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Humanity made no meaningful progress in getting "to the stars" for thousands of years too, then in the space of a few decades we did.

It's usually done in bulk, so the overall payoff is the combination of value and number of targets, but the effort is typically sublinear with the targets. Something easier to atta…

and 90s versions like Me No Fry ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsgdT8YYwJo )

It's low with CPR alone, but getting an AED involved (which should be accessible in most urban places these days) raises the chances to 50-70%.

It's because units up to hours are of a fixed size, but days in most places are only 24h for ~363/365 days of the year, with some being 23h and some being 25h. (This is ignoring le…

If the author reads this, you have a misspelling of "diaspora" in the first sentence.

The map iteration order was always "random", but imperfectly so prior to Go 1.3. From memory, it picked a random initial bucket, but then always iterated over that bucket in order,…

Did you read Part 2, linked from the bottom? It has plenty of technical details.

Not a typo. http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/src/slp.c.html#line2238 It's what we'd use `&=` for nowadays. Note that the "B" language had these sorts of operators around the opposite …

That's exactly what the Lions' book is.

Yeah, there's been a few plans announced: https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come https://blog.golang.org/go2draft https://blog.golang.org/go2-next-steps

It doesn't have to be a handshake and a nod. Things can still be clearly written down. But formal contracts with consequences take it up a notch. And this isn't about how you "cond…

An NDA is a legal agreement. It's entirely possible to organise coordinated disclosures without a legal agreement. The folks pushing NDAs, however, don't seem to be interested in o…

One big reason for shutdown rules with home PV systems is to keep firefighters safe. If your house is on fire, the firefighters really don't want to be contending with high voltage…

They likely can't, but they can fine EPAG, which is a German domain registrar. The matter at hand is that ICANN was trying to allegedly force EPAG to violate GDPR.

> To search for anything about Go in your search engine of choice use the word golang rather than go when searching. For example to search for how to open a file I would search for…

Even then, I think it'd be unlikely that the time-cost wouldn't make it worthwhile. People generally underestimate how much time gets soaked up by managing a computer service.

Are you sure you fully understand the benefit? $35 is, what, 30 minutes of an engineer's time from a company's perspective? If the management of the service would take any more tha…

context.Context is an interface because it is known there are multiple implementers (several in the context package itself). The sql driver.Value is actually the other way around: …

That's true, but the standard library also has strictures about backward compatibility that have ossified some bad choices. The crypto examples you give are arguably exactly this; …

A redback bite generally requires medical attention; though not triple-0 level urgency, it shouldn't be a wait-and-see-how-you-feel treatment.

Did you actually read the article? It is clear from the background and history sections that the need for versioning was apparent from early on.

Good to see rustfmt arrive. Sad that it is configurable, though. The biggest benefit of its predecessors such as gofmt is that they are not configurable, leading to a much more uni…

In this context, USO means Universal Service Obligations, namely that approximately everyone can get access. https://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Telco/Carriers-and-service-...