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by hawkice 8y ago
Huh! Learn something new every day -- so are lifetimes still exactly describing when things get dropped? And anything implementing Drop just doesn't get optimized lifetimes?
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by hawkice 8y ago
Oddly, Rust's ownership system really does solve these problems, and Non-lexical lifetimes should eliminate accidental scope-broadening. Unless you are doing some mega-schenanigans, an e.g. MutexGuard gets released precisely when you t
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by hawkice 8y ago
I guess I don't totally understand how a public official can "allegedly" disappear. Doesn't he have job responsibilities? It's been a week.
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by hawkice 8y ago
That's... not what slavery is. That analogy is extremely poor compared to using securities derivatives, which is a field Taleb is familiar with. Edit: also, is this feature of salaried employment so misunderstood as to require an analo
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by hawkice 8y ago
Right. But some languages prefix the string data with its length and omit the null terminator. So, depending on if the struct is passed in registers, you could say .length is free, in that it wouldn't even need a load.
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by hawkice 8y ago
I suppose the unfortunate thing is, that isn't his role. He can still do engineering work when he has the time, but me, the SEC, and most other humans understand the CEO of a public company has actual responsibility towards operations.
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by hawkice 8y ago
This takes on a particularly hilarious tone now that lots of people assemble their own computers. Obviously, that quote is utter hogwash, but it might be worth saying explicitly, at least for HN culture: cooperation is essential, and would
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by hawkice 8y ago
I'm most frustrated by a particular song I purchased in iTunes maybe 15 years ago, which is not just gone from my iTunes library but disappeared from almost all existence. Real art is being lost here.
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by hawkice 8y ago
I am skeptical that even running 50km with good hydration and fancy shoes on well-maintained paths would be considered extreme if you roll back the clock more than a couple thousand years. Long distance running is a core competency of human
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by hawkice 8y ago
I stopped using Hugo for this reason. Some point release broke my ability to rebuild my site, and I was just donezo. Better to write like 100 lines of go to write the files myself.
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by hawkice 8y ago
You pass it the update function, the one function handles all updates. Typically, you'll have a case statement in that function to dispatch it out to something more specific.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Turning Html Msg types into actual Dom nodes means hooking up the event handlers so that they call update with the Msg the event handler is given. Browser.sandbox is building the Dom nodes and has the update function.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Elon Musk has an obvious technical competence that's very appealing to those who appreciate those skill sets. It's like Paul Graham -- when you listen to him speak, he's mostly soft-spoken and measured (I have no explanation
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by hawkice 8y ago
The ROC has declared not just independence, but sovereignty over all of China. This... does not meaningfully reflect reality. Hong Kong is extremely unlikely to be able to emulate the political success Taiwan has had (which is, baring some
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by hawkice 8y ago
If all they did was make a battery, that's messed up. That many people? That's so much less useful to society than teachers, food service workers, doctors, lawyers and etc. combined. The insult to those people would be to have the
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by hawkice 8y ago
Nothing is wrong with being a crane maintenance worker, and there is nothing wrong with being an accountant. But if a fifth of the workforce was accountants I would enter a panic. That's why I asked if that was the pinnacle of human ac
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by hawkice 8y ago
>> ten percent of Americans to be crane maintenance workers > If anything, that's a plus. That's the world you want to live in, where there are more construction crane maintenance workers than teachers, police officer, fo
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by hawkice 8y ago
In this hypothetical, you also need something like ten percent of Americans to be crane maintenance workers, wouldn't you? Based on the crane numbers above it might even be more.
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by hawkice 8y ago
It would probably be dangerous to engineer an organism that doesn't break down. Imagine a living, growing plastic. Except not a Dr. Who villain.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Worth noting: there is a way to do this well. I've been through a visa screening involving domestic and international criminal and espionage background checks that completed in about ten minutes while I waited (that country was the Phi
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by hawkice 8y ago
I didn't flag the story because it isn't offensive or blatantly inappropriate. I'm not sure you need to warn people off that. But I'm also pretty sure that if this stuff was banished to buzzfeed Hacker News would be much
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by hawkice 8y ago
It's possible this comment should be the top comment on all pop science news reports. Edit: ideally people could down vote stories. Maybe only at some super high karma?
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by hawkice 8y ago
I actually really like the authenticity and humility of DJB including that in the instructions. I think it's likely many people trust his code (and he's certainly written a lot of extremely security sensitive stuff), but of course
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by hawkice 8y ago
That's like saying, sometimes apples are so expensive you can't buy them. Perhaps surprising, if you haven't thought of it, but it is an obviously true statement about all tradeoffs. Sometimes you shouldn't make them. St
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by hawkice 8y ago
The simplest code is an empty file. And yet, we live in a world with complex software. There are tradeoffs, but this article doesn't help you make them.
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by hawkice 8y ago
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/禁蒙面法 It doesn't say so on the English wikipedia page, but in some areas known for violence and particularly extreme Chinese crackdowns, wearing a mask in public is banned.
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by hawkice 8y ago
山高，皇帝远。 For those less comfortable with atonal pinyin.
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by hawkice 8y ago
I guess I don't understand. Are you saying The New York Times would refuse to publish news or editorials criticizing an element of American culture or governance? Perhaps I am confused, but it seems like that's almost all they eve
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by hawkice 8y ago
It's like four HTML elements and like six CSS bits you can copy paste from the boatloads of other times you've done a modal.
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by hawkice 8y ago
Saved you a click: Lucio Lanza. Edit: can we edit the headline to be less click bait?

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