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Telling someone they got fired for performance reasons when that's not actually true is outright evil. (Of course we don't know for certain whether that's what happened here, but i…

I was thinking that the "power extraction" might attenuate the signal too much, and it would probably lower the power output since you need to modulate the light to transmit data, …

I wonder if you could send power at one wavelength, and data at another wavelength, over the same fibre.

That's trying to put words in my mouth. We were talking about creative expression being taken away by AI, and I argued that artists can still retain creative expression, and that t…

> which you would know if you ever tried to draw anything I know exactly how hard it is to draw anything because I tried a bunch of times, and failed. I for one am happy that I can…

That sounds like a very Luddite view. Why wouldn't artists be able to use AI selectively to automate "boring" tasks (such as filling the sky of an image with clouds) while still re…

I suppose the vendor could sell a home server device, which runs some kind of Tailscale-like technology to make it available from the internet, and the app talks to that locally ho…

My teacher made me do a full force brake during my training. It was more intense than I had anticipated, and my teacher forgot that he still had his sunglasses on his head, which p…

Defining "normal" code as "not having UB" is quite disingenuous though, isn't it? Iterating over a vector while adding elements for example looks normal, but isn't generally safe, …

I work with both, having started with C++ about 17 years ago, and agree that Rust feels like a relatively simple language compared to C++. Rust might feel harder to learn initially…

I know one company who offers that (there might be more): https://www.grando.ai/en/container

Quite a few parts of Servo were actually integrated into Firefox/Gecko (such as Stylo).

Ever since I learned of sum types, they have ruined my enjoyment of programming languages which don't have them. I sorely miss them in C++ for example (and std::variant is not a wo…

That depends on the type you use to represent errors. A more "fancy" error type will allow you to add context / backtraces / whatever you want, while a simpler error type, for exam…

There is an interesting approach to this in Rust: if a potentially breaking change (e.g. a soundness fix) is being proposed, they usually test it against all publicly available Rus…

Works fine for me (shows up as normal quotes, not fancy quotes).

I was instantly reminded of the same. I can recommend the documentary, it's the first time I saw an actual example of scientific fraud at this scale.

Are they better than the IKEA version?

Nice bit of insight! For anyone confused like me: I believe it should read "about 10^-7 mols of hydronium ions per liter", which is about 6*10^16 ions per liter.

I get that mistakes can happen, but companies filing frivolous DMCA notices should be barred from this avenue in the future. Further, YouTube's appeals process is fundamentally bro…

I noticed the same issue. But does the ground connection of the wall plug side of the transformer actually make a difference? I'm not good with electrics but I always thought the o…

Reported here: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-30 He usually has very accurate inside information.

It's humiliating because printing out code (or more commonly "printing out emails") is literally a meme, and I have read multiple articles alleging that after printing, the employe…

Sure, but I wouldn't say that's easy.

Having used both C++ and Rust extensively, I would say that it is easier to get something to compile in C++ than in Rust, but I find Rust overall much easier. C++ is really very co…