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by rualca 6y ago
> This is no longer true of C++. As of C++20, signed integer types are defined to use two's complement. [0] I don't think C intends to do the same. As no good language lawyer discussion should be free from pedantry, there is no
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by rualca 6y ago
You should check the discussion because the submitter already admitted that the title was clickbaity.
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by rualca 6y ago
I was about to submit this very link after reading this HN submission: This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (Apr 1, 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26669749 So darkhttp is a terribly simple HTTPS serve
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by rualca 6y ago
I don't understand your type of comment. If people involved with a project decide to advertise it on HN, specially following questionable clickbait methods, is it reasonable to demand that all posts must be exclusively comprised of hig
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by rualca 6y ago
> I'm writing this, because Mac had a reputation for being polished. But what I'm seeing is a lot less polish than even desktop Linux in 2021 has. It really surprised (and disappointed) me. This bears repeating. I have a $2500
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by rualca 6y ago
> I'd take it further - in numerical code there is no real distinction /at all/ between closed form vs iterative solutions. This assertion is however wrong. Closed form solutions at worse accumulate rounding errors of a si
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by rualca 6y ago
This blog post is so wrong and out-of-touch that it boggles the mind how it popped up in HN. The blogger's strawman to criticize the use of env variables is so mindless and outlandish that casts some doubt regarding the author's
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by rualca 6y ago
> Python's popularity is largely due to how much it dumbs down and being a first mover in the scientific world. Python is obviously not "a first mover in the scientific world" as Matlab precedes Python for over a decade an
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by rualca 6y ago
> The amount of different electrical train systems in Europe: From that map it seems that a train can move from China to Austria while using the same train system. Between Czechia and Germany, all it takes is a trip to a shunting yard to
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by rualca 6y ago
> Most trains are much smaller than the longest trains too. Yes they are, and all it takes is a locomotive or two operated by a couple of engineers to move cargo faster.
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by rualca 6y ago
> that would be a train with 144 km. That comparison is pointless. It makes no sense to assume that railway must load at least the load carried by one of the world's largest container ships for cargo to be deliverable from point A t
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by rualca 6y ago
> The US is much, much richer than any remotely comparable entity. The US is 5th in the ranking of median income adjusted to PPP. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income > Americans do not live the lives of
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by rualca 6y ago
Reframing it does not address it's problem. It is not an issue of "quality of life". It's a problem of being unable to produce the goods and services required to maintain the older segment of the population, which are no
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by rualca 6y ago
> It's very clear to me, it's because of Perl6. It doesn't seem right to ignore the increased popularity of better and more user-friendly interpreted languages such as python, which has since became ubiquitous even in spit
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by rualca 6y ago
> At least they're not shilling any politics, because that's what they usually do publicly on their real brand accounts. Labour and union rights is as political as it gets. Union politics shape the politics and policies of pret
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by rualca 6y ago
> No, tax revenue decline is only one facet of a declining population. A decline in population causes many other things that are dependent upon human beings to also decline: social interaction, art production, and a bunch of other stuff
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) the idea is that we must increase populations so we can continue living on the current living standard Not necessarily. The drive to keep a positive population growth rate is the need to provide resources to maintain the older se
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by rualca 6y ago
> What they are probably referring too are cooperative taxis. Those are cars or smaller buses that are driving a certain route, like a bus. It's also funny that the ride share concept has been huge throughout the west, with a couple
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by rualca 6y ago
The US's appalling lack of basic social safety nets, specially regarding healthcare, coupled with its poverty rate (over twice of Brazil's) and violence epidemic don't make it a shining beacon of a functioning society. Just b
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by rualca 6y ago
You start your comment by claiming GP's comment regarding a stagnant nation might not have anything to do with economics, but your supposedly counterexample, tax revenue, is about it's economy, isn't it?
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by rualca 6y ago
It's terribly short-sighted to try to portray a whole society on it's economic growth rate. From that nonsense, it becomes even more foolish to assert that Japan (a G8 nation and the 3rd largest economy in the world) is not "
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Twitter bans fake Amazon worker accounts posting anti-union messages(cbsnews.com)
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) but for something like Amazon where the barrier to entry is just a website, This comment is totally alienated from Amazon's business. Amazon is not a website. Amazon is a retail company, and their barrier to entry is their l
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't quite think the criticism amazon is receiving for their PR response is really valid. The initial criticism may very well be, but what are they supposed to do? For starters? Not lie, or manipulate their employees to activel
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by rualca 6y ago
> They may get a great deal from Boeing for all we know, but placing a large order during this terrible time for the airlines is a bet on the future of MAX as well as the industry recovery. Is this supposed to mean anything? To me it rea
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by rualca 6y ago
> Isn’t that much more time consuming than writing a test of any sort? I would go a step further and state that it makes absolutely no sense to manually run test batches repeatedly and whenever anyone touches a part of the code. If a tas
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by rualca 6y ago
> I think one of the major advantages of writing testable code is that you get better code and architecture for free. This. Untestable code tends to be so tightly coupled that's practically impossible to isolate subcomponents or eve
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by rualca 6y ago
> Achieving high-tech autarky is a first step towards a war with china becoming viable. That's a false dillema. The choice is not between self-sufficiency and war with China, and dependency and ever-lasting peace with China. The cho
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by rualca 6y ago
Arguably the EU already has the brain power and knowledge, and more importantly the industry to supply the pick-axes to the chip gold-rush miners. For example, ASML is an european company. Jump-starting a manufacturing hub might be all it t
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by rualca 6y ago
> POSIX aside, Unix-like systems that are still around nowadays and not directly use GNU user space, have copied many of the GNU extensions out of necessity. That reads like a lack of interest to update POSIX to catch up with the de-fact

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