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by manholio 4y ago
Stalin would agree, there is a pervasive misunderstanding that he was against free speech - in reality, he was against speaking freely and living after speaking.
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by manholio 4y ago
Looks like it's working: > The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.
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by manholio 4y ago
Yup, I can see no sign of retaliation: "she would be transferred to Sao Paolo, Brazil". I mean, who isn't ready to upend their lives, leave all their friends and family to move into a poorer country on another continent for t
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by manholio 4y ago
> “we wont strike for 3 years if you do x” is a perfectly reasonable thing Without legal protection, "you don't strike for 50 years if we hire you" will be standard legalese in any employment contract. It's the nature
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Without the human written parts it's an incoherent word salad. As an intelectual worker, I feel relieved - for a few more years at least.
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> Python, PHP, Ruby and Go ... but with an execution speed that consumes negligible CPU time from the moment the template/source is loaded into memory until it is formatted and put on the wire. Compared to that, a PHP template is d
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by manholio 4y ago
Go into the CEO's office, ask for a large raise and tell them the product is in a very bad shape and will require you to put your utmost effort to turn the ship around. If word were to get out, it would surely kill the company! After y
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by manholio 4y ago
Sorry for the lack of clarity, by "exposing the binary over the internet" I certainly wasn't implying re-implementing a HTTP server, HTTPS and certificate handling etc. You would of course have an nginx frontend that would c
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by manholio 4y ago
Why even bother with a static generator when you can run rust code at essentially wire speed and dynamically generate all the required formatting on the fly? Because Rust binaries are so secure, you can expose them over the internet safely
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by manholio 4y ago
Those three premises are still insuficient to warant desalination. "Shortage" means little, what we have is a restricted supply curve, that can still meet demand at a higher price. And if that price is insuficient to pay for desal
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by manholio 4y ago
> "when the punishment is money, it's only a punishment for the poor." And there is nothing wrong with that: if you are poor and waste 10000 gal watering your lawn during draught, you should be punished because your are
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by manholio 4y ago
> These people do not care about the price of water. They will if the top tire price is $10000/gal. It might be politically unpalatable to push such prices, but it would surely solve the consumption problem without compromising reve
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Desalination is exceptionally expensive compared to just waiting to have water fall from the sky. You can do it in extremely arid climates, for example to provide water to cities, but it makes no economic sense when you already have huge am
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by manholio 4y ago
I would go on a limb and say Rust (or more specifically, a limited dialect of it) could become a good language for beginners if: - the compiler had better life time inference, so that you wouldn't need to annotate simple functions and
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by manholio 4y ago
Python definitely considers itself a serious language, not one intended for 500 line scripts. They have libraries supporting server creation, GUI and desktop applications etc. It's just that in practice, the trade-offs the designers ma
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by manholio 4y ago
Rust has no exceptions and enforces correct propagation of errors at compile time. There are few if any strong typed languages in current use that offer a similar experience, for this mix of [memory safety + strong types + error correctness
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Wonderful!
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I know about the extensions, it's exactly how I was able to run that specific applet, but that's a high friction experience for the user. If the applet does not run it's very unlikely I will install an extension (or search fo
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by manholio 4y ago
Now someone please compile a real JRE into WASM and do it right, so I can revive applets with a simple embed. There are loads of old applets that have huge historic and technical value which are becoming harder and harder to use. Example:
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by manholio 4y ago
It's only odd because we project our own biases and values onto them: one is a criminal as far as the western law systems are concerned, another is an entrepreneurial foreigner. But in reality, both are bold, inventive and motivated. T
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The whole point is that they are unable to make that choice. A substantial decision made in sound mind implies rationality, which mental disease, by definition, diminishes. If you equate a person's rational choices with everything that
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> Instead they can end their life inhumanely anyways That's an option that always exists. I simply have a (much) higher threshold than you in regards to a state killing its own citizens.
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It's depressing how the housing bubble and the consistent failure of western cities to properly control their expansion - and create adequate supply of housing and urban transit - has induced people into extreme versions of 19th centur
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He had a documented history of depression. By definition, he was not in sound mind, there is ample precedent of people suffering from depression, trying and failing to commit suicide, and later recovering and thanking those around them for
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Sounds about like what I would expect. Old age with an incurable degenerative disease is living in hell, so it's no surprise people take the option if it's available. But safeguards must be put in place to prevent people with a hi
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How about: transistor switches /( s * mm * Joule) ? Koomey's law seems to hold strong.
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SpaceX did it on the Dragon too. Hard to imagine an environment that is more mission critical and less cost sensitive than a space ship under severe engine vibration or tumbling out of control though space.
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We are clearly talking about a planetary-sized magnetic field. But I don't think it's in the realm of impossibility. With a sun-shade like that of JWST, temperatures naturally drop to superconducting ranges and at that point a clo
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Methods that involved splitting CO2 will always be power intensive due to physics. What many people forget is that the martian atmosphere has massive total amounts of gaseous oxygen, even if it makes just 0.16% of a very thin atmosphere, if
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You can buy a ride on the Bezos Vomit Comet up to the Kármán line, but that does not make you a martian - or that contraption an orbital rocket. There is no self-driving car in existence today that can do what most people understand by driv

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