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by arp242 1y ago
I find types useful especially for smaller solo projects: because the test suite is much less complete, or even non-existent. Types give quick feedback for a bunch of silly but common errors. It's entirely unclear to me that types re
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by arp242 1y ago
> As if we haven't watched NPM get hacked many times over the last decade or so. When has this happened? The only one I remember is the event-stream thing, and that was what, over five years ago? Doesn't seem all that common fr
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by arp242 1y ago
3.6M lines of code seems so much that it sets off my "are you sure that's counted right?" alarm. I'm not very familiar with Rust, but all of Go is 1.6M lines of Go code. This includes the compiler, stdlib, tests for it a
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What security issue? It's just read file by line, split by =, and return or call setenv. This is not OpenSSL we're talking about.
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He was just wrong here. PTSD covers many problems, including "shell shock", but also survivors of, say, natural disasters, serious accidents, sexual abuse, and many other types of traumatic experiences. And this is hardly an &quot
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God forbid they're looking at patterns of alcohol abuse that falls outside a narrow preconceived scope. "Alcoholism denial" was not what I expected to see when I woke up this morning, but here we are. This is just conspiracy
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In principle? Perhaps. De-facto? Not as long as they're performing Trumpllatio.
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Breaking Bread
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Jesus travelled around the land healing the sick and helping the poor. He didn't travel around the land with a sign saying "God hates fags". There are just a few (oblique) mentions of homosexuality in the New Testament. It cl
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> The current zeitgeist is that Catholic priests are pedophiles. This is a widely held belief because it is so frequently true. Just not true; the rate isn't really higher than what you see at football clubs, scout clubs, etc. What
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by arp242 1y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190909193211.h... https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-waistlines-middle-age... https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/about-us&#x2
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by arp242 1y ago
The "stick figure" fashion models have been widely ridiculed for as long as I can remember, since the 90s. It mostly seems confined to the fashion industry: models outside of that tend to be thin, but not as extremely so. I'm
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I've never had any problems with my weight until the last year or so; guess I'm getting old? Currently ~106kg at about 2m, which puts my BMI just in the "overweight" category (imperfect measure, but still). Basically, I
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by arp242 1y ago
Snapshots are backups. Not sufficient backups for some cases, but perfectly fine for others.
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It's not just "silly arguments that get made online". It's de-facto the way the world is run, and the way many companies defend their actions.
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But businesses aren't run that way, so whatever some abstract theorist like Walter Block may say is not really relevant for the day-to-day reality of things. And I've seen "anything market-rational is also moral"-shaped
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> 1. Most people get a degree to pass degree checks in jobs. How many top physicists didn't go to university? How many Nobel Prize winners (aside from Peace or Literature)? How many degree-less engineers do you want to be building y
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Startup culture has an aspect of it, and many people here dislike that aspect. Broader hacker culture certainly doesn't have it. You're confusing "hack" with "cheat" in the same way that some YouTube dickheads
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If you look at countries with a lot of corruption, then there's this sense that "everyone uses corruption to get ahead, and I'd be a fool not to". This view is not entirely wrong. I don't envy students here; aside f
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Many people understand all these things. They're just not nihilistic assholes who will lie and cheat to any amount to get ahead. That's the difference.
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> Sikh conflict you may be referring to are events from 1984 IIRC. The 70s and 80s were the most intense, but it's far from isolated to just that period. There was a major row with Canada just last year because, according to Canada,
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by arp242 1y ago
Haven't there also been conflicts with the Sikhs for decades? I don't think you can completely blame this on just the Muslims.
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And many things didn't come to pass. The entire business between Israel and Iran from last year springs to mind (also recall that many feared the Bush administration would seek war with Iran, which never happened). The Cuban missile cr
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sudo isn't GNU though.
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"Grand Theft Gentoo": https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB/ref...
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What if you don't remember the key you need to press?
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I'd be highly surprised if Microsoft was buying reviews.
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I used it a few weeks ago to track down a weird regression/bug in Firefox. A few years ago I used it to track down a regression in Wine. That's probably the most important case: large complex codebases with lots of changes where &
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by arp242 1y ago
One of the problems is that GitHub's UI and workflow isn't very good for this in various ways (can't review commits, can't really diff with previous after amending commit). So as a rule, I tend to stick with "1 PR =
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New Zealand is nowhere near small enough for island dwarfism.

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