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by dilap 6y ago
They're in the middle of a big rewrite, which will be out Real Soon Now. To understand the basic idea, this series of blog posts is excellent: https://jneem.github.io/merging/ To me, it seems clear that a patch-ba
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by dilap 6y ago
I think the supposition is the Sweden charges were a pretext, and they would have just turned him over to the US.
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by dilap 6y ago
You think it's dangerous to have access to social networks not under US control? Many governments would, of course, agree, but this is traditionally the domain of governments seen as "authoritarian", such as, e.g., China. (Is
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Challenging LR Parsing(rust-analyzer.github.io)
121 points by dilap 6y ago|42 comments
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by dilap 6y ago
It's interesting that your comment and xyzzy_plugh's comment make opposite points! But you're right, in some cases the breaking changes won't break you. In any case, I do think it's worth having a dead-easy way to f
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by dilap 6y ago
The major reason to have separate import paths is to support multiple major versions of the same module, which is important to not end up stuck in situations where package A wants dep D1 and package B wants dep D2, and you can't fix it
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by dilap 6y ago
"combatting disinformation" I.e., US govt doesn't want a popular social network that is not under its control.
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by dilap 6y ago
Agreed, mostly true. (It's still not as explicit about where your function might exit, but you won't get surprise exceptions, which is way nicer.)
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by dilap 6y ago
Nope, the question mark operator is syntax sugar for the "if error, return it" dance. (Cf. https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/error-hand... )
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by dilap 6y ago
Go does indeed use the tedious approach. Rust and Zig have nicer syntax for it. But personally, I prefer even Go's "tedious" approach to (unchecked) exceptions, simply because it's too easy to miss an error case otherwis
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by dilap 6y ago
makes sense, ty
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by dilap 6y ago
but why run dozens (!) of docker containers vs. having all those things in a single vm image? convenience? security somehow? (genuine question, not rhetorical or trolling.)
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by dilap 6y ago
We run docker on top of aws. So a vm-ish thing on top of a vm. I don't understand why we don't just build custom VM images, which is what I did back when I was handling backend stuff. Now I just observe with a kind of befuddled ex
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by dilap 6y ago
I wonder if they should've just required v1 or v0 when using Go modules†, so that v2 and above didn't seem like a red-headed step child / surprising / non-obvious by comparison. The basic idea of having separate import p
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by dilap 6y ago
I noticed that a lot of the documentation seems to combine "how this works" with "why this works the way it does"; the why is great when you're interested in diving deeper, but it's frustrating when all you&#
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by dilap 6y ago
It's super crappy, though, to screw users as collateral damage in an attempt to spite Epic. I could see disabling new signups, but breaking existing users...geeze.
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by dilap 6y ago
Can't they? Is app review actually disassembling the code to see what capabilities it has? Just include both native renderer and webkit, and over the air switch which you use.
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by dilap 6y ago
I agree, it's simply blunt. But if they had said something like, "I suspect this post is written by GPT-3. Consider X, Y, Z sentence -- these are typical constructions of GPT-3 because of A," it probably would not have been d
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by dilap 6y ago
HN is very tone-sensitive; I pretty frequently see comments that are correct (sometimes even by people who are extremely expert in the topic) that get downvoted because they're stated in a blunt or impolite way.
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by dilap 6y ago
My take on it is Twitter just isn't, as a company, very good at making software. This is from external observation and a couple of reports from friends who used to work there.
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by dilap 6y ago
I feel like this is overblown, because I see ugly and poor people in tiktok all the time (if doesn't matter if you're ugly or poor -- you can still make compelling content), and I occasionally see disabled people too. Perhaps this
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by dilap 6y ago
Do you have any insight/theories into why Trump is so opposed to tiktok? Just as a political calculation it seems curious. (Rile up young voters who tend to swing against you, eliminate a social network that from what I can see is re
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by dilap 6y ago
Apple fights to not be forced to unlock phones, which is admirable, but they'll happily turn over your iCloud data. To me the greater outrage is that the president can arbitrarily decide which apps citizens may or may not use. I would
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by dilap 6y ago
Another viewpoint is the US is doing to its citizens what China has been doing to its citizens since forever. I don't see that as a good development!
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by dilap 6y ago
No, that's not my claim.
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by dilap 6y ago
Funnily enough, Dick is a common short form of Richard!
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by dilap 6y ago
It's actually a recent phenomenon to rely on anonymous sources as a matter of course, and the stories end up being wrong all the time. E.g. NYT reporting on WMDs leading up to Iraq war, the Guardian's report that Manafort visited
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by dilap 6y ago
It's conjecture from an anonymous source. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
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by dilap 6y ago
not every1, tho! as a US citizen, I think it's actually a good thing if there are some popular social networks not under US govt control.
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by dilap 6y ago
Alas, it doesn't have Excel on it. I want to test my theory that Excel 5 in an old mac emulator would be more snappy for basic input tasks than Excel 16 native on a MBP.

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