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Null-Set

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    Comment #49150736

    Is the memory-unsafe descriptor just saying it wasn't written in rust? Or does it specifically do some UB stuff which happens to work out so far?

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    Comment #48711812

    The goal is to deskill the labor of these workers. If there is a threat of a replacement which can bypass the cost of creating a new skilled worker, then the workers lose their bar…

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    Comment #48668226

    > We surveyed attendees ahead of the symposium. One of our questions was: if this doesn’t happen in the next ~10 years, what will the primary reason be? The number one reason cited…

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    Comment #48103849

    I'd argue that while Rust has a high barrier to writing code due to lifetimes and other type constraints, its still quite easy to read. (Kind of the inverse of perl)

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    Comment #47979827

    Emulating the lowest common denominator is the function of an LLM. It works better for things like code because boring code is actually the best code.

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    Comment #47671116

    You should eat your own dog food, but maybe you should not drink your own rat poison.

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    Comment #47474962

    The original reseaech around thinking fast and slow (aka system 1 system 2 thinking) failed to be replicated when researchers tried.

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    Comment #46457366

    I love how everything is an expression with a value. And match expressions are quite nice, especially with the option type. I really miss those when working in javascript.

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    Comment #45022848

    How would you fix the spec? Add a line explicitly stating the /Library/Application Support dir is only for applications with a bundle ID, instead of just implying it?

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    Comment #44852094

    Does it track my behavior to sell it to advertisers of less whimsical storefronts?

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    Comment #44786771

    It would allow them to negotiate directly with Mastercard, making the deflection in TFA impossible.

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    Comment #44710009

    So fuel would basically become a corn based battery. (Ideally something more efficient than corn would be grown though)

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    Comment #43879591

    The name of this feature is transclusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion It was part of Project Xanadu, and originally considered to be an important feature of hypertex…

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    Comment #43794314

    This looks like it was caused by this update https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/change-log/2025-04-22/ rule 100741. It references this CVE https://github.com/tuo4n8/CVE-2023-220…

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    Comment #43794244

    See https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/change-log/2025-04-22/ rule 100741. It references this CVE https://github.com/tuo4n8/CVE-2023-22047 which allows the reading of system fil…

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    Comment #42842136

    No, it can't because the checksums won't match.

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    Comment #42656889

    I don't believe it mentioned Twinkle Twankle but your description reminded me of the old radio play The Cinnamon Bear where some kids eventually go to the North Pole looking for th…

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    Comment #42284766

    A more generous way to say this is that the code is more readable, which is in fact important in a growing codebase.

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    Comment #42246859

    Asteroids which enter a planet's atmosphere will probably yield even better food, because they will be a little meteor.

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    Comment #42224425

    I think that if you simply call someone bitch in place of a name, it has become largely but not entirely degendered, but if you call someone "a bitch" it is still pretty gendered.

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    Comment #41750197

    A CEO has a fiduciary duty to lie.

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    Comment #41648575

    A far cry from the 1979 IBM presentation. > A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE > THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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    Comment #41485501

    I do non-standard touch typing, just naturally learned from typing over the years. I mostly only use 3 fingers on each hand, but I'm not hunting for the keys, I know where they are…

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    Comment #41262200

    If anyone wanted to make something similar for California here is a map of traffic cameras there. https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm

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    Comment #41086495

    (Very) approximately 10 times faster