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WesternStar
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Comment #38185977
I think this is a great article talking about a thorny point in Golang but boy do I wish I never read this article. I wish this article was never useful to anyone.
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Comment #33809280
Its also being used in the creation of Rust's next gen borrow checker Polonious.
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Comment #28363028
Do you feel the same way about when Americans claim baseball is the national pastime or say "As American as apple pie".
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Comment #28363019
In holdem you can fold or raise. If you fold you are obviously not playing your hand.
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Comment #24441179
For me the thing is that emacs can be overwhelming. So focus on doing one task at a time. I still don't know the whole spacemacs interface. I know where my major mode keybinds are.…
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Comment #23982509
Also people act as though software is a job without anxiety. There is plenty of anxiety in this job. Sometimes under pressure you really do have to perform or push back and its goo…
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Comment #23945404
I think the idea that people are the same no matter what the rules are just isn't true. It stated as though it is obvious and I need evidence that that is the case. The rest of the…
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Comment #23581128
I suppose it is fair to say speech of those in leadership positions with executive power is chilled by this. I think that's how its supposed to be though. Part of being in leadersh…
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Comment #23578808
Neither you nor he are operating in good faith. This is HN everyone knows how to use google. He is asking me to prove institutional racism exists. As though if he were to google "I…
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Comment #23578396
I'm not going to pretend that you are arguing in good faith. Have a nice day.
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Comment #23577232
>But when you say "I'm not sure if meritocracy makes sense"... you are really saying that instead of trying for meritocracy, they should just use skin color? I'm not GP but that do…
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Comment #23577202
How fortunate you are to merely be "exhausted" emotionally. This isn't really a conversation about skin color its a conversation on how we treat each other and we happen to treat p…
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Comment #23534231
So lets take one example lets say you have a late night restaurant devoted to providing drivers who would possibly drive drunk a place to sober up and people who are homeless a hot…
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Comment #23528072
No because the goal is to have public safety organizations that don't have any of the personnel, historical lineage or goals of the police. By poor analogy, the goal isn't to clone…
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Comment #23447484
They should maybe consider adding an option for people to point at other repositories and surface them either in the ubuntu software store or in their own software store.
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Comment #23439584
I honestly like snaps. I like having spotify and discord working as to his other concerns I just don't care.
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Comment #23389534
People with guns lose fights too. Cold Arms are easier to assess and much easier to run from. Who said anything about a crime that's like asking in the current regime cocaine users…
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Comment #23382239
Well I didn't say you couldn't fight. My proposal includes confiscation. Assume very aggressive pursuit of criminals with an unlicensed firearms. Like multi-county dragnet with blo…
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Comment #23379930
The United States of America has an oppressive government if they wanted to use their weapons to protect against tyranny today would be that day. But they don't the 70 million gun …
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Comment #23377498
Call the police and have insurance.
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Comment #23376403
We should start by repealing the 2nd amendment. It is a bad law. Edit: This along with arm confiscation would limit force in police interactions and thus lower aggression.
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Comment #23376363
I'm for removing it entirely. We can build a new legal standard. The reasonable professional standard works fine for doctors.Seems like it should work fine for cops.
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Comment #23340985
J.K. could afford it because the U.K. subsidized her life with welfare. There should be more of that.
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Comment #23179677
Unless my interviews go better than I expect them to I'm working on a prober that automatically updates probes for data systems where the read path can be fairly heterogenous like …
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Comment #23065075
Healthy skepticism is necessary for any technologist. However, you do have to use it in both directions. I know my biases are that I prefer new technology to old. So I pay attentio…