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by j-pb 4y ago
That's a false dichotomy. These days we put so many nutrients artificially into the feed of livestock, e.g. B12, that we might as well skip the whole livestock step and just take a vitamin pill every morning. Most people have a vitamin
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If you care about environmentalism then you should resonate with the fact that 68% of the Amazon is Burnt for pastures for Cattle Farming. 28% is Burnt for Agriculture, of which 60% is for soybeans, of which 77% are shipped overseas for liv
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Providing people with alternatives is never a bad thing.
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And vegan alternatives are not? Meat was a luxury product not eaten every day for most of history and still is in most parts of the world. Given the environmental impact of Meat and Diary in terms of CO2, Methane, Water usage, and Deforesta
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Same in the E.U. we have billions of subsidies for milk and meat. Many countries like germany also have a tiered VAT system, where basic foods are taxed lower, there is a base line tax and some luxury items are taxed higher. Thanks to lobby
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I'm not arguing that Zig should have the same stability as Rust, which would be unreasonable. My point is that there is no concept of stability at all. Zig currently treats "async" as the same kind of unstable as "for&qu
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The issues with Zig is not getting something off the ground in a weekend, but maintaining things over multiple weekends, without some bike-shed-change like `@maximum` vs. `@max`, some compiler bug for a basic feature, or some std.heap API c
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Really feels like the project is spreading itself too thin. There are existing community build Package Managers for Zig. It's weird to start replacing things that are good enough™, while core stuff like the languag and compiler is not
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What really surprised me about SDL2 is how bad the documentstion is given that it's a very stable bit of software with a wide backing from industry. There were apparently some efforts to move the wiki from one technology to another whi
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> calculating the permutations of a list is n-squared Am I missing something? Shouldn't that be O(n!)?
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This is sad news, he invented not only the actor model, but also planner and did a lot of groundwork for deductive and parallel systems. One of the more obscure things he pursued as a result of his early actor model work was unbounded nonde
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Yeah, but we made some awesome sandboxing friends along the way. We could actually get a nice performance boost out of running WASM with VM enforced security instead of Rings and the MMU.[0] [0]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.co
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This will just result in the extinction of endemic bird species in war zones, and after that be as effective as regular drones.
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Those weren't build from the goodness of somebodies heart, but because the CIA realised that they can't win a war against combatants which they themselves created a constant supply of by blowing up their loved ones. Also, nobody e
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> Typical civilian deaths in Afghanistan would be e.g. families living with high ranking enemy combatants, totally incomparable with Russian forces bombing shopping malls in Ukraine. Except that that that's not true. [1][2][3][4][5]
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Exactly. The people remote controlling drones into civilians in Ukraine should be held accountable, just like the people that killed civilians with hellfire missiles in Afghanistan should be held accountable. As a german I'd also like
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SPARQL has some really not nice properties. For example it's very easy to build non-monotonic queries with OPTIONAL, which really messes with reactively streamed query results. There is a certain sweet spot in conjunctive queries + reg
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I completely agree that we should aim for more secure languages, and I even concede that IF javascript had pervasive use of these (E based) security ideas both in libraries and culture, that it'd be a good thing. However, I'd argu
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Freeze is completely inadequate for immutability, persistent data-structures are really what you want for immutability most of the time, and they give you the nice security properties for free. Most people think of proxies as JavaScripts &q
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That whole E "security model" is a really annoyingly academic endeavour. It's pretty absurd that they managed to push something into the standard only for the gain of their own obscure consulting company. Nobody else uses it
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> Am I missing something here? Yes. I'm comparing the stability of very early Rust e.g. 0.x, to the stability of Zig now. Not Rust 1.6 with Zig 0.x.
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Frankly I don't care if the problem gets fixed or not. I've already started a rewrite in Rust, and I don't plan on revisiting the Zig version until Zig has hit 1.0. Coming from a Clojure background I generally agree with Hoar
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The bug that's currently blocking me from any work using master is https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12325 That's not really a bug related to unfinished features that might get replaced anyways,
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Your quoted sentence talks about bugs in the old C++ compiler, I'm talking about bugs in both compilers. Pretty much all of the talks and blog posts on the `in-Zig` compiler are about better performance, lower memory footprint, e.t.c.
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Yeah, theres a surprising amount of stuff that's buggy, think `if` or `recursive structs with pointers` level stuff.
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Correctness please. Zig is a way too simple language to justify all the really easy to hit bugs. I'd give everything for a zig compiler that's 10 times as slow but actually compiles my code. Also testing infrastructure. Zig really
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There's plenty of bailouts that were unnecessary, e.g. banks, hedge-funds. Space exploration is one of those problems that are inherently difficult enough that you can do everything right, and still go bankrupt.
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All of the tech I mentioned is either operating in pilot studies or full scale systems. Both combined as in renewables + storage, not wind + solar. You got way too much set phrases and trite political cliches going on for any meaningful dis
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Theres plenty of other ways to store energy. Insulated thermal for example is extremely cheap and can be retrofitted to existing power plants. All you need is a insulated steel vessel filled with something inert when heated, e.g. sand. If y
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You accuse other of irrationality, yet you prop up a straw-man that's been debunked over and over again. Nobody argues that renewables deliver peak power all of the time. The goal is to have enough capacity and intermediary storage to

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