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by sk2020 5y ago
I don’t think anyone “runs” the federal government. I think offices and processes exist, and I think there’s a semi-hereditary politburo occupying said offices, but I don’t think anyone has much authority.
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by sk2020 5y ago
An open air prison is worse than an enclosed one?California got the state they voted for. Save the hollow moral indignation.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Some people have money they need to get rid of. Taking a loss on the property is not as big of a problem as having money you can’t justify having possession of. How much of the market that is would be hard to guess. Zero is not likely, thou
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by sk2020 5y ago
So pack people into towers as densely as possible and take away their ability to freely leave. Wasn’t this the plot of Escape From LA?
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by sk2020 5y ago
> That's fine. An uneducated guy bringing on other uneducated guys that talk about something as if they're experts. I’m not sure that’s distinct from the internet commentariat here or elsewhere.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Would you get the same result if HN is a popular content marketing forum that’s frequently used to promote new businesses and products? Also, I skimmed the graphs and only concluded that HN contributors have a short attention span. I must l
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by sk2020 5y ago
> at least there will be lessons learned for the future development of vaccines and increased scrutiny in their manufacturing process. I’m nagging, but we’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to set a precedent where pharmaceutical companies
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by sk2020 5y ago
Smokers are at lower risk of COVID 19 death. Also, why not make being a healthy weight mandatory? I mean, other than it isn’t a patented pharmaceutical product to be sold? We already have determined that indefinite, population-wide house ar
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by sk2020 5y ago
For the same reasons, I think that lucky rabbit’s feet should be mandatory. Also, horoscopes should be consulted prior to attending schools. If you can think of anything else that didn’t work for this or any other illnesses in history, then
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by sk2020 5y ago
I would doubt they went far enough to get meaningful measurements. I think this is just more of the Ivy League enriching itself at the bottomless climate feeding trough. The discovery that light colors absorb less heat isn’t remarkable. I w
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by sk2020 5y ago
You (and Apple) have no way of knowing if the photos that will flag you are actually illegal content. The repository is a black box.
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by sk2020 5y ago
The implementation also means Apple has plausible deniability if the “CSAM” in their database actually contains images associated with political enemies of whatever regime supplies the source material. How would you know the hash you are te
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by sk2020 5y ago
Why not round everyone’s bank account up to the nearest $1,000,000,000,000,000? Wouldn’t such unprecedented “stimulus” create unprecedented growth and end poverty forever? Would our newfound quadrillions end scarcity of resources? If not, w
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by sk2020 5y ago
Other than the materially false statements? Gee, I guess nothing.
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by sk2020 6y ago
I would call dozens of uses in the core and hundreds in the dependencies aggressive usage. Statically determinant memory use is the main reason we’re not taking advantage of decades of C++ development, after all.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Nobody I know has a mask for every day. Masks for which there is no standard of construction or performance. They’re almost entirely for show.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Using the magic of Grep Occurrences of unsafe in: Actix-web: 39 A few dependencies Regex: 136 Bytes: 118 Tinyvec: 8 That’s far from exhaustive. So I wouldn’t consider this implicitly safer than any particular C++ library that has been throu
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by sk2020 6y ago
Actix-web makes some very aggressive use of unsafe. Many core Rust libraries do too. If you trust those authors (some very fresh out of school) to have zero mistakes, why would you not trust the C++ STL?
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by sk2020 6y ago
Attorneys aren’t writing these Codes of Conduct.
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by sk2020 6y ago
For decades people have speculated, wrote and made movies about Bigfoot, aliens and Illuminati conspiracies, and it was viewed as a harmless novelty like a quaint superstition. Only now that it’s politically expedient to say so, it’s a “cri
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by sk2020 6y ago
I’m not bothered by it now. The IFR for me is around 3x10-5. I live in a city in the top 10 of per-capita homicide rates in the country. Just living here is more dangerous than SARS. The risk of getting thrush from my mask also bothers me.
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by sk2020 6y ago
Pretend-legal agreements that are overly broad, capriciously enforced and written by out-of-touch culture “warriors” are a bad joke that should be regarded with contempt. Let the attorneys do their job, and devs, or the pop-dev-blogger ento
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by sk2020 6y ago
I would certainly hope a minimal HTTP library would be simpler than a suite of functions to manipulate and plot tabular data. “My application is slow, the language sucks!” Doesn’t indicate a very serious investigation into the problem.
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by sk2020 6y ago
It’s hardly random. R functions could be noun-adjective or adjective-noun or underscored or camelCase or dotted ... and that’s just naming conventions. If someone, like you, says that Numpy sucks, but R is the real masterpiece, then that’s
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by sk2020 6y ago
I like R, but there is nothing elegant or consistent about its standard library. I don’t think you’re making a good-faith argument.
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by sk2020 6y ago
You’re pretending marketing is zero-cost. It isn’t.
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by sk2020 6y ago
So who does it right? If all these APIs suck compared to an imaginary perfect library, then that isn’t a useful comparison. Also, if an endpoint is spending minutes to respond, then I would think actually profiling the application would be
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by sk2020 6y ago
Scipy has a poor performance ceiling? Numpy has a poor API? Compared to what? Eigen? Whatever the Scala guys use? That sounds kind of silly to me, especially when hardly anyone is actually CPU-bound, anyway.
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by sk2020 6y ago
So to be more precise, maybe one should say, “I wish someone would fork this project, include additional languages, and pay for better Google ranking and then pay some media company to spam HN, Medium, et al for a few months.”
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by sk2020 6y ago
They also seem to be very similar to Mastodon. They may be inspired from that.

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