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by arp242 1y ago
While we don't really know how many biological processes work, we have a pretty good idea how the basic mechanics of life work. The discovery of "something akin to DNA fingerprinting that lets people discover ancestry" would
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by arp242 1y ago
> I'm disgusted by the convention that findings are controlled by self-interested glory-seeking finders The basic idea makes sense; you spend a lot of time, effort, money, and sometimes personal risk to excavate these things. You sh
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by arp242 1y ago
> Recursive resolvers depend on a hierarchy of name servers—root, TLD, and authoritative—many of which are geographically and administratively dispersed. Attempting to localize DNS strictly within national or continental boundaries goes
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by arp242 1y ago
They combed the desert to find him, but ain't found shit.
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by arp242 1y ago
Well, you sound like fun... Spaceballs was criticised at the time of release for being too late and no longer being relevant.
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by arp242 1y ago
User is banned for repeatedly posting bollocks such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39887087 – and that just barely scratches the surface. You might want to check your facts before engaging in these rants. As for y
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by arp242 1y ago
Probably depends on your situation; if you're obese: absolutely. If you're just a bit overweight, perhaps not? Of course hard to extrapolate to the general case from this study, as it only included patients over 66 with a diagnosi
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by arp242 1y ago
Removing it will cause old code to throw an exception. By making it a no-op the code will remain working. There's tons of old unmaintained stuff on the web.
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by arp242 1y ago
Musk can't be president, so there's that at least.
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by arp242 1y ago
This seems far too harsh. Some people just poop out excess calories. Other people store excess calories as an energy reserve much more efficiently. Not everyone who is obese does that, but it's definitely a factor for many people. For
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by arp242 1y ago
It's not so much about "time", but rather mental bandwidth. It takes effort and energy, that you may not have if you have lots of things going on. When people say they "don't have the time" this is often what t
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by arp242 1y ago
You already need to remove content if you don't want to be overrun with endless gore and porn videos and that type of thing.
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by arp242 1y ago
There is no reason for it to spread, but also no reason for it not to. Presumably there was another (completely unrelated) trait, and it happened to spread because of that. > There should instead be a mixture of those who can and those w
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by arp242 1y ago
> At its simplest, the point is that much of programming language design is done with a masculine perspective that values technical excellence and very little feminine perspective that focuses more on social impact. I guess my criticis
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by arp242 1y ago
I omitted some bits from the quote for brevity and HN's faux-quoting sucks, but that's not really the type of "cost" the article is talking about: "maybe they’re suffering from much more subtle neurological effects
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by arp242 1y ago
> Meanwhile, evolving resistance also comes at a cost. We don’t know that directly, but we can infer it pretty well. If resistance to tetrodotoxin were cheap and easy, everything would evolve it. [..] We don’t know, but we’re pretty su
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by arp242 1y ago
I have rarely found logs useful to debug or track down any production issue. Errors on the other hand are almost always useful. I never understood why some people focus so strongly on logs, which tend to always just get ignored, and errors
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by arp242 1y ago
Four devs and/or sysadmins: €400k Add management and other overhead: €100k Overhead from "international consortium of members from 10 EU countries": €500k I'm just making up numbers here, but this is roughly how it usual
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by arp242 1y ago
She did: https://www.hedy.org (have not yet read the article beyond the first few paragraphs, where this is mentioned).
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by arp242 1y ago
> The eternal political problems of legitimacy, accountability, and succession would be solved by a secret board with the power to select and recall the otherwise all-powerful C.E.O. of each sovereign corporation, or SovCorp. If the pr
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by arp242 1y ago
Not infrequently by people who are not even Go programmers. And/or the same people who hijack every other Go thread to rant about how much they hate Go. In a quick search, you seem to be one of them: https://news.ycombinator
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by arp242 1y ago
No, you have certain ways you like communication to happen. That's okay, everyone had that. To present this as some sort of objective standard is complete bollocks, as is your claim that it somehow "degrades" discourse. Thi
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by arp242 1y ago
I've joined jobs and the first thing people said to me is "ah, you must be the new cunt!" Different people have different standards for this type of thing. Be a good cunt and accept that there are over 8 billion people on the
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by arp242 1y ago
Every language has the potential to attract new developers if they change/add just this one thing.
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by arp242 1y ago
Not a compiler check, but staticcheck is widely used: % staticcheck test.go test.go:7:2: this value of err is never used (SA4006)
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by arp242 1y ago
That's okay. Not everyone needs to like Go. Pleasing every programmer on the planet is an unreasonable thing to ask for. It's also impossible because some preferences conflict.
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by arp242 1y ago
> Adapt or die It's not my impression Go is dying. Seems rather overblown. And this "but $other_lang has it! You must have it! Adapt or die!" type of reasoning is how you end up with C++.
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by arp242 1y ago
> They know from developer surveys that verbose and repetitive error handling is literally the number 1 issue. According to 13% of respondents. So yes, it's the "#1 issue", but also not by a huge overwhelming majority or a
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by arp242 1y ago
> Of course, there are also valid arguments in favor of change: Lack of better error handling support remains the top complaint in our user surveys. Looking at that survey, only 13% mentioned error handling. So that means 87% didn'
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by arp242 1y ago
You need to assign the error to a variable, probably. So it would have to be more something like: n := strconv.Atoi(s) or |err| { return fmt.Errorf("foo: %w", err) } n := strconv.Atoi(s) or |err| { if !errors.

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