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by jnbiche 7y ago
Threading implementation was async, not the programming model. Async programming style/model(as far as I'm aware) refers to the use of callbacks or coroutines, neither of which was common at all in C in the 1990s. Indeed, nginx
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Well, in practice you're presumably using a database, which has transactions in the API you're using. But to answer your question, in functional programming (also frequently ReactJS, if you use libraries like Redux), you don'
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> Just because code is written in an asynchronous style doesn't prevent correctness errors that would not exist with locking. Yes, that's why I referenced passing around a reference to an immutable data structure, which is fair
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Javascript devs, for all their flaws, understand async programming far, far better than the average C programmer. Indeed, your assertion that we need "locking primitives" to counteract "race conditions" is evidence of th
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Yep. Someone has his or her eye on a higher office.
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> This is part of the cause of this epidemic, people were _entirely falsely_ prescribed an ineffective medication that has heavy side effects. It really depends. Opiates work for some people, with some conditions. People should have the
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> So you have plausible deniability about claiming "X", you are just innocently raising the possibility "X?" for consideration I don't think there's much question after reading this article what the author t
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> People become addicts because they’re unhappy with their lives and their environment, You know what's one thing that makes people very unhappy with their lives? Severe chronic pain. Aside from the pain, it also removes a great d
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> currently swung too-heavily towards prescribing opioids Ah, you would have been right about 10-15 years ago. Things have dramatically changed since then. I'm assuming you've not had any contact with the medical system requiri
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I think ultimately it (obviously) should be the doctor's call. But we've swung to such an extreme now that most people with severe chronic pain are undertreated or (more likely) untreated. I'm convinced that we're 5 ye
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> Pseudoaddiction exists. But actual addiction also exists, and it's more dangerous and more likely to happen. Many people kill themselves over chronic untreated or undertreated pain. I've seen studies showing that people with
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> It’s inexplicable to me why able-bodied people That's the problem. Very few people can still work at that age. To be more specific, there are more or less two types of labor: physical and mental (cognitive). Very few people can do
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> but one vouch on a post won't rescue it I've been able to consistently save dead comments with a single vouch, so I presume it only takes one, at least for some level of HN user.
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by jnbiche 7y ago
The graph of male testosterone levels looks very similar to this one. I'm not suggesting there's necessarily a correlation between the two, but modern life is taking its toll on our health. Life expectancy may be longer in present
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I'd assume he/she means control in the engineering sense of the word: testing and inspecting. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control Merriam Webster says that meaning (definition 1a) of the word &
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> If you are on my team and make a possibly stupid suggestion, I would kindly point out that due to the development trajectory the suggestion isn't feasible (an example) I welcome input from even very junior people on my team. But i
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TOTP is OK (probably would have been adequate for @jack). U2F is "great". TOTP can be phished, whereas U2F is virtually impossible to phish.
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You're absolutely right. I've been living away from the coast for too long now (~15 years).
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> My personal rule to consider evacuating is a cat 4+ As you know well having lived through Hugo, the S/S category pertains to the wind speed. However, it's the flooding and storm surge, not the wind, that are by far the most d
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Any good recommendations for a good, discrete gradient descent tutorial, text or Youtube, assuming only calculus? It's one of those things I learned the basics of several years ago and have now forgotten (which frustrates me, but is un
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I like the ability to remove keys. I understand the theoretical reason for append-only keyservers, but in practice it just turns people off from using them. No one wants to look at their entries from 2005 from when they screwed up while lea
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Having read through a lot of the threads that this initiative by Feross has touched off, I've somewhat revised by opinion: I still think the terminal ads are a very bad move, but I appreciate the fact that we're all talking about
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> I've endured the cycle of harassment that follows any credible attempt to fund development work in a new way, seen friends go through it, and saw Feross going into it. It's psychologically impossible for us to experiment our
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Based on everything I'm reading in IP Law and contract law texts online, that is not the case. Here's one from Cornell Law School that specifically says that "Regardless of whether the parties call their transaction a license
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I agree completely with your interpretation of the GPL. However, from my limited understanding, it seems that the situation in question was indeed about a "version A". I'm not suggesting the author can't release a future
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by jnbiche 7y ago
> You might be thinking of a contract, which is a binding agreement between two parties. Nope. I'm thinking of a license, which is a contract (go look it up if you don't believe me). And contracts can be a binding agreement b
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by jnbiche 7y ago
Fair enough. I apologize for getting overly defensive. That said, I do not think that this approach by Feross will work at all. Advertisers hate controversy, and given the fairly negative reception this approach has garnered, most of hi
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> The standard experience of maintainers trying to support their work is that everyone else makes a public point of standing in support of maintainer funding as a general matter, but strongly opposes whatever specific approach the mainta
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> He cannot prevent people who obtained a version of the software under a license from doing what they want with it under the terms of that license. And that includes getting the source code for a binary released under the GPL. That&#x27
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What kind of a license doesn't have to be observed by one of the parties to the license? Would any HN lawyers like to chip in? From my understanding of contracts, that interpretation seems contrary to basic legal principles. The obliga

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