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by conradev 3y ago
This problem hasn’t been solved yet, but I think it is solvable. I’ve been writing a lot of cross-platform Rust and think these would help a lot: - Add an NSURLSession backend to reqwest. The abstractions match well, and Obective-C interop
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by conradev 3y ago
You mentioned Framework: I hope they make a phone in 3-4 years. They made an excellent repairable/upgradeable laptop and I’m sure they’d build a great phone
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Both civilians and the military already use drones a good amount. Is there anything specific to the military here besides just a better drone?
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> We have to trust Apple tells the truth, because we have no access to Apple's servers and databases and because its software is closed source. There is no way to confirm this statement. Yes. You do have to trust Apple to tell the t
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by conradev 3y ago
The US government currently pays farmers to grow some corn for fuel, as well. One fun factor is that corn is drought sensitive (esp during certain stages of growth) and only about a fifth of our corn is irrigated or something like that. As
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by conradev 3y ago
Texas and Massachusetts have markets where you can choose your own retail electricity provider. The REP is responsible for purchasing/providing the power. Both systems sit on top of regulated monopolies who own the underlying wires, th
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Zig is writing custom backends in addition to their LLVM backend
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Generated columns (i.e. some_json->>'id') can have constraints just fine, maintaining whatever integrity you want
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by conradev 3y ago
It’s a valid question! There are people advocating for “public banking”: https://publicbankinginstitute.org/ and credit unions also exist, which are nonprofits
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My uncle is also in prison and I also don't like these types of articles. I much prefer writing from prisoners themselves: https://prisonjournalismproject.org/category/perspective/
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Someone is working on it: https://www.fastcompany.com/90713785/former-spacex-engineers...
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by conradev 3y ago
from the article: > While a premium VR headset built over iOS apps is a step in the right direction, we worry it could seriously hinder the device's ability to serve as a true laptop replacement. This is because the iPhone/iPad
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by conradev 3y ago
The critique is that iPads are less effective for serious work than Macs. Apple continually markets the iPad as a capable everything device, when it is less capable than a Mac, even though the iPad Pro shares the same SoC. Every professiona
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by conradev 3y ago
> There is a potential, latent within language models and hybrid systems – indeed, within almost the entire menagerie of machine learning methods – to create a unified computational model for a universally useful platform. This potential
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by conradev 3y ago
> Most fields have lots of rules, theories, ideas, and hunches. But laws – things that are unimpeachable and cannot ever change – are extremely rare. This sounds like a rehash of Popperian epistemology. We should look forward to disprovi
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by conradev 3y ago
> They killed more Indians (than the 6 million Nazi figures) in WW2 period alone Did they?
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by conradev 3y ago
It’s a lot of renewables: > The top 25 corporate solar users in 2022 include: > Meta > Amazon > Apple > Walmart > Microsoft https://www.seia.org/news/solarmeansbusiness2022 Just as one data point
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by conradev 3y ago
I feel like it is much, much simpler than that Reddit makes money off of ads, and Apollo doesn’t show ads. The same was the case for Twitter and Tweetbot. In some ways, Christian is directly capturing revenue that Reddit otherwise would. I
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by conradev 3y ago
> But the government tells the individual that they can't have a plastic straw or bag Policies exist to improve the situation, they just need to be fought for (against the bottling companies): > According to the Container Recycli
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I had forgotten about LLD, you are right, but also, they’re from the same author! :P
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The problem is not Apple-specific and their solution could be useful elsewhere. The specific optimization this achieves is during build time only: these new files are static libraries that are quicker to link. It is a small shift of some of
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by conradev 3y ago
The Three-Body Problem science fiction series involves gravitational waves. I’m not going to spoil it, but the series is a great read :) Not quite possible today, though, as others have pointed out
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by conradev 3y ago
Swift 5.9 dropped at WWDC, and with it came with noncopyable value types: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals... as well as a way to explicitly move types: https://git
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by conradev 3y ago
Absolutely! I didn’t pass a judgement on those companies, just pointing out that you need some form of demand (greenwashers) in order to have any supply (CDR companies) because it’s the classic two-sided marketplace chicken-and-egg bootstra
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Is your critique of the current system or the idea in general? Would you feel the same way if the voluntary markets became less voluntary with a true carbon tax? The companies on that list capture carbon dioxide from the air as a service fo
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> will build nukes anyway for this purpose, at which point the renewables will have been a waste of money and time Solar, wind, hydro, fission and fusion are all different, with different strengths and weaknesses. Building capacity for o
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and, if you have a compelling reason, you can convince other CAs to cross-sign your certificate, like LetsEncrypt did: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediate... Browsers control what the
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> If the mechanical timer ever broke the repairperson would have replacements in their van > That digital timer has no advantage to the user over a mechanical timer. But it has disadvantages. The mechanical timer is known to degrade o
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These things can be true simultaneously. The Rust team can have extremely strong technical leadership and direction while also being incredibly immature when it comes to conflict resolution. Conflict resolution is hard! I struggle with it a
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by conradev 3y ago
Rust also works quite well from Swift, in the same way The key to a nice developer experience is making the build from source flow as easy/integrated as possible I use a build script in Xcode to build a Rust static library automaticall

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