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by dbdr 6mo ago
Having an electoral mandate is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. If you don't follow your own laws and your own constitution, for instance, you're not a in a democracy, even if you have been elected. Precisely because y
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by dbdr 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing this little hidden gem!
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by dbdr 6mo ago
Ref counting is deterministic. Rust memory management is also deterministic: the memory is freed exactly when the owner of the data gets out of scope (and the borrow checker guarantees at compile time there is no use after that).
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by dbdr 6mo ago
It will depend on each case and what makes the marketed solution inferior. If it's overly complex and you will save development time. If it's unstable you'll save debugging time. If it's bloated you will save on hardware
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by dbdr 6mo ago
If 90% of the code I run is in safe rust (including the part that's new and written by me, therefore most likely to introduce bugs) and 10% is in C or unsafe rust, are you saying that has no value? Il meglio è l'inimico del bene.
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by dbdr 6mo ago
But that also means that if you as a user/customer can make choices based on technical merits, you'll have a significant advantage.
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by dbdr 6mo ago
> I submitted several bug fixes and refactoring, notably using smart pointers, but they were rejected for fear of breaking something. And that, my friends, is why you want a memory safe language with as many static guarantees as possible
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by dbdr 6mo ago
> Do you prefer that we not even try to spread beyond our one planet, when an entire galaxy, or maybe even the neighboring ones, might be in reach if we try? What if someday at the very end of the lifetime of our sun and similar stars, w
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by dbdr 6mo ago
For one thing, stablecoin issuers hold more than $100B of US treasury bills, on the same level as some major countries. For better or worse, the old and new systems are interconnected now. https://www.brookings.edu/articles&
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by dbdr 6mo ago
Yes, the argument is that the entity providing the insurance is surely earning more income that they are paying out since in addition to payouts, they also have overhead costs and must be profitable. Said another way, their customers are pa
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by dbdr 6mo ago
What "endless crap that is just not that useful" has been added to Rust in your opinion?
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by dbdr 6mo ago
Why would you worry about it if you can afford to replace it? If you say you worry about the cost, shouldn't you worry even more about the higher cost of the insurance? Sure, for one item the variance is higher if you are uninsured, bu
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by dbdr 7mo ago
Building a tech and falsely advertising it to be something else that what it is (e.g. self driving instead of driving assistance) can typically done by different people. Lacking specific evidence, it's reckless to accuse this person.
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by dbdr 7mo ago
> It was a challenge to write routines that would keep the computer tolerably in tune, since the Mark II could only approximate the true pitch of many notes: for instance the true pitch of G3 is 196 Hertz but the closest frequency that t
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by dbdr 7mo ago
Thanks, I did not know! On Firefox/Linux, it's Alt and dragging the mouse through the part of the text you want.
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by dbdr 7mo ago
If it "only" speeds up DOM access, that's massive in itself. DOM is obviously a crucial element when running inside a browser.
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by dbdr 7mo ago
You're probably right. It would be helpful to say what the reason is, if it's not patents.
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by dbdr 7mo ago
On Firefox/Linux, after allowing mic access, I get a "Failed to access microphone" above the button, and in the javascript console: [ws] Microphone error: DOMException: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNo
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by dbdr 7mo ago
This law feels like a battle in The Coming War on General Computation, as Cory Doctorow put it: > I can see that there will be programs that run on general purpose computers and peripherals that will even freak me out. So I can believe t
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by dbdr 7mo ago
CSV can handle commas in fields just fine (quotes are required in that case). The root problem here is not the format, it's a bug in the CSV exporter used. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229064
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by dbdr 7mo ago
Based on this resource, it seems there's very extensive testing of banking apps on grapheneOS, and the large majority works. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
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by dbdr 7mo ago
> Linux's default security mechanisms are simply too weak for something as potentially hostile as a mobile device. Honest question: why are mobile devices more hostile than laptops/desktops?
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by dbdr 7mo ago
> Alacritty I like but the lack of tabs is not acceptable for the moment... and before you ask: I hate tmux. Another option is to leave the tabbing to your window manager.
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by dbdr 8mo ago
Which UX improvements in particular?
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by dbdr 8mo ago
The harm from social media is at least in part caused by the feed suggestion algorithm being optimized for screen time (aka addiction). Potentially open social media where the suggestion algorithm is not that could be a big improvement.
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by dbdr 8mo ago
Yes, but I believe that results in a cost/benefit analysis. If there are readily available rust crates that do something you need, and the cost of a possible vulnerability is not huge, most projects might decide (right or wrong) that i
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by dbdr 8mo ago
One difference is that it's an incredibly hard problem to check whether your C code is memory safe since every single line of your code is a risk. On the other hand, it's easy to at least assess where your supply vulnerabilities l
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by dbdr 8mo ago
Ironically, the phrase that was a bad 2006 google query is a decent enough LLM prompt, and the good 2006 google query (keywords only) would be a bad LLM prompt.
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by dbdr 8mo ago
> Some aminoacids and compounds are only present in meat. Which ones specifically? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid All of those can be found in plants.
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by dbdr 8mo ago
Apart from eating less beef, every single suggestion in the post your are responding to is about infrastructure and advocacy, not individual habits.

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