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I've always wondered what the semantics of "national security" are when the deployment of this phrase led directly to 9/11

> their several-decades-old faux-environmental schlock Sorry, what are you referring to?

> Nowadays if you refer to "alternative meat", that means plant based meat substitutes 99% of the time. in what context? I'm betting this would necessitate not mentioning cell-cult…

Ok, this would still obviate the use of gRPC on lambda

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> but they can choose what part of the industry they support. Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't, sometimes it's up to what they care and focus about. > If many care, they ca…

gRPC is for long-lived services (and connections). Combining it with lambda doesn't make much sense.

The idea the individual consumer is responsible for policing industry is farcical on the face of it.

Is there any evidence that x86 can compete with arm on per-watt computation?

The reason we have bloat is it's easier to satisfy stakeholders if you don't give a damn. There's really no reason to discuss this at all once you realize this. But of course, rant…

I'd agree if our society had figured out any sane way to respond to crime in the first place, but that seems even worse than our barely extant resources for drug addiction in the f…

I was pessimistic about grapheme-based orientation towards text, deleted it to research more, and I've come to the conclusion that this is simply not a consensus opinion. Can you g…

> Async work is generally slow and terrible, at least for the pace that you need to achieve to succeed. Really depends on the work that needs to get done. Sometimes it's just a mat…

Ah, I thought you were referring to the benefits of such a system as compared to zig and blithely passing the responsibility of input validation on to the programmer. Rust of cours…

Well sure, people may colloquially refer to a lot of things as "strings"—hell, you could refer to all sequences as strings if you just wanted to argue with people—but the idea of t…

> And then everybody proceeds to write their own String library anyway. Is this true? It was (is!) certainly true for C, but C has an especially emaciated expectation for string pr…

> If you're constructing invalid `str` you already have severely fucked up. Presumably it'd be better to know this immediately on initialization of the variable rather than at some…

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Seems sort of like the opposite—a lot of the regulation is done by people installed by lobbying, sort of like a privately owned and operated part of government. Of course it's terr…

I guess I read your comment as contradicting itself by the phrase "the power" rather than "the illusion of power", especially since the american public is so easily distracted by p…

Oh, huh. I now recognize what you're referring to but I never would have realized that without being explicitly told so. Thank you.

> What if I spend more hours watching cat videos on Youtube over actually learning or making something? That doesn't sound that bad in itself. In my experience falling into this tr…

> FWIW, a friend of mine (and not "a friend of mine") What? Do you mean a coworker or something as compared to a friend?