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by lr1970 5y ago
> He said that Spotify could "have either Joe Rogan or Neil Young, but not both". Why it has to be mutually exclusive like an XOR operation? In a civilized discourse it is OK to have both points of view present at the same time
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by lr1970 5y ago
issue `cargo doc` command to generate the documentation that will expose extension traits among other things. Not perfect, certainly. But together with rust-analizer and grep the generated docs cover all the bases.
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by lr1970 5y ago
Rust executables are statically linked by default. This makes them oftentimes substantially larger than their dynamically linked counterparts. For me it is not a deal breaker.
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Could you please explain what this means? Googling didn't reveal much. An classic UNIX /etc/passwd file is readable by all local users and in the past used to contain the password hashes. One can download these hashes an
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by lr1970 5y ago
> They'd also know that pretty much the only condition we're treating nowadays is Covid. This statement might be true for your location but is not true in general. Here in New York City hospitalizations due to covid are not ver
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by lr1970 5y ago
If a watermarked PDF ended up on the internet it does not necessarily mean that the person who purchased the said PDF leaked it themself or did anything wrong for that matter. Computers are hacked, stolen all the time. At Universities machi
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by lr1970 5y ago
> A number of vaccines are already required for school children. To the best of my knowledge all the vaccines on the required list are fully FDA approved. COVID-19 one has a lesser "FDA emergency authorization".
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by lr1970 5y ago
> It's crazy they stop stock vesting on parental leave, that just seems really messed up to me. The linked article explicitly states that: "A few days after she sent the note, according to a report in Business Insider, Amazon
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by lr1970 5y ago
> World War II didn't start with the invasion of the Soviet Union, it started with Germany and the Soviet Union agreeing to dismember Poland, IIRC. Why not start counting WWII from the Munich Agreement [0] of September 1938 when Bri
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by lr1970 5y ago
> But invasion of North America? No, why would they? It would be costly and likely to end in defeat, and for what end goal? For Soviets invading North America was logistically impossible. Soviet Union never possessed a navy large and str
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by lr1970 5y ago
> detected unauthorized activity on a small number of user accounts where transactions were being approved without the 2FA authentication control being inputted by the user. How am I supposed to read it: is it a 2FA compromise (attacker
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by lr1970 5y ago
Nobody is objecting oversight, inspection and certification when in comes to physical infrastructure like bridges, tunnels, etc. I think we reached the point when critical software infrastructure and services should be treated the same way.
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by lr1970 5y ago
A recent HN discussion on the same subject 13 days ago: The Demise of Scientific American (scottaaronson.blog) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778348 (419 comments)
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by lr1970 5y ago
> It's not about computers and "You don't put science on your name if you're a real science" "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger W. Dijkstra [0], [
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Plenty of people go into politics with good intentions, and some even stay that way after some time there Politics is a highly competitive game. Those who do not optimize for maximizing their power and carrier advances are operating at
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by lr1970 5y ago
> If two NATO members go to war, there is no clear side to take. In fact there was such a historical precedent. Turkey and Greece, both NATO members, fought a war in Northern Cyprus in 1974 [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by lr1970 5y ago
> That was a different context though, with ongoing civil war and strife and no foreign takeover Not quite a take over but NATO bombing of Serbia does count as foreign interference.
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by lr1970 5y ago
Perfect way to become an early investor in an anonymous Ponzi scheme. Get out of jail card for the guilty parties.
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by lr1970 5y ago
In the field of active climate engineering one can try dispersing aluminum [0] or/and (synthetic) diamond micro-particles [1] in the stratosphere to reflect some of the Sun's light back into space. Especially useful because the ef
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by lr1970 5y ago
Great post by Nick offering a very interesting fresh perspective from someone who was an active member of the Rust core team in the past, then took a break for couple of years and now comes back working on Rust full time (at Microsoft). Gre
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by lr1970 5y ago
gron [0] is another interesting JSON processor that follows UNIX philosophy: [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron "Make JSON greppable!" "gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier
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by lr1970 5y ago
Just 8 days ago a story on HN about jetpens: Japan's Paper Culture (156 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709551
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by lr1970 5y ago
I installed iSH [0] (Alpine linux emulator) on my iPad and sync obsidian directories between my laptop and the iPad using git and ssh. Works like a charm. [0] https://ish.app/
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by lr1970 5y ago
I think that Bogdanoff twins invented a time-machine, traveled to 2021 and used GPT-3 to generate their Ph.D. theses with correct Quantum Field Theory jargon but nonsensical otherwise :-) </joke attempt>
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Actually getting jailed for copyright infringement is quite difficult... May be actually getting in jail is difficult but a threat of jail in a criminal copyright infringement persecution can be devastating as the tragedy of Aaron Swar
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Soviet news at the time was actually much more accurate than the USA. This is simply false. Soviet news was an official and pure propaganda. For example, Cuban missile crisis was totally ignored by the Soviet media. While the world was
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by lr1970 5y ago
> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." --Ken Thompson Actually, the quote is by Donald Knuth [0]. [0] https://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization
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by lr1970 5y ago
> I always tell people of how my mother was smuggling Soviet rubles stitched into her coat when she flew to NYC to immigrate to America... Typically people were smuggling foreign currency (US dollars) out of the Soviet Union rather than
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by lr1970 5y ago
The West is threatening to cut Russia from SWIFT financial transactions network. Russia is threatening back with a "strong response" that, for example, could come in a form of a cyber attack. It never hurts to be vigilant and test
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by lr1970 5y ago
> I don't know how they would know (call all places to see if you also worked there?). It can be tracked during your background check (using SSN). They will make you sign a form that you authorize them to perform such a check. Fail

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