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811.
by petcat 11mo ago
I never found anything better than the latest macOS machines. I ran ubuntu for years and then switched back to mac just because I don't have the time to tinker and fiddle with stuff in Linux that just randomly makes the computer run h
812.
by petcat 11mo ago
The US government itself owns $11 billion worth of Intel stock. So just look there.
813.
by petcat 11mo ago
EU is in a really tough situation. They're getting squeezed on all sides economically by USA and China while also facing a belligerent Russia on their eastern borders. And their internal politics and governance makes it very difficul
814.
by petcat 11mo ago
The power balance is relevant because USA can just take it if they want it. People in Europe will be upset but that isn't going to change the outcome. USA has offered to purchase it many times. I think ultimately this will end up bei
815.
by petcat 11mo ago
Britain lost their claim to those colonies when they lost a war to the Americans. The Inuit had no capacity to fight a war with Denmark. So it's the same situation except now Denmark is on the short-end of the power imbalance, and th
816.
by petcat 11mo ago
1953 is when Denmark asserted complete ownership of the territory and it ceased just being a "colony". That's not exactly ancient history.
817.
by petcat 11mo ago
It's a massive difference when you consent to scanning by agreeing to the terms of service when you sign up for those services. It is not direct state imposed laws requiring you to be scanned wherever you are and every service you are
818.
by petcat 11mo ago
> Mexico decided to revive slavery and threatend to capture Afroamericans in USA It's a bad example because the power balance doesn't make sense. I think you will have a hard time coming up with any example where USA would be
819.
by petcat 11mo ago
I don't care about Greenland one way or another, but I find it funny that the Europeans are so visibly upset about this when the Danish took the territory without permission themselves and are now crying that an even bigger thief might
820.
by petcat 11mo ago
I don't care about ICE one way or another, but calling people "monkeys" and "losers" because they're not building a product to your exact specifications is extremely childish. It seems to me that the real &quot
821.
by petcat 11mo ago
Interesting how instead of embracing Rust as a required toolchain for APT, the conversation quickly devolved into "why don't we just build a tool that can translate memory-safe Rust code into memory-unsafe C code? Then we don&#x2
822.
by petcat 11mo ago
Childcare, not healthcare. Like babysitting
823.
by petcat 1y ago
Very few other countries have free childcare. In Europe I'm only aware of Slovenia and a couple others. Canada doesn't have anything close to the universal system that's in New Mexico.
824.
by petcat 1y ago
Local fire department isn't free
825.
by petcat 1y ago
> instead of the slow, safe, low-casualty taking of territory I don't know what is considered "low-casualty" for Russia, but the last reports I saw they were approaching 250,000 dead soldiers in Ukraine since 2022. That i
826.
by petcat 1y ago
Yes it was an exaggeration. Withdrawn. But the point is still that the economic fundamentals don't change by shifting alliances. EU would still be under the same pressure.
827.
by petcat 1y ago
> China becomes the world's #1 superpower, while EU remains undisputable #2 How does EU even remotely benefit from this bizarre fantasy scenario where it flips alliances toward China? The fundamentals don't change. EU has no
828.
by petcat 1y ago
EU is in a very tough spot right now. They're getting squeezed on all sides economically by USA and China while simultaneously facing a Russian invasion on their eastern borders. The relationship with the American administration has
829.
by petcat 1y ago
Imagine if stays broken until somebody else gets around to fixing it
830.
by petcat 1y ago
The EU's own government websites are littered with cookie consent banners. They want the data too.
831.
by petcat 1y ago
The EU's own government websites are polluted with cookie banners. They couldn't even figure out how to comply with their own laws except to just spam the user with cookie consent forms.
832.
by petcat 1y ago
How would they plug it? Just deprecate .unwrap and .expect and then remove them from the API completely?
833.
by petcat 1y ago
Semantics are important when talking about matters of law. Very important, in fact.
834.
by petcat 1y ago
"First Amendment Rights" only applies to the State, not private companies. For example, Hacker News has no obligation to preserve your "First Amendment Rights" on this website. They are free to mute you, ban you, or eve
835.
by petcat 1y ago
I think the answer is probably that Rust was possible in the 1980s and 1990s, but such a thing just wasn't practical . Rust is notoriously compiler-intensive. That wouldn't have been tolerated in the early PC era. When you ne
836.
by petcat 1y ago
Rust is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.
837.
by petcat 1y ago
Yeah my understanding is that google has some sort of God program they use that can compile anything and has 10,000 command line options.
838.
by petcat 1y ago
At this point I feel like it's no longer an uphill climb to get Rust into foundational, mission-critical code adoption. The benefits are so obvious. Maybe it's just a lingering religious war? In any case, I'm glad we'r
839.
by petcat 1y ago
So maybe we're saying that the Founding Fathers were, in fact, not visionaries. Maybe they only had the same myopic 10-20 year view that anyone else today does.
840.
by petcat 1y ago
Oftentimes there can be no compromise on the specific subject. So the bill is either DOA or just immediately passed without any debate. Allowing several issues to be passed as a singular unit provides opportunity for an agreement to be mad

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