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by kbenson 3y ago
Feels like a mixed message, because my natural inclination would be to think of Rust as healthy and nutritious foods (it takes dedication and consistency to stick with it) and a better dependency algorithm as a fancy pie, since it's a
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It wasn't supposed to be a gotcha, just an effort to move the discussion into interesting territory. That said, I wouldn't call a product that diverged from Sybase SQL Server entirely in 1995, was converted to C++ a few years, lat
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It's a technology company with over 200,000 employees, that's in just about every industry, sometimes with bad software, sometimes with good. Are you actually going to double down on your 2024 comment equivalent of "Herr derr
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Boring, repetitive take. Microsoft is a large company with some crap products and some really cool stuff. Their work to bring SQL Server to Linux[1] seemed very cool. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206438
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I don't think they were using complexity as the reason for that assumption, but instead goals. Adding security doesn't require a nation state's level of resources, but it is a more attractive feature for a nation state that
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One of the well known effects of alcohol is impaired judgment. You're expecting people with some level of impaired judgment to make correct judgment calls. Skill and maturity can help, but are not a solution to that fundamental problem
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Usually they do, either as some other company's acquisition or as a company that acquires others (like facebook/meta). Little actually is entirely gone, someone snatches it when the price gets low enough. Whether they grow themsel
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That only works to a point I think. If your forum devolves to only having the easily duped people, it becomes a lot less interesting overall (since the content is from the people) and even those people leave.
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> Even Americans usually don't drink that hard; the French earned my respect that day. Is drinking hard something so deserving of respect? Is working while impaired? To me this reads as "I like to fuck off and be irresponsible
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> We need to focus on real ways to improve the supply chain. eg having repeatable idempotent builds with signed chain of trusts that are backed by real identities that can be prosecuted and burned. So, either no open source development b
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That this was dynamically linked is the least interesting thing about it IMO. It was a long term I filtration where they got legitimate commit access to a well used library. If xz was statically linked in some way, or just used as an exec
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100GB of what ? Text documents? Word documents? CSV files? Excel files? Cat videos? Porn videos? Source code from a trusted source? Source code from randos? Games or apps installed from a marketplace? Games or apps installed as do
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The problem is that Gladwell comes off as trying to be scientific, when really he's just a persuasive storyteller. If you view Gladwell as a purveyor of facts or a science communicator, then he does a horrible job and yes, it's h
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I have a slightly different take on him, which comes to the same ultimate end on how I view his work. As he's shifted from primarily a journalist to primarily a storyteller, he's chosen to sacrifice additional information and accu
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A very good point (I'm not sure if it's relevant to the book in question, as I haven't read it or if you're referring just about the conversation so far). It seems like many people will take a strong claim they are dubio
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At a minimum if there were no changes in permissions wanted a notification saying X app updated and is using the same permissions, click here to see how many times each permissions was used (with the more privacy related ones at the top of
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THE rules of physics are OUR approximation of how we understand the physical reality we live in. They are a human invention to describe a existing system, and thus the "our" is implied.
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It also required the complex gyro for each car, not just the engine, which is why the video states ultimately it was killed. I'm not sure the situation has changed with that.
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Or 1.27 USD. Today. According to Google. Which is pegged to some market rate at some time. Which may differ based on your exact location and the conditions in the area. And is expected to be different a short time from now.
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I was specifically thinking of "creating" when I said writing, not maintaining or extending. And yes, while it can still be large enough to have multiple people working on it, then the "you" is actually a group, and of c
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The difference is that if you're writing a program you know the scope of use of all libraries, whether they be externally loaded or internal abstraction boundaries, and also know the scope of use of the program, and can make a call as
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There probably is a sweet spot for power to speed, but I think it's possibly a bit larger than you suggest. There's overhead from the other components as well. For example, the Mellanox NIC seems to utilize about 20W itself, and
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>>> Think of "Asshole" in corporate leadership as "a show of force" that earns begrudging respect. Compare that to just being an asshole in a petty way that doesn't have a positive outcome, and just causes
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Having someone with a strong vision to rally around and attract others with similar views probably works wonders in itself. This could be someone powerful at a large company attracting like minded employees, or a small company whose founder
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I think Jobs as an example here is confusing, because he's noted as being an asshole and also an asshole , so people will read it your way and people will read it the other way.
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Given your complaint, what benefit is there to building a forum on ActivityPub over just allowing ActivityPub as a login mechanism?
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> SpaceX, the least bad, is still a trash fire of malfeasance that's doing harm to ground based astronomy and also allows Musk to interfere in world politics, as he did when he defended Russia by blocking StarLink access to Ukraine&
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Has NDT been saying that? I wouldn't know, since I mostly consume him as small segments of larger appearances, but it seems half the time he's conversing with someone he's spouting philosophy as he sees it, so it would be sur
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Not the GP but that's clearly the case IMO. If I share my tax records with my accountant and their office is broken into because they left the office key sonewhere, do I blame the office building or the accountant? We can argue about w
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Transactions are good/best, but I also have a habit of prefixing my statements with "a " before pasting anything with a semicolon (or anything more than a few characters really), so in the accidental case a newline gets paste

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