samhw

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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, I'm sorry you're being downvoted. I totally agree and I'll sign myself up for getting downvoted too. There's nothing I hate more than cargo-cult programming and cargo-cult thinking, which always takes the form of t
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by samhw 4y ago
Reducing the risk of malicious code is a good goal, yes. Reducing the number of all - including transitive - dependencies may be a fair way to do that. It really depends on the context of the system you're developing: is it running o
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by samhw 4y ago
If you want to do something like this, I'd highly recommend using a package like rs-bindata[0] (Rust) or go-bindata[1] (Go) to essentially embed the static data into your .data section automatically, rather than having to paste it into
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by samhw 4y ago
You're doing that by running the guy's project in the first place, even if it had no dependencies whatever. I'm tired of this being brought up like it's specific to some NPM package or some guy's Rust project. Sorry
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by samhw 4y ago
I agree with your conclusion but not really your reasoning. There are countless things the government can’t do, which individual people can do. I can respect an establishment of religion. I can spend money without a transparent and disint
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by samhw 4y ago
That doesn’t really have a meaning. Are you asking if it updates an existing Docker image, or even updates an existing Docker container (i.e. a running process)? If so, the answers would be ‘yes’ and ‘no’ respectively.
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by samhw 4y ago
> Einstein's first wife likely was co-author of his papers What’s the source for that claim? This just links to another of your own comments, which is also unsourced.
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by samhw 4y ago
That’s such a fascinating background to have! It must be strange to retire and, far from the cliché of your skills having been made obsolete and irrelevant, instead you’re an expert on what’s probably the forefront of modern technology. If
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by samhw 4y ago
> sets a dangerous precedent for employers and employees that unless physical violence occurs, workplace violence is acceptable This is the stupidest thing I have ever read. "This sets a dangerous precedent that violence is OK so lo
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by samhw 4y ago
I'm not an Elon Musk fan, but the impression I get is that both 'sides' exaggerate (or misunderstand) his family background. It seems - from what I've read - that his dad was the kind of slightly-mad entrepreneur who had
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by samhw 4y ago
> This article glances off a really interesting related problem - the choice between “at most once”, “at least once” and “exactly once” events. Yeah, I'm not a distributed systems expert, but I think this is one of the foundational
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by samhw 4y ago
I just wanted to say: I'm super anal by nature and I was fully expecting to have some criticism to make of your site or your language, but this is one of the most high-quality, well-thought-out projects I've seen. The sheer thorou
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by samhw 4y ago
Unless I'm missing something, 'leveraged buyout' doesn't specify that it's Twitter's equity which has to be leveraged. Off the top of my head, I think Elon Musk has some other bits and pieces which he could s
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by samhw 4y ago
What? This is not just wrong, it's comical to even think of what it would mean if it were true. The board would have to clairvoyantly foresee any possible acquirer who might be interested in the company, or else reach out to every com
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, there's no concealment and no beneficial ownership. "I'll vote as part of your bloc" isn't beneficial ownership. ( At most it's delegating the 'control' aspect of the equity, but even that is a
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by samhw 4y ago
I think they meant "why?" as in "what reason do they have?", rather than "do there exist people who think that?". I don't really care what tool was used to generate my assembly, and the kind of Rust that w
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by samhw 4y ago
> I don't think people should be looking at adding another language to the kernel, mostly because every OS build on it has been a disaster. We just need approach and definition for operating systems. What does "we need approach
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by samhw 4y ago
Could you say in concrete terms what you think is not going to work? This just feels like a jumble of spatial metaphors. I don't see why it matters whether Rust or C are 'high' or 'low' level languages, or how that
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by samhw 4y ago
From what I can see, the Fuchsia kernel is actually quite interesting. I like the foci on (1) capabilities and (2) message passing. It's not the most innovative thing in the known universe - in fact both of those concepts are of pret
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by samhw 4y ago
Haha, I heard another good one about a nun going into a bar..
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by samhw 4y ago
To be charitable, they may have meant something more like 'personal devices which people use directly'. (Though maybe not - it would be odd to exclude servers, which are one of Linux's biggest 'clients'. Perhaps the
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by samhw 4y ago
I agree that the parent claim ("Rust will quickly replace C in the Linux kernel") was utterly risible, but your comments just seem like the mirror image of theirs. What on earth is an 'impostor language'? Imposture of wh
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by samhw 5y ago
They didn't say anything about not liking maths, and they are specifically on this forum inquiring about a point of how computation can theoretically be done (and one which in this case is extremely relevant to mathematics, if you
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by samhw 5y ago
It's a ridiculous idea because it doesn't have any cultural or product fit. It reads like they looked at Substack, thought "ooh, money, gimme some of that!", and rolled out the same thing for their own product – but a tw
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by samhw 5y ago
If you were going to do that, it may be easier just to implement `Index`/`IndexMut` over `u8`/`u16`/.. for whatever type (newtype if necessary) you're indexing into. I suppose it's hard to say without context though
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, you're getting it free: if you don't get any use from it, don't use it. Try doing an iterated search of every possible route on every possible airline website and let us know how you get on!
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by samhw 5y ago
> I suspect that if Apple did it, they would sell out. They'd stuff these "Undiscovered Music" stations with commercial pablum; rendering the entire concept useless. Why would they do that? It would be massively unpopular,
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by samhw 5y ago
> What 'magic' is there in crypto. Well, there's magical thinking, does that count? ;) (Also, perhaps it's just me, but I really dislike the term 'crypto'. Cryptography is a genuinely valuable field. Maybe w
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, he's not wrong, really.
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by samhw 5y ago
There's a difference between "media companies may have conflicts of interest or ideological bents" and "every single proposition ever stated by a journalist is specifically false".

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