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by scoutt 8y ago
> So I might be obsessed ... then suddenly become possessed > “scanners“, “multipotentialites”, “polymaths”, and “renaissance people”. There must be a difference between having things to pursue some passion and pathologically having t
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by scoutt 8y ago
What about instead of playing a pre-roll ad, they instead start playing some "warning" video saying that some of the videos users will see (not necessarily the video after the ad) will sometimes try to deceive and/or confuse
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by scoutt 8y ago
> Why one has to be an informed citizen? Why one has to vote? Why one has to always protest? Why one has to always support something? Is not in your interest. Is in the interest of the elected officials. They get to you through the news
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by scoutt 8y ago
The answer to all the above questions is: is in the interest of the elected officials.
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by scoutt 8y ago
Why one has to be an informed citizen? Why one has to vote? Why one has to always protest? Why one has to always support something? > We’re afraid to ask ourselves deep and meaningful questions. Noise and news are an incentive for people
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by scoutt 8y ago
Misleading title... why all bugs are "security bugs" nowadays? It's just a bug. Also, the allocator does not hide the error. It's not a problem generated in or from the allocator. It's a problem generated by the pro
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by scoutt 8y ago
> we do have reason to assume > word would get out > no significant user data These, as you say, are assumptions. That's why I don't (still) buy it. They are in "sell" mode right now. They would say anything to
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by scoutt 8y ago
I'm glad they're moving forward, but I still don't buy it. Someone is tossing a big load of money on them (you know that when you see their ad in twitter every day, and articles like this), specially in the last year. When th
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by scoutt 8y ago
If "Visual Programming" is the possibility of generating code from a "Diagrammatic Reasoning" design, then I (and I suppose everyone here) do it all the time. Like drawing sketches, boxes and arrows in paper before/
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by scoutt 8y ago
I had the same reaction. Really impressive and well documented. I will surely do some tests. > variables, constants, and functions are well-prefixed (without being too verbose) to avoid collisions. Unfortunately it has the same name (Lit
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by scoutt 8y ago
Exactly. But in the "system" industry that reason only is not worth the effort. I already know how to ride a bicycle "by instinct". Why would I use the training wheels again? just in case? I really hope libraries like li
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by scoutt 8y ago
I write/maintain BSPs and RTOSes for a myriad of embedded systems, every day, for the last 15 years. I can't remember the last time I had a bug like the ones mentioned in the article... I look at Rust with enthusiasm, but... if th
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by scoutt 8y ago
Any multi-instance, multithread-capable language must have an appropriate debugger. > [src/main.rs:4] x = 5 How to differentiate the value of 'x' for a given thread/instance/whatever? Don't add the info by h