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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I wouldn't call UBI a "game plan" so much as a thing people can point to so justify their actions to themselves. It helps you pretend you're not ruining people's lives, because you can point to UBI as the escape hat
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I think a vec is important for the same reason a string is… because being able to properly get the length, and standardized ways to push/pop from them that don’t require manual bounds checking and calls to realloc. Hash maps are mostly
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
C's string handling is so abominably terrible that sometimes all people really need is "C with std::string". Oh, and smart pointers too. And hash maps. Vectors too while we're at it. I think that's it.
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Nit: please don’t push to my browser history every time I expand one of the sections… I had to press my browser’s back button a dozen or so times to get back out of your site.
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Playing music doesn’t require unlocking though, at least not from the Music app. If YouTube requires an unlock that’s actually a setting YouTube sets in their SiriKit configuration. For reading messages, IIRC it depends on whether you have
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
It’s so great when the files on the navigator pane aren’t sorted, and then if you right-click sort, it rewrites half your pbxproj file and you get merge conflicts everywhere. So then nobody sorts the files because they don’t want to deal wi
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Sudo’s networking functionality is infuriating too, because if my system’s DNS is broken, I get to wait 60 seconds for sudo to work, during which time I can’t even ctrl+c to cancel! (It has to do with sudoers entries having a host field, si
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Strange to say it’s not useful, I personally get a lot of use out of it. It’s mostly replaced search engines for me, which is no small thing. Agree that society can survive without it though, but seems a weird thing to just claim as useless
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Interesting. How did it work getting your photos off of iCloud? Does Apple give you a good way to get an archive of all of your photos? That is, the original quality photos, without manually downloading them individually? (I currently have
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Sure but the US isn’t vowing to eliminate all dependencies on EU goods. (Just burning all their good will.)
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
If the ability to release the storage on-demand works correctly (and this is a big if) there’s no reason to limit to 10%. What benefit will that have? If the system works well, deleting the data eagerly accomplishes nothing. I think the a
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
It doesn’t begin at the transmitter either, in the earliest days even the camera was essentially part of the same circuit. Yes, the concept of filming a show and showing the film over the air existed eventually, but before that (and even af
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
What would the alternative be? Simply don't cache anything you get from icloud? Because even if you delete it more eagerly, that's a write cycle. In fact, avoiding deleting it in case the user gets it again, is going to put fewe
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
So, it’s interesting. You know how with RAM, it’s a good idea for it to be “fully utilized”, in a sense that anything apps aren’t using should be used for file system cache? And then when apps do need it, the least-recently-used cache can
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> No man. Open your eyes. You are doing the latter. Renee is dead, and you have 1 sentence condoning ICE, and multiple paragraphs explaining what SHE should have done differently I am simply at a loss for words. This comment thread is pr
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Please, please, please tone it down. Really. This is the amplification I’m talking about. You say “I don’t hate you” and then spew a bunch of hate at me. I’m having a lot of trouble not getting extremely angry right now at your reply beca
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
The whole thread here started with “why do we continue to ignore this”, to which I replied “who’s ignoring this”, and the answer is “anyone who’s flagging this post.” The conversation in this particular thread has gone off the rails, in lar
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I just want to thank you for taking the time to reply so thoughtfully to someone who is so intent on letting it all go to shit just so they can think themselves enlightened by predicting it. I have the same response to people who ask me why
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I have a strong emotional investment in what’s happening to my country. That’s why I’m getting upset. It has fuck all to do with HN. I’m getting upset about what’s happening with my country and predictably taking it out on other HN commente
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I don’t know you but I hope wherever you are you’re safe and have a good idea of what your next steps are going to be. I’m getting increasingly distraught over what’s happening myself. It’s starting to affect my family life and I’m having a
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I dunno, I’m still really angry about what I'm seeing. If I had anything to say it’s probably something I’d regret later. I’m talking with my loved ones about it and trying to come to grips with what’s happening to my country. It’s not
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
If HN were only anger, then HN would suck in general, yes. The quality of discussion on this site generally coincides with how much people are able to separate their emotion from the facts at hand. For threads like these that basically dr
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> and you think it’s not OK to be angry? no, it’s perfectly fine to be angry, I would be very concerned with anyone’s mental health who isn’t angry about this. > You think we just shouldn’t discuss it at all because people are angry?
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> it's easy to see the very real authoritarian bend of comfortable professionals who are smart but also in favor of, say, summary execution of people for protesting There’s that rhetoric I’m talking about! Thanks for giving a perfec
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I wouldn’t say they’re ignoring it’s so much as cheering it on, and falling over each other to voice their support for it. It’s liberals getting killed after all, and they’re not Americans like republicans are Americans. No, there’s people
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Who’s ignoring it?
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I figured it’d be Haskell that is able to do this sort of thing really well. :-D I had this realization while writing the rustc plugin that this is basically another shade of “function coloring”, but done intentionally. Now I wish I could h
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I had the same thing in the house I bought, it was a nice surprise… there were 6 different phone jacks around the house in great locations for Ethernet (WiFi access points or just for a computer), and they all led down to the furnace room w
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
It’s a compile-time check, and yeah it’s a lint rule. In fact it goes a little deeper than a lint can go, because it uses data from earlier compiler phases (in order to get access to what the borrow checker knows.) The correct terminology i
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
There’s too many people with incentives to rewrite. It keeps all the gears turning, keeps everyone employed. You certainly need to justify any rewrites, but… people are really good at justifying rewrites.

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