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by acqq 6y ago
You haven't answered my question? How I as a reader see which of the functions with different semantic but named the same was used in the Rust version, and how Rust helps me for that?
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by acqq 6y ago
Then, if C++ could also obtain metadata using the file handle, and the Rust programmer must also take care to call the right "metadata" which even when it does different thing is named completely the same and as the code as writte
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by acqq 6y ago
Well, I don't see that the "metadata" are actually obtained from the opened file handle in the Rust version? Metadata request must happen at the different time point than the open of the file and the API as far as I see works
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by acqq 6y ago
I don't think that the Rust version is as different as the author seems to believe. For example: the author writes "What happens if the file has been replaced by, e.g., a pipe or other not regular_file?" But it seems to me t
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by acqq 6y ago
I don‘t agree with rapferreira. I liked that the article included the actual technical details, including these that were the “old” solutions. Some insights are impossible to be achieved if the details are omitted.
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by acqq 6y ago
> if the vaccines aren't effective The common public expectation is that “effective” means “one would not even catch the virus and won’t be able to transmit it to the others with the vaccine. In reality, “effective” could mean “thos
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by acqq 6y ago
I wrote about exactly that 10 days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567159 The main part about that topic: “If it turns out that even vaccinated people can spread the virus (as in: "they can still becom
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by acqq 6y ago
At the moment I'm checking this, the title of the article is much less sure than what's on HN. "Study Suggests Reduced Mortality Risk For Covid-19 May Be Associated With Adequate Vitamin D Levels" Whereas the current HN
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by acqq 6y ago
What I talk about is what "amadeuspagel" also describes in a post here. And to confirm that experience, until participating in this conversation, I also didn't know that it could be possible to efficiently use Emacs with the
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by acqq 6y ago
> No amount of crippling Emacs would help there. It can only spoil it for existing happy users. I am surely against "crippling." The initial topic of the discussion was how to make Emacs accessible to the new users. I don'
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by acqq 6y ago
Also a possible trigger: Sarah Cooper lip syncing him on TikTok and getting possibly "higher ratings" than he. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Cooper See: "Satirical videos" The major impact exa
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by acqq 6y ago
> would it not be fair to say that humans have exploded in number, along with livestock, Only that part is fair to say. But that it: > makes that a somewhat misleading statistic Isn't "fair" at all. There the "misl
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by acqq 6y ago
> I've never seen anyone who did the 2 minutes or two hours of work, went into a configuration, and changed these keys. I believe it's true: I don't think anybody could even dare trying to change the key combinations if al
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And the claim about how Perl behaves and is to be programmed in is totally, completely wrong. For the start, one couldn't even write a correct "if" condition in Perl without knowing if it's about numbers or strings. Even
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by acqq 6y ago
That is what I never understood -- I've implemented exactly this "which editor emulation do you want to use" and "edit your own bindings" for one Windows product containing editor in early nineties. It wasn't h
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by acqq 6y ago
Specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." The original title on the linked page is "Dogfoodi
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by acqq 6y ago
> What updated title would you propose? I believe, per HN policies, the most appropriate would be the title from the page: "Dogfooding Warp"
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by acqq 6y ago
The current title ("significantly faster") on HN is suboptimal. What is there written relating the speed is that the new implementation: "improves responsiveness and page load performance significantly (we're seeing 5-15
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by acqq 6y ago
Weren't the claims conveniently for the prosecution changed shortly before the trial this year, and the defense complained that they based their defense on that May 2019 document that you link? https://shadowproof.com/2
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And what Assange wrote to the journalist was only a part of the password . Assange never wrote the second part. Apparently the journalist had to combine both the said and the written parts to use it but published the whole combination in
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> simply checking that rules have been followed One of the rules is one should not be extradited for political reasons, and that is what is obviously happening here and what is argued on the court by the defense. But as the US representa
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by acqq 6y ago
The Guardian is actually involved in the case: the "Guardian’s 2011 WikiLeaks book" contained the full password of the encrypted file containing the unredacted documents and that encrypted file was already (it is argued, not per t
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by acqq 6y ago
Basically, one contended issue was if there was a proof that something important happened: if a razor blade was found by Assange. Prosecution initially claimed it hasn't. Then the direct evidence of the event was shown by the defense,
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by acqq 6y ago
One can get a list of files included without ever downloading any content (e.g. from the command line) and based on that, it looks like a troll trying to ride on the current interest. Happens all the time. It seems that the list of files do
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by acqq 6y ago
> Government certainly can change this reality (perhaps via the defense production act) by agreeing to buy masks off the line for a time after the immediate demand has been met. Or whatever. Of course, but it seems the vaccines had prior
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A little browsing gives some really interesting details: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99063812/1918-10-2... The Evening Herald., October 23, 1918, Image 1 "NO ARMISITICE 'TILL HUNS GO HOME&q
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by acqq 6y ago
> Why can't it also be about the 5 years? Because the political forces, as documented in the very fine article, started what appears to be a purely political trial. The kind of which “everybody” would be outraged if it would be done
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For anybody who will again try to argue that he helped hacking and therefore all mistreatment of him is excusable, considering the actual US charges, apparently: "just one of the 18 charges relate to computer intrusion and it carries j
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Neither Yahoo nor The Telegraph make an estimate given in some Oxford study more valid. The study has to be evaluated for its own claims. The Telegraph can only be checked if they distorted the claims or introduced an additional bias. Yahoo
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1) The above statement presented by Yahoo from The Telegraph is not about California at all, but the UK. 2) The UK had in July and August around 13 deaths per day, or in total at that time around 2% of all UK reported Covid-19 related death

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