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oytis
3y ago
Rust unsafe has pretty much the same functionality as plain C, with more vervose syntax. So I would expect this model to refuse to give any examples of C code whatsoever.
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oytis
3y ago
Is it just about mathematicians? Is it something new? I though that was pretty much how academia is done.
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oytis
3y ago
The current German law says something different currently. Getting access to data by overcoming protection is a crime. It doesn't matter what you wanted to do with this data if anything at all. I've read current government had som
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oytis
3y ago
> prompts in the middle of the scanning phase (usually the “I promise I’ll attach this to a wall) Never seen that. Is it an American thing? Or maybe I just didn't by things that have to be attached to a wall.
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oytis
3y ago
In Germany there are two distinct kinds of higher education institutions addressing that. Vocational universities that teach skills in a very practical manner, and generally more prestigious "plain" universities that spend more ti
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oytis
3y ago
I don't have one, but this one has buttons and lights - I think my kids would have liked it when they were younger.
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oytis
3y ago
I find self-checkout pretty pleasant to use if implemented correctly. A positive experience was an Ikea store where you just scan everything and walk out with occasional checks by a security guard. Or even better at Decathlon where you don&
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oytis
3y ago
If labor is free, what are you going to pay for a servant robot with? Why would robots serve useless humans?
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oytis
3y ago
> It's not really a German-only thing. Sure, relatively (compared to what one can have in the US) low salaries for software engineers is a EU wide thing. Some countries pay more some less, Germany is probably closer to the top if yo
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oytis
3y ago
These foreigners will quickly learn the cost of living in Germany and what their colleagues get, I don't think it's a significant factor. What really keeps wages down IMO is the lack of high-margin/high-growth businesses, lac
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oytis
3y ago
At least in Germany there are strict rules for what is called a pretence of self-employment. A freelancer needs to have more than one client, the client cannot set working hours, access to systems also cannot be the same as for employees et
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oytis
3y ago
What is the bureaucracy in question? Required salary for the blue card is really low now, especially for tech workers, so basically you just go ahead and hire as I understand.
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oytis
3y ago
Reminds me of how Linus introduced Linux for the first time. I miss the times when self-inflation wasn't considered cool in the community.
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oytis
3y ago
There is a nontrivial chance that the author is aware.
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oytis
3y ago
Amazon has become a more expensive version of Alibaba, I order from there only when I need stuff real quick - and they have a generous return policy if things don't work out. But for components you also have more established suppliers
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oytis
3y ago
I've seen the last years of Conrad, and my impression is that it was made obsolete by online retail. Like yes, if its Friday afternoon, and you need parts urgently for your weekend project, then you can go there. But otherwise you get
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oytis
3y ago
Not wanting Islamist fanatics coordinating multiple terror groups around the world to have nukes is Western moral superiority, alright.
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oytis
3y ago
Special services killing agents of other special services is not a conspiracy theory.
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oytis
3y ago
Nice to see that European intelligence services are still capable of something. The article mentioned the government didn't know - should they have known? Not sure what the law on that in Netherlands is. From what I read, Netherland&#x
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oytis
3y ago
This arrangement is possible, but I wouldn't call it completely orthogonal. It requires one of the parents to stay at home, or both parents working part-time, but the two most frequent arrangements are working father+stay at home mothe
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oytis
3y ago
They seem to have kids track this year, never seen that before.
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oytis
3y ago
> don't usually complain about downvotes, but WTH people, what did I say that's controversial? Sorry, I incorrectly read your statement as blaming "both sides" - I assume I might have been not the only one.
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oytis
3y ago
> For oligarchs and elites, yes only putting complete economic lockdown could work. No way to travel and buy yourself or your kids comfy western way of life. I don't think that can work. Russian elites absolutely value power over We
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oytis
3y ago
Still even with exception support enabled I can't see what you can do with a function that throws that you cannot do with a function that returns maybe not Option<T>, but Result<T, E> in fewer lines of code. Disabling excep
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oytis
3y ago
> If you declare the call site noexcept(), you should even get some compiler checking to make sure you handle the exception. What compiler does it? At least g++ does not. It is not what specification dictates either. I can't see how
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oytis
3y ago
In safety critical embedded systems there is no such thing as "program just terminating". The program is the only software that is running on your device, and you need to degrade execution to some safe state no matter what. Every
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oytis
3y ago
In the domain where Misra is applied, resource exhaustion and hardware failures are totally valid scenarios that need to be processed in the same way as any other error.
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oytis
3y ago
The common idea of how borders work relies on the fact that borders are mutually recognized, and authorities on both side of the border collaborate to keep the border secure. This way you can maintain the exclusion zone in no man's lan
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oytis
3y ago
> nothing prohibits Israel from backing its border installations off a safe distance from the border I don't get how it can work. So they make the exclusion zone outside of the fence, not inside. Then they would need to make another
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oytis
3y ago
No, no, no, that would mean "legitimizing the occupation", no party in Gaza would be able to declare this policy and stay in power.
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