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by creato 7mo ago
Of course. The point is whether you interpret a call to arbitrary_precision_add or compile the call doesn't matter much.
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by creato 8mo ago
> I don't protest to signal my moral outrage, I do it to effect change in my elected leaders. How'd that work out for you?
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by creato 8mo ago
If you actually believe this, then what is your explanation for a manufacturer to do this? Do you think they are just stupid?
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by creato 8mo ago
Is there a lower risk, lower interest option with the same capabilities (ability to use the money to pay others)? Genuine question, I have no idea, but I didn't choose my bank based on interest rate. I can't pay bills or transfer
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by creato 8mo ago
In most such countries there is also an entrance exam requirement that would exclude most student loan borrowers in the US.
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by creato 8mo ago
> Even if a law is wrong, it isn’t right to allow particular corporations to flaunt it in a way that individuals would go to prison for. No one goes to prison for this. They might get sued, but even that is doubtful.
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by creato 8mo ago
> It's not at all obvious that this is what happens. To begin with, do you regard the average phone thief as someone who even knows what expected value is? They know if their fence went from offering them $20/phone to offering
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by creato 8mo ago
It reduces the expected value of stealing a phone, which reduces the demand for stolen phones.
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by creato 9mo ago
The point is, robots.txt was definitely a thing that people expected to be respected before and during google's early existence. This Kagi claim seems to be at least partially false: > Google built its index by crawling the open web
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by creato 9mo ago
robots.txt was being enforced in court before google even existed, let alone before google got so huge: > The robots.txt played a role in the 1999 legal case of eBay v. Bidder's Edge,[12] where eBay attempted to block a bot that d
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by creato 9mo ago
This ignores capital and opportunity cost. Building a GPU data center or chemical plant costs a lot. If you only use it 20% of the time, you're effectively paying 5x more for that capital equipment.
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by creato 9mo ago
In the 80s, the US was 80% white, and upper management is going to be people from the 1930s-40s, when the US was 90% white.
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by creato 9mo ago
Have you seen what the president of the US posts about renewable energy?
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by creato 9mo ago
I don't know if they do this, but those conventions could be enforced by a tool.
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by creato 9mo ago
Maybe he just likes building things that others find useful. When I was younger I rented furniture from a company called CORT. I happened to notice on the contract or receipt or something, that it was a Berkshire company (I didn't know
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by creato 9mo ago
That number seems very unlikely to be accurate. It's more than 2x larger than all local, state, and federal government spending in 2025 combined.
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by creato 9mo ago
Does that setting actually matter? When I lived in the area that had these, I always forgot to set it when the number of passengers in my car changed. I never saw any difference. The charge is the same.
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by creato 10mo ago
The one time I saw traffic lights go down, it was total chaos. There were two separate crashes that had already happened when I got there, and there would probably be >1 wreck per few minutes with the driving I observed.
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by creato 10mo ago
Past innovation did though.
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by creato 10mo ago
The fatal mistake I see people repeatedly making is that it isn't about the system or checks and balances or whatever. It's about the people. The US had a deep bench of mostly reasonable leaders that mostly respected ideas like ch
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by creato 10mo ago
You're right, the thing I linked to do does exactly that. I should have read it more closely. The projects that I've worked on, unconditionally define it as a thing that crashes (e.g. `std::abort` with a message). They don't
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by creato 10mo ago
This is actually C and C++ has not done something similar AFAIK.
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by creato 10mo ago
The "standard" (typically defined in projects I'm familiar with, and as of C23, an actual standard) is "unreachable": https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/unreachable.html
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by creato 10mo ago
This isn't necessarily a problem if you don't consider the output to be "source" code. Assembly is also garbage spaghetti code but that doesn't stop you from using a compiler does it?
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by creato 10mo ago
This might be a reasonable summary of the situation but I suspect it's vastly oversimplified. The trajectory of these businesses depends on more than who's name is at the top of the org chart. TI pivoting away from semiconductor
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by creato 10mo ago
> Populist rent control is an excellent motivator to get counter-parties to the table to discuss productive alternatives in a market where no outside pressure currently exists. This makes no sense, the battle is ultimately between renter
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by creato 10mo ago
The scarcity in Europe (at least the two countries I'm familiar with) comes from a standardized test. If you don't do well on the test, you don't go to college.
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by creato 10mo ago
> One commenter justifies it by saying “if I’m fucking up, it’s ok to speak to me this way”. Sure guy, we believe you. Did you read the issue at hand? This is not average people making "mistakes". This is severe incompetence at
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by creato 10mo ago
Yeah, calling the authors of this code losers and monkeys is being kind. There is zero excuse for ever writing code like this, the incompetence is staggering.
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by creato 11mo ago
> How can you possibly know who's good and who's not? Think of the information they have at hand - what the chain of command tells them. What if the chain of command itself is the problem? Think about how you yourself could pro

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