umanwizard

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by umanwizard 5y ago
You are right. It’s definitely possible if you accept false positives.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I’ve been doing Rust full-time for two years and I had no idea you could do this. I’d just have used `push_str` in any case. Giving this up doesn’t seem very impactful and I’d be happy to do so to enable actually useful features.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
fn maybe_alloc() -> Vec<usize> { if collatz_conjecture_is_true() { vec![42] } else { vec![] } } fn main() { let v = maybe_alloc(); // Does this alloc
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by umanwizard 5y ago
If every person in the world simultaneously had 100,000 IPv6 addresses, that would represent a tiny, trivial fraction of the available space.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> IPv6 will never happen without someone forcing hands of big corps and ISPs to switch to Ipv6. But it is happening. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html shows it slowly but steadily increas
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> Most internet users at home could have their IPv4 address removed and only provided an IPv6 one. > Mobile internet is commonly served only by IPv6. These aren’t true. There are still some big consumer-facing sites that are IPv4 only
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by umanwizard 5y ago
OpenBSD and FreeBSD at least can compile themselves from /usr/src on a default install, fresh out of the box with zero additional packages.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I wish most people cared as much as you about not leaving random EC2 instances running.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> support our shell-based colleagues What do vim and emacs have to do with the shell? This is another case of people thinking "shell" is synonymous with "TUI", which is false.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
The tradition of anti-Semitism probably began for a combination of religious reasons (Jews were for a very long time the main or only religious outgroup in much of Europe, and have traditionally been blamed for killing Jesus), and pure raci
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Europe in general has had a strong tradition of virulent antisemitism at least from the Middle Ages until the present day (but especially until the 1950s).
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Why?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Don’t leave us hanging - what does it mean?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Notify them of what, exactly?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Indeed, but I think that was the point. It's entirely possible to hold irrational beliefs in one area without them affecting your work in another area. Whether you think it's at odds or not, in practice many great scientists have
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Perception is a funny thing. It’s entirely possible that the words seem distinct to you for whatever reason, but that no difference would be apparent on an actual spectrogram.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
They still use it for anything that runs on the application layer, i.e. stuff the runs in-process on the machines that serve web and GrahphQL API requests. FB isn’t as steeped in modern service-oriented ideology as most similar companies, s
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by umanwizard 5y ago
It’s true though, the media has massively distorted the truth about covid over and over since the beginning. For the most recent egregious example, see this exchange: https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status&#x2F
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Facebook did the same for PHP: added gradual typing (enforced in 99.9% of code with mandatory linters), a better standard library, and a compiler. That was much cheaper than rewriting everything.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
For what it’s worth: I live in NYC. It is not boarded up.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> With some exceptions of course, typically borrowed words, sometimes compound words. AFAIK there is no exception at all to this rule in French.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> Another important thing in pronouncing Italian is that the words have to flow together. It is like you should ignore that there are spaces between words. I believe this is true for all languages. It’s certainly true for English — there
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by umanwizard 5y ago
In American English “bar” is the name of the establishment, not just the piece of furniture inside.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
IMO Rust is much easier and simpler than C++, but much harder and more complex than any managed GC language.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> "You have to contribute productively" is such a capitalist mindset No it’s not. All socialist/communist societies required all able-bodied people to work, described themselves as worker-led, and idolized work in their pr
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Fair enough, you’re right that it’s more widespread than just SemVer (though IMO still not an ironclad standard)
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by umanwizard 5y ago
SemVer is a relatively recent proposal that the vast majority of software does not follow. Calling the three parts of a three-part version “major”, “minor” and “patch” is a SemVer thing, not a universal standard.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
That’s only assuming a large enough fraction of possible customers care.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I don’t think there’s really a difference between “Iraq” and “Iran” for most Americans (other than, obviously, in the final consonant). Both pronunciations exist for both words, with the one that’s closer to the native pronunciation being m
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Well, language being a social phenomenon, neither pronunciation is incorrect according to any objective standard, since they are both rather common variants. Is it “incorrect” that Germans call France “Frankreich” ?

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