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by nitsky 6y ago
Yeah it’s annoying, but I find I rarely change view options.
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by nitsky 6y ago
When I first started using htop, I had the opposite misunderstanding to what the author describes. I spent a long time trying to understand why there were over a dozen instances of the same process, when I thought I launched just one! When
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by nitsky 6y ago
The default builds of vscode include telemetry and a non-free license. For a truly free build of vscode, you need to use vscodium. See their description: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#why-does-this-exist . I susp
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by nitsky 6y ago
Yes, I do think it is unjustified. In your quote: "It involves restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to members of another group." Apple is restricting people who are not black or bro
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by nitsky 6y ago
> Apple choosing to invest in educational and entrepreneurial programs for "Black and Brown companies" is in no way antagonism towards other races nor is it an indication that Apple supports a belief that any race is superior.
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by nitsky 6y ago
From the article: > According to dictionaries, the word is commonly used to describe prejudice and discrimination based on race. That seems to match what I wrote above.
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by nitsky 6y ago
No, reservations are not given on the basis of race, they are part of peace treaties negotiated between "countries" such as "the cherokee nation", "the navajo nation", etc. They are no more racist than treaties
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by nitsky 6y ago
These are the only investments I’m aware of that apple makes that are targeted at particular racial groups. The others are available without racial discrimination. While the racial composition of the recipients may not be in proportion with
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by nitsky 6y ago
From Wikipedia: > Although HBCUs were originally founded to educate black students, their diversity has increased over time. In 2015, students who were either white, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, or Native American made up 22% of
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by nitsky 6y ago
Publicly stating that investments from a fund will only be given to particular racial groups likely meets most people’s definition of “discrimination on the basis of race”.
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by nitsky 6y ago
I am surprised the blog post doesn't mention the stabilization of binding both by-move and by-ref in patterns [1]. I have personally been waiting on this one for several years. Time to go remove my workarounds. Thanks! [1]: https:&#x2
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by nitsky 6y ago
JavaScript. Here’s the press release announcing it in 1995: https://tech-insider.org/java/research/1995/1204.html
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by nitsky 6y ago
If tax codes are so complex that authorities struggle to maintain the code that implements them, how are humans supposed to understand them well enough to follow the incentives they are designed to create?
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by nitsky 6y ago
It's a lot like Node.js, a js runtime built on v8 w/ bindings to the filesystem, network, etc. However, it is redesigned around recent changes to js. It eliminates commonjs and package.json in favor of es modules, and eliminates c
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by nitsky 6y ago
> Doesn't this defeat the purpose of writing safe code in Rust? While the Chrome authors will not be protected from memory unsafety in the wrapped C++ APIs, the usage of those APIs in the new code they write on top will be safe, whi
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by nitsky 6y ago
I came here to say the same. Otherwise this is a lot of laptop for the price.
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by nitsky 6y ago
I disagree with your assumption that entrenching generational wealth furthers poverty. When inventors believe that they can build generational wealth, they are motivated to produce better products and services, which they are able to offer
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by nitsky 6y ago
Most western societies have rejected your utilitarian thinking, upholding an individual's choices over any forgone benefit to others. For example, every day people die on organ transplant waiting lists, and every day healthy people die
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by nitsky 6y ago
Perhaps the angry reaction is justified given that the comment implied that “society” should be free to do as it pleases with a person and their property when they die. Most countries today vigorously protect the bodies and property of the
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by nitsky 6y ago
> But when you die, you die. None of that money is yours anymore, because you no longer exist. We, as a society, are free to decide with what's left of you and your belongings. Most governments enforce a person’s will after they die
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by nitsky 6y ago
> Once you're dead, why should they be any more important than any other person? Why favor your family, friends, or countrymen over any other person during your lifetime either? Everyone behaves this way. For example, why does gover
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Switching from Fedora and Gnome to Arch and Sway(joshmcguigan.com)
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by nitsky 6y ago
The first paragraph of the chapter on unsafe rust in TRPL reads: > However, Rust has a second language hidden inside it that doesn’t enforce these memory safety guarantees: it’s called unsafe Rust and works just like regular Rust, but gi
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by nitsky 6y ago
There are two languages, “rust” and “unsafe rust”. All code in unsafe blocks is not safe.
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by nitsky 6y ago
Promisifying makes the node APIs more convenient, but you still do not have the ability to provide back-pressure. See the link below: https://deno.land/v1#promises-all-the-way-down
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by nitsky 6y ago
Regarding point 3, Deno's APIs use language features that were unavailable when node was written, including promises and async iterators. That is a big improvement IMO.
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by nitsky 6y ago
Rust programs can be statically linked to musl libc, producing binaries that will run on any linux distribution. You can run ldd on the binaries and confirm they have zero dependencies on shared libraries.
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by nitsky 6y ago
Yes, and at the time Shopify was started Ruby was likely a very good choice. The parent comment is saying that today there are alternatives that run faster and provide similar levels of productivity.
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by nitsky 6y ago
deno has the same support with $DENO_DIR and a lockfile.
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by nitsky 6y ago
> install from a git repository using yarn/npm yep, that's basically the same. deno has the benefit of using the es module system like it is implemented in browsers.

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