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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like this is sheer incompetence on Twitter’s part. Some ad blocker I have on my iPhone stops Twitter from working and has for several months. It hasn’t prevented * Me seeing adverts on Twitter * Me being tracked by Twitter. It’s yet
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by moomin 2y ago
I remember being a teenager walking around forests listening to Live In The City Of Light. Portable music already existed, in the form of boomboxes, but Walkmen were personal with a whole different dynamic. I think people these days don’t r
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by moomin 2y ago
The question then becomes: if the market is producing near-monopolies of stuff that is barely fit for purpose, how do we fix the market?
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by moomin 2y ago
It is really good, isn't it? Also, mandatory reading for context: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend
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by moomin 2y ago
To the best of my knowledge (which isn’t great) .NET has multiple compilation levels for functions, using more time after a method has been called a few times. But starts with a pretty fast but naive compilation. It also, I believe, special
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by moomin 2y ago
Yeah, the Rust proponents are being significantly more ambitious. Not just the ability to code a file system in Rust, but do it in a way that catches a lot of the correctness issues relating to the complex (and changing) semantics of FS dev
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by moomin 2y ago
Irrespective of whether you think these restrictions were justified, it’s hard not to sniff a whiff of political expediency in loosening them right now.
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly I don’t care. I can tell the difference between old blue check and new blue check, but by retaining the exact same representation can be considered deceptive whatever the merits or otherwise of the previous system.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think one of the big things about downvotes is that it works better for a homogenous user base. Otherwise you can get in a situation where one group votes up and another votes down. It’s fairly obvious this happens on HN itself but the HN
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by moomin 2y ago
Twitter’s been broken on my phone for months, feel honoured by this high level of functionality.
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by moomin 2y ago
So your reasoning is based on facts that no longer apply and the moral heft of colonialism?
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by moomin 2y ago
In short: UK has no place there, US has no place there. A whole bunch of refugees probably do have a place there but no-one cares about them. Also crimes are probably being committed over and above what I’ve just described. In other words:
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by moomin 2y ago
I don’t think I know of _anyone_ who prefers it on.
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by moomin 2y ago
If you want to look at something that will permanently damage a kid’s psyche, maybe boarding school should be higher up your list than smartphones.
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by moomin 2y ago
Begging you to stop holding onto your thought experiment and look at the actual data. There’s a lot of it. There’s literally an academic consensus on the question. They’re not all wrong because it never occurred to them to apply an arbitrag
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by moomin 2y ago
I think it’s okay to say “This is the benchmark, now I’m going to compare it against something else.” It’s up to the reader to decide if a 3% (or 300%) improvement is worth the investment if it involves learning a whole other language.
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by moomin 2y ago
Python is the right thing to compare to here, because it is easily the most popular way to perform these computations in the modern day. Specifically using numpy. The overhead isn't that high, but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread,
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by moomin 2y ago
I know! It’s not like it’s an obscure location, either. I feel like my grandpa knew everything about Liverpool but “They proved why the universe is made of matter here.” never came up.
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by moomin 2y ago
*overestimate
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by moomin 2y ago
Take a look at the gender pay gap reports large companies produce. It’s very much a problem even with people sat next to one another doing the same job. As I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, people take it as axiomatic that markets would r
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by moomin 2y ago
I think people underestimate how powerful market forces are. Bear in mind that they do not apply within a firm, except in fairly extreme circumstances. Instead most things are done on the basis of perception, which is where racism and patri
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by moomin 2y ago
Ask anyone with half a brain who sincerely believes in gender equality if men should take a pay cut and they’ll say no, women deserve what the men are paid. The draft should work the same way.
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by moomin 2y ago
Finally, a commercial application of Haskell.
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by moomin 2y ago
Yet still in 2024, supporting optional is off by default for some languages in protoc...
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, you’re not wrong that the entire extradition system is a stain on justice. I just wish anyone cared when it’s not about someone accused of hacking.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, this isn’t a jury trial, it’s a forum discussion, and opinions about current events are legitimate. If not, we should delete the entire thread.
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by moomin 2y ago
A friend of mine is a true petrolhead. Loves cars. When he was in his early twenties he bought a second hand Ferrari. Drove it around for years. He sold it, for the exact same price he bought it, back the person who’d sold it him in the fir
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by moomin 2y ago
It might be more accurate to say that ESR was wrong. It might be even more accurate to say that ESR regards the obvious deficiencies of the model he popularised to be features.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, if they’re not turning a profit, taxation isn’t going to be a problem, but what I really want to know is: the USA has the most expensive health care system in the world, with the worst outcomes of any first world system. How is it n
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by moomin 2y ago
My instant reaction to this was “Wait, is that PH10?”. Read the article, and of course it is. Even in the 90s he was a famous hacker around the Computer Lab. (The username, for those not familiar with Cambridge Lore, indicates he was the fi

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