roca

31 ms·

361.
by roca 5y ago
The ROI on rewriting existing code may be questionable, but the long-term ROI on writing new projects in safe languages seems unassailable. Choosing C or C++ for new infrastructure projects is madness at this point.
362.
by roca 5y ago
It would be great if you could fix politics by breaking up a few villainous corporations but it's much more difficult than that. In America, Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump have (in different ways) shown us the limits of the power o
363.
by roca 5y ago
> 1/3rd of all emissions are produced by 20 companies Sure, but mostly they're producing goods and services that millions/billions of people consume. Getting rid of those 20 companies won't change anything.
364.
by roca 5y ago
Blaming "society" is a nothingburger. It doesn't point towards any solution. Ditto "capitalism" (although the OP doesn't go there) --- people pursue desires and respond to incentives; you can call those effects
365.
by roca 5y ago
Microsoft already switched to Chromium because they decided not to devote engineering resources to keep up with Google.
366.
by roca 5y ago
Brave's long-term problem is that Google can set the cost of Brave's ongoing maintenance to whatever they want. In the 90s Microsoft called this "keeping the competition on a treadmill".
367.
by roca 5y ago
Mozilla's Persona project solved federated ID for the Web pretty well, a decade ago. The problem is that a lot of the big tech companies want to completely own their relationships with their users. Google is never going to let you log
368.
by roca 5y ago
> (I cannot paste links or images into facebook, I cannot paste text with line breaks into twitter, I cannot paste using reddit's "markdownmode"). This is not normal, something's broken with Firefox in your setup. Pro
369.
by roca 5y ago
It's a good observation that checking for 32-bit overflow is not too bad, but... > In 64 bit ... almost all integers remain 32 bit. I don't believe this is true for Rust, even if we exclude index integers in iterators because w
370.
by roca 5y ago
Also Rust applications are increasingly going to be built with integer overflow checking enabled, e.g. Android's Rust components are going to ship with integer overflow checking. And unlike say GMP, that poses a potential code density
371.
by roca 5y ago
Indeed, I agree that one of our most important responsibilities as humans (arguably the most important if you take a generous interpretation) is "to not abuse our mental and technological advantages" --- to each other as well as
372.
by roca 5y ago
I agree with you, that meme is highly misleading. To some extent company behavior is just aggregate customer behavior. However, it's not the whole extent. For example Exxon knowing about the CO2 greenhouse effect in 1982 and keeping qu
373.
by roca 5y ago
On your first point, I agree.
374.
by roca 5y ago
No, not at all. I'm a Christian and it's dogma for me that all humans carry the image of God and have intrinsic worth independent of their abilities or utility.
375.
by roca 5y ago
Perhaps "duties" is a clearer word here. It is not the duty of plants to photosynthesize. It's just something they do. It is important to distinguish these two concepts, because if you equate them, then for example it is the
376.
by roca 5y ago
That works too but there's only so long one can spend in the shower.
377.
by roca 5y ago
Normally, both natural and artificial persons have responsibilities as well as rights. But a gorilla or a river obviously can't have responsibilities... Therefore at most they can be considered a rather limited kind of person, more lik
378.
by roca 5y ago
Personally when I'm thinking about a hard problem I have to pace around, not lie down.
379.
by roca 5y ago
Anything that reduces the startup time users experience is not cheating.
380.
by roca 5y ago
Seems difficult to thoroughly eliminate confounding factors. Maybe the CCP can do a randomized controlled trial.
381.
by roca 5y ago
I lean heavily into personal responsibility, but even I don't tell people struggling with addiction "have you tried NOT taking it?"
382.
by roca 5y ago
Dunno about other countries but in NZ you can apply for medical exemption from vaccine mandates. A panel of medical professionals evaluates your situation and if they agree, you get a vaccine pass that works the same as for a vaccinated per
383.
by roca 5y ago
Sorry to hear that, but that's a small minority of people. And I hope you've talked to your doctor about it --- we're lucky with COVID to have a variety of vaccines with different makeups to choose from.
384.
by roca 5y ago
Thanks Cloudflare!
385.
by roca 5y ago
Auckland's climate is pretty mild year-round. Seasonality is a confounder, for sure, but I haven't heard any experts claim it as an explanation here.
386.
by roca 5y ago
If only there was a super cheap, safe, effective and instant medical treatment that could prevent obesity or at least its negative health effects. Because if there was, and yet obese people refused to take it and consequently soaked up a lo
387.
by roca 5y ago
Comparing failure to vaccinate with smoking or obesity are off the mark because it is not easy to quit smoking or overcome obesity. If there was an effective, cheap, safe and instant cure for smoking addiction or obesity and people refused
388.
by roca 5y ago
The current situation in Auckland, New Zealand provides very good evidence of vaccines reducing spread, though I don't think it has been written up in a paper yet. We've had < 10,000 confirmed COVID cases in Auckland so the vas
389.
by roca 5y ago
My dad was one of the founders of Radio Hauraki, a similar pirate radio operation in New Zealand (inspired by Caroline IIRC).
390.
by roca 5y ago
In most cases there was no immediate payoff to Web authors who added semantic markup to their sites. Also, there was no negative feedback for Web authors who added incorrect semantic markup to their sites. So the economics were always going

More ›