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by adwn 5y ago
> Amazon has a lot of money to waste. It is cheaper to hire someone so they can fire them [...] So... Amazon has a lot of money therefore they have to resort to money-saving practices? Or is the causality the other way around? How do t
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by adwn 5y ago
That's not what "axiomatic" means. Maybe you meant "self-evident"? But that's not true either: Not every country ravaged by war goes on to become an economic powerhouse.
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by adwn 5y ago
> On the other hand, it’s decidedly anti-Unix, arguably even more so than GNU utilities. When you have a design guideline – in this case, "Do one thing and do it well" – then you must never forget that it's just a guide
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by adwn 5y ago
> Remove the tax implications, and you will see who really cares about their cause. Yes, and donors should be whipped proportionally to the size of their donation – then we'll see who really, really cares about their cause. >
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by adwn 5y ago
> The point he’s making is that if you don’t know what the factors are, then your best bet is to pick from the larger group — you’ll be more likely to be correct. If your best bet only has a miniscule probability of being right, then y
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by adwn 5y ago
> I know people in general struggle with nuance, but come on - I'm making it easy here. Your posts contain one personal attack after the other. Really: please take a step back and relax.
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by adwn 5y ago
> Your exaggeration and dismissal is perfect evidence of your inability to empathize with the struggles of people you haven't met in real life. Calm down, you're overreacting. A single sentence is hardly "perfect evidenc
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by adwn 5y ago
> How much empathy do you have for a voice on the phone versus a human being you interact with in person on a daily basis? Judging by the toxic office culture at some traditional (non-WFH) companies, lack of empathy has little to do wi
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by adwn 5y ago
That's because high-density logic and high-density DRAM require very different steps during wafer fabrication.
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by adwn 5y ago
Ever since I've become a father, stories of children dying or just barely surviving have an immense emotional impact on me. I almost cried when I read that the boy from the article survived the operation and had a second, better chance
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by adwn 5y ago
> You also have generations of successful entrepreneurs staying in the US and teaching the next generation. Entrepreneurship in EU is mostly a joke, good entrepreneurs are hard to find. Uh, what? Wrong, at least for Germany, which is l
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by adwn 5y ago
> Seriously, what is there? Take a look at Sciter [1]. You build your UI using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and your application logic in any language with a C FFI [2], and it supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android. The distrib
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by adwn 5y ago
Yes, that is true. The proper way for a compiler to handle this, would be to add a single overflow check before the loop, which branches to a scalar translation of the loop. Most realistic code will need a scalar version anyway, to deal wit
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by adwn 5y ago
> If, instead, we force compilers to think about the fact that offset + 16 could have some implementation-defined meaning like wrapping, then all bets are off & we have to throw a bunch of optimization opportunities out the window.
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by adwn 5y ago
> after the first mistake (obviously, because there was a second mistake) What makes you think those two fuck ups by the same person where the same kind of mistake, or even related?
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by adwn 5y ago
> If your belief is that everyone should be perfect [...] Well, you seem to believe there's such a thing as a perfect process . How is a non-perfect employee (or a group of non-perfect employees) supposed to come up with a perfec
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by adwn 5y ago
This is what I call the "Perfect World Fallacy". Yes, in a perfect world, you'd be absolutely right. But that's not the reality we're living in – in particular, that's not the reality small and young companies
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by adwn 5y ago
> In C++ you (usually) do this with `const`, which is fairly low friction, very statically analyzable, and I'm a little unclear what bug hardcore borrow-checker static stops me or my colleagues from making that `const` can't c
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by adwn 5y ago
> I'll be real, it's interesting to post this stuff and see how many downvotes saying factually correct stuff will get you compared to comments. You're getting downvoted and flagged not because you're saying "f
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by adwn 5y ago
> If the best option available to people was diamond mining The best option available to a person in the short term is not necessarily the best option for a society in the long term. In this case, it almost certainly isn't. Compar
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by adwn 5y ago
> And the difference between a space solar farm and a military grade space ray is ? And the difference between an airliner and a cruise missile is? And the difference between a rocket and an ICBM is? By your argument, we wouldn't
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by adwn 5y ago
> you could argue that the tiny annoyances to millions is a larger offense than violently robbing a single person on the street. Yeah, no, you really couldn't. It sounds like you've never been the victim of direct, physical v
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by adwn 5y ago
> [...] get back home at 5:30 or later just in time to throw together or eat dinner [...] I generally get what you're saying, but the difference between a) sharing dinner with your kids, putting them to bed, and reading them a bed
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by adwn 5y ago
> It's not impossible, but there's a dozen things you need to figure out [...] Most of those things don't go away if you send a pull request via the Github web interface, because they boil down to "follow the rules
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by adwn 5y ago
> committing via Github [...] there might actually be a decent well of untapped potential there I don't buy it. Contributing to the Linux kernel is inherently non-trivial, and I find it completely implausible that any non-negligib
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by adwn 5y ago
> I just wish they moved away from email as the only way of contributing. What alternative do you suggest, and in what way is it better than email? > It doesn't really scale well [...] There are few things that scale better t
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by adwn 5y ago
I understand why you don't want to use credit cards too often, but you wrote " we've moved too far [...]". Why do you care whether other people use credit cards?
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by adwn 6y ago
And why would that be?
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by adwn 6y ago
The Rust developers don't have the power to enforce a license – that's up to courts.
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by adwn 6y ago
Why? What effect would this have, in your opinion? Also, who decides what is "good", and what is "evil"? For proper licensing terms, a judge can decide whether those terms have been violated within a given jurisdiction.

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