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by jolux 3y ago
> At the same time, I wish to point out most other prison systems in the world are similar or worse This might be true but I do not think it’s true of most peer countries (Western Europe, Canada, etc). I do believe that US prisons are am
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by jolux 3y ago
I linked the DOJ and not the Equal Justice Initiative because I thought they would be less likely to be seen as partisan or politically motivated. But here’s EJI on the same issue: https://eji.org/issues/prison-conditio
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by jolux 3y ago
The problem with US prisons goes far beyond basic unpleasantness. Take it from the Department of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-laws... "'The Department of Justice condu
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by jolux 3y ago
The US prison system is violent and brutal, which begets a high recidivism rate. In my opinion this is because American culture tends to confuse retribution for justice but opinions vary I'm sure.
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by jolux 3y ago
Java does have primitives/unboxed types (int, long, boolean, etc) what they’re adding is support for unboxed/value classes created by users. This should help reduce the duplication between int and Integer and so forth.
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About Rapid Security Responses for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS(support.apple.com)
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by jolux 3y ago
…only if you have the source
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by jolux 3y ago
OCaml is a great language but I would probably choose F# if I had to pick a language for a new project because of libraries.
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by jolux 3y ago
That assumes that construction of affordable housing is happening, which it isn’t in most cases.
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by jolux 4y ago
Pharma companies decided to sell a drug that doesn’t work so they wouldn’t lose sales from pseudoephedrine going behind the counter. They could have simply chosen not to, alas. Also, that switch was required by law. It wasn’t at FDA’s discr
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by jolux 4y ago
It’s already suspected though not proven (as far as I know) that estradiol increases breast cancer risk, but I imagine most of that is because it encourages significant breast tissue growth.
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by jolux 4y ago
Not really what happened — they planned to build a cloud platform on top of it and probably subsidize Docker Hub using those profits. But they got their lunch ate by Kubernetes.
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by jolux 4y ago
Interesting, though it doesn’t look like that’s mentioned in the interview.
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by jolux 4y ago
Microphones don't change all that fast. The Neumann U87 dates from the 1960s IIRC.
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by jolux 4y ago
A 10 billion dollar project is 100x larger. It's definitely more difficult to manage.
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by jolux 4y ago
Go doesn't have RAII or destructors, it has defer.
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by jolux 4y ago
Given how much religiosity has declined I don’t think that’s true at all.
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by jolux 4y ago
> You really think they'd do something as drastic as banning Apple devices over this? I dunno, but the feature is disallowed for a reason. It's more than a VPN because it's so much easier to use than VPNs are typically and
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by jolux 4y ago
Wikipedia disallows editing from iCloud Relay IP addresses, so not a great idea in general. And if you really think authoritarian governments are going to choose iPhones over control, well…
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by jolux 4y ago
> Now, if you have to use unsafe every time you need high performance or scalable data structures, then Rust is as unsafe as C That's not true, because you can wrap unsafe code in safe interfaces and use it from safe code.
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by jolux 4y ago
> future state GP's comment was written in present tense.
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by jolux 4y ago
> isn't that doing this is somehow illegal Well, it may not be a felony, but I wouldn't bet my business on something like this if I was small. Likelihood of a lawsuit and all. > Apple is willing to step in to remove apps tha
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by jolux 4y ago
I mean, in the case of multiplayer probably a lot comes out in the wash of optimistic updates and such, but it’s still very playable and I couldn’t personally notice the lag most of the time. Occasionally when my connection got bad it would
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by jolux 4y ago
I’ve played input-sensitive games with friends on GeForce Now for several months at this point — no major issues with lag.
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by jolux 4y ago
> a regulatory regime Yet somehow smaller banks and credit unions don't have this problem. I've not had any issues like this with my Schwab checking account.
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by jolux 4y ago
Alex Russell used to work on Chrome, and would write threads on Twitter about why it was best for Chrome to dominate the browser market and claim that “engine monoculture” wasn’t a problem for the web. Make of that what you will.
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by jolux 4y ago
Ah, I see.
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> Yet they still have to pay ARM a lot of money because they use their instruction set. Is this true of Apple? They co-founded ARM, I thought it was believed they had a perpetual license.
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by jolux 4y ago
I made friends with a lot of professional programmers so many of them were aware of my skills. Eventually one of them helped me get my first job despite the fact that I had just dropped out of a CS program because of depression. I wish I ha
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by jolux 4y ago
Which Elixir libraries do you think should be in the stdlib that aren’t?

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