beltsazar

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by beltsazar 2y ago
The Web has a lot of features, but not all of them are implemented by all browsers. The website (caniuse.com) provides you the info about which features are implemented by which browsers. So now you as a webdev can consider which features y
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by beltsazar 2y ago
What do you mean? Israel ranks 30th in The Economist Democracy Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index It's not great, but it's also far from what you said "democracy only in n
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by beltsazar 2y ago
And vice versa. Your mental function won't work optimally if you're not fit.
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by beltsazar 2y ago
> you are the result of all the past sensory interactions that you experienced in your whole life That's only the mental aspect. Physically, you are also what you eat and how often you exercise.
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by beltsazar 2y ago
I feel the opposite. In high school I was pretty good at solving calculus problems but had little understanding what "limit" actually is. When in college I finally understood the definition of limit and all the foundational theore
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Edward Frenkel made a great analogy: > So first of all, correct, the beautiful ideas came out of string theory. But that was not the original promise of string theory. The original promise was to describe the physics of this universe, un
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> I couldn't care less what others do with their lives From your previous comments, you care about your parents and friends and future children. So now change "all humans" in my previous reply to "people you care&quot
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by beltsazar 3y ago
If you truly believed what you said you believe, you'd wish you and all humans and all living things die asap, instantly, and painlessly from supernova or something. That way, all living things could leave together this horrible world
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Life is composed of both happiness and tragedies, but tragedies by far outnumber the happiness. If I were to specify an exact number, perhaps somewhere in the vicinity of 9:1 tragedies:happiness. > Some of the tragedies are also gua
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> I don't really care about the preservation of the human species. I'm going to be dead in the next 40 years or so, why should I care? If most Homo sapiens had the same attitude, the species would have gone extinct since foreve
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Edit: the replies - y'all are out of touch. If you're in the minority, maybe you're the one who's out of touch? It's not that they can't afford having children—many of those who are less fortunate than the
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Just a few months ago, I ran into the same problem, although it wasn't caused by `collect()`. It was caused by "normal" `Vec` usage If it wasn't caused by `collect()`, then I suppose it's a related problem, but
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by beltsazar 3y ago
After skimming the first few paragraphs, I almost commented something similar to yours. But after reading it until the end, the problem is more nuanced than that. The issue is more about reusing memory that has been allocated when you &quot
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Why should the first priority be memory safety? Because it's easy for beginners (and even experts) to create a memory safety bug, which is more critical than most bugs. > If the first priority is always memory safety, then rust
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Why shouldn't the unexperienced systems programmers go "all in" by using Rust, then? The first priority for them should be memory safety. Not to mention that Rust has more ergonomic features and stronger ecosystems.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Or... things are about to get worse for copyright holders. If that's so, things are about to get worse for everyone , too. With little to no protection against AI, no one will be incentivized to create new IPs, whether they'
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by beltsazar 3y ago
I'd go further to say that if you don't ask to yourself a single question while you're reading a substantial part of a book (a section, a chapter), then you don't really internalize what you think you're learning. T
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Serializable by default doesn't seem feasible when you really dive into the concept. I was expecting you'd argue for a weaker isolation level than serializable, but then you said: > Without any knowledge of the transaction
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by beltsazar 3y ago
The performance hit is likely worth it—considering that the alternative is inconsistent data. In most cases correctness is more, if not much more, important than performance. As I said, those who know what they're doing can always use
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Exactly! That's why I just commented [1] that the default isolation level should be serializable. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38696421
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by beltsazar 3y ago
I understand why the default transaction isolation level of most DBMS is weaker than serializable (it's for benchmark purposes), but I'd argue the best default is serializable. Most DBMS users don't even know there are many c
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by beltsazar 3y ago
You have a different definition of "regret" from what most people think, then.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Voyager 1 is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Additionally, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a response. It's like when you write a program and you have to wait for a
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Are you suggesting that we should never regret anything, then? Like I said, everything must be in moderation. Regrets are effective for reminding us not to repeat the same mistakes. But of course if we regret our mistakes 24/7, it will
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Don't regret time spent doing something you enjoy. This common saying is harmful and borderline hedonistic. Not all enjoyable activities are good activities. Should ex-smokers not regret their past smoking habit, then? Everything
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by beltsazar 3y ago
It depends on "Israeli what". Anti Israeli government: It's not antisemitic. Anti Israeli people: It's antisemitic.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
The only effective "fix" is by using Denuvo. Are you hoping that World of Goo2 has Denuvo?
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by beltsazar 3y ago
But amortized analysis has nothing to do with what CPUs can do. CS students learn it in an algorithm course, not in a computer architecture course.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Many don't realize that when you buy anything digital, you don't "own" it—what you actually buy is a license to access the content, which can be revoked at any time and for any reason. When that happens, you can't r
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> The thing I hate about "advice" like this is that it assumes that everyone likes the same things and feels the same way It's so ironic that at the end you gave an advice: > I suggest that the next time you watch a sha

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