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by nikitaga 6y ago
Which fossil fuels are "less bad" for the climate? They're all very bad. Obviously old coal powerplants are the worst, but there's more evidence every year that the allegedly "clean" natural gas is nowhere as c
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As they said, "in a society that murders female babies, then yes, you will need more than a 2.1 birthrate." Murder or not (I'm not sure what the illegal "sex-selective technologies" actually are), the gender imbalan
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by nikitaga 6y ago
It appears that function parameter bivariance is still a thing? [1] Although there seems to now be a flag to make this one use of variance correct. I would assume even Array<T> is still bivariant as well... Both of those are horribly
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by nikitaga 6y ago
Offtopic but what's nice about Typescript generics? Typescript doesn't even let you specify variance. It's one of the unsound parts of the language's type system in fact.
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My original comment was in response to a particular commenter who did in fact imply that UI conventions were the reason. I even asked a question to clarify if that was the case. Snarky it was, but still a question. You have your own reason
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There's a difference between merely "disliking" something as a personal preference and insisting that other people should not have the things you dislike. Neither the commenter I responded to nor Apple are simply "dislik
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People "can" do that but that's not what either the commenter or Apple is doing. And it's a package deal anyway. As long as PWAs do not provide viable competition to App Store on iOS, you can criticize App Store till you
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by nikitaga 6y ago
> respect the conventions of the platform they're building for Do you mean UI conventions, or the "30% revenue cut and a gag order on even mentioning non-appstore signups" convention? Justifying blatant anticompetitive and
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Whatever the UI is now, doesn't speak for what it used to be over the years. The cumulative effect matters. There are tons of people with @icloud.com email addresses that they never use who will fall into the login / customer supp
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by nikitaga 6y ago
Then why do most of my non-tech relatives have an @icloud.com address that they never needed and never read? Blame the user all you want, but their "choice" was guided by Apple designed UI and Apple provided defaults. Whatever it
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With rare specialized exceptions, pretty much nobody needs all this complexity. Certainly not a simple app like AnyList. All this flexibility is not free, it comes at the cost of obviousness, as they described. It's not worth it much o
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Haha well tbh I just didn't feel the need for more deps in such libraries. It's a tougher choice in application code!
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Google paying Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars isn't exactly a charity. Google care very much about the complete and utter ubiquity of their search. Using Firefox more will put Mozilla in a stronger position to negotiate a bette
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I am paranoid about security of all those packages, so yes, even before just downloading, I check the authors, activity and read the source code. Not always – e.g. I skip the source code if it's something big AND very reputable AND I d
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by nikitaga 6y ago
Nobody really uses Bittorrent to undermine the police state. They don't care about your dealings with the media industry as much. And hey, why didn't you say "but that never happened to encryption"? Because it's abo
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The article says that this bill applies to operating systems just as well. It's doesn't matter what's typical or reasonable, the hostile actors pushing this and the EARN IT act don't care. Let's skip the denial stag
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The difference is, US is replacing the shuttle with (privately made) US rockets. The transition is not complete yet, but ultimately both the manufacturing capability and profits are staying in the US. Can't say the same for Canada.
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Ah, I got too carried away with general-Scala-stuff, but you're totally right, all your work is moving the Scala ecosystem in the right direction (and thanks for that!). Type safe pythonic simplicity is underrated.
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Scala is a formidable language. It is very flexible, elegantly supporting a variety of programming styles from Haskell-on-the-JVM to Java++ to everything in between. Those two extremes hate on each other a lot, and this also spills out into
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This EFF release isn't about what technicalities or creative interpretations USPTO used to avoid the complying with Alice because that guidance isn't new, what's new is a report that shows the dramatic effect of their avoid
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> So you think, hey! I get to use scala.util.Random in javascript instead of javascript's shitty Math.random() ! Woah! That is so beyond awesome. What? You can certainly use scala.util.Random from scala.js, there are very few Scala
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Democracy is called that because every vote is a person. People are finite, you can't just add more whenever you feel like it. Voting of shareholders of a company can still be called a democracy because the amount of shares – what&#x27
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Some of the public information is summarized and sourced in Wikipedia: > Ethos Capital was founded by Erik Brooks. Brooks is a former Managing Partner of another private equity firm Abry Partners. During his tenure at Abry, in September