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    Comment #34459710

    I disagree. It would probably prompt a few support calls and emails, but otherwise I think it would be great.

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    Comment #34456943

    This for sure. I've learned to love where I'm at, but if I knew what I know now I doubt I would ever left my first job. At least not as soon as I did.

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    Comment #34405247

    Why are you worried about how safe printing to terminal is? Genuinely curious, I don't work in software dev.

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    Comment #34374820

    I'm pretty sure they're talking about the community politics. There has been plenty of drama around rust.

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    Comment #34363626

    Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think they're talking about state level politics.

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    Comment #34344020

    In the southwest it's tacos instead of pizza, in my experience.

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    Comment #34319837

    Then they wouldn't be able to climb out the window either.

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    Comment #34319794

    How many cars are actually like that? I only know a few people with newer (2020+) cars and all of them have physical controls as well as touch screen controls. They're all Asian ca…

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    Comment #34318869

    Life isn't just about the easiest path or money. Some people see value in working hard for things and might view the medical field as a way to bring something positive to the world…

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    Comment #34107547

    I tolerate it because I don't care. They could keep the banner there year round and I would still use it and not care.

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    Comment #34016365

    Any form of sugar? That includes essentially all fruits and most vegetables.

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    Comment #33972019

    Why should the US ban Netflix and Google?

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    Comment #33971951

    If other countries feel that way, they should probably ban Instagram. In my opinion, the difference is that insta (Meta) controls US government more than the government controls in…

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    Comment #33962121

    To elaborate on the other comment, the ideal gas law isn't applicable when you can add or remove energy/mass to the system. There's no reason you can't pack a refrigerator sized ch…

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    Comment #33847125

    I don't think anyone minds that rust has multiple string types just that they're effectively named the same thing so people new to rust have no clue which does what without looking…

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    Comment #33727640

    "nowhere near"

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    Comment #33695761

    For people like me: BFT - Byzantine Fault Tolerant [0] CRDT - Conflict-free Replicated Data Type [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/…

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    Comment #33662034

    I worked on the epitaxy for vcsels that go into iphones for the facial recognition. Not that impactful but cool to know that the stuff I worked on is in use all around me.

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    Comment #33511433

    What kind of precision would you like to see added to the way C defines types?

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    Comment #33468002

    > The battery is charged overnight when the electricity prices are lower. Sounds like the battery is charged via electricity.

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    Comment #33251195

    You're getting lots of explanations for why people don't switch to rust, mostly existing projects, but I'd like to point out that plenty of people still start new projects in C++ a…

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    Comment #33196968

    The pro rust comments on rust posts are great. The pro rust comments on every other post about any other language are not as great.

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    Comment #33196957

    I'd be surprised if rust was within two orders of magnitude for either.

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    Comment #33142993

    Sure except the book is actually how to hang yourself.