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by kbolino 2y ago
I don't think modern health insurers want to lower costs. Middlemen benefit from an increase in costs because they operate by skimming off the cashflows passing through them. This has been codified with the 85-15 rule in the ACA but th
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by kbolino 2y ago
Comcast has supported standard DOCSIS modems for a long time now. I have some old ones lying around, but they're too old for modern speeds.
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by kbolino 2y ago
This depends on the technology. When I had a PON connection (FiOS), the ONT belonged to the ISP but was on my premises. However, with the cable Internet I have now (Xfinity aka Comcast), there is nothing between me and the street save a spl
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by kbolino 2y ago
You're definitely not going to be linking to libc in a no_std environment, which is going to cover much (though not all) of embedded development. That will also remove some of the most bloated library dependencies from even being avail
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by kbolino 2y ago
The government needs money to spend. Fiat money comes from nothing. The government that controls the fiat money can produce it in any way. Taxes are a money sink, not a money source. Taking money collected as taxes to turn around and spend
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by kbolino 2y ago
Monetary inflation happens when the money supply grows too fast. To reduce inflation, the government pulls money out of circulation. Taxes are one way to do this, but not the only way. Interest rates are another way, and increasingly are th
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by kbolino 2y ago
Inflation is too uniform, I guess. Why not just take the $100 bill out of circulation? Also, this seems to be falling into the classic fallacy that sovereign governments which control fiat currencies still levy taxes for revenue. Yes, it ke
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by kbolino 2y ago
The U.S. already spends an immense amount on schools, healthcare, and infrastructure. Our problem is not the amount spent so much as the lack of results commensurate with the cost.
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by kbolino 2y ago
There's still a lot of situations where automatic certificate enrollment and renewal is not possible. TLS is not the only use of X.509 certificates, and even then, public facing HTTPS is not the only use of TLS. It needs to get better
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by kbolino 2y ago
As I said, errors.Is works with ErrValue and errors.As works with ErrType. I guess the word "Is" is doing too much work here, because I wouldn't expect ErrType{Code:1} and ErrType{Code:0} to match under errors.Is, though ErrT
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by kbolino 2y ago
If you have a value type, you don't need to implement Is. It's just that errors.New (and fmt.Errorf) doesn't return a value type, so such errors only match under errors.Is if they have the same identity, hence why you typical
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by kbolino 2y ago
On the one hand, I never realized that map iteration order was consistent, but it's just the starting point that changes. On the other hand, I guess there's no other way to do it, since a proper shuffle would require O(n) bookkeep
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by kbolino 2y ago
Probably worth noting that errors.As uses assignability to match errors, while errors.Is is what uses simple equality. Either way, both work well without custom implementations in the usual cases.
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by kbolino 2y ago
You do not have to do more work to use errors.Is or errors.As. They work out of the box in most cases just fine. For example: package example var ErrValue = errors.New("stringly") type ErrType struct { Code
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by kbolino 2y ago
The biggest difference between try-catch and error values syntactically IMO is that the former allows you to handle a specific type of error from an unspecified place and the latter allows you to handle an unspecified type of error from a s
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by kbolino 2y ago
No AA on 4K/high-DPI has been almost perfect for me, but I still occasionally notice thin edges flickering and objects getting dithered when fading in or out. It's definitely better than TAA though, which just ends up smearing e
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by kbolino 2y ago
I don't understand how SQLite ends up in the same category for comparison with database servers with this sort of use in mind. SQLite is a great piece of technology but a local file and a network connection are not interchangeable (NFS
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by kbolino 2y ago
The Linux Steam client is also still 32-bit, so it's more like 20 years with no 64-bit support.
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by kbolino 2y ago
> some other federal agency that the President has 100% control over Neither Civil Servants nor Senior Executives can be directly terminated by the President without due process. Only appointees can be fired on a whim, and their replacem
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by kbolino 2y ago
I don't think people associate search with an app. Search is something built in to the operating system or browser (a distinction which is disappearing too).
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by kbolino 2y ago
Sequels aren't a problem if they're continuously improving on their predecessors. Setting aside Atlus which you already mentioned, and stale N+1 sequels, we've got: Square Enix with Octopath Traveler and Dragon Quest Build
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by kbolino 2y ago
Not just Windows and JavaScript, the JVM (Java etc.) and CLR (C# etc.) also use 16-bit encodings natively. It's actually kind of amazing how short-lived 16-bit Unicode was and yet how much of an effect it has on software today.
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by kbolino 2y ago
My very limited understanding is that Hanja use is extremely rare today, only ever cropping up in niches of academia. Basically everyone will exclusively use Hangul and will disambiguate with synonyms, idioms, etc. instead of Hanja.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Yeah, the problem is that Google today is still generally better than its competitors today, even though Google today is worse than Google yesterday.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Google got big when being a dot-com URL meant something and the primary way the average person accessed the Internet was through a desktop PC. Neither of those things is true anymore.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Add a little more to this number here, and a little more to that number there, piecemeal and conservatively, and before too long you have more complexity than if you just designed for larger numbers in the first place.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Japanese AAAs seem to be heading into the same slump as Western AAAs which is going to be more of a problem for them, since Japan has fewer indie and AA developers than the West, while Chinese competition is also growing, but I would neithe
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by kbolino 2y ago
Catholicism was legal for some of those 150 years in Maryland; the colony was founded by Catholics and intended as a haven for them. Protestants moved in from elsewhere and eventually outlawed Catholicism though.
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by kbolino 2y ago
You're spot on about playing during development. But I don't think the point about microtransactions should be extrapolated from. Besides the fact that Hall was wrong about the numbers, there's also the fact that he's ki
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by kbolino 2y ago
I would think that the secure enclave controls the device (un-)locking process and also wouldn't install OTA firmware updates nor accept commands from USB-connected peripherals while the device is locked.

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