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by arp242 10mo ago
Yes. https://github.com/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/commit/c8d046b288...
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by arp242 10mo ago
I could sort of understand it if the PR used all sorts of judgemental/accusatory language or something. But it doesn't; it's straight-forward and factual. Outright bizarre behaviour.
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by arp242 10mo ago
Yes, I understand that. I'm just commenting on the "bookmarkable" aspect here, obviously.
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by arp242 10mo ago
The situations where I've wished for GET to be able to have a (typically JSON) body were all in situations where the request isn't "user visible" in the first place. That is: API calls, SPA apps, ajax requests, that sort
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by arp242 10mo ago
Going from "we're a small non-profit and we're struggling finding a good solution that's also accessible, this really sucks – we're sorry" to eugenics is quite a leap.
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by arp242 10mo ago
For established projects of a certain level of audience and attention, they can be hosted anywhere and it won't matter all that much. Zig is already such a project. People already know about Zig. There's tons of established projec
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by arp242 10mo ago
Everything is a "single point of failure" if you play around enough with the definition of "single". Your custom server with backup solution is a "single" thing, which is really not that far off from what Cloud
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by arp242 10mo ago
> Sometimes people do DDoS your small blog because some random stranger didn't like something you said somewhere online. I've received death threats. Do I engage in charged political commentary on my site? Not really. Just vagu
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by arp242 10mo ago
Because it's just generic complaining on a random Ruby post. It's just boring language flamewar bollocks that we can have on every post on every language.
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by arp242 10mo ago
This is a classic "I am used to language X. I am now trying language Y, but nothing in language Y is like language X! Why can't language Y be like language X?!"-type post. Yes, Ruby is a different language. It does things dif
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by arp242 10mo ago
There's an old presentation from late 90s or early 2000s where Linus talks a bit about the origins of Linux, how much he hated working with OpenVMS at university, and how much of a breath of fresh air Unix was. The reason he liked Unix
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by arp242 10mo ago
> It’s effectively armed conflict. How do you think Franco got in power? By peacefully using his free speech rights and persuasive speeches? How do you think he stayed in power for all those decades? Do you think some people's free
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by arp242 10mo ago
> Throwing Molotov cocktail is trivially an criminal offense. This is a protest against a fascist regime we're talking about. I don't know the exact context of any of this because I'm not Spanish, don't speak the lang
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by arp242 10mo ago
Yes I agree, which is probably why we should treat 18-year olds more as children than adults (although obviously they are in-between the two). Brains continue to develop to the age of about 25.
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by arp242 10mo ago
Unfortunately not and it's worse than you think because with "some people", "they", and "the few" they means Jews. You can look at the post history for the pattern, after which this is pretty obvious. I al
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by arp242 10mo ago
Demos existed, for home computer and PC games anyway. This is why you bought the game review magazines to get the disk (and later, CD-ROM) with demos. For consoles you could often try the game in the shop, or rent them at the Video rental s
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by arp242 11mo ago
"Solidarity" was the old word – at least in much of Europe – and was more than just a word but a value people held. It was already becoming rare when I was young in the 90s and while it's still mentioned on occasion, as a mor
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by arp242 11mo ago
> There is always a bottom % of people who are under the cognitive capacity to meaningfully contribute to society. That doesn't mean they are bad people, but they will always be poor/broke. The only reason people like you or me
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by arp242 11mo ago
Maybe being ginger is connected to IQ. Or maybe a particular ear shape or toe length or something is correlated. It's possible I suppose. But no one is looking in to that because everyone understands it doesn't really matter as no
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by arp242 11mo ago
> now questioning the Nobel Prize-awarded universe expansion It is not questioning that the universe is expanding. It is questioning how the expansion is happening. Massive difference. The rate of expansion has always been more of a &q
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by arp242 11mo ago
Not really comparable because the bureaucratic system kept running. It's just a completely different political system and "there is no government" means a different thing. US-style "government shutdowns" don't
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by arp242 11mo ago
I agree with what you're saying; in the most extreme scenario you end up with the McNamara fallacy, and it's bizarrely common on e.g. HN. But I also think the platitude is appropriate in this case – I probably eat a decent amount
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by arp242 11mo ago
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by arp242 11mo ago
They're trying to turn it in to a culture war/"big pharma" type issue. They've been trying since he got in to office – see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002658 Will it work? If I had to be
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by arp242 1y ago
> some people just can't stop shoveling down Flamin' Hot Froot Loops. If over a third if the country has serious problems with this then it seems to me there is a systemic problem, and you can't only chuck it to individu
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by arp242 1y ago
"You can't move a waste paper basket a metre without filling in three forms and getting approval of four managers" was already the running joke about Philips in the 90s. In part this is a large organisation thing that happens
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by arp242 1y ago
There seems to be some sort of general belief that everyone acts at least roughly in good faith. And sure, there are hiccups, but things will work out fine in the long run as the world moves towards peace, liberty, and freedom. It would be
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by arp242 1y ago
What's next? Eating seedless grapes causes autism? Being rained on after midnight causes autism? Kryptonite causes autism? Is there an "things RFK Jr. will next claim to cause autism" bet on those app thingies yet? Well, at l
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by arp242 1y ago
I've never heard of any of these problems with RyanAir. They treat you as less than cattle and generally their service is shit, but I'm not aware of RyanAir being unsafe. Actually, in a quick check it seems the total fatality coun
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by arp242 1y ago
It's probably best to see the prize more as encouragement rather than endorsement of everything the person has ever done. Abiy Ahmed won the award "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular

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