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by weiming 7y ago
Tongue-in-cheek comment that I've read somewhere is that folks flee Democrat-run cities due to high taxes and mismanagement and move elsewhere, but then continue voting Democrat to bring back the same policies they wanted to escape fro
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by weiming 7y ago
The "unsafe" keyword should probably just be called "unchecked," otherwise it is a bit of a misnomer.
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by weiming 7y ago
> is serviced by an army of workers that wear special uniforms, are not included in the major perks Isn't this about government (IRS et al.) categorization of contractors vs. employees and not about GOOG specifically? IIRC there is
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by weiming 7y ago
Cool idea but, from watching the demo videos: (a) That's a messy, unappealing closet. (b) The Alexa interaction felt awkward. Probably a touch interface would've worked better. (c) Ugh, (used?) boots on the TV stand. (d) Many of t
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Announcing Tokio 0.2 and a Roadmap to 1.0(tokio.rs)
4 points by weiming 7y ago|1 comments
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Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”(vox.com)
3 points by weiming 7y ago|0 comments
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by weiming 7y ago
I can't believe how often I accidentally press something on the touch bar as my finger somehow brushes across it.
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by weiming 7y ago
NYT is neutral?
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by weiming 7y ago
Even these days, daily and business life in Japan is something that will make an eco- or time-conscious Westerner cry. Routine documents are printed out with many copies instead of being consumed electronically, many forms and documents are
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by weiming 7y ago
Not that difficult to notarize an app. For example, the latest Sublime Text just added it the other day.
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by weiming 7y ago
Plot twist: As of 2018, Grindr is literally owned by a Chinese holding company, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd. It looks like they were asked by US regulators to sell it off due to privacy concerns: https://www.reuters.com/artic
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by weiming 7y ago
Extensive air pollution from China or India that surpasses the West also doesn't seem to get much attention, e.g. [1] [2] Greta visited the US and gave some compelling speeches. Will she visit China and India and do the same? [1] http
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by weiming 7y ago
Hey that's great! Thanks, will give this a go.
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by weiming 7y ago
How does everyone deal with sales tax/VAT collection with Stripe? If selling software licenses for example. It seems like you have to use a third-party solution [1] and wondering why Stripe doesn't provide such a service themselve
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by weiming 7y ago
I don't think by any measurements the NY State/City gov'ts and/or New York Times can be called conservative.
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by weiming 7y ago
Tell that to people living in NY public housing... "Imagine paying rent for a home with rats, cockroaches, lead paint and mold. That’s what far too many of the estimated 600,000 residents of New York City public housing are doing, even
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Ask HN: Why does Amazon pay $5 to scan their box tape?
2 points by weiming 7y ago|1 comments
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by weiming 7y ago
Sigma cameras are getting close to that form factor. [1] [1] https://www.sigma-global.com/en/cameras/dp-series/
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by weiming 7y ago
On the contray, I am looking forward to the Space Force (The President has just unveiled the Space Command.) [1] [1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/09/05/donald-tr...
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by weiming 7y ago
> Facing societal oppression > Sponsored by some of the country's biggest companies: https://lesbianswhotech.org/newyork2019/#Sponsors
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by weiming 7y ago
Diversity != Diversity of thought
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by weiming 7y ago
Soon, activists will start boycotting Microsoft (gov't agencies use Word and Excel), 3M (gov't agencies use Post-it notes), and Charmin (they also buy toilet paper).
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by weiming 7y ago
"Behind that devotion to heterodoxy lies something softer. She admitted that she’s chosen to censor herself in front of her students [...] I don’t want to upset them. The historical material is too painful for a music class,” she said.
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by weiming 7y ago
A friend recently had a minor procedure (he took a couple of ibuprofens after and that was all). But the doctor gave him about a dozen of narcotic pills that eventually ended up in the trash. Another friend had a persistent cough getting ov
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by weiming 7y ago
What are some of those things? (Curious question, haven't thought of switching yet but could try if it's worth it.)
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by weiming 7y ago
(Of course, this is Tokio-specific) Cooperative scheduling is used to schedule tasks on executors. A single executor is expected to manage many tasks across a small set of threads. There will be a far greater number of tasks than threads.
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by weiming 7y ago
You need a third-party library to provide an executor. Rust does not come with one to keep the runtime size small. The community seems to have centralized on https://tokio.rs/ (under the hood it uses epoll/whatever OS-
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by weiming 7y ago
Going down the same rabbit hole earlier this week, found this to be a good explanation: All of the data needed by a task is contained within its future. That means we can neatly sidestep problems of dynamic stack growth and stack swapping,

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