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by cies 10mo ago
Let's not forget that since Snowden we know former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was spied on by the NSA. German govt has been a bit embarrassed by this.
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by cies 10mo ago
Completely agree. But that's more of a general matter than this specific matter. Judges is the best we have. US has juries, not sure if that makes it better. More importantly we need to criminalize lobbying in order to get control back
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by cies 10mo ago
Amen to that (will never happen though).
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by cies 10mo ago
Oracle is in the business of bullying others using their big legal dept. We all know this. > Oracle has no business claiming javascript as a trademark. You think so. That's okay. But ultimately it is up to a judge to decide. Right?
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by cies 10mo ago
I use Supabase Storage. It does S3-style signed download links (so I can switch to any S3 service if I like later).
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by cies 10mo ago
I like Zig and I like their approach in this case. From the article: std.Io.Threaded - based on a thread pool. -fno-single-threaded - supports concurrency and cancellation. -fsingle-threaded - does not support concurrency
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by cies 11mo ago
Are the collaborations possible/foreseeable?
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by cies 11mo ago
etc. etc. responsibility. may also be lacking in therapist. is certainly lacking in LLM
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by cies 11mo ago
Semantics sure. But adult mode starts most likely at 13. Early 30s is mid-life mode. Why? Because time and time again research shows we should treat people 13 and up as adults. Even when they get some extra years of youth-judgement in court
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by cies 11mo ago
yes please
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by cies 11mo ago
When I look at it as a private person I think of income as the my personal revenue: from there I have lots of costs and tax to pay. What I end up with is disposable income which I can keep/invest.
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by cies 11mo ago
https://archive.is/EdxHn interesting read.
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by cies 11mo ago
I stumbled over this sentence in the same way. And drew the same conclusion: the author uses "income" to mean "profit"
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by cies 11mo ago
That's a lot of goodies in a new release! It seems it is outpacing the JVM's development...
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by cies 11mo ago
I really like F# (as I like OCaml, Elm and Haskell); but I'm always afraid MS will kill it one day. It helps that now most (if not all) parts of the stack are open source and run on Linux.
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by cies 11mo ago
Or GraphQL. Still one lang on both ends is nice: there are some bits of code you want to run on both ends (like templating for SSR/SEO/caching; but also using them in the browser).
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by cies 11mo ago
What if the daylight saving's "extra hour" (that occurs in most of Europe between 02:00 and 03:00 (that is AM) in the night from Saturday to Sunday is important to the business you are making an application for? How to make s
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by cies 11mo ago
> Developers writing low-level code lose the explicitness they need for review, while those writing high-level programs don't actually gain the level of abstraction required for a smooth program evolution that they need. I've d
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by cies 11mo ago
I like the word farmer to be replaced. It usually means EITHER land cultivator OR animal exploiter. My choice of word maybe gives away that I'm not so okay with the latter category. While I think the first category is doing God's
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by cies 11mo ago
This looks like an open source alternative to Mathematica/MathLab/Maple running in the browser. Please correct me if I'm off... As there's no project description that I quickly found, I came to this conclusion myself.
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by cies 11mo ago
Only it is not considered by the type checker. Result brings errors into the realm of properly typed code that you can reason about. Checked exceptions are a bad idea that did not work out (makes writing functional code tedious, messes with
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by cies 1y ago
Most welcome. :)
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by cies 1y ago
> if you provide something, even for free, you should expect people will rely on it and you shouldn't pull the plug overnight if you can help it Do you know their reasons for discontinuing? Are you even entitled to know that? It&#x2
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by cies 1y ago
Did you read the comments on Github (linked by the title)? So many commenters are just plain rude. They got free value for along time. Someone giving the free value decides to allocate their time otherwise. And the long-time receivers of th
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by cies 1y ago
US and France are marked as "Flawed democracy" (nr. 28 and 26 respectively). Enjoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
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by cies 1y ago
we need a system that's based on paper. the machine can be digital, but, for instance, the vote needs to be written on a "roll of cash register paper". The voter needs to be able to see their vote on the paper. Reading the ro
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by cies 1y ago
And newsgroup-based file sharing.
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by cies 1y ago
There are a lot of new use cases for VCSes with AI around.
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by cies 1y ago
I'd say "more than".
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by cies 1y ago
Dunno. Wrote a lot of both. Happy with Kotlin. Grateful Java is being maintained well... My last team wanted to port all remaining Java code to Kotlin, because they just enjoyed working with it so much more. While porting I've regularl

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