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by dtech 2y ago
UK tap water isn't fluoridated
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by dtech 2y ago
Your parents probably weren't brushing with fluoride toothpaste when they were young, since it only became near-universal in the late 60s in UK.
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by dtech 2y ago
And the designers and the Java stdlib itself, seeing as it's pretty much all runtime exceptions in everything introduced in Java 8 and later Also JVM guest languages like Kotlin and Scala treat all exceptions like runtime.
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by dtech 2y ago
I'm not familiar with Swift, anyone already know how typed throws hold up? Checked exceptions are pretty universally seen as a mistake in Java [1] while ADT à la Result are generally perceived better. [1] See e.g. https://li
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by dtech 2y ago
they both did, as they made a deal that was illegal under EU law. I assume it's similar to a US state and corporation therein both falling under federal law.
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by dtech 2y ago
Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing that Ireland did and is not allowed in the EU rules. You are allowed to make rules, but you can't offer deals.
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by dtech 2y ago
I'd argue that the dominance of Linux on cloud and Azure growing business is what's causing Microsoft to have an ongoing interest in linux support. A factoid that's shared sometimes (no idea if true) is that Microsoft now emp
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by dtech 2y ago
>The mRNA utilizes your cell's machinery to produce proteins Does it? I thought the immune response was purely based on the free floating mRNA (which give a high immune response because that also happens during a highly active viral
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by dtech 2y ago
IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed, but it certainly isn't a pop quiz like you make it our to be
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by dtech 2y ago
I do wonder why they decided to tie themselves heavily to AWS tech over using cloud-agnostic alternatives. You'd think for a government the latter has higher value than for private business, and even there it's a consideration.
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by dtech 2y ago
Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...
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by dtech 2y ago
You can exactly ban what emerges naturally. That's the whole point of regulations.
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by dtech 2y ago
I fail to see how this is relevant for DEFCON specifically . If this was a general policy sure.
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by dtech 2y ago
I mean, both rely on community contributions for this sort of thing, so it feels weird to be smug about this... It just depends on who decided to put the correct hours in.
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by dtech 2y ago
You're making the classic mistake that thinking a company makes a good product they're a good stock. If the stock has sky high expectations and the company does "only" very good, the stock might still fall.
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by dtech 2y ago
And what's the less opaque reference to 1998?
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by dtech 2y ago
And potential large market crashes. Yes Amazon and Google made massive gains, but very little of the tech stocks that were at all time highs in 2000 remain.
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by dtech 2y ago
T? is widespread syntax already. E.g. Typescript, C# and Kotlin use it.
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by dtech 2y ago
Would be cool if Java got this feature, explicit optionality at a language level a la T? is an enormous developer QoL in Kotlin and Typescript in my experience. In Java there's tools like NullAway [1] but they're a hassle. Languag
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by dtech 2y ago
I fail to see how this is a bad thing at all
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by dtech 2y ago
This kinda misses the point, usually you don't want a "delete" in your app, you want an "archive". E.g. given the example it's often desirable to still know that a user used to be part of a group, or to later
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by dtech 2y ago
That's a pretty obtuse interpretation of the comment. Browsers natively being able to run Typescript code / .ts files instead of requiring transpiling to plain Javascript would be a large boon to the TS ecosystem by making basical
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by dtech 2y ago
Same
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by dtech 2y ago
I don't see what this has to much do with MS. A bad proprietary kernel module can crash any OS.
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by dtech 2y ago
Stating this alternatively, it removes the need for coordination and communication and allows teams to work independently. Which is good.
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by dtech 2y ago
Businesses don't always act like perfectly rational actors, bubbles are a thing.
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by dtech 2y ago
The thing is, you cannot pay for Firefox even if you wanted to*, so the assertion that people wouldn't pay is unproven (but has good circumstancial evidence). I'd still prefer they make a paid version without this crap. * Donation
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by dtech 2y ago
He didn't say no skill, he said less in comparison with other professional sports.
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by dtech 2y ago
I disagree here. The right action is boycotting the company and lobbying/protesting/voting for better consumer and worker protections. Or organize it as a concentrated group action so your first point holds, but don't just do
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by dtech 2y ago
The difference here is that Xerox isn't trying to handwave away copyright, while OpenAI et al. are explicitly defending the position in court that LLM output doesn't violate copyright, not that the LLM user is responsible for copy

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