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by gcp 10y ago
Nothing prevents you from doing both approaches. I mean, while Mozilla is increasing Rust usage, they're also rolling out more extensive sandboxing. Either of those by themselves are not a good enough solution though. Just trusting on
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by gcp 10y ago
Add a comma before "by hand" and it'll make sense.
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by gcp 10y ago
To be fair those were likely the reverse engineered open source drivers.
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by gcp 10y ago
If you've chosen a cheaper chip and paid an engineer to work through the crappy documentation to write a driver, why would you give this away? It just helps your competition. It may still make sense if the maintenance burden is high an
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by gcp 10y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain your argument!
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by gcp 10y ago
What's the meaning of this? Are you arguing that the classifications themselves are biased?
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by gcp 10y ago
Right, so this mentions ibuprofen explicitly, and it talks about cyclooxygenase-2 selective inhibitors too. I still don't get what your complaint about TIME's title is? Did you think they should've mentioned celecoxib? That&#
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by gcp 10y ago
I agree, but it's perfectly valid to hold it against a company to exploit those problems in the system for profit, if this goes at a cost of human life. (The problem likely being that doctors don't want to argue with their patient
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by gcp 10y ago
I agree with what you say, but it doesn't support your earlier statements. I presume it's possible that the limitations of our visual system means we may miss powerful features and hence the ability to build some more powerful abs
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by gcp 10y ago
Hmm? One of the main results relevant to the wider audience is surely that Ibuprofen no longer looks like the most-recommendable drug because it looks less safe than the alternatives. (Even if some remarks can be made towards the study, tha
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by gcp 10y ago
This just supports what I said. Not sure you looked closely enough. BitKeeper uses SCCS format on the wire, which didn't need to be reverse engineered as it was a known format.
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by gcp 10y ago
That's the implementation of the result. Not sure what your point is.
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by gcp 10y ago
I saw nothing in the article that indicated the drug discussed was incorrectly prescribed or promoted. You don't think presenting a questionnaire and having every answer being the drug in question, regardless of the choices made, at
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by gcp 10y ago
The abstract drawings benefit a lot from the limited selection and the huge implicit context. If you'd give these doodles to people that are not Western males it'll do a lot worse. Someone already pointed out it doesn't recog
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by gcp 10y ago
Of course, there's severe bias here, in the sense that what we consider abstraction is by definition "human shaped" abstraction I can read the words here, but I don't understand the meaning. We abstract to find a commo
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by gcp 10y ago
Your argument sounds like a false dichotomy to me. We can have drugs with potentially bad side effects and make efforts to make sure they're not incorrectly prescribed.
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by gcp 10y ago
The inconveniences we're describing are limited to the suckers that get to write the firmware/drivers for these things, i.e. a few engineers. Price, performance, availability, driver quality, etc may look competitive to the compet
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by gcp 10y ago
I suggest you just go planking and it'll think you are the sea.
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by gcp 10y ago
Basically: you are right.
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by gcp 10y ago
The tooling wasn't better. It was just different. BitKeeper was better than the alternatives. This was literally Linus' rationale for using it. Nothing what you say in the second paragraph contradicts what I said, but it also do
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by gcp 10y ago
It's detrimental to the openness of a project if the maintainers and core contributors have other, better tooling than the rest of the world.
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by gcp 10y ago
This is a bad argument because there are tools (i.e. every other DVCS) that achieve the same effect without the interface problems.
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by gcp 10y ago
It's again due to the ubiquity. Even if I get stuck in a git UX hellhole, I can do a google search and be 99% sure the top result is a StackOverflow post explaining the steps needed to recover.
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by gcp 10y ago
Git is the reference implementation of a protocol In reality this "reference implementation" is the sole interface 99% of the users use, so the lack of UX is an issue. There are other tools that do it better and right, so insi
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by gcp 10y ago
Tridge (another kernel dev) reversed BK protocol and repo structure...So Tridge's little stunt He made a connection to the BitKeeper server and typed "help". https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/ The B
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by gcp 10y ago
I used git for many years, and actually still use it extensively to collaborate with git projects, but in the last year or so Mercurial and several of the modern plugins for it have opened my eyes that git is stuck in 10 year old ideas of h
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by gcp 10y ago
The experience was the same if you were a big customer (we sold 8M+ units). I mean, the process you describe sucks just as much if you're an engineer at a big customer. Tons of effort to get even the slightest piece of documentation. P
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by gcp 10y ago
the underlying model (which I agree is very elegant) counts more than the user interface? It does not. But git exposes this all the time, so committed git users feel that's a good thing, because understanding it makes helps them to m
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by gcp 10y ago
Due to the ubiquity of git (and github) we (the users) are in the same case today.
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by gcp 10y ago
Look into the actual posts, it was used as an argument to dismiss smarter merge algorithms which is of course the smarter auto-complete part.

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