
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It's well-known that schizophrenics self-medicate with coffee and nicotine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_tobacco_smok... The inverse possibility--that nicotine, and perhaps caffeine as well, hei
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The website won't even fully load for me.
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You just described Sam Altman to a T. Never forget "Founder Naughtiness," a quality pg prizes in founders, which he originally ascribed to sama: > 4. Naughtiness > Though the most successful founders are usually good people,
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Generative AI really is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Nice that they cleaned it up, but Andrew has a pattern of coming across across as even less mentally stable than the Notepad++ dev, which isn't a good look for a BDFL. For example, he randomly broke down in tears during a presentation
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by _zagj 11mo ago
Yes, I don't know why people are downvoting me. Have these people never seen C code using goto-based error handling?
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You probably want ICU4X if you're working with Unicode in Rust. It's fast, has a tolerable overhead, and its lead developers have experience doing i18n work at Mozilla and Google and are involved with the Unicode Consortium.
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Clearly, the "http:" is parsed as a label (for goto), and the subsequent "//", as a C++ or C99 comment. This shouldn't give you more than a moment's pause if you know C.
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> Zigbook is not honoring the attribution requirement It's crazy how many people treat MIT as if it were public domain.
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> I told my friend about an erotic encounter I’d just experienced and very much delighted in, in which I had my hair brushed at the same time by two very beautiful women at the hair salon — one was teaching the other how to do it a certa
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> α-conversion is not required in interaction nets. η-reduction is an additional rule not typically discussed, but see for example [2]. Which makes the sloppy use of "λ-Reduction" in place of "β-reduction"--the only f
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by _zagj 11mo ago
> it's very weird they're calling this "lambda-reduction" That was my reaction as well, only ever having heard of β-reduction, α-conversion (to prevent variable collisions), and η-reduction (the logical equivalence of
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> but also it's trivial to disable the AI stuff That's the problem: the number of things you have to disable to stop Firefox--a browser that sold itself on protecting user's privacy--from spying on you, or facilitating the
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Garibaldi wasn't a dictator.
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IDK, I just meant a service like that is now table stakes for self-hosting, thanks to these AI vultures. Even the GPL, once viewed as radioactive by proprietary software companies, offers no protection, since they can just launder the code

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