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by vore 4y ago
I did not say the US government was friendly, nor does the context of TikTok operating in the US have anything remotely to do with Iraq or Afghanistan.
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by vore 4y ago
I didn't say the US government was friendly, and I certainly don't think that either. But if we're talking about social networks surveilling people in the US, the US government doing it is bad and an adversarial foreign gover
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by vore 4y ago
My point is just that their broad "we don't accept returns, ever" policy in the UK is not legal in some jurisdictions, and nothing about returning a game because you don't like it. How that's interpreted is, of cour
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by vore 4y ago
Whether or not something is acceptable quality is not up to Nintendo, right? Otherwise it would be a weird conflict of interest that Nintendo would set the standards for their own store with no recourse for the consumer.
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by vore 4y ago
In some countries like Australia and New Zealand, Nintendo is bound by law to accept some types of returns: see https://www.nintendo.com.au/support/articles/refund-for-down... which has an extra section at the bot
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by vore 4y ago
Aren't all magic tricks "cheating" in the end? Otherwise they would be real magic ;-)
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by vore 4y ago
No, I think they're saying Facebook is bad but having an entity tied to a not-so-friendly government do it on a much larger scale is worse.
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by vore 4y ago
That's exactly it though: having to do dumb tricks is the painful part. There's plenty of things with user-defined order where an explicit index isn't surfaced, like to-do lists, playlists, etc.
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by vore 4y ago
I'm modeling the GP's comment, but I think a common case is something like a polymorphic user/organization entity like GitHub: there is some kind of base user that is usable in a lot of places (e.g. https://github.
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by vore 4y ago
Like with any culture war issue anywhere, it reaches the point where, whether actively or due to escalation, rational discussion does not survive in an environment where the stakes become personalized. It's wishful to lament how people
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by vore 4y ago
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!
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by vore 4y ago
It's not straightforward to do polymorphic joins: one common pattern is to have child tables for each case of the union, but there's no integrity constraint such that each parent must only have one child, e.g. CREATE TABLE sch
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by vore 4y ago
I think it depends how far you go: if you start encoding rules into the type system that are undecidable then you can quickly run into trouble.
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by vore 4y ago
HCL also has expression evaluation however: TOML parsing is guaranteed linear over the size of the file, but HCL isn't necessarily because you can trivially do things like dynamically create a n*n-sized list from n-sized input list, wh
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by vore 4y ago
HCL is also oodles more complex than TOML since it has expression evaluation, whereas TOML is just a static format. It really depends on your use case and I think there's a lot of cases where TOML makes a lot more sense than HCL (e.g.
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by vore 4y ago
I don't think most people who are using Go really want to write their own contains method for slices every time: it seems antithetical to being productive and doing what you actually want to do and it is most definitely a shortcoming
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by vore 4y ago
The US has a lot of issues but needing a lawyer to join the local gym is a gross exaggeration. Nobody is doing that.
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by vore 4y ago
The surface of exposure is much lower in Rust than in C/C++ however. It is unlikely you are writing your entire program in unsafe Rust, so you can still get a significant benefit from memory-safe safe Rust. In C/C++ world, _everyt
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by vore 4y ago
Yup, though I do think in some cases if the indexes into the function table are known a sufficiently smart compiler can inline it anyway, even if the linkage isn't static: https://godbolt.org/z/6cY7zxT9W
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by vore 4y ago
My comparison is vis-a-vis an array of function pointers as described in the article vs a compiler-generated switch jump table with inlined bodies that the compiler will always generate with a switch statement, rather than in comparison to
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by vore 4y ago
While compilers do turn switch statements into jump tables, in this case storing function pointers and calling them you add the additional call overhead of saving registers, setting up the stack, etc in the function prolog and epilog.
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by vore 4y ago
I don't think this adds any value to the interpretation of the parent's comment and seems overly pedantic. What does your hair-splitting provide when the central thesis of the parent is arguing that land value tax is a tax on prod
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by vore 4y ago
As these locks automatically expire, it seems scary to me that losing network connectivity for >TTL can break mutual exclusion guarantees.
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by vore 4y ago
Again, the article is not talking about state ownership of the internet.
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by vore 4y ago
What? > On the infrastructural side, Tarnoff shows a clear preference for the community-owned networks that have been proliferating across the United States, even as they’ve faced opposition from the telecom oligopoly. These networks ten
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by vore 4y ago
As mentioned in phphphphp's reply to your original comment, surely the CEO here is also "sowing division, intolerance, hatred, bigotry and exclusion unlike anything you've seen in decades of work experience".
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by vore 4y ago
This is about measuring CPU frequency, where doing so definitely does not cause your computer to explode.
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by vore 4y ago
There is no need to post like this. You can make a point without denigrating people as "those types".
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by vore 4y ago
No, that's jwz.
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by vore 4y ago
To make matters worse, due to the influence of the other Sinitic languages (Wu, Yue, Min, etc.), Mandarin actually has regional variations of a lot of these words as well!

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