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by smt88 2y ago
This is always an idiotic response to issues of govt or corporate corruption. First, no one cares that you "called it". Second, these are specific details that are interesting and surprising whether they fit an overall pattern or
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Far, far worse on iPhone 12 Mini. Genuinely unreadable.
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> Friends of Mozilla certainly control Rust Like who? Anyway, it would be a good thing anyway because "friends of Mozilla" are likely some of the most dedicated FOSS people working in software. > it is not outside the rea
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Creating a new language is almost as insane as building a browser engine. I do not expect this to become a viable browser regardless, but I guarantee it'll fail if they use their own new language for it.
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> Do you think it's wise to use tech controlled by your main competitor? Mozilla doesn't control Rust, and why would it matter? What is your disaster scenario here? What would Mozilla do to sabotage Ladybird? At this point, L
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Rust has memory-safe handling of circular references, but it can also be done with "unsafe" blocks. It's (much) more involved than using C++, but that's a worthwhile tradeoff for something as important as a browser engin
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I know they didn't do this on purpose and it was because it started as part of SerenityOS, but I'm unexcited by this project because it's written in C/C++. Rust was literally invented to solve the security and concurrenc
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This is either incredibly stupid/sad or it's satire, and either way it is a waste of a click. Flagged for being off topic for HN.
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Trump is on trial for multiple crimes committed in office. If the Supreme Court he appointed multiple justices to were to retroactively protect him from consequences for those crimes, he effectively had an emperorship (in the view of the au
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If anyone knew the answer to this with any degree of certainty, they'd be making millions and not responding to the question.
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Clerk is pretty cheap: https://clerk.com/ See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/17s0c6c/is_there_a_au...
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This is going to be hard to believe, but something that really helped me understand the diversity of what being "right" means is listening to old episodes of This American Life. There are lots of stories about a normal person in a
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I used to think exactly like this. I'll tell you what helped me. 1. Remember that you also say or believe wrong things quite often. Do people regularly get upset about it and call you out? Or do they give you grace because they care ab
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This is specifically an Outlook issue, not Windows. The problem is the enterprise addiction to Outlook/Exchange that prevents employees from choosing a different email client.
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by smt88 2y ago
Same experience for me. I'm a TS/JS expert and have been writing JS for 25 years. I have never had as much trouble with inheriting bad code as I have with React, especially after Hooks. It's absolutely insane. It's worse
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I'm sure it does, especially for non-white people. Vitamin D deficiency is a widespread problem.
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There are a lot of variables to consider, but it is suspected that people in northern latitudes (or cities) have health issues due to nighttime light exposure. Controlling for variables as best you can, there seems to be a slightly increase
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Reality that you disagree with is not automatically political.
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I agree.
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So you think the police were responding to ShotSpotter alerts and bringing people hamburgers? We already know "aggressive law enforcement" reduces crime. If you put enough young men in prison for loitering, marijuana, and other vi
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by smt88 2y ago
What is an example of the "something else"? Everything works better if you combine it with an unnamed, unknown thing that makes it betters. It's a nonsense assertion.
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I don't see political language at all. I also don't understand why this would be a politicized topic. There's a for-profit corporation selling snake-oil to cities, and then there are people (like the researcher/author) w
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by smt88 2y ago
> combination of solutions A and B That's not what ShotSpotter is selling. They're selling A. They tell you to buy A and it will reduce crime, increase arrests, or both. What exactly do you think B is, anyway? Your idea not
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Again, for the millionth time: none of these were the Biden administration. California's legislature is not Joe Biden.
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> There was legal action taken against some doctors. Please give us an example of legal action taken by the Biden administration against doctors. You're probably remembering that some doctors lost their licenses for spreading li
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> went after individuals sharing bad takes on COVID "Went after" is misleadingly strong phrasing. They took no legal action against these people. There is also an established public health function of government that, in no s
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by smt88 2y ago
Twitter has been dominated by bots for years. I'm sure >90% of all tweets have been removed after being flagged as coming from bots at this point, and there are still lots of visible bots after all that filtering is done. The differ
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In both cases, the agency of individuals was undermined by regulatory capture and the publishing of false studies (despite having real studies that the companies buried). For decades, people didn't even know it was dangerous to smoke o
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> things have a way of working out The definition of survivorship bias because you literally are alive to say this. Tens of millions have been killed by CEOs of tobacco companies, and that's just one industry. Energy companies wil
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No credible AI expert thinks LLMs will lead to AGI. They are hilariously bad at most things and heavily dependent on questionable data sources like reddit.

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