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by defen 1y ago
I've done consulting work for a company with an open job req (it's been open for over 6 months) for a senior embedded engineer in a high cost of living area, offering 140k and no equity. In the meantime they've been paying me
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by defen 1y ago
> possibly because the industry took the path he was advocating against back in the day What path did he advocate? And what path did the industry take instead?
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by defen 1y ago
> Do Americans know what stoke on Trent looks like American here. Literally the only thing I know about Stoke on Trent is that Messi would struggle there during a cold rainy night.
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by defen 1y ago
https://x.com/SiaKordestani/status/1785397163662745610 Private actors were preventing people from entering a public part of campus unless they signaled their "anti-Israel" bonafides. The school allowed t
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by defen 1y ago
The unused variables thing seems like it's downstream of "no warnings, only errors". That is, once you're committed to errors-only, then unused variables are either an error, or not. And if those are your only two choice
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by defen 1y ago
Wonderful quote. Feels like it could have come straight out of a Pynchon novel.
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by defen 1y ago
> not a cold one. Why not a nice cold Heineken?
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by defen 1y ago
Question for 'dang - is it possible to dig up the oldest post on this website that links to somewhere on "unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com" and has some amount of comments? It would be interesting to see how people were
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by defen 1y ago
Compare to the wreck of the HMS Wager in 1741, where some of the crew broke into the spirit room, got drunk, and drowned when the ship went down.
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by defen 1y ago
That doesn't actually solve the problem, it simply moves the debate into what constitutes innocence and hurting.
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by defen 1y ago
What did you replace Docker with?
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by defen 1y ago
How much Latin American representation would you say there was in the US colonies and United States before 1950?
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by defen 1y ago
Sure, but the Spanish colonization had virtually no impact on the ethnic, political, or religious development of the United States other than some water and land rights in the Southwest.
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by defen 1y ago
What do you mean reinstate? The country was founded by the descendants of people who for the most part hated Catholicism.
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by defen 1y ago
In safe build modes (ReleaseSafe or Debug) it's an immediate panic, equivalent to calling `.unwrap()` on a None in Rust. In unsafe build modes it's undefined behavior.
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by defen 1y ago
Additional hilarity provided by their name being one letter different from the latinisation of a Soviet spy agency / Bond supervillain organization.
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by defen 2y ago
Does it matter if they did or didn't? Universities have indisputably lost the mandate of heaven, have they not? Arguing over whether they actually did any of those things is irrelevant, if a politically powerful group of people think t
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by defen 2y ago
> Transhumanism is the belief that we can and should do things to make our bodies work better. Full stop. Instead of a benign example like eyeglasses, let's say I murder someone so that I can harvest his organs and replace my failin
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by defen 2y ago
Dogs are not people, they do not have human rights, and the vast majority of dog breeds were created in the past few hundreds years via selective breeding by humans. It's not genocide, racism, or environmentally destructive to eliminat
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by defen 2y ago
UTF-8 encodes a unicode codepoint into 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes. Assuming that you have a valid UTF-8 encoding of a codepoint, then the first byte tells you how many bytes are in the encoding. 0-127 inclusive means one byte, 192-223 means 2,
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by defen 2y ago
The author directly quoted the European Food Safety Authority, who found the same thing he did. There's a rich history of self-experimentation in medicine and nutrition, I don't think you need to be so negative.
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by defen 2y ago
> it's reasonable to require a plan for outreach so that those groups know they can connect. Why have a program if people don't know about it? It's not about outreach to those groups so they can connect to low-cost interne
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by defen 2y ago
> One random example from the sea of examples - US within a month lost all the international respect it ever built after WWI lets say. I mean all of it, and its not coming back anytime soon. In 2003 the USA invaded Iraq because the &quot
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by defen 2y ago
> There is no corresponding popular replacement for C that's more minimalist than Rust and memory safe. In the real world, memory safety is not all-or-nothing (unless you're willing to concede that Rust is not safe either, sinc
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by defen 2y ago
It's great at building tension but the actual action is pretty underwhelming, as you say.
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by defen 2y ago
Rust also has runtime panics (e.g. indexing outside the bounds of a slice) - how does kernel Rust handle that?
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by defen 2y ago
If you look at the street view ( https://maps.app.goo.gl/Li9FSf29kXJWJLxW8 ), you'll see that it's been redesigned since the picture in the post. The current street view picture is from Feb 2023; the picture in the
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by defen 2y ago
> Yes, it is absolutely acceptable and it happens all the time in road design. Aren't there usually signs indicating the maximum safe speed when that sort of thing happens? We don't have context here but I doubt there is a sign
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by defen 2y ago
Was this guy uniquely evil, as far as health care executives go? Like...if more of them get murdered, will you just shrug and say "yeah they kinda had it coming"?
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by defen 2y ago
The "banality of evil" was originally used to describe the bureaucrats who enabled the mass-murder of Holocaust victims (Godwin's law strikes again!). Their actual goal , the primary outcome they were trying to maximize, was

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