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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
People like to criticize stuff like this but England was and is one of the most well-governed countries in the world. It was perhaps the leading center of development, technologically as well as in terms of institutions, from 1650 until 190
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
What are those mistakes? It seems like Ada more or less has to have memory safety bolted on -- that is what SPARK does -- and it's not clear that Ada's bias towards OO is better than Rust's bias towards functional programming
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
What are realistic options for "gradual improvement" of memory safety in C and C++? My first thought is that it is kind of like talking about gradually improving manual memory allocation in Java. C and C++ are fundamentally memory
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
...it is still worrying if in community projects such as Debian when decisions that come with a cost to some part of the community are pushed through without full consensus. What are some concrete cases you can point to where a decision
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
What does this line have to be drawn for, though?
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Francis Fukuyama mentions this in one his books -- The Origins of Political Order or Political Order and Political Decay , I can't remember which -- and argues that this is an important part of how American democracy was workable (a
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Yes, his autobiography is full of incidents relating to them. Starting a library, a fire department, two companies of militia...
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
I actually have bought many books that I started reading online. The book format is useful.
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Allegedly, some companies with deep pockets have paid them for access to their collection. The collection turns out to be useful for training LLMs.
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Perhaps if there were fewer radicals this would be less of a problem. Many thousands of characters could probably be generated from a small number of radicals.
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
The Nazis' rise to power was fueled by German grievances, in particular, with their opponents of long-standing, the French. How is it that research on the dynamics of grievance-fueled violence would not apply to Nazi Germany and lead t
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
For everyone in this thread hoping for a "Marshall Plan" or other functional aid regime for Gaza, keep in mind that the Marshall Plan began with defeat . It was only with Germany's unconditional surrender that the Allies c
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
One reason to doubt that Israel is systematically exterminating the Gazan population is simply that the population is not decreasing or projected to decrease, which is to say, the excess deaths due to the conflict are not all that great rel
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
I do think that Israel doesn't have to be fighting this fight; instead it could be playing the soft power game in Gaza much better... What makes you think that? You mention the Marshall Plan, but the Marshall Plan worked in part beca
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
This is not quite the same thing, because it requires `sqlx prepare` to be run first; and that talks to the database to get type information. In SQLC, on the other hand, query parsing and type inference is implemented from first principles,
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Implementing the parsing and type checking logic in pure Go is not an unqualified advantage. As you point out, it means that SQLC "...essentially reimplements database features..." and in my experience, it does not reimplement all
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
This would make cloud vendors kind of like banks. The cloud vendor is holding a kind of property for the user in the user's account. The user would have clearly defined rights to that property, and the legal ability to call this proper
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Carrolton has a kind of KSuburbia. There is a bunch of Korean stuff spread over a huge area, mixed in with some Taiwanese, Japanese and Chinese places, with some big concentrations in shopping centers. There are many interesting restaurants
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by solidsnack9000 1y ago
Doesn't the article say, in the second paragraph, "...he’d stumbled onto something unprecedented."?
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
I wonder where the remote drivers are? If they were in Vegas, latency could be very low -- but if they are in Berlin...
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
How would "provide data in response to FOIA requests" impact Gumroad? FOIA requests are for information about the workings of government agencies, not companies.
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
...it does introduce certain caveats that, in my experience, are not frequently addressed in discussions about these systems. What are those? As far as I can tell, people don't deploy verified or high assurance systems without testin
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
What issues would TSV have? As commonly implemented (for example, the default output format of Postgres and MySQL), in TSV, tab and newline are escaped, not quoted.
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
In TSV as commonly implemented (for example, the default output format of Postgres and MySQL), tab and newline are escaped, not quoted. This makes processing the data much easier. For example, you can skip to a certain record or field just
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
Parsing escapes is easier than parsing quoted text with field and record separators embedded in it. Every literal newline or literal tab is a separator. One can jump to the thousandth record, for example, just by skipping lines, without loo
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
How does CSV look when the fields are all of different widths?
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
TSV's big advantage is that, as commonly implemented, the separators are escaped, not quoted. This means that a literal newline (ASCII 0x0A) is always a record separator and a literal tab (ASCII 0x09) is always a field separator. This
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
Tab-Separated Value, as implemented by many databases, solves these problems, because tab, newline and other control characters are escaped. For example, the default text serialization format of Postgres (`COPY <table> TO '<fi
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
The aerodynamic effects you mention are real, but they are subtleties. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a high quality, open-source ballistic calculator that actually breaks out all those details. Apparently, "Modern Exterio
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by solidsnack9000 2y ago
If the sight is angled down relative to the barrel, the barrel is angled up relative to the sight. But which is angled "straight"? The shooter aims with the sight, so if the target is level with the shooter's eye, the sights

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