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I never understood why Program permissions is such a big deal on Android and IOS, but not on Desktop Windows/Linux, where any application can to everything .

Friction with the helicopter doesn't matter, friction with the air does.

> if you are applying torque to someone, then that thing is applying an equal and opposite torque back Yes, just like with a force. > but in the real world there is friction and ai…

Yes. The time derivative of angular momentum is torque.

I added a link from my post to your comment: https://weissmann.pm/julialang/#updates > It would be nice to hear updated thoughts when you have a chance to try all of these improvem…

Shameless plug: I wrote about what I think is bad about Julia: https://weissmann.pm/julialang/

Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks > I can understand why you might feel that way. Copying and pasting from ChatGPT without permission can be considered ru…

> C++ is (I'm guessing) currently holding up an order of magnitude more applications than whatever you think is better than it. You could say the same thing about COBOL. (Not that …

If you translate it so that it does exactly the same, the resulting code has a modern language but is even more horrible than the original COBOL code. If you translate it so that i…

That's not a struct. It's a function called ka_add that returns a pointer to a KaNode

> Large "independent" media like NYT have admitted that they work closely with the DoD and other agencies to screen content before publishing. Source?

> an operation of a foreign government on your territory and information content. And who gets to decide whether something is "information content" or a "foreign operation" ?

> If Europeans conscientiously choose want to get RT, they can. If I want to visit rt.com , Vodafone blocks it.

German Vodafone customer here: It seems to be blocked properly not just on DNS level. Changing DNS does not fix it. $ ping rt.com PING rt.com (91.215.41.4) 56(84) bytes of data. ^J…

Seeing this comment in the #1 spot makes me proud of the HN community.

> We’re an adtech business Get fucked.

Do you think Apps should not be Sandboxed on iOS?

> some gateways strip too-long query strings for example Uhm. What?

> See also: SQL, Python I do not see what is wrong with SQL and I definitely do not see what is wrong with Python.

Ever heard of hate-speech laws? To be fair, your question would need reordering: Aren't left-wing groups changing relevant laws, then saving the information of right-wingers, then …

> Even if you buy a flagship Samsung television for five figures, it's virtually guaranteed that within a year or two they will release an update the slows it down to molasses. The…