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The article also notes that other mathematicians very quickly advanced his work from 10% to 38% and wondered why he hadn't just done it himself, since it was relatively simple. He explained that his skills were rusty after being out of
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I find I frequently use a combination - use map/filter to setup an iterator, and then reduce it in a loop.
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I don't know that I'd call it abhorrent - dairy cows in Ontario seem to have relatively decent conditions compared to pigs and chickens, for example. The thing that makes me reserved about it is the very high water and energy cost
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You're looking for something like honey that no one can resist - kryptonite is Superman's weakness; he avoids it at all costs.
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The Rust Book has an example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html Of course, leaking memory is as easy as using `Box::leak`, although that's probably never going to happen accidentally.
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I think I clearly stated that the US and NATO has had influence, sufficient to tilt the war in either direction, but I also think it's unrealistic to believe that influence can be leveraged to end the war let alone set the terms for pe
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I'm not claiming we need war at all. I am pointing out that Kissinger's road plan for peace is built on a false framework.
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I'm rejecting Kissinger's entire framework. This isn't a war between NATO (or the US) and Russia, so as much as we might want to end the war, we can't. The entire premise of his article presumes that the west can determi
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That's a fair point; military power isn't the only way to project power. I do think, though, that the war in Ukraine may lead to us reevaluating just what nuclear power provides you. Certainly it is a deterrent to attack and espec
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Do you think your straw man reflects what I posted?
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Not at all. Kissinger specifically frames this as a war between two great powers over a conventionally armed nation. In this framing, western nations have the power to end this war and set the terms for peace. But I don't believe this
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I balk at calls for peace from Henry Kissinger, who didn't seem to have qualms at raining death on millions of innocent people for his own personal political gains. Nevertheless, I did read the article. Kissinger's framework for u
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And just to show that nothing is straightforward, if you were to refer to a Canadian as an American, they will definitely make a point to correct you.
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This is why we almost universally resort to talking about the weather when speaking with relative strangers. It's hard to be offended by overcast weather.
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I see a list like this potentially being more harmful than helpful in a few respects: 1. By saying certain phrases could be understood to be harmful, even when they aren't commonly understood to be and explicitly don't have racist
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In another world, I feel that being thoughtful about how we use language in this way could be a good thing. I might say something, and my counterpart could point out the history of the word and why it might be hurtful to someone, and I woul
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Usually terms like that become problematic when they are used to erase someone's individuality. They are an addict or a cripple, as opposed to someone having addiction or being crippled. Of course, it's very useful to be able to s
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I started mountain biking in the past year, and it's interesting to think about how this applies to that sport. There's a common refrain that you aren't getting better if you aren't falling, which really bothers me. In p
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I discovered Patrick Radden Keefe's writing this past year, and loved his writing style enough to immediately pick up a second of his books. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Empire of Pain: The Secret
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Count me as one of the people who far prefer self-checkout to regular checkout. As someone who isn't normally buying huge quantities of groceries at once, it is far quicker for me - my grocery store has about 12 kiosks, which means the
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McMurdo is one of the major logistics hubs for the entire continent, this means that it has a relatively high population (~1000 in summer), but also that a lot of people pass through on their way to other parts of Antarctica. It's defi
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You can ask Uline to have a note added to all your orders not to pack a catalogue.
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Since you can't be bothered to post the relevant part yourself, I'll do it for you: "Courts struck down anti-SLAPP laws in Washington and Minnesota, and Washington enacted an updated law Courts in Washington and Minnesota str
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Wasn't that what people said about FTX before now, too?
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I think the expectation for now is that people will develop an app with rustc and then use gcc to compile to targets that aren't yet supported by llvm.
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> Indeed, it seems most Rust code today agrees: widely turning off the borrow checking with copies and the like. I here this and that `unsafe` is widely used in Rust code bases repeated a lot, but is there any actual data backing this?
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It's kind of both. I experienced this with Advent of Code, the other day where I had a vague idea of the data structure I was trying to work with, and the approach I wanted to take to solve the problem, but I started banging into error
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I don't know if this is related to your experience, but one thing I have noticed a lot is that new Rust programmers experience some friction point with the language and suggest some sort of change to address it. This sort of feedback a
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I think astounding is referring to the brazenness of the cheat. If the racer had been just a bit more discrete in the use of it, they probably wouldn't have been caught.
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Trust would seem to be the key word here. How can you trust an entity in one context when they have proven themselves untrustworthy in another?

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