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by chinesempire 6y ago
> By enslaving other countries for half of the century? United States involvement in regime change in Latin America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r... United States foreign policy in th
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by chinesempire 6y ago
So you are taking responsibility for your country's wrongdoings? I am from Rome, a place with quite the history, it's not that bad either. Hironically the best Major that my city remembers (regardless of the political ideology) i
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by chinesempire 6y ago
+1 for Vault, where I work we are in the process of switching to it. Automatic password rotation for AD credentials[1] is especially useful to us. Meanwhile we use the project level variables Gitlab API[2] Secrets are kept in Gitlab and req
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by chinesempire 6y ago
The leader of the largest police union talking about his own country can be classified as nationalistic flamewar? Can you explain how? Also: I have a Dutch grand-grandmother (hence an half Dutch grandmother and a quarter Dutch mother). No
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I do, also the median is highly skewed in US Those salaries are also in line with the average salary. Which is very very good in US, compared to the rest of the World. For comparison, in Italy a policeman earns on average 60% of the lowest
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> Microsoft is now a OpenJDK contributor so what? MS also ships a complete Linux distro now. > Java has had several talks at Build and has parity with .NET on Azure SDKs, Office doesn't dictate all business lines. And Linux is th
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I guess our orange friends don't like when you tell them their country is basically a tax heaven for organized crime ... "We definitely have the characteristics of a narco-state," confides Jan Struijs, chairman of the bigge
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by chinesempire 6y ago
that's a kid schedule where I come from, they love their snacks, but hate having "grown ups" meal schedules. I'm saying it without any kind of judgement.
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> This came from here. Holland spreading the lazy southerners myth, again. Really? Again?!?! Should we talk about Holland laundering crime money then? https://nltimes.nl/2019/11/13/money-launderers-annually
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Italian here, from Rome. Those "weird" Spanish Schedules are my schedules. I rarely have breakfast before 9:30, I rarely have lunch before 14:00 and dinner before 20:30. Except for breakfast (I am not a morning person, never been)
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> Rust is now an official UWP / WinUI binding, part of Project Reunion, core Windows platform That's good to know! It appears Microsoft can be both bad and good. > Office will eventually make use of it. I have to see it befo
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by chinesempire 6y ago
It's called a discussion. You're not even aknowledging the fact that there could be different opinions on the matter, if I was you I wouldn't play the card "you're dismissing evidence". You work on Rust, that&#
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> what other information would you need to have to convince you that Rust was the differentiating factor? The fact that Chrome is doing just fine without it? > t seems like you just don't want to admit that Rust was the key to th
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> There is a branch in the repository right now trying it out. Rust is also used in ChromeOS. ChromeOS is a dead product. > Mozilla is not the largest Rust user Who is then? > Governance is consensus-based, and anyone is eligible t
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by chinesempire 6y ago
That's a very short time span in human years. Anyway I wasn't implying anything bad, just that you worked for years at Mozilla on Rust and it's like asking Anders Hejlsberg if C# enabled Microsoft to do things that have faile
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Not core. There will never be Rust in Chrome or in Office. Mozilla controls Rust because it's the largest Rust user. Just like Google controls Go, even though it's opensource. You said it yourself "the only real way to get a
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> If you watch the talk I linked below I've watched it several times over the past 2 years And I've read the posts about writing and HTML engine in Rust when they first came out in 2014 https://limpet.net/mbrube
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by chinesempire 6y ago
the posts linked in the beginning of the thread talk about 51 memory safety bugs over the course of many years, from 2002 to 2018. Stylo has been the default CSS parser starting from the beginning of 2018. It's good that Rust could hav
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> And that if I just took off my rose-tinted glasses, I'd realize my Rust code is buggy, unsafe, slow, and hard to maintain I didn't get the impression. I understood that Firefox talks about their success in rewriting in Rust b
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> The Rust re-write was the third attempt; the first two were in C++ and failed. AFAIK most of Firefox is still written in C++, JavaScript and C [1] The JavaScript interpreter, which is particularly important to users perceived speed, is
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by chinesempire 6y ago
shrimps are way more costly than pasta And even eating shrimps 3 times a week, with 5,000$ of shrimps a family of 4 could eat shrimps for a year.
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I think the only ones assuming here are those who assume that he underestimated the number of people with comorbidity. I believe you are underestimating how bad US society is in regards to healthcare and how much they overestimate some cond
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> the vast majority of US citizens have at least one comorbidity (obesity, diabetes, heart trouble, smoking, asthma, etc.) If that's true (and I don't think it is) that's a serious problem. BTW smoking is not a comorbidity
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> and you don't keep getting interrupted because some kids out of 30 in your classroom are being disruptive. and you will grow up unprepared to real life facts, such as people interrupting.
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> 'Happy' is a baseline for existence Unfortunately it is not. It's one of the most common goals in life, but it's not so widespread as one might think. Many live non-happy lives, still exist and still try to make the
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Can you really prove that a houseplant is happy or that "we" can make them happy? That would be interesting.
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Palermo is closer to Rome than Stockholm and it's in the same country, but it's more similar to Cairo than Stockholm.
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by chinesempire 6y ago
There aren't many definition of a Country. The Vatican is not in fact a country, but a city state (or a sovereign microstate) and it is an exception, not the norm. It is anyway an independent state with sovereignty, it signs treatise w
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by chinesempire 7y ago
The difference being? Nuclear power plants aren't special in being a threat to human safety if they malfunction, that's what I got from the comment.
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by chinesempire 7y ago
Russia spans 11 timezones USA spans 6 timezones (as many as the entire African continent) China spans 5 timezones Europe spans "only" 3 timezones (as many as Australia) But if you say "it happened on French territory" it

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