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> for loop The language matters a lot here too: > For instance, map and filter typically involve pure functions, which are easier to reason about, and they avoid an entire class of off-by-one iterator bugs. That's not how "f
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That they are fragile is also the reason they don't end up as microplastics in our food and water. So yea, negative in some ways but also massively positive in others.
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> Paper bags aren't ideal, either, says Lakhan. They're less durable than a single-use plastic bag, and when they break down in the environment, they release carbon and methane into the atmosphere. > "So unless we have
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> when he described ZFS as a rampant layering violation I read some blog posts back in the day about why they did this and it sounded a lot like those layers were more historical accidents or something. You can turn it around and say tha
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The problem with the Patriot Act was mass surveillance of people who didn't need to be surveilled. In this situation we are talking about a group of people with support for genocide in the double digit percentages.
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Well... yea. A db is nice and all, but if you can't predictably host it somewhere where you can finely control the latency, you're gonna suffer.
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That's a bit vague isn't it? Certainly that does not mean putting something guaranteed even in the same data center, let alone the same rack.
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> For-profit institutions will almost always act in the interest of profit for the people who have an ownership stake and a claim to the [profit] stream. But they won't. This statement is a declaration of faith/religion, not a
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Can you control where your application runs so that you don't have a ton of latency between this thing and the app? Seems to me like that could destroy a lot of the supposed gains...
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Isn't that just Ubuntu?
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> This is quite simple and history bears it out: you can't rely on a for-profit corporation to operate in any other manner than optimizing shareholder value. You can't even do that honestly. Look at Boeing. It got taken over by
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I believe Discord servers can disable "threads", which maybe what you've seen. If you right click on a message you can choose "create thread" and it will do this thing (which I personally hate). You can do this on t
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> By default, on versions of Mattermost in the last year, these are visually separated from the channel, almost like a sub-channel that you can reply in. In the web app, the thread is off to the side of the main channel. Oh dear. It soun
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From what I remember then it works exactly like if you pressed reply to the last message and sent it.
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The top level icon misalignment is super small and looks like a mistake. The counts for the message list also renders partially renders outside the row for each message for me. So that's a bit of a fail.
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Hmm, I don't remember it like that. Isn't that exactly how Discord and Slack does it?
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Yea. The reply feature in Discord is way better and their introduction of "threads" makes everything worse.
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We ran Mattermost at a previous job and it was the best tool I've used for corporate use. It had an extremely useful feature where you could put a flag on a message and that flag was shared for everyone. We used it to keep track of whi
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No one mentioned the US before you did.
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Sweden is also on the verge of eradicating this disease. How many deaths you ask? Zero of course. You're very confused about the statistics here.
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But there is nothing important or useful in all that Java garbage. You could write entire programs without classes! That's the class, the static, AND the final keywords. You can't really escape String[], which imo is fine. It&#x27
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Exactly the point yes.
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> If you can't have other top-level functions in Java, then it's a special case, which is ugly. I assumed this meant that you could have free functions, but you're saying you can ONLY have `main` as a free function? Ok, th
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It ADDS complexity that doesn't actually exist. There's no "class" in the C entrypoint of a program. That's just nonsense.
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That's just Stockholm Syndrome. Think about it: what more crazy garbage could you add that is useless for the beginner but "will make sense later"? The answer is: infinitely much. You could have to write each character in str
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This works by contracting the iris? Won't that by definition mean less light comes in, causing people who do this to need more light to read?
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When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow(kennethreitz.org)
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I think the implementation details matter a ton here. I bet you can make this thing work and be useful, but you can also follow this blindly and have just an absolute mess. I worked at a place where a well meaning QA tech rewrote the test s
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No. It's way too late to just go back to being cavemen. We have to take much more drastic measures.
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> But at what cost? Most of this improvement is driven exactly by cost reductions. In other words: the CO2 emissions are falling BECAUSE solar is cheap. Lowering CO2 is the thing that SAVES money.

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