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by baranul 6mo ago
The ocean is very much not a fine place for perpetual dumping of large amounts of radioactive water, because of the long half lives of various radioactive contaminants. Humans eat the fish, that swim in the ocean. Dumping dangerous wastes i
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> Unlike chemical contamination (e.g. mercury) radiation doesn't bio-accumulate. That is a very, very misinformed or misleading statement. Caesium-137 and Strontium-90 have half lives of around 30 years and do get into seafood. Ther
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That's relative. People eat seafood. Which is why this was a concern for many of the neighboring countries.
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That's the problem. It appears companies are allowed to use consumers as guinea pigs for substances with unknown or possibly bad outcomes. All this "stuff" should be on warning labels. If these substances slowly cause cancer
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Or maybe look at something like Zen C. A language without the baggage or change in direction. [1] https://github.com/zenc-lang/zenc
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True, defaults matter. In many cases, however, using a language that defaults to a GC for memory safety is often preferable or easier. The argument is often about when ownership and borrowing is truly necessary. Rust has its uses, but argua
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My previous post explained how this is not the case for Vlang. None of Vlang's libraries depend on using a garbage collector.
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> without a garbage collector, that's the novel part? That's not quite how it works in various languages. You appear to be thinking of the garbage collector as something inseparable from the language. Both Dlang and Vlang have
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> They're incomparable. They were different kinds of disasters, but not incomparable in terms of the scope and reach of damage done to the environment. Chernobyl didn't have the situation of dumping incalculable amounts of radi
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> I wonder what the reason is? Different reactions, by different types of governments and politicians. Chernobyl was also seen as an European problem, thus numerous other nations and organizations were more significantly involved. With F
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Porting Windows apps that people like, helps MacBook sales, not hurt them. That certain people use their MacBook in a different way should not be a concern of other users, as at least they are using MacBooks.
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Rust is becoming less special in this area. Languages such as Dlang, Vlang, and Julia have added optional ownership and borrowing. As these offerings are optional, many can see this as greater programmer freedom to decide what to use for th
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by baranul 6mo ago
The truth can not simply be blanked out. Others can not be responsible for refusal to read, research, or any denial of reality. [1] Zig on GitHub has 3,042 open issues (as of this post) Link: https://github.com/ziglang/
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Many people seem to forget that Pascal evolved, and Wirth was very involved in that evolution. Wirth (as a consultant) helped create Object Pascal (from Apple), which then influenced Turbo Pascal and Delphi. Modula and Oberon are often refe
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> I suspect that the author would have gotten a lot further had he been using a GC language and not had to deal with all the low-level issues Agree, that many people are using languages out of context to what they are actually trying to
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That's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.
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Now that there is Claw Code[1], seems like many of these cancellations are easier to do. [1]: https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code
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A possibility is that some people give stars based on the idea or potential. Something like, "this was a great idea or could be great one day". Then, unfortunately, many such repos slowly go nowhere or get (or just about become) a
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There is truth in that. A lot of claude co-authored repos look frantic and unstable. It will still depend on the contributors managing things properly to maintain stability and not succumb to AI addiction and insanity. > community behind
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Way more suspicious star count looks to be from Zig[1]. That's based on their weird GitHub repo history[2]. In fact the initial negative campaigns initiated by the creators of Zig and Odin against V (and then turned on other languages
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by baranul 6mo ago
Totally agree. They give what should be a consumer right, who has paid for the device, a very sinister sounding label. People freely "sideload" on their PCs all of the time; installing software. The people need to fight back, by s
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Speaking of which, HN arguably entertains executing censorship as much as any government, corporation, or organization. Often what is seen or presented, so people can think that's the prevailing view, is not a complete view. It's
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> left-wing framing The problems with claiming something is "left-wing", is that without a definition or clear example, the claim becomes highly suspect or appears very subjective. Yet another problem, in terms of perspective,
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Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?(theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
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> IF it were for the kids - but I don't think it is. Exactly. If it was about kids, then you do not direct legislation towards everybody, but at parents. Give parents the software and tools (parental control settings) to restrict th
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What is interesting is how governments and controlled media flip and reverse terms (in a 1984 kind of way), along with avoiding accountability, to suit their purposes. Even when it is very obvious that actions are morally wrong, war crimes,
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Was going to make a reply, but yours was perfect.
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> the rewrite you should have considered wasn't to Rust in the last ten years but to Java or C# much earlier. That doesn't quite make sense. The point of Fil-C, is to not have to rewrite in any other language, because it's
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Use of Google seems to have become implied consent for them to use or give away any and all of your data, for whatever purpose, to any government, legal entity, or advertiser.
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If they were not physically in Russia or similar country out of the jurisdiction of the court, then they have likely moved to one or operate from one. At this point, the court is just a willing instrument of corporate anger and assistant to

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