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by haberman 6y ago
> Rust deliberately eschews static constructors and destructors due to their problems, so I presume it would fall foul of this test of yours as well. I would be surprised if embedding a string literal into a Rust program would cause a ru
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by haberman 6y ago
I like that idea!
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by haberman 6y ago
I did not know, thanks for sharing!
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by haberman 6y ago
I've played every Civilization since the first one, I believe. I think 4 was my favorite, especially since it had the best music. I sing old music professionally, and it was such a treat to enter a new era and hear some of the best mus
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by haberman 6y ago
I also like that rg's default mode is to search all files recursively, skipping binary files and honoring .gitignore. 90% of the time this is just what I want.
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by haberman 6y ago
> When we polled drivers about their preference between remaining an independent contractor or becoming an employee, an overwhelming number of drivers wanted to remain independent. > "What type of employment relationship would yo
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by haberman 6y ago
> I did have to lightly edit the chats with GPT-3 for clarity and coherence. Seems like this fact deserves a more prominent mention?
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by haberman 6y ago
I don't think that analogy works: many people never get cancer which means we have a clear model for what a healthy, cancer-free life form looks like. "Curing cancer" just means returning a body to this healthy, pre-cancerou
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by haberman 6y ago
I do not condone police escalation and I agree that we have seen examples of indefensible police behavior. But the fact that the "CHAZ security force" -- ostensibly the good guys who hate police violence -- shot two unarmed black
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by haberman 6y ago
Yes I agree that for learning purposes it can be very illuminating. :)
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by haberman 6y ago
I agree. While it is occasionally can work alright (as with the examples in the article), I recommend a very light touch with this stuff. If you get to the point where you are implementing casts, RTTI, etc, stop and rethink. I say this a
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by haberman 6y ago
It reminds me of the "All models are wrong" aphorism. It may be true, but it's still better to call the Earth a sphere than a plane or a torus. No one would defend a flat-earther on the basis that a sphere isn't a corre
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by haberman 6y ago
According to the BJS data sheet linked in grandparent, the leading causes of death in prison for 2016 are: - Cancer (1,128) - Heart Disease (1,025) - All Other Illnesses (525) - Liver Disease (260) Cancer and Heart Dise
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by haberman 6y ago
What is that comparison meant to show?
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by haberman 6y ago
The National Guard, the Army, and the Marines were deployed to LA during the Rodney King riots in 1992. Of the 63 people who died in the riots, nine were shot by the cops and one was shot by the National Guard. https://en.wikip
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by haberman 6y ago
> The Times, although its policy permits exceptions for a variety of reasons, errs on the side of the transparency and accountability that accompany the use of real names. S.S.C. supporters on Twitter were quick to identify some of the T
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by haberman 6y ago
I hear good things about https://kakoune.org/ . But I have 20 years of muscle memory for vi keybindings, and they're well-established enough that you can even use them in other editors like VSCode. So I'm wary of
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by haberman 6y ago
I think this information is obsolete. Lua supports integers (64 bits, by default) as of 5.3.
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by haberman 6y ago
I'm what you might call a "free speecher" and I think both of these are wrong. Luckily the "ban Howard Zinn" bill was never actually passed, and actually led to far more people reading him (Streisand effect there):
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by haberman 6y ago
I agree that there are almost always some guardrails in place, and certain viewpoints that are considered beyond the pale. And so there is a balancing act between an Overton Window that is too wide and wastes people's time with nonsens
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by haberman 6y ago
> The trick is to create channels with limited audiences, where you can set an expectation of which ideas are acceptable and which are not. Do you mean that a community could allow argument X, but disallow counter-argument Y? That sounds
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by haberman 6y ago
For what it's worth, I think his statement applies to regular Lua too, see: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg01595.html
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by haberman 6y ago
LuaJIT is not sandboxed. Mike Pall told me this in no uncertain terms: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg01582.html > The only reasonably safe way to run untrusted/malicious Lua scripts is t
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by haberman 6y ago
I wasn't meaning to suggest that only provably true speech should be protected. Certainly for libel/slander/defamation you have to prove that a statement was untrue to get a judgment against it.
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by haberman 6y ago
> A good justification of free speech needs to start with realistic assumptions about how speech is used. This must be accompanied by a realistic assumption of how power is used. Wielding of political power (particularly tyrannical power
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by haberman 6y ago
Even if I grant 100% of your argument, nowhere near 29.6% of Twitter expressed support for Biden as their first choice. Twitter is not representative of the general electorate.
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by haberman 6y ago
The revenue from advertisers is supporting both controversial and non-controversial content. If advertisers completely pull their ads off a website even though only 1% (say) of the content they were sponsoring is actually controversial, the
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by haberman 6y ago
This is close, but misses the mark slightly I think. The cpu/disk/bandwidth to store and serve text are so small as to be irrelevant. I don't think it's a cost issue. The issue is one of association . There are strong s
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by haberman 6y ago
Twitter is a bubble. In the public at large, Trump still polls at a better than 40% approval rating and Joe Biden easily beat Twitter darlings like Warren and Sanders.
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by haberman 6y ago
When I first heard that jQuery is gone, it made me hope that Bootstrap could work directly with Vue without needing to use BootstrapVue. But then I realized that it's probably still doing direct DOM manipulation, which is what makes it

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