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by smcl 1y ago
Ah yeah it's likely he's distilling various ideas that are often discussed within the rail/transport industry in a form suitable for a more casual audience
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by smcl 1y ago
Honestly yeah, the guy's a bullshitter and he's got no business being near public office let alone being in charge of health policy.
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by smcl 1y ago
Have I encountered a fellow Rail Natter enjoyer?
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by smcl 1y ago
Well what happened was that despite being based on an aging Renderware engine and programmed using a language with many potential footguns, the game was stable enough across multiple platforms, architectures and OSes that it was both a crit
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by smcl 1y ago
I think I can articulate what the comment means in a way that may make you rethink what you've said a little bit. I'm not wanting to make you think Rust is bad (I personally think it is good) I'm just trying to show you why t
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by smcl 1y ago
It's more that functional languages just happen to be stricter in various ways that would've mitigated against this. You could quite happily design a functional language that has an unsafe equivalent to sscanf in its stdlib, or ha
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by smcl 1y ago
I think the response to that would be: yes but the game would simply not have been made if it wasn't written in C++. That's not to say you couldn't or that you can't make something like GTA:SA in Rust in 2025 or in a
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by smcl 1y ago
Maybe, but then my dog also communicates with me via his “biscuit” button so mere “communication” isn’t a particularly high bar. I was disputing the “we’ve taught them sign language” part - because we haven’t, we’ve taught them signs and th
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by smcl 1y ago
We have not taught apes sign language. They can learn and form crude signs and use them to respond to stimuli or for rewards (wanting an orange, for example) but they’re not meaningfully communicating. It’d be like me claiming I taught my d
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by smcl 1y ago
Relative to its peer nations it has terrible outcomes. If you think that I'm moving the goalposts and that you should instead be focussed on the fact that you are streets ahead of the developing world, rather than lagging behind your p
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by smcl 1y ago
I think this was edited - my understanding of the original comment was that it was primarily for buying things on the darknet ("illegal transactions").
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by smcl 1y ago
By far the more common use case is as an unregulated asset you can semi-legally pump-and-dump, and to extract money from gullible rubes
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by smcl 1y ago
Honestly this has been extensively studied and the "the US gets shocking value for money and poor health outcomes" is the consensus. You can either take that as a personal insult, dig your heels in and say "the data is wrong&
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by smcl 1y ago
I mean if you want to compare the US to Angola, Yemen etc then hell yeah it's "great" and you can sorta kid yourself you're up there with the best of the bunch. But as a wealthy nation that is a pretty low bar and reall
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by smcl 1y ago
Do you think Trump has some ideas on fixing healthcare or school? Is there even a consensus on what needs fixed? You've said re healthcare that "socialism isn't the answer" - assuming you mean "I don't want a
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by smcl 1y ago
I think they should want to do something - it's just that torpedoing your ties with your closest allies and trade partners then lighting the stock market on fire is maybe not that thing. China spent decades building up their supply
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by smcl 1y ago
The thing is the US already experienced Trump 1.0, so it was presumably easy for many to assume that Trump 2.0 would follow broadly the same pattern and that there'd be an "adult in the room" somewhere to say "this will
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by smcl 2y ago
That does introduce some ambiguity, I just don't know how often people google things like that. And if searching "how to authorize HTTP request .NET" (or similar) is a common occurrence, I reckon there's a bigger problem
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by smcl 2y ago
Do you think with different naming or branding it would've been any better? I'm not sure it would - I think the big thing is that they've tried to move from a (legacy) Windows-heavy language/runtime to one that is more c
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by smcl 2y ago
Obligatory plug for Sprache ( https://github.com/sprache/Sprache ) - a nice library I've been using whenever I've needed to create a little parser for something in C#. I'm not dogmatically opposed to using
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by smcl 2y ago
We don't have a network quite like the Shinkansen or the Chinese one, but you've linked an enormous article with dozens of high-speed lines and suggested that it's "very uncommon" for speeds beyond 240km/h (w
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by smcl 2y ago
I assume you're talking about Scott Wlaschin's "Railway Oriented Programming": https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/
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by smcl 2y ago
If they were "left of centre" that would be fine there are few if any major left-wing newspapers in the UK. The pandering from my perspective has been to those on the right . They seem to be doing the "well if both sides hat
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by smcl 2y ago
It is one of the better UK papers but the bar there is extremely low. They're often still painfully "both sides" on things, they're slow on the uptake and they're often quite credulous. Wonderful example that I ha
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by smcl 2y ago
"third world" is often US shorthand for "the foreign places I don't know much about but the guys who live inside my TV tell me are bad" If someone's using it to describe poor conditions (especially in their own
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by smcl 2y ago
This is actually amazing, thanks for finding this and sharing it!
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by smcl 2y ago
Wait so the real issue you have is with foreigners, or what's the point here? If he was born in Germany it would've been ok? Don't dance around your point, just be explicit.
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by smcl 2y ago
Hitler was a "foreign puppet"? This is news to me, can you tell us who the puppet master was? Because it seems to me that person should be as widely reviled as the man himself.
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by smcl 2y ago
> Having someone born in the country they are looking to lead seems silly to you? Yes and it looks especially silly for a country which used to pride itself on being composed primarily of immigrants. In fact the current president is on
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by smcl 2y ago
Whenever I talked about this with Tesla fans they kept parroting this line about Tesla being "a battery company that also makes cars" or similar. I can understand that this (having some non-car products and a charging network) gra

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