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by wycy 6y ago
Ouch, my first foray into Zig several months to a year ago also ended when my compilation of a copy-pasted version of the very first Hello, World code sample failed. (Copy-pasting of the second example did work, but still) Sad to see this h
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by wycy 6y ago
Fair enough, that rationale actually makes sense in the context of that sort of VPN. The sorts of VPNs I don't trust are those like Nord VPN or one of the others with huge advertising budgets.
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by wycy 6y ago
Why trust your "buck or two" VPN provider over your ~$30-100 ISP?
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by wycy 6y ago
A lot of their problems are related to bad construction, but it's important to recognize that this house design is hard to construct well. Water is the most insidious thing to a house, and builders are not particularly great at waterpr
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by wycy 6y ago
There's no technical enforcement of this. I think this is just referring to the general conventions of the way people speak on ham radio, which is different.
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by wycy 6y ago
A single percentage point difference in unemployment data versus versus thousands of deaths. And comparing dense European countries to rural red states. Your data is devastating to your point.
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by wycy 6y ago
Blue states can't go back to normalcy since diseased red staters can still travel freely within the country and ruin it all over again. Also because Americans are too stubborn to mask up for the privilege of normalcy. Places like Austr
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by wycy 6y ago
Reset their account passwords.
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by wycy 6y ago
I think it's a bit unfair to blame him for the unemployment rate having gotten so high, but it is fair to blame him for how long it has lasted. If he'd shown the tiniest bit of competent leadership through the pandemic, we could
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by wycy 6y ago
The Milgram experiment is largely seen as a fraud now[0]. [0] https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
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by wycy 6y ago
I agree that DC seems more unique to me than other cities. It's done a good job of retaining it's historical architecture almost everywhere. The Navy Yard is the only area I can think of that's switched over to the modern gla
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by wycy 6y ago
My point is that there's nothing inherently impossible about a tax based on illiquid, difficult-to-value assets. A tax on wealth > $50M will obviously not be a regressive tax.
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by wycy 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with a tax on non-liquid assets. We already have taxes like that: property tax.
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by wycy 6y ago
Assignments in conditionals can be handy handy, but I think it's better when there's a keyword for it. The Rust/Swift `if let` syntax is pretty nice for this. if let userID = 0 {} vs if userID == 0 {} The le
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by wycy 6y ago
I disagree. I think the anti-Trump crowd would've happily been on board with HCQ if Trump had said it was helpful and then scientific studies then also concluded it was helpful and that was the end of it. Instead, the FDA publicly retr
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by wycy 6y ago
As for what is stopping us: 1. Actually finding, isolating, and harvesting that virus, and 2. Proving that getting that virus doesn't cause some form of immune enhancement syndrome that would cause subsequent infection by a different c
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by wycy 6y ago
> That's completely irrelevant because they're very different viruses. Vaccination for a coronavirus should be a lot easier [than for retroviruses like HIV/Herpes]. Why is that? Uneducated guess: because of the rapid mutat
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by wycy 6y ago
I would imagine that people who've already recovered from covid-19 wouldn't need/get a vaccine, but I am not a doctor.
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by wycy 6y ago
What are "clubhouses" in this context?
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by wycy 6y ago
> I get 3-4x speed up with Intel Fortran compiler over gfortran Wow, even at similar optimization levels? -O3 for each?
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by wycy 6y ago
Ditto this, I've run into some strange compiler bugs I've had to work around. Intel Fortran 2019 actually fails to compile a code at work that's worked for ~40 years, Intel Fortran 2018 compiles it but produces numerical erro
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by wycy 6y ago
Reminds me of the time a shipyard worker set fire to a submarine, totaling it, because he wanted to go home early[0]. I imagine the Bonhomme Richard will be decommissioned too. I hope they eventually find the cause, will be interested to he
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by wycy 6y ago
> plans to bring up to 40% of our undergraduates to campus, including all first-year students, for the fall semester. Assuming that we maintain 40% density in the spring semester, we would again bring back one class, and our priority at
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by wycy 6y ago
I assume Google accesses the clipboard to see if there's an address in there and search for it. Whether that's a good use case or not is up for debate. Personally I was surprised to learn that apps could read directly from the cli
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by wycy 6y ago
Google Maps has a clear use case for accessing the clipboard. If Tok Tok only accessed the clipboard on launch to check for a Tik Tok URL, that might be one thing, but there's no clear reason Tik Tok would need access to the clipboard
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by wycy 6y ago
It's crazy that this ever became a thing. When Android first came out I assumed it would essentially be like Windows for the smartphone. But imagine if Windows worked the way Android does. You buy a Dell Windows laptop and then you rec
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by wycy 6y ago
Because "unpure" Android barely receives updates and the few occasions where it does, it's extremely delayed. So that's pretty "worse" You can also choose to jailbreak an Apple device if you really want to be u
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by wycy 6y ago
In my experience on HN, downvoted comments are almost exclusively low-effort, spammy, immature, etc. I'm not sure I've ever noticed an insightful dissenting comment downvoted here.
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by wycy 6y ago
Fantastic. I've moved to a consistent sleep schedule for the first time in a decade, where my weekday and weekend wake times are only different by an hour or so (vs. 4 hours pre-covid). I've bought back a good chunk of my life fro
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by wycy 6y ago
Catalina is the one and only macOS upgrade I regret doing. It has mostly been bug-free, but I was surprised how much software no longer works due to the 64-bit change.

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