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by cdirkx 5y ago
The code shown in the article isn't Rust, but Rune [0], which has similar syntax, but is a dynamic scripting language. It has template literals [1]. [0] https://rune-rs.github.io/ [1] https://rune-rs.github.
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by cdirkx 5y ago
The parent probably meant that Amazons market share is much higher in the US than in the EU [1], meaning that in the EU there is thus more competition. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1183515/amazon-market-
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by cdirkx 5y ago
I remember a similar thing as Boris Johnson was about to become prime minister [1] > As Boris Johnson described his hobby of making model buses out of wine crates and painting happy passengers at the windows, it looked like an off-the-cu
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Unlisted means (I believe) that a video won't show up in search or in a feed or on the creators page. You can only watch the video if you have a direct link.
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by cdirkx 5y ago
> the messaging application, not being able to observe that the user is still interacting with their device, may assume that they have left to grab a coffee and start delivering notifications to their phone, causing it to buzz distractin
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by cdirkx 5y ago
But you (generally) don't recursively put your physical folder inside another folder.
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Everything is okay in moderation, it's just that moderating yourself requires some discipline and some of the uses of the internet are actively trying to get you addicted. One "solution" is thus to just never interact with ce
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by cdirkx 5y ago
With Noita another narrative aspect of the game is the extremely hidden lore and extra game mechanics. They are never explained and the developers encouraged players to work together to figure it out. I believe they even encouraged datamini
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Of topic, but reading the headline and the intro about Alvy Ray Smith I was half convinced this was going to be a satirical article about how he invented raytracing and that it is actually named after him; in similar vein as the “Running w
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Maybe they are not exactly fired (not familiar with Switzerland myself) but I know of constructions of keeping people (mostly women) constantly on 3-month temporary contracts. Those contracts then don't get renewed if someone is pregna
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by cdirkx 5y ago
I think how it works is not exactly that the UK can force the sale, but they can deny Facebook access to the UK market if they don't follow the rules set out by regulators. It is up to Facebook to decide whether that is worth it, simil
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by cdirkx 5y ago
A new implementation could choose to not add those older features, but there will always be some websites that still rely on them. Who is going to use a website that isn't able to display the sites they want?
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Isn't this something that could be done automatically by rustfix?
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by cdirkx 5y ago
But are those ideas winning because people are rationally chosing to believe in them in the marketplace of ideas, or just that we grew up with them and the people with contrary beliefs are dying out. There is a saying that "science adv
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Curious that there are two replies here calling it a three ring binder explicitly, while if I think about it I have only seen them with two or four rings. According to the wiki article: "A few years later three-ring binders became th
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by cdirkx 5y ago
People communicate outside of work; a heart to a loved one, my dad using a car emoji in the family group chat to indicate he is driving home from work, a thumbs-up when someone in a friend group suggest going to a movie
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by cdirkx 5y ago
One problem is that the uncertainty around hackers can lead to a toxic accusatory culture. I have seen multiple games where the high level (but below pro) gets bogged down in accusations of hacking; is someone genuinly more skilled or using
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by cdirkx 5y ago
It doesn't matter if something is true or scientifically proven, if that is what policymakers/interest groups/lobbyist believe and act on. In an ideal world everyones belief would be rationally motivated, and be able to chang
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Being part of a bigger Rust project? The GUI is just one component after all.
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by cdirkx 5y ago
But are the trees this article is talking about are not planted by rich people personally? If you live in a poor neighbourhood you can't just "invest" a public park into existance.
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by cdirkx 5y ago
That is if you equate viewership with revenue, but most Twitch streamers I have heard talking about this is that the income from advertisements (scales with viewership) is lower than income from subscribers/donations (also scales with
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by cdirkx 5y ago
There are different levels of personalization. I won't be okay with something based on my search/purchasing/location history, psychological profile, personal details etc. But I would be okay with something targeted at my age,
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by cdirkx 5y ago
It is sometimes explicitly used by the government to bring down sites: see the "Great Cannon of China"[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Not really multiple brains, but there are animals that dont have all control centrilized in their head, instead more distributed throughout their body with local controlling "nerve clusters": Insects have "ganglia" and I
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by cdirkx 5y ago
It does? At least in group chats I have hundreds of people not in my contact list but they display as "0123456789 ~Steven".
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by cdirkx 5y ago
There have been multiple instances of games being anounced to release on Steam/others and then some time later Epic signed an exclusive contract with them. This even happens with crowdfunded indie games [1] or games that had already st
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by cdirkx 5y ago
My new SAAS startup idea; scapegoat as a service. For a few million dollars you can hire me, put all the blame on me, I say "I take full responsibility" and resign my position.
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Yeah it's mostly a reference to Y2K and Y2038 [1], using representations that seem clever and work now, but will lead to bugs in the future because nobody thinks their software will be around for that long. [1] https://en.wi
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by cdirkx 5y ago
The obvious solution is to encode it like this: `null` is `null, `yes` is the timestamp when it was set and `false` is a timestamp somewhere in the future. Now t < now() maps nicely to the value of your boolean. You just have to pick you
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by cdirkx 6y ago
Why would the amount of software engineers that can touch type be down?

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