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by lenkite 11mo ago
When I was a junior developer working in the outsourcing industry, I regularly had to maintain projects where the entire codebase was in a few major functions. It was a stressful nightmare to debug - such projects destroyed my health. No f
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China is a nation state that absolutely looks out for themselves first and foremost. They will invest as long as it is profitable for them and they can gain land and benefits. They are not supplying free food and education to Africa. Incide
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> Education, financial security, and personal liberty are actually proven to work When numbers are being added at the rate of several hundred million in a decade, none of those can work and most especially when your religion is a major i
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by lenkite 11mo ago
In 2010, Africa’s total population was estimated at about ~1.07 billion. By 2025, the population is estimated at roughly ~1.53 billion. That means the continent has seen an increase of abou 450-500 million people over merely 15 years! (~44%
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by lenkite 11mo ago
How do the people kick out a EU representative ? Without the power to do so, it is not a "democracy".
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> So you're saying we should blame the board, or stockholders, for this terrible design? No, he is saying that we should blame the person who has command responsibility . It is pretty well-established principle in jurisprudence act
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Marketing and visibility retention will likely be better when people think - hey its the PL that is NOT on github.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
> Denying code not on it's merits but it's source is childish. No, its pretty standard legal policy actually.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
PRC just needs to sponsor a "Voice of China" and pay ¥¥¥/$$$/€€€/₹₹₹ to "journalists" and seed the web with millions of "China is Great" articles. Make sure to have 10k "contributors" o
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by lenkite 11mo ago
ON HN, just a couple of years ago, a famous Rust programmer said that it is OK to use unwrap. Rustaceans supported this position. Cloudflare merely followed the community standard. Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay https://news.ycom
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What happens when they "keep" failing ? You never get to know what is causing your nightmare.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
We need modern programming languages with formal verification built-in - should be applicable to specially demarcated functions/modules. It is a headache to write TLA+ and keep the independent spec up2date with the productive code.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Yes, they are doing so well. Merely threatening free software with arrests/seizure for refusing backdoors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037573 Others are arresting 30-50 people a day for social media posts th
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by lenkite 11mo ago
15 years ago, Python programmers used to mock Perl by quoting the Zen of Python: "There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it.". This was in stark contrast to Perl's TIMTOWTDI motto: "There Is Mo
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Yeah, it is a crappy example. Ignore me. I just re-read and the rustdoc has no “subtle linguistic distinctions”.
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by lenkite 11mo ago
I did say "runtime borrow checking" ie using them together . Example: `Rc::new(RefCell::new(value));`. This will panic at runtime. Maybe I should have used the phrase "dynamic borrowing" ? https://play.rust-
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by lenkite 11mo ago
Runtime borrow checking: RefCell<T> and Rc<T>. Can give other examples, but admittedly they need `unsafe` blocks. Anyways, the article author lacks basic reading skills, since he forgot to mention that the Go http doc states tha
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by lenkite 11mo ago
The first one should be caught by the Go race detector AFAIK. It will warn about the conflicting write accesses to err when both goroutines run.
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There is a LOT of demand for explicit capture clauses. This is one thing that C++ got right and Rust got wrong with all its implicit and magic behaviour. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1odrf9s/exp
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by lenkite 11mo ago
> Subtle linguistic distinctions are not what I want to see in my docs, especially if the context is concurrency. Which PL do you use then ? Because even Rust makes "Subtle linguistic distinctions" in a lot of places and also i
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by lenkite 11mo ago
First, that expression is overly complicated, shorten to: [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable($name, $value, "User") You have un-necessarily used a full constant to falsely present it more complex. Please also note that
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by lenkite 11mo ago
> The Go bindings for native UI frameworks ended up being massive RAM hogs. Which bindings did you use ?
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I guess we need to wait until Typst is natively supported by Github.
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We are in the situation because the capital class have turned the people we elect into servile puppets. Because they have simply been allowed to become too big and powerful.
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People are being harmed today , not just hypothetical people born 100 years later.
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Everyone should learn how to build drones.
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By the time a company becomes a monopoly, it is immensely powerful - politically and monetarily - getting rid of it or splitting it up is near impossible. Monopoly laws are near impossible to apply as the corporation has sufficient money an
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The British deindustrialized India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-industrialisation_of_India
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I really wish someone came up with an reddit alternative - perhaps stick to STEM + lifestyle topics only to keep things free of national/international politics - and thus free of interference/censorship.
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HN is also biased towards software developers. Now, if you start putting in regulations into everything software developers do in the software development pipeline, only then will begin to truly feel the bite of mind-numbing regulations.

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