simias

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by simias 6y ago
> It's actually a bad idea in this case because regex is mostly the same in every modern language, so if you know it, you know it everywhere. What you don't know is this. I disagree, at least in my experience there are signific
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by simias 6y ago
I think it's a great idea... if you already know regex. Effectively it's just a different syntax for the same construct after all, it doesn't simplify anything, it just makes it more readable. Oh and it makes escaping a non-i
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by simias 6y ago
> The market can't act against what it can't see. Privacy loss is often irreversible. You're not wrong, but on the other hand has "the market" shown any serious signal that it cares about privacy? From what I can
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by simias 6y ago
I do think that git's UI is a good case study on how not to design a command line interface. It's improved over the years but I remember that a decade ago the contrast was stark if you compared, say, mercurial to git. Git always f
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by simias 6y ago
Well that and out of the box git isn't very user friendly, even for developers who are used to dealing with command line tools. To this day in my experience most devs have a relatively shallow understanding of git and often need assist
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by simias 6y ago
I can't make sense of what you're saying. All voting/moderation systems are flawed one way or the other, but what's the alternative? The only I can think of is complete anarchy and no moderation at all, and I know that s
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by simias 6y ago
>We need a new standardized, zero cost, cross language interop format functions on the ABI/memory level I don't think that's doable unless the underlying language already has the same ownership and lifetime guarantees as R
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by simias 6y ago
I think it's more "borrows many ML concepts but uses C/C++ style syntax to look more mainstream, also no GC".
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by simias 6y ago
I think it's effectively code for "it's not like C". Easy iteration, lambdas, generics, patterns, type inference etc... None of these features are technically novel but they do tend to be shared by newer system languages
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think I understand the difference between regions and Rust's concept of lifetimes. In my mind they were two sides of the same coin, but you seem to argue otherwise. Note that my knowledge of regions comes mainly from Cyclo
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by simias 6y ago
Agreed, I don't think people expect quality from wish.com, it's just consumerism gone wild basically. I doubt most people expect quality from them. I'd argue that counterfeits are a much bigger problem for a company like Amaz
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by simias 6y ago
I wasn't aware of this trick, thank you for that. I guess if I have to implement another FIFO before const generics land I'll have an opportunity to try it out...
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by simias 6y ago
steveklabnik is (of course) correct, but you also have to consider the performance cost of a dynamicaly sized slice versus a statically sized array. A situation I've encountered several times already is implementing statically sized FI
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by simias 6y ago
Indeed, I can't wait for const generics to become available outside of std, I've been bumping into that limitation since pre-rust-1.0 days, it'll be amazing to finally be able to rewrite all that hacky code correctly.
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by simias 6y ago
I agree with you but I just... gave up. The web ate the net, the browser is the new OS. It's silly, it's lazy, it's inefficient, it's everything I dislike about software engineering but at this point it feels like preach
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by simias 6y ago
> I've hit similar issues to those mentioned in the article and it absolutely infuriates me when I have to jump through hoops (or worse, reduce the readability of my code) to push well thought out code that communicates intent, only
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by simias 6y ago
Some people have an axe to grind with Mozilla since that whole Brendan Eich thing, and on top of that there's just good old sexism. This all contributes to create a very toxic subject that I generally tend to avoid, but I think that it
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by simias 6y ago
What even is Mozilla betting on at this point?
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by simias 6y ago
What's the plan exactly? Will there be a Servo browser that integrates the servo rendering engine with some open source components (for instance from Firefox, WebKit or Chromium) that will let us use the engine stand-alone, or is it &q
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by simias 6y ago
I don't understand your point, content signature verification would have the same consequences that HTTPS for non-repudiation, no? Also it's really different from DKIM: the problem with DKIM is that since the signature is part of
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by simias 6y ago
I don't know how I feel about it but I do think it's an interesting argument. The point of DKIM is, first and foremost, to fight spam. The non-repudiation aspect is, as far as I'm concerned, a side effect of DKIM, not a core
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by simias 6y ago
>On Earth, with Newtonian physics, we intuitively think that "now" is shared, so we really can say "I wonder whether someone has scored a goal now," and the answer shouldn't depend on whether you're in a car
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by simias 6y ago
This line of questioning on Startup News is quite amusing to me, I must say. How many of us can really pretend to make society a better place?
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think I understand what's shocking about this. It's like saying that for somebody who watches a taping of a soccer match the result is not yet known, yet for somebody who watched it live it's a foregone conclusio
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by simias 6y ago
Analog support doesn't sample individual pixels in a grid format. That's why it's rather meaningless to talk about the resolution of analog photos or video, the actually information density will vary depending on a large numb
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by simias 6y ago
Quadcopters also usually have terribly autonomy. Gliding is a lot more efficient at conserving energy so there's still a lot good engineering to be had in aerodynamics whenever you need to be in the air for more than a handful of minut
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by simias 6y ago
Here in Portugal the vast majority of the drivers seem to be doing it full time (having 3 phones at the same time to use several apps and all that). Many (most?) of them are Brasilian immigrants. Uber is dirt-cheap too here, and gas is expe
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by simias 6y ago
FYI I've had the issue you describe half a dozen times with CentOS but literally never with Arch Linux (on both machines with similar nVidia cards, using the proprietary driver). In general I'm pretty impressed with Arch's pa
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by simias 6y ago
I'm sometimes guilty of commenting without thoroughly reading the linked articles but in this case a simple glance at the photo in the article would've answered your question.
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by simias 6y ago
I can't really come up with a reply to your comment that won't start a flame war. It's clear that the crux of the issue here is that you consider that at this very moment the American presidential race isn't "finish

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