strbean

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1. 691.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   I get the thrust of your argument (that the expressiveness of the type system is what matters here), and it makes sense to me. I'm not sure I agree with this though: > Do you really think that `unwrap()` is meaningfully different fr
2. 692.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   First thing that comes to mind is official emails from organizations to individuals. Wouldn't such a system basically squash most fishing?
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   by strbean 7y ago

   It would also be much easier to transfer your data to Fólkvangr / Valhöll after you die a hero's death on the battlefield.
4. 694.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   I'm sure all the players are acting rationally as well!
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   by strbean 7y ago

   +1 Word of warning though: Buying and holding for a few decades is excellent advice, but be sure to log in every once in awhile lest you get escheated[1] out of your nest egg! [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13&#x2
6. 696.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   I think the real irony is that much of the time fences exist because of the quirks (fences) of some other system you are stuck with. Sometimes it feels like it is fences all the way down. Other times, you work your way down 5 layers of depe
7. 697.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   > The actual question is whether the market thinks that future efficiency gains are on the way or not. If the market does, then that efficiency is already priced in and you can't make any money off of it. Isn't this ignoring op
8. 698.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   > For example why Russia has so few cases, when they are sharing border with China? The shared border of Russia and China is barely populated and thousands of miles from the epicenter of the pandemic in China.
9. 699.▲
   by strbean 7y ago

   I think the lack of standardization for a general purpose PKI is the biggest barrier, and the reason why Joe Schmo has no idea what a key pair is.
10. 700.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    As a driver, every once in awhile I glance at the faces of other drivers on the road. Sometimes I get the feeling that more than 50% of road-time in the US is spent looking at a phone. It's enough to make me wonder if "x% of accid
11. 701.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Part of the reason few people said "think of the poor medallion owners" is because the whole medallion system was a deeply corrupt racket run by organized crime.
12. 702.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Until someone breaks into your backyard and sets up a kiddy pool, and your toddler goes and falls into it!
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    by strbean 7y ago

    Another one - pretty much all nature footage doesn't come with quality (or any) sound. Nature documentaries are full of foley sound.
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    by strbean 7y ago

    This technique got me through Jr. Lifeguards. I would pretty much immediately get hypothermic in the ocean, turn blue and feel as if I couldn't breathe. I would float on my back and "jellyfish" - essentially flapping your arm
15. 705.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Isn't unwrap(x) just match x { Some(v) => return v None => die painfully } ? If so, the None is still handled. Dying painfully is an escape hatch out of the type system in any language that lets you d
16. 706.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Doesn't that approach make the "nothing branch" extremely expensive? Makes sense in scenarios where you really always expect Something and not Nothing. In practice, Options are very often used where something is optional, and
17. 707.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Seems like a great argument for ensuring those are handled correctly, so you don't get bit by a maliciously named file.
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    by strbean 7y ago

    That sounds like a recipe for names like Innotek and Infobang.
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    by strbean 7y ago

    > She said the municipality is trying to find the best way to address the issue, while still considering the economic side. Just make them put tarps over the greenhouses!?
20. 710.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Thanks for the examples. I was mainly thinking of int-float conversion that is present in the vast majority of languages.
21. 711.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Can you show me where I claimed Apple made such a denial? Or maybe explain why you think such a denial is in any way relevant? They saw that battery life was causing problems in their phones, and they quietly band-aided the problem without
22. 712.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    > I'm left wondering what people do now. Have an app for each theater perhaps? Google the name of a movie and use the info box that shows you show times near you. Or google "movies".
23. 713.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    It truly seems like an awful convention compared to the common "<planet> day" or "<planet> hour".
24. 714.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Not an expert, but I'm pretty sure it is drawing power from the wall. My understanding is it is not great for the battery to act as a pass-through for power. Many cheaper devices warn you not to use the device while charging, because t
25. 715.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    > If Apple let the phones crash, as old electronics often do citation please?
26. 716.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    Consumers could have replaced the battery, a practice that has been universal in consumer electronics for, well, the entire history of battery-powered consumer electronics. If consumers were aware that their phones were actually suffering f
27. 717.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    They've been locked out of the market all day, and we get a big uptick. Coincidence? /s
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    by strbean 7y ago

    So the only workers at a university who have any capacity to effectively strike are the employees in the admissions department?
29. 719.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    True! More (and more important) reasons why URL blacklisting will continue to work in the WASMy browser-in-browser age.
30. 720.▲
    by strbean 7y ago

    I'd guess that parent doesn't agree with calling a duck-typed language strongly typed. If so, I concur.