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by typon 5y ago
It's an extremely difficult and dangerous job. The drivers deserve to be paid more than the current wages. Driving ruined my dad's health permanently - the long term costs aren't even factored in usually.
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by typon 5y ago
"Random" is a very loaded word. If you were looking at some arbitrary nth digit of pi it would look random to you as well.
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by typon 5y ago
You can read through this SO question and the top response does a good job explaining the possible solutions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32300132/why-cant-i-stor...
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by typon 5y ago
That's what my solution is. I am not going to get into pins and get cargo crates to solve such a simple problem. I just resort to unsafe. But then at that point...C++ is easier for me.
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by typon 5y ago
I would write principled Python with strict coding standards. Make type annotations mandatory and turn up pylint or flake8 to maximum warnings. It really helps avoid a bunch of silly mistakes, while still providing a way out for doing crazy
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by typon 5y ago
I've allocated both these things on the heap and Rust simply won't let me store them both together. I don't know about you but this is an extremely common pattern in almost all languages, you just don't think about it in
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by typon 5y ago
An extremely simple thing like having two objects stored in a struct where one object has a reference to the other is a Herculean task in Rust. This is not a language designed for prototyping...
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by typon 5y ago
Why is blatant misinformation and conspiracy theory allowed on HN?
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by typon 5y ago
Well that's the problem isn't it? If they are going to use their discretion and apply rules selectively, why not make exceptions for videos that most people don't find distasteful, even if they violate your policy?
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by typon 5y ago
There are literally millions of videos of street fights and sucker punches on youtube. Do they really intend to remove every single one of those videos?
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by typon 5y ago
It's incredible how people are chastising you for having skin in the game
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by typon 5y ago
Is there any author of any article who does need to be "contextualized" by your standards? Are there authors out there that exist outside of a context?
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by typon 5y ago
Build giant underground cities or diversify chance of survival by colonizing other planets
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by typon 5y ago
It's also overstated, culturally, especially in online circles. Most people will never be elite in anything in their lives, so these genetic limits don't impact most people. They're sometimes used as a crutch to justify not w
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by typon 5y ago
Or perhaps the websites being returned are garbage? I have the same experience trying a few searches and following the top 5 links. Besides wikipedia, I haven't found a single useful website.
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by typon 5y ago
The Google results tell you why Ivermectin is not a good replacement for vaccination against Covid, the Marginalia results tell you that Ivermectin is a miracle drug for treating Covid 19. Really shows how much technology has the power to c
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by typon 5y ago
According to the website the solution is....bitcoin?
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by typon 5y ago
A side comment, but I find the design in most of Wolfram's work very aesthetically pleasing. For example this website: https://www.wolframphysics.org and all the "artwork" of the graphs and explanations of his wor
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by typon 5y ago
He was one of those comedians that wasn't affected by the whole "wokeism" movement, because he existed outside this PC vs. non-PC humour hierarchy. The reason he could do that is that he was genuinely funny, wasn't tryin
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by typon 5y ago
I've stopped eating beef/mutton since the start of corona. I still eat chicken/fish, but honestly it wasn't that hard. Most restaurants have good chicken/seafood/vegetarian options, and at home you can control
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by typon 5y ago
I see this as a feature though. If I pay $2 for an app that helps me track fitness, I'm much more likely to lose interest. This is the same reasoning that Orange Theory uses...and seems like they're pretty successful.
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by typon 5y ago
ProtonMail messages can be end-to-end encrypted and they aren't scanned for serving ads to you. ProtonMail might be the same with regards to metadata, but they offer an onion site to mitigate that risk to a certain extent.
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by typon 5y ago
Thats invisible stuff in the background. Yes it matters a lot, but the point still stands. Reddit struck a goldmine with their original UI, but that goldmine cant really be monetized to the extent their investors want, so they are trying th
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by typon 5y ago
What companies are doing the software? Who's the leader in the field?
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by typon 5y ago
You don't think $3.5 Billion spent on a project with little customers is noteworthy?
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by typon 5y ago
"I invented the term Object-Oriented and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay
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by typon 5y ago
Selling a dollar for 90 cents isn't revolutionary. Anyone can serve millions of customers when you operate out of the bounds of what's normally required for a business.
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by typon 5y ago
Did they make the move to ScyllaDB, as mentioned in their "Future work" section?
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by typon 5y ago
This story is simplistic and doesn't represent the dynamic nature of the human body and mind. For example, as you reduce your calorie intake, your metabolism also slows down. This means you have to exert more willpower to consume the s
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by typon 5y ago
I couldn't get past the first couple of paragraphs because of the 4chan lingo

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