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by trevyn 6y ago
There's a saying about Rust that it takes more effort to get a Rust program to compile without errors, but once it does, chances are it will work correctly. This seems counter-intuitive coming from other languages, but has been borne o
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by trevyn 6y ago
> I've seen more anti-space rhetoric in the last few weeks than ever before in my life. What gives? Who would benefit from English-language anti-space rhetoric?
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by trevyn 6y ago
Even more edgy: None of us are "real", and it is not a simulation. (To be pedantic, it doesn't matter if it's a simulation or not. The important part is that we are not what we think we are .)
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by trevyn 6y ago
It creates a teaching moment for people who believe it could actually happen.
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by trevyn 6y ago
Ooh, you're right, I retract. A few minutes for me, though, not "instantly".
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by trevyn 6y ago
FWIW, there are some people who laugh joyously at matters that you don't laugh at.
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by trevyn 6y ago
The 15/16" MBPs have a 45W CPU TDP; they can run CPU continuously at at least 45W as long as your ambient temperature is normal-ish and the airflow isn't obstructed, and can do 60W+ if thermals are cooperative. See: https:&#
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by trevyn 6y ago
So what does Lisp make harder to implement than today's programming languages? It seems like large-scale composition relies on a well-structured way to define and enforce APIs, and oh wow, typing facilities. Performance has historicall
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by trevyn 6y ago
I’m not sure if this is a joke, but I’ll humor you. GitHub is way more than git.
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by trevyn 6y ago
What? It just needs to host the Git repo in a country that does not care about these sorts of things.
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by trevyn 6y ago
> knifes are utilities which can be used to kill. guns are made for killing only. What is a bowling ball made for? What are bows and arrows made for?
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by trevyn 6y ago
Serious question: In which Asian countries is it a problem to directly discriminate?
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> people just die and you have no idea why your relatives have died This system actually has advantages. From an outside perspective, it seems like Americans spend an awful lot of time in doctor's offices and obsessing over health
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by trevyn 6y ago
> I'm happy to answer other questions as well. > This is money transmission and requires registration with FinCEN Could you clarify the practical constraints on this assertion? If I am an alien living on the moon and connected
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Autopilot will be disabled.
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"Yes sir, we have extracted infinite resources from this planet to create a 144p LCD screen."
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by trevyn 6y ago
I guess you're right, Martin Luther King Jr. did get beat down. But his cause sure as hell didn't.
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by trevyn 6y ago
IMO, the courts should deal with the issue at hand, and not judge if the parties have been being good bois. It's interesting to think about this in the context of "smart contracts" etc. -- the rule of law is stronger if it is
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by trevyn 6y ago
I get the sense that in order to have legal standing for a lawsuit, you have to be actually harmed. I'm under the impression that they had to do more-or-less what they did (minus the press blitz) in order to have legal standing to brin
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by trevyn 6y ago
Quantum can be still be faster/more powerful per dollar than classical without achieving supremacy, right? There are a lot of big problems that are tractable on classical, but if they become orders of magnitude cheaper on quantum, th
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Ask HN: GitHub Actions free for Open Source: Unlimited Until ... ?
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by trevyn 6y ago
Some CSS-in-JS libraries will create a hash of the underlying CSS and use that as the class name. So not quite random, and should remain consistent if the underlying CSS hasn't changed.
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by trevyn 6y ago
Actually, I take that back. > A program ... knows where to put the symbols and how to move them around, but it doesn't know what they stand for or what they mean. At a certain level of complexity, it must "know what they stand
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by trevyn 6y ago
Is there a term for an argument that is so convoluted and makes so many assumptions that in order to even start to make any sense of it, you are forced to accept its flawed premises?
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by trevyn 6y ago
uBlock Origin, right-click, "Block element". I thought it was just an ad blocker, but now I realize it's a "whatever DOM element I dislike" blocker.
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by trevyn 6y ago
The “Small team makes innovative and interesting X. Gets bought” trend is hardly limited to gaming! Or the 90’s.
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Narrowing your perspective leads to a narrow perspective. Open your eyes to everything, and see everything. When your body feels a hint that something is wrong, following that hint will teach you something. How does your body react when you
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by trevyn 6y ago
> we'll be trying for a kid Please consider this carefully. The coming decades will not be pleasant to live in.
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by trevyn 6y ago
I have no problem with a project being considered "complete", but the post also says "we would like to discourage Moment from being used in new projects going forward", which sounds more like "dead & done".
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And we are changing those rights, which is fine and well within our rights.

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