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by roca 5y ago
"Engineer a replacement for the immune system" sounds insanely hard. Problem statement: "constant incoming stream of incredibly diverse unknown bacterial and viral invaders that you have to recognize and kill before their r
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by roca 5y ago
Chinese cuisine already includes jellyfish. A bit bland, but not bad, and surprisingly good texture. Make them more tasty and you might be onto something. No idea bout nutritional value though.
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by roca 5y ago
I'm a NZer and not a doomer at all, and certainly not compared to what's happening elsewhere. It seems to me NZ's main problems are ones it has had for a long time (housing, inequality, gangs, drugs), some of them are getti
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by roca 5y ago
I agree. He seems to have done absolutely nothing. Every month it's the same statement, "we're looking into it". (And I actually like most of what this government has done.)
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by roca 5y ago
I guess I wasn't clear. We were happy with Rust from almost day 1. After five years, we're still happy.
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by roca 5y ago
I don't think that vicious cycle exists. I was immediately productive with Rust, but OK, that's just an anecdote. Surveys such as Stackoverflow's Developer Survey show Rust usage growing rapidly. If I met someone who took yea
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by roca 5y ago
> the side effects of making your team less productive by using Rust is a much higher price to pay than just running you Go service on more powerful hardware. This entirely depends on the ratio of development effort to deployed instances
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Debugging an Mruby Heap Corruption in Artichoke with Pernosco(hyperbo.la)
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by roca 5y ago
In the event of an invasion or blockade the nuclear-free policy would be relaxed as needed. It is incredibly difficult to imagine a scenario where, say, China launches a naval invasion or blockade of NZ but is not already at war with our al
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by roca 5y ago
Exactly. The USA has its issues but it has great relations with its neighbours (minus Cuba), while on the other hand China's big neighbours all see China as a threat (except perhaps for Russia). Seems to me it boils down to the CCP bei
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by roca 5y ago
That video is fun but silly. Australia has major trading partners that aren't China.
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by roca 5y ago
Subs could be useful to protect/attack shipping or military assets that are protecting/attacking shipping. It does seem improbable that we will see large scale land invasions of developed countries. However, European nations also
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by roca 5y ago
Australian nuclear subs will not be allowed into NZ waters, Jacinda Ardern was quite clear on that. However, there is no reason why they would want to enter NZ waters.
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by roca 5y ago
It's called a beachhead. Take Darwin, then you have a safe platform to threaten the rest. However, I doubt anyone expects an invasion of the Australian mainland. Attacks on shipping are a more likely threat. Maybe naval support to Aust
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by roca 5y ago
What does a "nuclear nation" mean here? Note that Australia has a small (20MW) nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. 32 countries have commercial power reactors, including the likes of Slovenia and Armenia. Are they "nuclear nati
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by roca 5y ago
That's interesting. If that bears out, it suggests without antibody immunity people will get infected by COVID. However, that same study also shows that the vaccine still prevents serious illness and death, i.e. those other immunity me
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by roca 5y ago
Reflecting on what? I never see any well-reasoned arguments against telemetry. It's just "any data collected for any purpose must be EVIL".
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by roca 5y ago
I worked for Mozilla over a period during which we went to having no telemetry to good telemetry and the benefits for quality were huge, especially for crashes. Without crash telemetry you simply have to guess which bugs are the most import
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by roca 5y ago
That sentence is extremely misleading. The study showed people losing more than 80% of their antibody immunity. But they also have T-cell and B-cell immunity which lasts longer.
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by roca 5y ago
There is nothing wrong with well-implemented telemetry. It's an extremely valuable tool for improving software quality. I don't understand the antipathy some people have for it.
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by roca 5y ago
Skia and Harfbuzz are relatively small components compared to the rest of the engine. Also there's really only one way to file bugs: bugzilla.mozilla.org.
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by roca 5y ago
This is certainly much closer to the mark than an article that leads with "tabs on top". It's easy and fun to point to half a dozen of your favourite Mozilla missteps over more than a decade and say "those are why Mozill
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by roca 5y ago
1. f32::from_bits/to_bits etc allow safe bit-casting between primitive types. Libraries like safe-transmute wrap up unsafe array pointer casts into safe APIs. Rust has great tools to address the use-cases where C would use unions. 2. T
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by roca 5y ago
1. Unclear what you mean. You can manipulate bits of scalars without writing unsafe code. You can't do bit manipulation of pointers without writing unsafe code. You can write a small library that packs pointers with unsafe code, and
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by roca 5y ago
In the 21st century, if you're building systems infrastructure and are able to choose a language that's not C or C++, it's a pretty big call to decline memory/type/datarace safety.
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by roca 5y ago
I don't want contenders to spawn like rabbits. I want the industry to coalesce around just a few contenders to maximise network effects so as to kill off C and C++ more effectively.
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by roca 5y ago
The difficulty of printing OsStr is nothing to do with Rust, it's really just the difficulty of printing Linux file names in any context given you don't know what the non-UTF8 bytes mean.
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by roca 5y ago
The alternatives where Whitney Duan is not in China seem implausible to me. What's the plausible alternative? That Duan is not in China, and has simply been in hiding for years for unexplained reasons? Or maybe, she's actually bee
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by roca 5y ago
Wow, when I arrived at CMU for my PhD in 1994 my officemate Erik Altmann was already working on Soar. That's longevity.
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by roca 5y ago
If it's a marketing ploy, then the CCP can counter it easily --- let his wife leave China and --- when free --- tell the world that that conversation never happened.

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