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by a_humean 9y ago
Not sure as maybe the term "inalienable right" has a different meaning, but I feel like the article is making too strong a claim. An "inalienable right" is usually something you cannot waive by contract, and so while you
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by a_humean 9y ago
Give the guy a break, he was given 10 days to design the thing. It worked out pretty well in the end. This is spilt milk from 20+ years ago.
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by a_humean 9y ago
Basically mootools screwed up, and this is what smooshGate was about as well. They modified the array prototype directly with their own methods. They did feature detection on the prototype by checking if the method of that name existed (&qu
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by a_humean 9y ago
If that is what you mean, then yes you are right. Pointers point at bits of memory (its literally an address to a physical piece of memory or virtual memory allocated by something else - an OS for example) which store things like the 64bit
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by a_humean 9y ago
edit: don't vote the guy/gal down just because they are admitting some ignorance and seeking clarity I would quickly disabuse yourself of the notion that all values are immutable in JavaScript, as otherwise you will cause yourself
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by a_humean 9y ago
There is a lot of activity around async/await. My understanding is that the hard work is nearly done, and what is left is mostly around the final syntax. I think its planned the land in stable with the Rust 2018 edition ( https:/&
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by a_humean 9y ago
The UK has made all appearances of going forward with GDPR principles independently of the EU, and as with almost everything in terms of EU regulations, we will likely have to comply with GDPR whether we stay inside or outside of the EU for
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by a_humean 9y ago
Its a JavaScript library used for providing an abstraction over DOM manipulation, and is open source. It doesn't phone home to facebook with your mother's maiden name, and it doesn't have a single line of network code in its
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by a_humean 9y ago
I think theoretical physics might be in need of a short dose of internal reflection and debate coupled with some side reading of contemporary philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. These sorts of debates around concepts like &q
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by a_humean 9y ago
I don't think GDPR is going to be easily dismissed with modals asking for permissions like cookie notifications were. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if the user doesn't give consent (whether explicitly, or via a browser
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by a_humean 9y ago
Yeah, I thought that part of the point of the LLVM project was that front end language compilers (entirely language agnostic) could target non-platform specific LLVM IR code, and then let the backend LLVM compiler compile to multiple backen
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by a_humean 9y ago
Abundantly available extremely cheap food of poor nutritional value and addictive over consumption encouraging qualities forcefully positioned by the market at the expense of other options.
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by a_humean 9y ago
I wonder if this will have an economic impact on the communities of East Texas. I think I read somewhere, though I cannot recall where (maybe Ars), that some companies where investing in community projects, events, and recreational faciliti
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by a_humean 9y ago
Its an optional dependency. You can build without it by just using a nightly version of rust with the wasm32-unknown-unknown backend. An example of using cargo-web with the stdweb rust project: https://github.com/koute/
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by a_humean 9y ago
No, he is right. cargo-web supports three backends, of which only two include emscripten and the third using a native rust backend. https://github.com/koute/cargo-web#features Rust can be compiled to wasm without emscr
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by a_humean 9y ago
It is actually relevant: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/... Support for it only exists on Chrome at the moment ( https://caniuse.com/#search=shadow%20dom ), bu
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by a_humean 9y ago
They are very very closely related, and philosophers and Pearl cite each other on the topic of causation, but Hume and philosophers are usually concerned with a slightly different problem. Hume is concerned about the nature of the necessity
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by a_humean 9y ago
That's the debate in the article body. Less hedonistic meaning they are having less sex and so fewer unintended and teenage pregnancies, less drinking and drugs and so less violence and anti-social behavior, better relations with the p
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by a_humean 9y ago
Apparently zero effect: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-...
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by a_humean 9y ago
As another commentator said, its not really tacit approval of the cuts. The point I and others are making is that these cuts are clearly designed to be a political smokescreen for midterm elections. These cuts are deficit financed giveaways
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by a_humean 9y ago
Two reasons for that: 1) These are the first year income tax cuts, but most of these income tax cuts are getting phased out over time after the first year. By 2027 some of these income groups may see tax increases, and most won't see m
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by a_humean 9y ago
I'm guessing this covers just 2018/19 and not the lead up to 2027. A lot of these individual income tax cuts not permanent, and are set to expire in stages towards 2027. The bill is going through reconciliation with senate rules r
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by a_humean 9y ago
Pretty much anything. Any consultancy would probably hire you as an analyst for example if you social skills are ok.
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by a_humean 9y ago
I can understand the nostalgia, but that just isn't really true anymore for a lot of front-end web development. Almost everywhere you look in front-end web today you see a toolchain that includes the node runtime, babel or typescript a
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by a_humean 9y ago
Yes, WebAssembly is bytecode that is a IR compile target for other languages, which right now is limited to C and C++ via Emscripten, or Rust via its own normal toolchain or Emscripten as well. It has a plain text assembly output called WAT
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by a_humean 9y ago
This is also a big barrier for me using firefox in development, and pre-v57 Firefox used to have an extension for websockets that was nice, but its gone now with the new web extension APIs.
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by a_humean 9y ago
That's why I qualifed with "relatively safe". Arbitrary code from potentially malicious/incompetent sources is arbitrary code, but its a platform on which its relatively safe to run arbitrary code.
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by a_humean 9y ago
Isolation. WASM is a target that allows users to effortlessly download and run arbitrary code from the web on all platforms with a modern web browser; an environment that is sandboxed such that arbitrary file system access or other system a
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Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default(hellorust.com)
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by a_humean 9y ago
If you are being unkind, then yes he is making what seems to be a type of category error. Dummett or Frege might decribe it as using a second order predicate as a first order predicate. Entirely grammatical, but nonsensical. He probably jus

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