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Why is it limited/restricted to 32-bit bitvectors?

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> Presumably that's a huge win for you if you started (or have equity in) the company - and if not, you can just... not accept the buyout offer? The issue is that this will not rai…

> You seem to be suggesting that unions magically understand the best way to organize each and every workplace Yes, it's called "representing the needs of the worker". > every empl…

> If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage. Or they'll just buy you o…

> True write once run anywhere cross platform support, and one click zero install distribution with no gatekeepers. We had (have) that, and the apps were miserable to use for the s…

Python is of course a major boon to humanity, but the things that need funding are typically things that corporations aren't using. It's our reliance on private spokes of technolog…

> Sure, they could all be faking it, but at that point you have to question how much evidence it takes to believe in anything at all. This is worth questioning (and hopefully comin…

> Only a very small percentage of the world has a complete grasp on the evidence for natural selection, climate change, the big bang, etc... I'm guessing only a small number (1-2 d…

> There isn't anything actually wrong with JavaScript in 2023, either. The semantics of the language can be quite complex and it took decades for browsers to agree on them for most…

> You are a member of the intellectual dark web, and care more about finding the truth than about social conformance Isn't this a declaration of what social conformance you prefer?…

We've needed a search engine that excludes the work of corporate giants that dominate our modern internet for a while. It's just never been so clear and dire as today. Interestingl…

> Why should a community limit their potential and ambition because another can’t seem to figure it out? I reject that interpretation of the the song completely—theoretically, a na…

That seems to remove the advantage of using the browser in the first place—leveraging native controls and integrations, giving the user control over how things are renderered, and …

Whitey On The Moon is just as relevant now as it was in the 60s

> I remember listening to stories about a black preacher that converted a KKK leader and he did it through tolerance and compassion not by screaming hateful things back through a m…

Sure, but that's just Popper's old paradox of tolerance: tolerating hateful people makes a hateful society. Anyone who is fine tolerating hate isn't working towards a tolerant soci…

> I've been looking for books that explain the underlying structures and dynamics of "wokeness" for a while. Fear & fear of tolerance is a universal theme throughout history, there…

Gravity's Rainbow is just a shadow of Pynchon's best work by a large margin, Mason & Dixon . I can't recommend it highly enough. It's probably the best novel I've ever read.

Sure, but by that metric apple could charge literally any price through the inherent deficiencies of bluetooth. You're not exactly a rational consumer.

Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they ha…

The vast majority of movies—let alone the ones worth watching—are not on streaming platforms, so I don't understand why you'd expect this to be the payoff route. Movies are still "…