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by a_humean 4y ago
I don't disagree that there might be a class issue involved esp in UK workplaces, but there is also this mystery that it seems like everyone knows that the big consultancies fail to deliver much more often than than they succeed by eve
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by a_humean 4y ago
I think a more positive take away is that this is a relatively small traditional manufacturing business with a few hundred employees that managed to automate a lot of their workflows at a small captial cost using off the shelf components an
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by a_humean 4y ago
Generally when I see someone say "republic not a democracy" they are typically Americans with (far) right authoritarian/illiberal political beliefs that you don't say out loud in polite company, but if you call them out
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by a_humean 4y ago
To claim that this incident justifies calling the BBC the "most corrupt organisation in the world" is laughable. And on this specific case internally within the BBC this man is loathed precisely because it has hurt the reputation
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by a_humean 4y ago
I think the risk here is that the nature of the disability is that they might suddenly be unable to continue working or keep up a reasonable pace of work. Many conditions are cyclical - meaning that you could be productive for a period of t
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by a_humean 4y ago
Fortunately ES2015 was 7+ years ago, so no I won't. :)
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by a_humean 4y ago
Has that not been fixed since ES2015? const a = 5; console.log(a) { const a = 10; console.log(a) } console.log(a) 5 10 5 What we are missing from say Rust in js is the blocks being expressions, though there i
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by a_humean 4y ago
These blocks have other advantages such as having access to the outer scope. Yes those could be passed in as arugments to a function, but I think there are many cases where that extra overhead feels unreasonable given you have already gathe
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by a_humean 4y ago
The direct inspiration of WebAssembly was asm.js, which is what the talk is about. A future where everything targets asm.js and vendors don't take the next step and create wasm. The talk has predicts a lot of what is happening around w
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by a_humean 4y ago
I'm afriad you are going to need to get used to it. The £ is depreciating against the dollar, and wages in the UK have been stagant for 10+ years and are set to remain stagant for another 10 based upon current forecasting. Based upon c
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by a_humean 4y ago
We recently removed the next button from some of our customer flows because we had a lot of users repeatedly clicking on the option they selected instead of clicking the giant next button right below the options that even had animations aft
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by a_humean 4y ago
Why would apple choose to do that, surely that just increases their repairs costs bill? Is the cynical answer that it will fail well past warrenty in most cases, so prompting the consumer to upgrade because their phone has worn out? There m
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by a_humean 4y ago
Its still pretty nuts today. You would never try to display million of records like that without some kind of pagination mechanism. Its not even a useful view to for humans to view that much data at that level of detail all at once.
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by a_humean 4y ago
Depending upon the size of the firm and the nature of the CEO/COO relationship, they can be anything. The scope of their job can be everything from ensuring that the office windows get cleaned regularly, to working on a hyperspecific p
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by a_humean 4y ago
Countries like Singapore, Taiwan, New Zealand, and South Korea suggest that with sufficient planning and political will, there were alternative outcomes available compared to what happened in the US and Europe.
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by a_humean 4y ago
Rust promises that safe rust is memory/type safe. You can still get interger over/under-flows, indexing out of bounds, and allocation failures (oom), etc... all of which "panic" - which means that rust will safely unwind
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by a_humean 4y ago
This has nothing to do with the common definition of "safety".Terms change their meaning based upon their use and context. The author has a clear use in mind - memory safety. The rules of arugment existed long before the linux ker
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by a_humean 4y ago
You don't get to change the definition of a term used by another when it had a clear meaning in its use, and then make an arugment on the basis that the author meant y when they clearly meant x. That is just conflation.
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by a_humean 4y ago
Except, the person he is responding to doesn't make those claims - though I haven't read further up the chain - only downwards.
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by a_humean 4y ago
His point seems to be the opposite, that "safety" should have a vaguer meaning in his opinion, and not the well established technical definition that the author clearly meant when he used the word.
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by a_humean 4y ago
Which is why Rust has been accommodating the kernel by adding non-panic versions of the functions that Linus has been complaining about (namely that memory allocation is infallible, because that isn't an unreasonable thing to assume in
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by a_humean 4y ago
I know next to nothing about kernel programming, but I'm not sure here what Linus' objection to the comment he is responding to here is. The comment seemed to be making reference to rust's safety guarantees about undefined be
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by a_humean 4y ago
I don't really understand this. Its very common when starting a new topic to start from a secondary survey and then dive into primary sources - often recommended by the secondary survey. You are also missing a distinction between doing
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by a_humean 4y ago
The iPhone was/is a good product, but I think mass indoor plumbing and the washing machine along with many other inventions ranks higher than the iPhone.
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by a_humean 4y ago
I don't understand the time scales here. Three years of very wealthy noble women marrying less but still very wealthy commoner men lead to major educational reform less than 10 years latter through changes in the house of lords? Even i
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by a_humean 4y ago
Well given that a union at least initially isn't part of the formal company structures almost by definition then there needs to be some process of recognition that yes this organisation that claims to represent my employees does in fac
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by a_humean 4y ago
There isn't anything wrong with diversification, and this might even be a good idea. I'm just commenting upon the likely motivations are primarily domestic politics and geopolitics given its pretty obvious that you could achieve s
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by a_humean 4y ago
It has the whiff a brexit about it. The current government is allergic to most forms of UK/EU cooperation. They don't want to give the EU extra leverage in the future, so its a means of diversification esp in the context of a lack
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by a_humean 4y ago
And that is another instance where many people part ways, because another big aspect of crypto is that it is partially motivated by a political ideology that most people politely reject and many people think is full of crackpots and scam ar
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by a_humean 5y ago
Nadine Dorries... I mean I don't know what I can say that is polite language. She should not be a minster let alone a cabinet minister. This decision is brain-dead and I would not be surprised if it dies a death in the lords or commons

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