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by lenkite 11mo ago
> Credible source? Someone who doesn't have a documented track record of repeatedly reporting false rumors as facts would be a nice start. That depends on what you personally take as rumors vs facts. No doubt you would take all Indi
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> Not a single credible source has reported this. Wow, I would first like your definition of a credible source before bothering even discussing further - it seems you have some extraordinary high standard that neither media nor governm
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> Indian Air Force has repeatedly falsely claimed that they downed five Pakistani fighter jets, and one AWACS aircraft. This claim is patently absurd and completely unsupported... This was also confirmed by several independent internatio
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by lenkite 11mo ago
The S400 seems to do a good job of shooting down drones despite what CNN/MSN says. It has defended against several thousand drones in the last year. It also successfully used by India in the latest spat and India is placing more orders
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by lenkite 11mo ago
> It also has protections and abstractions to make multithreaded code safe and generally correct. Depends on your definition of safety and correctness. Async Rust does not prevent deadlocks and make them very difficult to detect https:&
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> The trackpad on it is no better or worse than any other trackpad I've used. Compared to the thinkpad trackpad, it is light-years ahead. It is also more robust - functions with a little bit of dirt/oil/dirt/water. Ge
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by lenkite 11mo ago
I have herded cattle - cows and goats when I was a child on my grandfather's farm. It was indeed a "chill job". But I had my grandfather's dog to accompany me and he did most of the work. I just lazed around.
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> Those tax dollars don't just pay for the license, but for ongoing development, responsibility for security issues, support contracts, emergency personnel, and so on. Maybe this was true at one point in time. But now, it just pays
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> Why D sees low adoption? Most components of the D standard library (Phobos) use garbage collection by default (when I last checked). This unfortunately removes it as a contender in the same space as Zig and Rust. And once you move to
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by lenkite 11mo ago
I think you mean "be gone" to only px based font-size right ? And instead of "width", use "inline-size". Instead of "height", use "block-size".
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They just need to start deprecating and removing old features. They had no issues with XSLT removal even when some major sites like the library of congress used it. So the excuse of backward compatability has already proven to be a lie.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
I wish the "little more power" would add CSS modules. It would also be great if web components didn't require Javascript and could be configured with pure HTML and CSS. I will kiss the feet of the whatwg groups if they do t
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Well: Static types exist at runtime, VM can optimize using type information (Inline caching, Devirtualization, predictable, fixed object layout), AOT compiled, Dart’s type system is sound, language-supported Isolates (wow feature), hot relo
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by lenkite 11mo ago
They did engineer a good browser: original Edge with the Chakra JavaScript Engine. It was faster than Google Chrome and had some unique features: a world-best, butter-smooth and customizable epub reader. I loved it for reading - it beat c
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by lenkite 11mo ago
> If Putin's regime is censoring western media, is it any less political? Would like to point out that Russian bans came in response to the EU ban. "The EU first banned Russian state media outlets like RT and Sputnik on March 1
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Yes, this is the sad trend excepting for some markets that circumvent paying tax or the markets in the manufacturing cities.
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Then I misunderstood what you were saying. PC community has actually increased over last few years as people have become dissatisfied with the big-2 consoles.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
I am guessing you purely stick to the mobile-phone/corpo-laptop crowd then ? Finding PC enthusiasts should not be that difficult. They are legions of them all over the world - not just in the developed nations. Even normal folks upgr
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Yeah, the EU (and also the UK earlier) were always lecturing to the third world on human rights and tolerance and media freedom/integrity, blah-blah not so long ago. So many pompous speeches made. Now, it is eye-rolling to see them b
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Yeah, well you can write "enterprise 10k patterns crap" in any language. Java projects suffered from the craze of those initial years where every "architect" and their grandmother insisted on patterns. Idiomatic, Modern
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by lenkite 11mo ago
My bad - I thought Tiktok (and other Bytedance apps) were banned in the US but apparently not since President Trump reversed the US Supreme Court decision. Huh, so it is mainly the European powers who are the culprits. Changed my claim.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
> I'm curious where you live. Anecdotally, this is the opposite to the experience of everyone I know. Actually, his experience is the standard PC enthusiast experience for the vast majority of DIY'ers in many nations. And is
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Yes, it is officially banned (along with Sputnik and other Russian media). It is sad that you don't know this as an EU citizen and think that formal directives of your union are Facebook and Twitter propaganda bots "On 2 March
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Right now, if you wish fully non-censored media, you need to live in a third world nation! All the high-and-mighty, old Europe powers are busy censoring a lot of stuff.
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It was not all that obvious from a legal point of view. Google vs Oracle was the first US Supreme Court case directly testing whether copying API declarations can violate copyright. It was also decided later in the EU as well in that SAS
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Coding repetitive for-loops for everything and mind-numbing error handling put everywhere makes line count bloat up like crazy. Go is one of the most verbose languages I have seen and I say this as a guy coding in Go in my daily work. Evide
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A nicer language which is much slower to compile compared to Java.
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But Google did NOT copy the open source implementation. Google copied parts of the closed-source proprietary Java SE API specifications in order to have compatibility and without taking a license. Kindly remember that Android started using
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It has everything to do with political correctness. Honest, blunt language is now de-valued in favor of passive, sanitized, AI-slop language that no longer conveys important information. The revised post forgot to mention the critical poi
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Not any longer. The rewrite which destroyed performance uses ReactJS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861 What is terrible is that new developers think that this has been the usual poor state of things...this is wh

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