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by worik 1y ago
This very worrying. You need your head of state to be neutral in matters of business. This sort of corruption is badly damaging the reputation of the USA
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Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland–and that isn't good(insideclimatenews.org)
1 points by worik 1y ago|0 comments
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by worik 1y ago
The borrow checker knows nothing about your arena allocations. That is if we are talking about the same thing! All the borrow checker knows is there is a chunk of memory (the arena) in scope. It works, no memory safety in the sense that you
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by worik 1y ago
My comment is quite general. The difficulties with async/await seem to me to be with the fact that code execution starts and stops using "mysterious magic", and it is very hard for the compiler to know what is in, and what is
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by worik 1y ago
Chickens are slowly coming home to roost. The USA could well be heading for autarky. For the sake of USAians I hope not, for the rest of the world it would be good for us, in the way a heart attack can be good for your health.
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by worik 1y ago
> works well with borrow checking. Yes, because it defeats borrow checking. Unsafe Rust, used directly, works too
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by worik 1y ago
I have thought for years Rust needs to bifurcate. Asyc/await really desperately needs a garbage collector. (See this talk from Rustconf 2025: https://youtu.be/zrv5Cy1R7r4?si=lfTGLdJOGw81bvpu and this blog: https:&#x2F
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by worik 1y ago
Swift uses reference counting Slows down every access to objects as reference counts must be maintained Something weird that I never bothered with to enable circular references
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by worik 1y ago
> free software sometimes obsesses over the 1% when the 99% of their objective is achieved. That is the nature of software. 1% is too much. It is Free or it is not
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by worik 1y ago
> Very dramatic presentation for something very mundane In what way is this mundane? The writer purchased a device, and after purchase the device was remotely disabled. Terrifying - that it happened is alarming but that it is now "
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MG5 electric car became dangerously out of control(theguardian.com)
2 points by worik 1y ago|0 comments
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by worik 1y ago
Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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by worik 1y ago
> Also, if your eight year old is trying to jailbreak Santa Yea, nah The problem will be random, unsafe responses to the unpredictable things little children will say to Santa
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by worik 1y ago
> Realistically I would be cycling out of my city Good for you, sensible and community minded to keep roads clear(er) You have no dependant children or pets that you must take care of too
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by worik 1y ago
Yes. But can I please have an electric car, all the bells and whistles, that I take to a dealer/mechanic to get upgraded? Maybe once a year? If that, and at my choice....
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by worik 1y ago
> I imagine flight safety systems are subject to a similar level of rigor. Not for cars tho. Cars can be expected to be as reliable as the average windows PC unless there are regulations made and accountability assigned
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by worik 1y ago
Modern cars "computers on wheels" are dreadful. Is it possible to disconnect the power from the radios used for "over the air" nonsense? Then at least they would be stable.
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by worik 1y ago
>> - You're basically at risk of your Jeep going limp This has happened to me twice with a Nissan Leaf. I paid money to get a read out from the computer system, and there were no timestamps on the screens of data. Modern cars &qu
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by worik 1y ago
That has started already
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Why Cards Against Humanity does not print its game in the US(arstechnica.com)
7 points by worik 1y ago|6 comments
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by worik 1y ago
> Remember, WW2 didn't bring civilizational collapse It depends where you lived. It sure did in China, Japan, Germany, large chunks of the USSR. Civilisation was rebuilt, but it sure collapsed. Perhaps the author of that comment com
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by worik 1y ago
It would be folish not too He is a highly funtioning lunatic who operates an arms company, has huge resources and is inserting himself into international politics Take him seriously
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by worik 1y ago
> The big problem is also that solar and most wind is intermittent and unreliable. Doubling down and repeating yourself. Grid scale storage is lagging, but not by much Repeating fossil talking points does not make them true
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by worik 1y ago
Yes!! No tarrifs on Chinese cars here.
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Tesla FSD gets worse at driving(arstechnica.com)
11 points by worik 1y ago|2 comments
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by worik 1y ago
> as the cost of creating software continues to approach zero "continues " is inaccurate. The cost of creating software is nowhere near approaching zero In Sam's dreams, perhaps.
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by worik 1y ago
Yes. But... It is a bit off to attack the drones of a corporate, albethey the only available target? Do you really need that burger? Better to boycot them entirety (Easy for me to say, I dispise MacDonalds food)
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by worik 1y ago
"Financial information " is on the list... ...I am thinking that does not include payslips....
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by worik 1y ago
> Sooner or later, Windows will be abandonware with all the BS they will integrate, from always online to AI scanning all your files I really hope this is correct. If there were any justice in the world.... But, oh my aching head, the IT
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by worik 1y ago
Is this going to change minds? Particularly influential minds? Terrifying

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