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by ghoward 4y ago
I agree with you. I also think consumer privacy protection is important, so I'm not mad at the EU here. I'm mad at the US government for the CLOUD Act.
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by ghoward 4y ago
That requirement would still apply to my hypothetical code forge, unfortunately.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Yeah, I was afraid of this. Perhaps my best solution is to block any user creation from the EU, any login from the EU, and any signed-in user request from the EU. Maybe I can allow non-signed-in users from the EU to browse?
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by ghoward 4y ago
> Unfortunately, it's not up for you to decide. The US has laws that makes it legal for your government to harvest data, and it has used these laws against EU citizen in the past. Yeah, I was afraid of this. > The US has also ask
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by ghoward 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Even if I managed to do everything else, having to hire someone to do that would be nigh impossible.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Ouch. That list looks onerous. Thank you for the link.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Mini Ask HN: How would a small company, say a code forge, that is based in the US ensure that it is operating such that it is legal to have EU customers? All operations will be in the US (interaction only through a website). The forge will
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by ghoward 4y ago
I am an Open Source developer. My code is not on GitHub and never will be. If my code was uploaded on GitHub, I would DMCA it because of Copilot, but it wouldn't matter because the information is already in the model. So the DMCA does
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by ghoward 4y ago
Yes, you will. What else does this mean: > The scope of this is intended to cover incidents where users harass other users or make bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc, comments on our platform. You say "harass other users
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We Must Professionalize Programming to Preserve Society and Computing Freedom(gavinhoward.com)
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by ghoward 4y ago
I actually mention this in my post that I linked. Yes, another of their missions is to facilitate aviation. What I meant is that in my case, the default decision couldn't be to give me a medical. So I should have limited the "safe
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by ghoward 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. I have a pilot acquaintance that would refuse to go to the doctor when he was younger. I also tried to become a pilot, but because of a documented history of taking anti-depressants, the FAA grounded me for life, despite be
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by ghoward 4y ago
Yes, exactly! Thank you for saying that when I forgot to.
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by ghoward 4y ago
> No vaccine prevents transmission. Wrong. Some viruses don't get transmitted if the person is not symptomatic, even if there's an infection. Your lack of understanding belies your argument. > Ask yourself what the efficac
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by ghoward 4y ago
This argument is useless in the face of the COVID shots because they do not prevent transmission, an important factor in herd immunity being effective. Being anti-vax-mandate for an ineffective vaccine is not anti-vax in any way.
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by ghoward 4y ago
If there's no way to get close to it in a certain amount of time by starting from scratch, chances are there's no chance to do it with a rewrite in the same amount of time. And again, SQLite is used in places that Rust has no comp
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by ghoward 4y ago
@asyncCall is exactly the sort of thing the original function colors calls out.
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by ghoward 4y ago
That's a generic function. That's not what I'm talking about.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Does developer experience not include using function pointers in Zig?
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by ghoward 4y ago
I agree, and that's okay, but the problem is that many people assume Zig is colorless. I just want to dispel that notion.
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by ghoward 4y ago
> I don't really understand your crusade. Accuracy is important in the marketplace of ideas, and especially in programming. Software is too buggy already, and it would only add more bugs to have programmers not understand the langua
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by ghoward 4y ago
> It's not, your understanding of async in Zig is sound. Then perhaps there is something wrong with the language reference? > I don't even dare to describe Zig as colorless, in fact I say colorblind. Doesn't that mean m
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by ghoward 4y ago
> Not to impugn your character, but I feel the same way about the points you're making. Again, the original post about function colors talks about runtime, so how could I be disingenuous about that? > Not in any meaningful way, n
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by ghoward 4y ago
Disclaimer: Not a Zig fan. I think Zig is getting too much hype. It's unfortunate because Zig could have potential, but hyping something before it's ready is a recipe for alienating early adopters and killing progress towards popu
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by ghoward 4y ago
Probably every Airbus A350 XWB and a lot of GM, Nissan, and Suzuki cars. Maybe also a few or a lot of General Electric products. [1] The Library of Congress also recommends it for preservation of digital content, which would be harder if Ru
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by ghoward 4y ago
Me too, but I also hope Rust is not that default language.
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by ghoward 4y ago
I said this before [1], but one severe CVE in 20 years is no reason to rewrite SQLite in a language that has no compiler for some of the platforms it is deployed on. Sure, write new stuff in Rust, but SQLite needs to stay in C at this poi
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by ghoward 4y ago
SQLite is used in places that Rust has no compiler for and that no other language has a compiler for. One severe CVE in about 20 years is no reason to rewrite in another language and remove support for some platforms.
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by ghoward 4y ago
Absolutely, and my own experience is that it's possible to create a language with Rust's safety guarantees while making it quick to compile. I know this because I've managed to add a form of RAII and borrow checking to portab
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Technical Debt Costs More Than You Think(gavinhoward.com)
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