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In 2017 or so when Rust editions were invented, the notion was that editions were primarily a "rallying point" (a way to make Rust's continuous release process feel more like Java's or C++'s), and only secondarily a
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« By appealing to everyone with these clean lines, gradients, and rounded shapes, no one feels particularly compelled by them. » To be honest, I think this bit of fashion is just a pendulum that swings back and forth every decade or two. On
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Right, so we have a number of advantages of automation that aren't captured in a simplistic time calculation like the "Is It Worth the Time?" XKCD: - if you can do something more quickly you might also choose to do it more of
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Newspaper book reviews certainly can have the suggested problem. The Times would arrange for positive reviews of HarperCollins books by giving them to a reviewer who they knew would provide one.
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Argh. And it has a pretty user image which attempts to say that. Only the image is conveniently cropped to a circle so that the "Un" part isn't visible and it reads "OFFICI".
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So the CEO's twitter feed had information at 08:00 UTC, but the official ovh_status feed didn't even acknowledge the incident until 08:22. That seems the wrong way round.
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Seems to be back 07:41 UTC. I became able to reach our servers in London, and www.ovh.com, from UK locations and from DigitalOcean.
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I like to imagine the following conversation taking place around 1968: "There are some things money can't buy." "Like what?" "A Nobel prize, for example." "We'll see about that."
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Dynamic Shared Object (in this context, probably a .so file).
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Looking at the number of threads split out from https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/help-thread-for-dst-root... I think this has been bumpier than they'd hoped. In particular these two problems don't seem to
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I think that just tells us that many people treat opinion polls as an opportunity to say what they approve and disapprove of, whatever the actual question being asked is. (And that's arguably rational behaviour, if you interpret the op
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As I understand it, that is what you would have had in tz 2021a, but not in the just-released 2021b (unless you enable backzone, but if some distributors start doing that then it's effectively a fork).
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Right. I think the interesting lesson here is that if you find yourself in the position of the tweet's author you should be thinking "Hm, maybe writing blocktext is easier than I'd expect" rather than "I have discov
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People who have turned pre-1970 local timestamps to UTC already are in some danger of seeing breakage: if they try to turn them back into the local time from the same timezone, they won't get back what they originally entered.
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Looking back, maybe the lesson is that there are some occasions when giving up on quality in order to make a cheaper product is an excellent idea, and 8-bit computers in the early 80s was one of those occasions. (While, for example, electri
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In my experience historians don't assume that, but when journalists write up a discovery that pushes the earliest-known date back they like to write it up as if they had.
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The Python Software Foundation has also been addressing this issue recently. This year they changed their bylaws to say that no more than a quarter of the directors may share an affiliation. https://github.com/VanL/psf-
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Are OnGres or Álvaro Hernández active in PostgreSQL development, or otherwise active in the community? Or have they appeared out of nowhere?
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It's a shame the PostgreSQL lists dropped off Gmane. That used to be a decent way to read them.
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Is individual membership even an option? https://foundation.rust-lang.org/info/become-a-member/ doesn't seem to contemplate it.
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The announcement blog post at https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps//blog/2021/09/08/ru... says the initial version was "quite closely modeled on AWS tenets".
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The Rust Foundation has indeed been disappointingly opaque. Their website contains only anodyne director bios and board meeting minutes. The minutes go up to May's meeting, with most of the content omitted under a "Private Session
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He was not wearing a suspiciously big jacket. That was a lie propagated by the police, which evidently many people still believe. See eg https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tube-shooting-wh...
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I don't think it's safe to reason from what the "main" objection is. I see one of the comments on that page is: « I just installed the new Google Drive desktop client (Win 10 pro) and the new virtual drive it creates tri
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Independently of anything else, I find the additional distinctiveness created by syntax highlighting helpful for keeping my place, or recognising where I am, if I scroll around a file quickly.
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Another advantage of using `varchar(n)` rather than a constraint is that the limit is visible in `information_schema.columns` and `pg_attribute`, so tools using this sort of introspection have a better chance of doing something useful. (Inc
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Right. There was a time quite a while ago when people were writing in-kernel web servers, and they were performing better than userspace ones. Then of course the response was to work out where the performance drop was coming from and add ju
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I was taught that dropping the axiom of choice was enough to make Banach-Tarski go away. That seems considerably short of "there is no such thing as an infinite number". But the Twitter link at the top of this thread seems to have
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What I mean is: if you imagine someone drawing up a requirements document for the team assigned to the task of axiomatising geometry, and somebody asked "Do we want our model of geometry to support cutting up a ball into five pieces, m

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