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by tangent128 8y ago
Aren't Web Workers (which can run WASM) supposed to fill that role?
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by tangent128 8y ago
In ES6, every variable is "any" and implicitly nullable. Typescript requires any for ES6 compatibility, but if your code is converted enough ("enough" occurring pretty early in conversion projects in my experience) y
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by tangent128 8y ago
The subways have to be safe for human passengers, interface with stations, and be built in populated areas without disturbing the buildings above.
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by tangent128 8y ago
> The vast majority of the country supports healthcare for all but it’s still considered politically impossible. The party representing the minority opposed to healthcare for all has 1. a structural advantage granting them a government
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by tangent128 8y ago
Axial tilt is sometimes defined such that 0° is when the orbital and rotational axes align, including direction of rotation ; Venus has a tilt of 177° by this standard, because of its retrograde rotation compared to the majority of the pla
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by tangent128 8y ago
That's just another way of saying "you should tolerate intolerance", and the fallacy is the same. Saudi Arabia and China are not cultural monoliths. Their ruling classes may have a cultural value of stamping out dissenting va
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by tangent128 8y ago
I found rust-embed recently[0], which lets you embed an entire directory in release mode while deferring to the file system in debug mode. [0]: https://github.com/pyros2097/rust-embed
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by tangent128 8y ago
Because if you put the elimination of marriage and gender equality on the table, nobody's going to believe you're remotely interested in fixing inequality.
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by tangent128 8y ago
> With respect to financial responsibility, if the cost of the delivery is a concern... As the GP noted, if you don't even know the order of magnitude to expect, the cost will always be a concern. The upper bound on the price is in
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by tangent128 8y ago
That algorithm empowers any source to suppress an inconvenient fact by making a baseless assertion of the contrary.
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by tangent128 8y ago
If you know something can't possibly be null, then store it as a non-nullable type as soon as you know that.
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by tangent128 8y ago
The military equipment is irrelevant; they are still far more coordinated than the civilians are permitted to be. Suppressing collective action is one of the central goals of authoritarian censorship. Democracy is no more a native idea fo
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by tangent128 8y ago
Typescript doesn't do anything ES6 & Webpack don't already do; Javascript already lets you write Java-style code if you really want to.
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by tangent128 8y ago
If the player controls the CPU the code is running on, there is fundamentally no way to enforce they are actually running the code provided.
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by tangent128 9y ago
Easier said than done. The people who know where in meatspace they could expect to regularly meet people who share interests... tend to be the people who don't have loneliness problems. "Go make some friends" is too vague for
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by tangent128 9y ago
Willful ignorance offers a pretty big loophole to that definition. If you don't fact check information, nobody can say you know it's false.
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by tangent128 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush is a real and really cool phenomenon, but it detects light polarization, not magnetic orientation.
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by tangent128 9y ago
"Independence" is incompatible with "being forced by corporate to grant your credibilty to their talking points". You can't say Sinclair is "combating the national news broadcasters"; they themselves are a
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by tangent128 9y ago
https://bigcgi.com/development - "Fast-CGIish Integration" Are you thinking something like "FastCGI, except over stdin/out instead of a listening socket"? Since that sounds like it could work pretty
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by tangent128 9y ago
The"correct" answer there is probably to make the network limits explicit, by explicitly requiring a proxy server or organization CA installed in the client. QUIC should still work with middleware that actually terminates the conn
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by tangent128 9y ago
Would it work to add a boxed_clone() function to your Material trait that returns a Box<Material>? (or create a BoxedClone trait if you need that pattern more generally) Implementations of boxed_clone() could still use &self.clone
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by tangent128 9y ago
A majority among nominal Republicans is not sufficient if there's not a majority among the Republican base that actually votes in primaries, especially with the knowledge that support of DACA will be spun by further-right primary oppon
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by tangent128 9y ago
"DNA is the only source of inherited traits" is an outdated thesis, yes. Genetic variation within a racial group is comparable to genetic variation across groups, making it incoherent as a biological concept even before you get in
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by tangent128 9y ago
Except that increases the incentives to lower electricity usage. And even if you can't meaningfully cut your usage any further, inflating utility prices would still make a local solar installation more attractive.
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by tangent128 9y ago
If the question is "why some are able to flourish, while others continue with nothing indefinitely", then the fact that some children are given $millions in liquid assets where others are lucky to be given food and clothing would
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by tangent128 9y ago
If demand for insurance among healthy people drops, but demand among people with expensive healthcare needs stays constant, then the average price to provide insurance increases .
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by tangent128 9y ago
Metered usage is not a violation of neutrality. Varying prices or manipulating quality of service based on the endpoint's identity is.
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by tangent128 9y ago
Do you have any examples lying around of what the interface differences would look like?
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by tangent128 9y ago
If a function takes an array of Animal as an argument, the "intuitive" assumption is that you can pass in a Cat[] to it since it's probably processing the array items and a Cat is an Animal. In usual Javascript patterns, this
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by tangent128 9y ago
Have you encountered Squirrel yet? It seems to be targeting a "C-flavored Lua" niche: http://www.squirrel-lang.org/

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