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by jamincan 5y ago
I haven't commented/been upvoted enough to be allowed to downvote, and it is honestly quite liberating and lets me focus on elevating what I think are positive contributions.
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Assuming you are talking about Oxycontin, the problem there was that there was no expert consensus - in fact there was no information at all on addictiveness - but the FDA still allowed that language to be used in the promotional literature
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Shortly after launch there were quite a few articles talking about how well the launch went on the Ariane and how that allowed the mission to be extended to 20 years or so. I'm not sure who it was anymore (possibly Scott Manley on yout
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At least where I live in Ontario, the corridors are not necessarily public land and the power distributor only has access to them through an easement.
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There is a legitimate point that some programmers might misuse format strings and that by using named capturing in the format string, this misuse would be slightly more ergonomic. Nevertheless, legitimate uses of format strings also become
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The regex crate is owned by the Rust organization, but is not part of the stdlib. That said, I don't think there are any GUI crates that are as "standard" as regex is where this would make sense.
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by jamincan 5y ago
Bryan Cantrill has an interesting talk that discusses various languages in terms of their values that you might finding interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZ1pCpJUIM
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In what world is it not malicious? He owned the packages and I guess that gives him the right to do what he likes with it, but I have a hard time believing he didn't do it deliberately fully aware that a whole bunch of people would upd
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by jamincan 5y ago
It seems to me that while Rust has a stdlib, there is also a de facto set of "standard" libraries that the ecosystem consistently turns to. serde and regex are the two that stand out in my mind. I'm not sure that incorporatin
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There aren't many; basically just variable declarations: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/statements.html
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It is possible to only enable the specific ligatures you are interested in if your editor and font support it. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...
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'cargo fix' will upgrade your code from one Rust edition to the next as well as apply corrections for lint warnings.
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His other open-source project, Subsurface, is written in C++.
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The rustc compiler uses LLVM, so whatever new architectures LLVM supports, rustc also gets. There are two projects going on right now - rustc_codegen_gcc which adds GCC as a rustc backend, and gcc-rs which adds a rust frontend to GCC. Both
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I don't think it does; it's just one of the recent bits of drama within the Rust Team that has leaked out to the public, so people naturally wonder if they are connected somehow. At this point in time, everything in here is just i
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by jamincan 5y ago
While "keep right except to pass" is technically the law here in Ontario, the de facto standard is that the middle lane is the cruising lane, the left is the passing lane, and the right is basically a second merging lane. This mea
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by jamincan 5y ago
For the person facing up, their opponent is to their right, which is closed off. They would need to reach up and to the right, and that motion would be blocked by the newel post. For the person facing down, their opponent is to their left,
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I think it is due to the fact that going down stairs requires eccentric muscle contraction which is harder on the joints and also harder to control.
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From previous times this has come up, I was led to believe that it's not so much that the maintainers don't want namespaces as it's a thankless and overwhelming task just maintaining the status quo, and so they don't hav
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>To any future HN reader scared by those intraocular injections: don't fear them.
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Perhaps Massena is geographically remote and isolated then, but it is certainly not when it comes to the electrical system, which is what is being discussed here. There is plenty of existing transmission capacity to export hydroelectric pow
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You seemed to be asserting that without a major user near the dam, they would need to build more transmission lines or otherwise waste the generating capacity available. This seemed unlikely to me, as transmission grids are built with signi
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by jamincan 5y ago
The NYPA is in the process of upgrading the Massena-Adirondack transmission lines which will initially be at 230kV, but later be able to be run at 345kV. https://www.nny360.com/news/stlawrencecounty/power-authority
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There's on the order of 7+ million people within 150km of the dam. I don't think I would call that remote.
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You scrubbed the entire meaning from the sentencing by removing the context. They are saying that despite the conflict of values, principles of free software mean that the network is free to use their code provided they comply with the lic
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The problem, of course, is that advice focusing on technique and feedback is a lot harder to pass on, and a lot harder to absorb. It's the difference between a 30 second tik tok clip and a one hour in-depth on par-baking pie crusts.
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Out of curiousity, what do you feel Rust would need to reach maturity?
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Projects to integrate Rust into an existing code base are often referred to as oxidation going back to the beginning with Mozilla and Firefox.
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NumStolen, NumScannedAsOneThingButActuallyAnother, NumLost...
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Doesn't Python pretty much guarantee that since it's single-threaded?

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