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by alex_sf 5y ago
The built-in types that supported generics were limited to the essentials; slices, arrays, maps, etc. Those basic building blocks were obviously sufficient to allow Go to reach the level of success it has. It's not an argument to all
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by alex_sf 5y ago
By designing systems that encourage or enforce the correct action.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Yes, actually. The expectation is you handle your own business.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Policies don't work. It's why we lean on process in fields where correctness matters, e.g. aviation.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
That was one of the goals and virtues of Go imo; the language was nerfed. It made the hard things easy, and prevented the really hard things from being implemented in silly ways.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
It's less that it gained a new feature, and more (the fear at least) that it made a change for the worse. Avoiding updating to a new version of OSX that stabs you in the face is a reasonable thing to do, despite it being a new feature.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
We can do both.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Like an active war in the region, Russian warships in the vicinity, a history of aggressive action towards neighboring states? Don't be pedant, especially when it doesn't even make sense.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
It's not easy, but we've made massive progress throughout human history.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
It definitely is a dangerous bunch of presumptions. We start investigating based on presumptions, though.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Not quite. They don't have complete control of the market to where they can bring on the onerous things that come with what we'd traditionally define as a monopoly, price gouging, etc. They can just make it cheaper.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
We're just calling ourselves SREs now. It pays better.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Context matters Absolutely, and the context here is that these teachers have the absolute authority to say no and impose their will on children in pursuit of their indoctrination. It’s hardly edgy: given their expressly stated goals, i
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> just logging it. This is the misunderstanding here. With a sufficiently complex system, they are never 'just logs'.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> And yes, at the end of the day, the teachers always have the final authority. Do you think it's a good idea for a group of children to never be told "no?" And yes, at the end of the day, the party always has the final au
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> given that the actual process here ... amounted to good critical thinking lessons It clearly, expressly, and obviously was not. The definition of indoctrination is: > the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of bel
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Even basic empathy is now (unfortunately) a prominent political issue. What _you_ consider basic empathy is a political issue. Which, of course, makes it easy to denounce anyone that disagrees with you as evil without any self-reflecti
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> It is like you have a history of you and your ancestors abusing your children and you don't want to stop because the new neighbor is also abusing his children too This is a poor metaphor. It's more akin to having a family hi
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Does it really matter? If there's no Elon, there's no SpaceX. And I say this as someone that doesn't buy into the founder cult.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
They are still a startup. If they can get the users/money, eventually depending on Google will be a risk/too expensive, and they'll start crawling themselves.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Yeah, you used to have to think of specific, unique keywords that would appear in the page you were searching for. A lot of people couldn't break the habit of asking questions, so search engines just started accepting it and trying to
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Tbh I thought I was being trolled with 'hyper-cube optical interconnects'.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Oooh what's that? Tell me
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Check out https://privacy.com/ . Pretty neat and gives similar/better features.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Which makes me think it's an odd thing to say the police "always did this". That's fair. My statement of 'always' referred to what's typical and standard prior to the change. I.e., what is the actua
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by alex_sf 5y ago
If everything has supply chain problems leading to rising prices for long enough that it results in rising wages.. isn't that just inflation? I've heard this take before, and it's not wrong that a few sectors are driving it,
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> No, it looks like the cops just have to ask your paranoid gun-nut neighbor before they can get the videos. That's the part I was referring to. Anyone can provide footage from their cameras if they want.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
They can already do that. They've always been able to do that. Consent circumvents nearly all legal protections.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Since the advent of surveillance cameras I suppose. So, 1927? https://www.asecurelife.com/history-of-security-cameras/
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by alex_sf 5y ago
A few of the comments here seem to have not read the article. This is an opt-in program that effectively creates a map with contact info of private citizens with cameras. When something nefarious happens in a particular area, the police c

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