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by adwn 5y ago
Climate change can be mitigated by technological solutions. Sure, you also need political action, but it's a marathon, not a sprint: a chain of bad decisions will make matters worse, but you'll still have a chance to recover. Duri
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by adwn 5y ago
> boomerisms Kind of ironic, given that "boomers" lived under the 4 decades long threat of total nuclear war. Frankly, as an instance of those "age 30+ millenials", that would instill a far stronger sense of doom in
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by adwn 5y ago
No, endurance hunting is mostly about running. To quote Wikipedia [1]: "Persistence hunting (sometimes called endurance hunting) is a hunting technique in which hunters, who may be slower than their prey over short distances, use a co
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by adwn 5y ago
I don't think so. As far as I know, other primates' arms lack our range of motion – for example, chimpanzees are unable to touch the back of their heads; that makes powerful throwing basically impossible.
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by adwn 5y ago
It was a pun on the term "gaslighting". I also didn't get it until I read awhow's comment.
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by adwn 5y ago
> You need just one contradicting observation to invalidate something No, that's wrong. There are several reasons why a negative result doesn't necessarily disprove a theory or a hypothesis: measurement uncertainties/noi
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by adwn 5y ago
Now you've added an additional, untested point of failure (the glue code), and you've made the interaction between A, A1, and B more difficult to understanding and more error prone.
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by adwn 5y ago
Not quite. With traditional intrusive linked lists, you'll have to modify the payload struct whenever you want to add it to another or different lists; with OP's approach, maybe not (but it depends on the implementation details)
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by adwn 5y ago
> So when you remove an element from the list, how do you make sure both lists are updated? The remove_from_list() function has to be either payload-specific, or it needs a function pointer parameter which is called to handle the pay
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by adwn 5y ago
Maybe we could get rid of the Gorch Fock [1] while we're at it. A sailing ship in the 21st century, causing repair costs well in excess of 100 million EUR, and killing sailors in training. JFC. A lot of people had to pay a lot of taxes
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by adwn 5y ago
You're arguing in bad faith [1][2]. Please don't do that here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Assume_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith
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by adwn 5y ago
Tree [1], master [2], submission [3], abort [4], driver [5] – words can have different meanings in different contexts. Do you feel the need to "wince every time" you submit a link on HN? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by adwn 5y ago
Apparently, 193 items in C99: https://gist.github.com/Earnestly/7c903f481ff9d29a3dd1
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by adwn 5y ago
> Undefined behavior means that which is not defined in the standard. No, you're wrong. "Undefined Behavior" (UB) in the context of C has a very different meaning from the colloquial meaning "not specified". Th
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by adwn 5y ago
> Not seventy years ago Russia was almost destroyed by the West, with the lost of forty million lives. No Western country wants to invade Russia, and hasn't wanted to for 30 years at the least. There's nothing to gain, it wou
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by adwn 5y ago
Demilitarization and not being a NATO member means that the next time Russia gets imperialistic cravings, Ukraine will be utterly helpless and defenseless , with zero bargaining power. And judging by Russia's current behavior, that&#x
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by adwn 5y ago
In every HN comment section about superior alternatives to C, or about C's pitfalls, you'll reliably find 2-3 staunch defenders of C's supposed simplicity, wielding arguments that ultimately boil down to "you're usi
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by adwn 5y ago
> Open source does not mean "gratis". See for example this historic order form of software offered by the Free Software Foundation: If the best example in support of your thesis is a "historic order form" (not even
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by adwn 5y ago
That reminds me of a German joke about the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany"): Ein Mann geht in ein Kaufhaus in der DDR. Er fragt den Verkäufer: "Gibt's hier keine Socken?" – "Nein, hier gibt's ke
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by adwn 5y ago
> If the income is universal (the 'U' in UBI) Will residents without citizenship receive the UBI? If yes, how long do they have to reside to be eligible? Will expats with citizenship receive the UBI? Will children receive the
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by adwn 5y ago
> Governments will respond to economic factors that diminish purchasing power in order to maintain the effectiveness of UBI, as a part of UBI. How? Using which political, economic, and financial tools? And what will be the side effects
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by adwn 5y ago
> I think you are discounting the fact that in the second scenario you don't have to work *for a while . Only very few people are able to save enough to never have to work again, even with a low standard of living.
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by adwn 5y ago
> The "social security net" we have in Europe isn't perfect, though. You're comparing the imperfect reality of an actual situation (unemployment benefits) against the utopian fantasy of an imagined best case scenari
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by adwn 5y ago
No, that's an argument for a proper social safety net, as implemented in many European countries. Most fulltime jobs pay better than a UBI ever could, so if you have a job, a) either your standard of living is so high that a change to
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by adwn 5y ago
Any increase in power efficiency will lead to lower operating costs, which will lead to a higher hashrate, which will lead to an adjustment of the mining difficulty.
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by adwn 5y ago
You're falling for the "perfect is the enemy of good" fallacy.
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by adwn 5y ago
> Tbh the world would've been better off if these apps didn't exist. Especially VS Code. You're confusing "I personally don't like X" with "the world is better off without X" .
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by adwn 5y ago
Then create an open source cross-platform GUI framework/toolkit that's technologically superior to Electron and also at least as easy and convenient to use and deploy, and people will dump Electron in droves. I mean, please do
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by adwn 5y ago
> I've lost my phone and wallet, I can still get cash from a bitoin ATM using the crypto I'm storing in my brain. When I enter my debit card and PIN into an ATM belonging to a legally regulated bank, I can be reasonably certa
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by adwn 5y ago
> But someone complained that they didn't like having something that wasn't tied to USD. No, you're misrepresenting long_time_gone's point. EUR, for example, is very stable without being tied to USD, and EUR/US

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