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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   The speed of light is the speed of information propagation. Information about the sun disappearing would only reach earth at after c/1AU.
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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   This is a known downside: rust forces you to write correct code, and will refuse to compile until you prove to it that you don’t have data races, all errors are handled, etc. If it’s a one time script, I still whip out the trusty Perl one-
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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   Sorry, I was just responding to your question on JS compilation and webpack. This post is obviously overengineering things, it’s literally submitting a html form and obviously we can do that with plain old html. The point, however, is that
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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   - Transpilers: sometimes you need to support old browser versions but want to use newer features - Typescript: one but lesson we’ve learnt over the years is that vanilla JS sucks and when your codebase grows into the >10k loc range it be
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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   I think that blockchain is not the solution here. The fundamental problem is trust: do you or do you not trust n other parties with the information required to take over your digital life, no amount of fancy crypto engineering will get arou
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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   Tell me you’ve never bought a house without telling me you’ve never bought a house. Buying houses are expensive because: - Realtors are a state-sanctioned monopoly for real estate transactions and suck up a % of the costs. They also provide
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   by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

   I find it funny that the solution to C++'s memory woes involves retrofitting what's essentially a GC on top of it. Reminds me of the quote along the lines that all sufficiently complex codebases have a half-assed version of common