bialpio

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by bialpio 4y ago
"Chrome reskin by Apple" - what does this refer to?
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by bialpio 4y ago
But it is a cross-platform GUI app, which the post was about. Granted, it is (or was?) experimental (so not production-grade), but the PoC for GUI app in Rust should be there (assuming they didn't use something else just for the GUI, I
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by bialpio 4y ago
I don't think I understand - where is any kind of framework mentioned? And even if frameworks were mentioned, I think it's a fair comparison to say "language A has battle-proven / easy-to-use / etc. framework to ach
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by bialpio 4y ago
We may need more time. IIRC, Firefox is incorporating some code written in Rust, and there's also Servo.
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by bialpio 4y ago
GP mentioned C++ being replaced by Rust - I'd say that a replacement should be as capable as the thing it replaces, so if that's the claim, then Rust should be at the very least OK for GUI apps. If it's not, then that's
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by bialpio 4y ago
Half-serious counterpoint: if you use electric space heaters, might as well mine bitcoin to heat up the house. In that case it's still rational to mine because you'd use that energy anyway.
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by bialpio 4y ago
I think it also ignores the fact that one of the big energy suppliers entered a war of territorial expansion and it may take a while until it's business as usual - I'd expect this to also affect energy prices.
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by bialpio 4y ago
Or a different definition of living paycheck to paycheck (as others commented, if one is out of money at the end of the month but one's net worth increased, I don't think that'd meet the definition).
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by bialpio 4y ago
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here and put out an opinion that having children is a choice (hopefully), and so living paycheck-to-paycheck also seem to be a choice in this case. It may boil down to defining what choice me
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by bialpio 4y ago
> Note that in all the pictures the receiver seems to be on a tower or at least above the emitter. No doubt this is a safety consideration My understanding of the article is that the system has a safety mechanism built into it that cuts
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by bialpio 4y ago
At this point you might as well just put cables in the hole that you had to dig up, right?
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by bialpio 4y ago
> Some people lie on their resumés. My point isn't that I want to only chat about my resume - just that the problem you give me should be something I may encounter in the new job, ergo I do not need to prepare for that since my enti
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by bialpio 4y ago
This argument can be used to justify forcing candidates to learn how to do double-entry bookkeeping (or insert other skill that you won't use on the job) just to see if they can learn. Yes, it checks if they can learn, yes, it is somew
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by bialpio 4y ago
I don't remember this was how putting an offer for a house worked. The seller is collecting a bunch of offers and picks the one they like the most. The offers can include escalation clause, but it's still more of a closed auction
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by bialpio 4y ago
To expand on that: it's on state, county, and city level - I believe all those jurisdictions can introduce a sales tax.
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by bialpio 4y ago
Keep reading the wiki article for proof that the concern is not CA-specific. "On April 24, 2002, the Swedish National Food Administration announced that acrylamide can be found in baked and fried starchy foods, such as potato chips, br
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by bialpio 4y ago
> So a bag of potato chips should come with a Safety Data Sheet? Or a QR code w/ link to SDS for those who care. > Maybe a big red tag attached to persimmons in the produce department warning you they can cause bezoars? Great ide
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by bialpio 4y ago
But then aren't you at a disadvantage when you display such a warning and your competitor doesn't? Reminds me of https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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by bialpio 4y ago
But at what level of increased cancer risk do you draw the line? 2x higher risk? 5 / 100 000 higher incidence? Whatever you pick, it won't be the risk level that is acceptable to everyone (as the pandemic shows, people have differ
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by bialpio 4y ago
I'm not sure if I understand what the problem is here. Would you rather not have this information available? It allows you to look up the info about the chemical and decide for yourself if you're ok with it.
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by bialpio 4y ago
As someone already mentioned here, there may be some immigration-related requirements that can be satisfied by this degree? E.g. when immigrating into US, the lawyers had to check for degree equivalency between my 3-year bachelor's deg
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by bialpio 4y ago
I think it can be both entertaining and informative, but it definitely feels like they try too hard to be funny at times. Do you have an example where the information they stated in the show was factually incorrect about PFAS?
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by bialpio 4y ago
Not sure if you'll consider this a more scientific source, but John Oliver also did a piece about PFAS: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU . The list of issues that the wiki article claims are "high certaint
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by bialpio 5y ago
This blew my mind: "Related terms ⋛ (synonymous when used on its own, but antonymous when used jointly)"
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by bialpio 5y ago
This was a topic at CppCon'19 (seems like exactly the same use case as you are describing: teaching!). Take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N4b-rU-OAA . I think it relies on the LLVM fork, so not sure how wel
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by bialpio 5y ago
L-1 can be extended a couple of times (up to 7 years total I think?), so "soon" is relative (especially given that it gives you a couple tries at the H-1B, but only if you can hold on to the job). I think my main point still stand
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by bialpio 5y ago
(this also assumes that the person is on H-1B and not on L-1, which cannot be transferred)
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by bialpio 5y ago
It does not necessarily need to be something that companies actively do, it's also that the process is set up that way. For example, I know I was not actively seeking other opportunities until I got my green card. IIRC, even transferri
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by bialpio 5y ago
IIRC the transfer can affect the green card process depending on the stage you are at. IANAL, check with your immigration attorney.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Same - I've always had contract (but the sample size is quite small). The problem is that even if you have "full remote" in your contract, you also probably have "at will" in the same contract, which IMO means they

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