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afiori

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About afiori

This about had been empty long enough; I will use it for a book recommendation: Unsong, by Scott Alexander

http://unsongbook.com/

My guess is it will be the weirdest book you will have ever read.

If it is not, please, I am curious about what is your weirdest book :)

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    Also the more companies go in this direction the more "soft power" the EU has on the topic

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    Comment #49237631

    The elitism of direct democracy is a mystery to me, especially in the case of the US where it is not technically direct and the powers and role of the president are deeply modelled…

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    Comment #49210184

    > well-formed URI A parser that assumes the input to be already valid is usually not enough for most applications according to that regex this is a valid url __..__..%%%zz..

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    Comment #49122608

    I would guess that the film was still mastered/produced digitally

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    Comment #49080885

    you can, but many of those repair can be delicate and require specialized equipment. The difference between the 2 requirements is the level of technical knowledge needed and the ne…

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    Comment #49080872

    IMO most of these appointments should be done by congress itself, the only reason they are done by the executive is because the role of president was a created on the template of t…

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    Comment #48978052

    as the term rule of law suggest the legislative branch has the power to make the rules

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    Comment #48975994

    IMO they entire law should have been target at "replaceable by independent professionals", it is reasonable to require industry standard professional equipment for opening and work…

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    Comment #48944629

    I think many companies believe they own their cloud hosted DBs

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    Comment #48931531

    it would be sorta enough to bundle the wasm binary

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    Comment #48931505

    yes but no... most database allow for at least as many parallel and concurrent writes as there are tables at a minimum. The "lock on write" problem is that in MySQL i could run a O…

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    Comment #48920093

    What I mean is that unsafe code allows you to eg break std invariants (set invalid length to Vec, unlock a locked mutex, etc.) in ways that can be UB, which of these are UB and whi…

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    Comment #48844975

    To be pedantic the ad hominem fallacy is about trying to deny an argument by attacking the author, so in a discussion about zig Vs rust if Andrew isn't trying to enter the discussi…

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    Comment #48842875

    Just use unsafe then

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    Comment #48842864

    I agree with your point, but for completeness: > How is not having to mark your unsafe code as unsafe a good thing? The problem with unsafe code in Rust is that IIRC nobody actuall…

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    Comment #48794335

    A tool to do automatic migrations eg react often publ

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    Comment #48720542

    This looks like something only a libertarian would like

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    Comment #48720512

    Well people that have been hearing of the slippery slope fallacy their whole life might end up biased against such an approach

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    Comment #48711602

    Regexes should have been a structured language not an hodgepodge of DSLs

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    Comment #48665484

    The issue is that many modern DOM APIs assume js semantics and types (eg promises, iterables, etc) so you need to "reimplement" some js semanthic in wasm; sorta like how apple adde…

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    Comment #48663900

    Which makes me think that I have never heard of signed images/artefacts

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    Comment #48603647

    I understand ai hate but I would rather avoid a future where everybody talks in purposely weird and unstructured sentences to avoid being similar to ai By necessity a lot of people…

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    Comment #48568348

    This does not address how much the JWT header is a security footgun (eg you can inline remote keys into the header). if you are doing something simple you can disable all "advanced…

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    Comment #48539897

    Conceptually maybe you can compile flash to SVG+js but this has nothing to do with the point. Many insist (I have no direct experience) that the flash ecosystem (especially the edi…

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    Comment #48488223

    oh no, a new edge case tech has not replace the most popular tech stack ever, yet another failure after webGL