zohch

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by zohch 5y ago
> The outage has pretty much buried that story, and perhaps more importantly, stopped its spread on FB networks. Buried the news ... which is basically as noteworthy the news that water is still wet. What exactly did she reveal that was
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by zohch 5y ago
> Universal Nil: no. we need less nil not more. Nil-safe types would be a better answer. Everyone needs optional values, due to Go's poor design the closest to this is to use nil.
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by zohch 5y ago
> But there are some good and outstanding leaders out there. There are, though they are just almost never the people who's job it is to be a leader. > If you never had the chance to meet one (or did not recognize them when they w
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by zohch 5y ago
> So have you met any good leaders? I have met people who lead well, but I have not met anyone who's job it was to be a leader that lead well. > Or are you saying that good leaders are nearly impossible to find (and therefore per
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by zohch 5y ago
> It saddens me to see, time and again, the role of leadership painted in such a dire and incorrect way. It saddens me to time and again be stuck with "leaders" who don't know what they are talking about and think they nee
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by zohch 5y ago
This will already inform mypy that after that if statement x is type string.
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by zohch 5y ago
> But I can't do that if I want to do gradual typing. If I type a function, but the type system cannot figure out what's going to call it, that's when I want it to perform a check: at the boundary. Unless you start using #
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by zohch 5y ago
> Flow types (for JavaScript) can be complied into run-time type-checks. Okay, so there are some, though flow is pretty obscure, and flow-runtime (which is the part which does this AFAICT) is even more obscure. I don't think this is
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by zohch 5y ago
In python with mypy, runtime checks (e.g. assert) also inform the type system.
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Member of CIA chief's team reported Havana syndrome symptoms on trip to India(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by zohch 5y ago|1 comments
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by zohch 5y ago
But what other statically typed languages enforce static type constraints at runtime?
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by zohch 5y ago
As a non Europen living among Europeans, it's pretty hard to ignore the second part. Europe can't care less about any actual injustice that happens in the world.
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by zohch 5y ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tripwire-texas-abortion-john-gi... > "His comments disregarded the values of our whole team, our partners and much of our broader community," the company said, noting that vice
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by zohch 5y ago
... I mean ... if anyone thought that big business's support of anything is anything more than self centered, I dunno, I guess it's nice to be naive. Businesses are pro LGBT, pro-climate, pro-abortion only because they know that i
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by zohch 5y ago
> I do wonder how much our gas import from Russia is helping us keep the peace. And keeping Russians and their "dominion" oppressed. Just shows how morally bankrupt Europe is, and with how smug Europe is that is really cringey.
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by zohch 5y ago
> Traffic fines in Finland are proportional to the offender's income. Don't need everyone's income to be public information to do that.
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by zohch 5y ago
In theory, not sure this translates to reality. I don't even have anecdotal evidence that this works. Employed in similar roles does not mean equally valuable to company. I live in Norway and I don't think I would ever tell my emp
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by zohch 5y ago
I dunno, would need data on that. I would think tweeting into the void is more symptomatic.
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by zohch 5y ago
> In Norway, everyone's income is public information. > Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent. What verifiable tangible benefits does this have?
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by zohch 5y ago
As someone who comes from a third world country, my view on this is that the solution starts with people voting for better governments. Governments that are willing to actually enforce the law. If most murder cases remain unsolved in a coun
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by zohch 5y ago
> The police are in on it, the government is in on it, the corporation is responsible. Then why does it not stop? If you look at the countries where this problem is occuring, they don't really have highly effective governments, they
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by zohch 5y ago
Every single USB-C device I have had got problems with USB-C connector, never had issues with Apple lightning connector. I don't like Apple really but USB-C is garbage. Had less problems with micro-b.
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by zohch 5y ago
I think the first time I saw something like this was in the 90s, and I'm sure it was around before that. Not sure what is so unique about this.
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by zohch 5y ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/RXu6y
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Head of WHO Team Investigating Covid-19 Calls for Closer Look at China Lab(wsj.com)
2 points by zohch 5y ago|1 comments
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by zohch 5y ago
> If you compare that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_N ... how much each party has representation in parliament at the moment, you will see that a large swath of the population is opp
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by zohch 5y ago
> 2) Speaking of Norway being a country -- it has 5 million people and dozens of political parties. Most of those people and political parties do not actually support further north sea exploration [2]. Your citation is about political pa
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by zohch 5y ago
> Nigeria is in this case more like China during the opium wars - the western companies are taking away their oil from them with bribery, political and economic threats. What western company is using what political and economic threat? I
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by zohch 5y ago
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/24/ben-sasse-crit...
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by zohch 5y ago
> I have a feeling this is gonna be the big issue for some people. Some users will moan, maybe less than 0.001% will consider moving to a different OS, and things will just continue as it stands. MS knows they have a captive audience wit

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