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by jamincan 9mo ago
You mean like the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine being awarded to the person who developed lobotomy surgery?
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by jamincan 9mo ago
It's not socialism, it's a kleptocracy. There's a pretty big difference.
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by jamincan 9mo ago
Human behaviour can be a confounding thing. There was some debate a while ago [1] about whether bike helmet use may actually lead more head injuries due to factors like drivers passing closer to helmeted riders vs. unhelmeted ones or riders
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by jamincan 9mo ago
Did the US allow all the other nuclear countries to develop nuclear weapons? There are quite a few states that could easily and quickly develop their own nuclear deterrent and the US is in a much worse position now to deter them from that.
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by jamincan 10mo ago
To me, it's when narrative has priority over accuracy. There are a number of popular edutainment figures who fit this mold, but Gladwell is probably the most prominent example.
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by jamincan 10mo ago
Apparently it was acceptable to use s or z in words like catalyse or analyze in British English until Microsoft Word came out with a British English spellchecker that picked the s spelling as its standard. Whether this is just myth or fact
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by jamincan 10mo ago
It's not just that they are adding AI to every single product, it's being pushed on customers in incredibly intrusive and irritating ways that makes it seem as though they're desperate for their AI investments to pan out. If
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by jamincan 11mo ago
The master bath in my parents' old place had a massive bathroom and gigantic shower that seems to be all the rage now in more "luxurious" bathroom designs - often with a bathtub in the shower as well. I had to use their showe
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by jamincan 11mo ago
I have definitely noticed this when I've tried doing Advent of Code in Rust - by the time my code compiles it typically send out the right answer. It doesn't help me once I don't know whatever algorithm I need to reach for in
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by jamincan 11mo ago
As a hypothetical example, when making a regex, I call `Regex::new(r"/d+")` which returns a result because my regex could be malformed and it could miscompile. It is entirely reasonable to unwrap this, though, as I will find
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by jamincan 11mo ago
People form parasocial relationships with AI already with content restrictions in place. It seems to me that that is a separate issue entirely.
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by jamincan 11mo ago
I avoid the automated checkouts in part because it takes jobs away from robots. Am I a bad person for creating jobs for humans? I confess I am a hypocrite though, as I'm one of those job-stealing people that return the cart to the corr
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by jamincan 11mo ago
All of the memory safety stuff is independent of the trait system, to the best of my knowledge, but the data race protection is implemented through the Send and Sync traits. I'm unsure if there is an obvious alternative approach to thi
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by jamincan 11mo ago
I would contend that 5 bills are more bulky than 5 coins. The only upside of dealing with US bills when travelling in the US is that you feel like a millionaire when you pull out the massive wad of bills from your pocket.
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by jamincan 11mo ago
I wonder if it's simply the fact that there really isn't anything driving them to get their kids vaccinated rather than a particular religious conviction. In Ontario, the old-order Mennonite and Amish groups have separate schoolin
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by jamincan 11mo ago
Graydon's post was about as full-throated an endorsement of Fil-C as you can get, including noting where it's innovations could be used to improve Rust safety. The fact that you see undertones of some sort of deepset Rust agenda t
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by jamincan 11mo ago
Likely just that the fastest implementations in the benchmarks game are using those features and so aren't really a good reflection of the language as it is normally used. This is a problem for any language on the list, really; the fas
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by jamincan 11mo ago
For what it's worth, when I ask ChatGPT 5, it gets the correct answer every time. The response varies, but the answer is always three.
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by jamincan 11mo ago
Rust can't assume you're running on a real OS though.
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by jamincan 11mo ago
Who is insulting others and where?
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by jamincan 1y ago
It was a common argument that ultimately all of the constitutional protections, balance of powers and all that were protected by the Second Amendment - that in the face of losing their liberty, Americans would rise up against an authoritari
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by jamincan 1y ago
What options do Canadians have? Deal with the wildly capricious economic policies of the US president, or go seeking other, more stable opportunities elsewhere? Almost all countertariffs we have in place are targeted as opposed to the sweep
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by jamincan 1y ago
Stuff that casts the current US administration in a less than favourable light tends to get flagged pretty quickly on here. It doesn't seem quite as bad as a earlier in the year, so I wonder if they've taken measures to counteract
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by jamincan 1y ago
I do recall a story a number of years ago where one of the automatic updates changed the UI and hid the defrost behind a menu (or something along those lines). I don't know that anyone died as a consequence, but it was criticised as be
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by jamincan 1y ago
It really would be better as a posthumous award.
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by jamincan 1y ago
People did speak up before the election and they were dismissed as overreacting.
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by jamincan 1y ago
If you were to write a film one year ago based on the current events in the US, I don't think people would accept the premise either. I feel I was pretty pessimistic compared to most and I have been shocked at how quickly things have c
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by jamincan 1y ago
To the extent that one of the most common things rust users wish for is Rust, but without the borrow checker.
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by jamincan 1y ago
My Beppe's (Frisian grandmother) boterkoek (butter cake) was a well-loved staple at church and school bake sales. She closely guarded her recipe, but shared it with my eldest sister who, after she died, told me that she actually used m
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by jamincan 1y ago
I drive a VW with lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking. It won't change lanes for me, but aside from the requirements that I have my hands on the wheel, could otherwise drive itself on the highwa

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