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by mantap 6y ago
I don't know. Most of the prepper material I read before the pandemic predicted a breakdown in civilisation type situation. Even through the stress of this pandemic, the world has remained remarkably intact. A pandemic was consistently
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by mantap 6y ago
Apple has a bigger developer base but they are captive users. I'm not saying swift isn't good, but nobody actually chooses to use it. They use because it is the language for making iDevice apps. The problem is that if people are o
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by mantap 6y ago
Say you are a Mongolian tourist and you arrive in America and people are getting upset about "all lives matter", you would think that it is an utterly bizarre thing to get upset about. In fact, the angry reaction to "all live
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by mantap 6y ago
It is reasonable to assume that anybody writing code is using the US keyboard layout. That is the de facto standard and standards are important. Anybody who deviates from that is doing so at their own risk. If you want to use Dvorak or Azer
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by mantap 6y ago
Java has genetics and it is many times more popular than Go. I'm not sure absolute adoption of Go is a good way of divining programmers opinions on genetics.
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by mantap 6y ago
Yes the USA commits human rights abuses. But this is a thread about China, and we shouldn't stop criticising China just because the US does something bad too. PRC does lack proper civil society, and it all started with Mao and his cult
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by mantap 6y ago
They said it would have been insurance fraud. Would you commit fraud to recover $2000? How much is your freedom worth?
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by mantap 6y ago
In the long term plaintext SNI is going away. I'm not convinced that France can implement such a system much faster than TLS WG can thwart it. Also while some US cloud providers might cooperate I doubt that in particular Cloudflare wou
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by mantap 6y ago
There's no such thing as blocking a site. You can direct DNS providers to block DNS, which doesn't help for anyone using Firefox. You can direct ISPs to block an IP but then you have hard decisions when the site you want to block
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by mantap 6y ago
This is just reflective of inequality. I don't know about China specifically but in other asian countries that I know, most locals buy their ingredients at the market, and grocery stores target richer less price-conscious consumers. So
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by mantap 6y ago
What about a Roman or a Greek statue, they were enthusiastic slave owners. How long ago does someone have to have lived in order to appreciate them as a historical figure regardless of whether their actions were good or bad. Obviously there
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by mantap 6y ago
I won't weep too many tears for the 747 but the A380 is seriously pleasant to fly on. It will be sad if it doesn't come back post COVID-19.
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It's possible that over the long term it could be backed up via torrents. However, in the short term the only way to save the archive is for IA to sell it. I hope they swallow their pride and do so.
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by mantap 6y ago
White nationalists are the canary in the coal mine. Sure, nobody cares about the canary itself. But everyone should care why the canary died, because it has implications for us all. What is more dangerous to society than white nationalist
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by mantap 6y ago
Without free speech, there would be no LGBT Pride in the first place. They were seen as extremists. Having free speech but only for people who say mainstream things is equivalent to saying "I like the world as it exists today". Th
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by mantap 6y ago
It's not even true on a per country level, for instance in Bahrain and UAE the majority of the population are south Asian people. It does not protect them from racism. It's not uncommon around the world for racism and discriminati
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by mantap 6y ago
If Comcast breaks the contract then Mozilla will simply change the default back to Cloudflare DNS.
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It is only supported by software because Apple convinced big software developers to port everything to Metal. Apple no doubt made assurances to these developers that this was Apple's big re-entry into the Pro market and that they were
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by mantap 6y ago
I meant that it supports dynamic translation in order to support JITs such as turbofan. But to answer your question, yes a JIT can be static. JIT just means that the compilation happens at runtime, and "static" in this context mea
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by mantap 6y ago
The Mac Pro was seen as an an assurance that Apple was going to support their Pro customers for the foreseeable future. It's not just the Mac Pro itself. It's the software and supporting hardware. Also crucially, due to Apple&#x27
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Including me. Will those same developers buy a machine that is completely locked down? I will not.
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by mantap 6y ago
They explicitly said that it can perform both static and dynamic translation for JITs. I wouldn't be surprised if there is substantial hardware support too.
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by mantap 6y ago
PCs are for gaming. PCs are for work. Macs are for... students and middle managers apparently.
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It comes from comparing the contents of the pandemic influenza planning documents to the actions of the government in the covid-19 crisis and noting the eerie similarity.
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In countries where house building is poorly regulated, you don't end up with lots of aces, the opposite happens, the overall standards are reduced even at the top end. On the other hand, houses do tend to be safe enough even without
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by mantap 6y ago
It's a case of "plans are worthless but planning is essential". After the 2009 swine flu, the UK planned heavily for pandemic influenza , stockpiled millions of doses of tamiflu, etc. When the coronavirus came, instead of ma
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imagine a program such as: print("hello") time.sleep(10) print("goodbye") If's impossible for the program to know which print is the last one, as the user may kill the program during the sleep. I gu
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by mantap 6y ago
Sorry to interrupt the party here but I feel compelled to point out that Firefox's is actually the third most common engine after Blink and WebKit. The web is not and will not be a monoculture as long as the iPhone exists. There&#x27
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Blink is the most common browser engine. Firefox has some nice developer tools but if you don't test in blink throughout the day then you're just asking for problems.
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When the iPhone was first released there was no App Store. Many people asked for one. Eventually Apple relented and told developers to... make web apps for the iPhone instead. This wasn't enough, so eventually eventually they released

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