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by dilap 6y ago
I could recast each of those as: - Effective cost benefit analysis that realizes rail is a net win environmentally - Ability to control costs & graft on large projects to keep labor costs reasonable - Effective government that understan
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by dilap 6y ago
The odds of this ever happening are probably slightly lower than the odds that China takes over and uses their high-speed rail expertise to get the job done.
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by dilap 6y ago
I don't care or know if it counts as a "monopoly" (I guess I can use Android...), but as a consumer and human being, I would love it if governments compelled big companies to act more in the public interest and less in their
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by dilap 6y ago
I wouldn't recommend it: https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8707 (Also worth nothing Americans are already eating very high (and increasing) amounts of linoleic acid, and we have been hit pretty hard by the
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by dilap 6y ago
Probably has to start w/ an app.
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by dilap 6y ago
Yeah, slowly but surely YouTube is destroying itself. Which is very sad, because it's been an amazing resource. I'd love to see ByteDance do a YouTube competitor. (Or, dream of all dreams, see something distributed really take off
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by dilap 6y ago
This conflates "official positions of authorities" with "science". It's like a modern religion, with three tenets: (1) science made everything around us (iPhones and airplanes!) (2) we speak for science (3) therefor
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by dilap 6y ago
Yeah, bounded channels ended up being more effective as a hype mechanism than a great concurrency primitive, I would say. Coming from Go and kicking the tires a bit on Rust, I was impressed w/ how much nicer it was to write parallel co
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by dilap 6y ago
I'd be happy to compromise and keep the trucks if we put in protected (physically separated!) bike lanes everywhere.
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by dilap 6y ago
I'm confused about "callconv(.Inline)" on the function pointer . Isn't a function pointer not inlinable by its very nature?
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by dilap 6y ago
Thanks! I'll give it a try. So far, I've always ended up coming back to Gmail for one reason or another -- while there are lots of little UI annoyances, it always gets the fundamentals right, which is better than my experience w&#
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by dilap 6y ago
Well, while we're griping... I don't mind disappearing scrollbars, but Gmail on iOS takes it even further, and completely eliminates the scrollbar! This is indeed rather annoying. And even worse, amazingly annoyingly, long-ish ema
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by dilap 6y ago
Use after free is the big one Zig still doesn't protect against. Yet? So I think it's a fair statement. Rust is safety obsessed. Zig is doing its best while paying top tribute to other gods.
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by dilap 6y ago
It's interesting to consider generics. Go gained some simplicity by not having generics, instead simply special-casing the two most common generic datastructures: lists and maps. But in the end, the desire for generics was too strong,
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by dilap 6y ago
People are lazy, though. I think if errors can't take payloads, it's inevitable you'll end up with many libraries that don't return error payload information when you wish they did. This will trickle out into software us
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by dilap 6y ago
Here's another example of the coolness of Zig's comptime code execution: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/0808d98e10c5fea27cebf9... That's a generic container class (similar to vector in C
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FBI director discusses threat of end-to-end encryption(twitter.com)
3 points by dilap 6y ago|0 comments
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by dilap 6y ago
Evolution can continue to exert pressure after you've passed reproductive age, if you stick around and help raise your offspring, which humans generally do. You also hint at traditional societies having much shorter lifespans than mode
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by dilap 6y ago
Those articles seem to be advocating against the idea (popular in the paleo community) that carbs are unhealthy or wouldn't have been part of our ancestral diets. I agree that idea seems mistaken, and agree that fruit, tubers, and hone
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by dilap 6y ago
Personally, I very much doubt it. Meat is an ancient food. We've evolved as hunter-gatheres, with most of our calories coming from hunting. It would be very surprising if we were not well-adapted to eating a lot of meat. Modern hunte
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by dilap 6y ago
Saw someone mention this on twitter, and thought it was really rad. Most languages have some way to group things together, i.e., a struct. Many languages also provide some sort of array primitive or library data type, e.g. in Go []Foo is a
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Struct-of-arrays collection type in Zig(github.com)
8 points by dilap 6y ago|1 comments
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by dilap 6y ago
Ah, I see. Interesting. So the claim is (I presume) that China is "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group" with "intent to destroy". Fair enough. (It's too late to edit my comment, but I would
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by dilap 6y ago
They're using "genocide" in the same sense of the word as people who allege "white genocide", i.e., to mean that policies are reducing fertility of a certain demographic. Specifically, they allege: > the use of a
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by dilap 6y ago
http://archive.is/3iECt
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by dilap 6y ago
Absent the ability to the split the universe and do a proper experiment, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about likely wider impacts of places like FB engaging in political censorship. If you read carefully, you'll not
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by dilap 6y ago
The question is, if the giant US internet companies acted more in alignment w/ the speech values the US professes to believe in (at least when convenient), would that contribute to those values being more widely adopted? You're ta
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by dilap 6y ago
Sure, there has always been & always will be a tug-of-war, but I think the dominant social media institutions quite blatently engaging in political censorship certainly has to be a help to those tugging for the censorship side. It'
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by dilap 6y ago
A side-effect of actions like this is it makes it much easier for governments themselves to justify censorship or internet restrictions. See, e.g., this interview by Der Spiegel w/ the president of Uganda: > DER SPIEGEL: Observers c
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by dilap 6y ago
True, but it's very explicit, and easy to audit for.

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