madez

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901.
by madez 10y ago
There are people who have circadian rhythm issues and are able but not willing to pay the price paid in health for adhering to a given sleeping cycle. You say these cannot be responsible adults. That's what appalls me.
902.
by madez 10y ago
You should ask someone who actually knows about that topic, e.g. any doctor that works with people with sleep problems, what they think of your statement.
903.
by madez 10y ago
> I can do all of these things because I am a responsible adult. You are saying that if anyone is not willing to do these things, they cannot be responsible adults. How rude and arrogant of you, if you really mean what you say.
904.
by madez 10y ago
That "changing the time you go to bed and wake up is trivially simple" is an assumption of yours, and it is wrong in general.
905.
by madez 10y ago
It is not always about "not liking going to bed" at a certain time. Sleep is not something everybody can easily control. Not giving the body sleep when it asks for it can easily become a health risk.
906.
by madez 10y ago
It certainly is entitlement if the grandparent thinks it's righteous to lose all sympathy only because they are not willing to trade control over the sleep cycle for money. Don't assume everbody has yours, and don't judge the
907.
by madez 10y ago
How about I'm not willing to work for you if you want control over my sleep cycle? It is an agreement that both sides need to accept. Now, if I'm not willing to give up control over my sleep cycle you lose all sympathy for me? Ser
908.
by madez 10y ago
I also strongly disagree with you. How dare you decide for others how their sleep cycle should be?
909.
by madez 10y ago
The strategy is also great if you can guarantee the bully mutual complete destruction.
910.
by madez 10y ago
I think bullies should be treated with confrontative aggressiveness wherever possible until they stop bullying.
911.
by madez 10y ago
Exactly, mostly. I think Europe should have efficient and effective measures to ensure it's safety also when they don't align.
912.
by madez 10y ago
Of course you could turn sending the signal on and off depending on the time or where they are.
913.
by madez 10y ago
Why shouldn't it be possible to turn off only those satellites that are visible in a certain area? I don't see any argument in your favour.
914.
by madez 10y ago
If Europe had created Galileo like originally envisioned the USA could not jam Galileo without also jamming GPS. Hence they would need to ask Europe to turn of Galileo or turn Galileo off for them, i.e. shooting down the satellites, which E
915.
by madez 10y ago
It might be easy for the US to shoot down satellites, but so it might be for Europe. The whole point of this story is that the USA wants to be able to act without Europe possibly having a say. That Europe agreed was wrong, I think.
916.
by madez 10y ago
Now, that is a valid concern. So far the first I read. Maybe some countries in Europe also wanted to see Snowden catched.
917.
by madez 10y ago
You could also turn off Galileo only in some areas.
918.
by madez 10y ago
What is an enemy for the USA might not be an enemy of Europe. I can just repeat myself. If it is in the interest of Europe to turn Galileo off, they can do so. If it is not in their interest, they shouldn't do so. Now, that the decisio
919.
by madez 10y ago
If whatever the USA are planing to do is in Europes interest, they can ask to turn Galileo off. If it is really in Europes interest, they will do so.
920.
by madez 10y ago
In the scenario you mentioned Europe could turn off Galileo if deemed necessary, no need for the USA to shoot it down. The solution taken just makes it easier for USA to wage war against Europes interests.
921.
by madez 10y ago
Then Europe should treat shooting down of Galileo satellites as an act of war and react as such. It's not Europes business to make it easy for the USA to wage war.
922.
by madez 10y ago
I'm very disappointed that the EU bowed to their demands. It is the second clear sign I know that Europe dances to the USA's pipe; the other one was the grounding of the bolivian presidents plane in 2013. I hope that Europe eventu
923.
by madez 10y ago
I'm well aware that it is unreasonable to expect the compiler to accept all safe programs, hence it needs to be conservative. It must only accept code that it can prove to be safe or that is marked as unsafe (funny, maybe the keyword h
924.
by madez 10y ago
How about the example given below by Manish? The following program will never fail. fn main() { let mut x = 0; let y = &x; println!("{}", y); x += 1; println!("{}", x); } It sti
925.
by madez 10y ago
Just because something is worth the hazzle doesn't mean people do it. Of course, some people are willing to study and learn, but I think you also need to cater to those who are not if you want widespread adoption.
926.
by madez 10y ago
The learning curve of a program is relevant. Even if it just takes a weekend of fiddling around with Rust to learn how to satisfy it, it will hinder adoption.
927.
by madez 10y ago
I also think this is an issue for Rust. The borrow checker needs to understand more, safe programs. Some are trivially safe but the borrow checker can't verify that. That is a problem. I don't even think the borrow checker needs t
928.
by madez 10y ago
Obscurity does add security. It might not stop an attacker, but probably slows him down. That delay is sometimes important to have.
929.
by madez 10y ago
I wonder if AI is where games can make use of many cores. If the game logic can not be reasonibly parallelized anymore, the unused computing capacity can be used to add "intelligent" agents into the game. They don't need to d
930.
by madez 10y ago
OK, if GCM delivers the data to Signal's servers, then Google doesn't know who I'm contacting, but the administrator of Signals server does. The two other points stay valid, though.

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