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by herbstein 3y ago
> See how easy it is to be consistent? Consistent on the definition of "theft", yes indeed. However, it's way harder to be consistent on the definition of "theft" while you also consider theft to be inherently
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by herbstein 3y ago
I guess there's a better word for it than "detailed". As a non-native speaker I was under the impression there's a difference between "detailed a plan" and "details of a plan". In this case I simply u
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by herbstein 3y ago
Musk has detailed the plan he envisions for the pioneers/settlers, and it's essentially indentured. Whether it happens or not, Musk certainly has a pretty questionable plan for it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk&#x2F
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by herbstein 3y ago
> Increasingly hard to get this days, especially through official channels. Currently, Microsoft actively prevents you from getting a Win10 installer/image, by redirecting all the relevant links to Windows 11 pages. Really? I used t
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How does async Rust work?(bertptrs.nl)
3 points by herbstein 3y ago|0 comments
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by herbstein 3y ago
I'm reminded of an interlude on the latest album from Punk/Grime artist "Bob Vylan". I said the neighbours called me **** Station said they can't play that [..] Same old stories, nothing new told Appear
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by herbstein 3y ago
It wasn't. Noam Chomsky readily acknowledges that it was coined by Walter Lippmann in 1922's "Public Opinion".
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by herbstein 3y ago
You mean like when everyone moved from mini-USB to USB-C? It's also good to remember that lightning connectors are USB2 in a different form factor - outdated and slow.
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by herbstein 3y ago
They're not at _all_ similar.
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by herbstein 3y ago
> However, if the company running the web page were to take that IP address and store it and use it for deep analytics Or, in fact, sending off to Google Fonts. As a German court case reveals, that is considered sending the IP to Google
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by herbstein 4y ago
> Comment from that issue: "For example, ElasticSearch returns a 8,683KB document, I deser it into Value and the next RAM reading gives me delta of 98,484KB of RAM use. That's more than 10x the original size." I think this
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by herbstein 4y ago
> This has nothing to do with Reagan. Bezmenov defected to Canada. And the interviewer is an American. They're talking about American conditions. Where he defected isn't that important within that context. Additionally, he move
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by herbstein 4y ago
This interview keeps coming up, and I don't really understand why. It's utterly uninteresting. Bezmenov had an inconsequential role in the KGB. He was not privy to any large-scale details. Bezmenov defected in 1970. After his defe
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by herbstein 4y ago
I'm 25. Grew up in Denmark. I don't recognize many of these as legit explanations for why a station wagon/estate -- a sedan with a squared off trunk -- isn't suitable. > It still snows and ices in suburbia, and suburb
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by herbstein 4y ago
GDPR doesn't distinguish between websites and applications. It's about collection, storage, and transmission of personal information. No matter who, what, or where. One of the core pieces of information cracked down upon by the Fr
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by herbstein 4y ago
> EU law just restricts storing & processing _personal_ data (GDPR) To be clear to anyone reading: using Google Analytics without a non-Google-hosted anonymisation step breaks GDPR. This _has_ been litigated in court in several count
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by herbstein 4y ago
Not OP, but it won't yield to the runtime. This blocks the executing thread until the operation completes. That's the only sense in which the standard library isn't async safe. Additionally, according to a core Tokio develope
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by herbstein 4y ago
> There is a lot of C++ code out there. A lot of it was not written by people who understand performance or who care. It is very easy to take that kind of code and make it faster, even without a switch to Rust. Cliff Biffle's great
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by herbstein 4y ago
Yes, but with granularity at the "node" level instead of being across the whole container. Imagine a linked list. If you add prepend an element to an existing list, no copy is necessary. It's just a new head with the tail bei
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by herbstein 4y ago
CrowdStrike, a company touting remote working prior to the pandemic, is also returning to 40% office occupancy for anyone within ~40 kilometers.
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by herbstein 4y ago
Mick West's videos are so good, specifically because the analysis are based on what's actually shown in the interface in the videos. There's no big "like, comment, subscribe"-section either. Just a pure explanation
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by herbstein 4y ago
> Doesn't explain the Tic Tac videos He covers the "Tic-Tac" and "Go Fast" videos too, just not in that specific video. Like in this one, where he explains how the "Go Fast" video isn't actually ev
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by herbstein 4y ago
Personally, I've bought quite a few (non-fiction) books eBooks.com, all of which can be downloaded as DRM-free PDF and EPUB files. Not their whole catalog is available in DRM-free editions, but enough to satisfy my needs are.
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by herbstein 4y ago
Knives Out is an interesting edge case there. It was shot almost completely on digital (on scene was on analog) but was post-processed by the Director of Photography to achieve the look of analog recordings. A process he has spent many, man
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by herbstein 4y ago
> Slow Horses too S02E04 that came out today (Friday) had me uttering "He's so fucking good" out loud, despite being alone in the apartment. About Gary Oldman, that is. The way he hates absolutely everyone and cares about
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by herbstein 4y ago
> If you're sick, you don't go work, for as long as needed For reference, I can only be legally fired if I'm sick for more than 186 days in a 365 day period.
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by herbstein 4y ago
My company has a policy that all software needs to be explicitly approved. That includes any software library, extension, or package from a package manager. Is it followed? Not in the slightest! Something I recently ran into: the Rust versi
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by herbstein 4y ago
> keep data in EU cloud regions if possible I'm still not convinced this is enough. The US "CLOUD Act" can force employees of a company to pull data even when hosted in foreign countries. If an ops engineer technically can
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by herbstein 4y ago
> the punishment is the loss of liberty itself Additionally, released prisoners might become your neighbor. Do you want a hardened criminal or a reformed citizen to move in?
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by herbstein 4y ago
This is my understanding too. Meaning, there's a huge backlog of compliance issues at so, so many companies.

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