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I don't think you can point at a specific action, but the leaked (Podesta, I think) emails seemed to show that the DNC was working to help the Clinton campaign to the detriment of …

The idea here is to make a clear split between owning and licensing. If the company decides they are selling the items themselves then the items should be repairable by the new own…

I don't think there needs to be parity between the prosecution and defense in this matter. Those technicalities on the defense side serve to help protect the rights of the accused,…

That's not really a meaningful argument. You're talking about a large multi-cellular organism that has tissues, organs, and all that and comparing it to something that doesn't even…

> The difference here is that neo-nazis make a decision to be bigots. They could stop. Most LGBT people consider their status to be a matter of birth. I don't understand why this a…

I don't understand the extreme focus on brevity, though it does seem to be mentioned regularly. In practice I don't notice a difference between "begin" and "{". It's not something …

Did you figure out why customers would leave? I've been thinking about doing something in the "most people use a spreadsheet" space and hearing that people went back to it after a …

Do you feel bad for using any of the multitude of tax-payer funded services available? Taxes are already pretty divorced from use of the services they pay for. People with more mon…

I don't think there's much predictive power there. The people who are answering thousands clearly just haven't though about it before and are on the spot. Humans are just terrible …

I agree that it is "useless trivia." The reason is that things today are "fast enough." These days most slowdowns aren't the result of the CPU not executing instructions fast enoug…

It takes significantly less than a second to turn a screw once. A couple orders of magnitude less actually, to give it some relation to the computer question. Which really just dem…

I agree with you in general, but not when only talking about the mathematical understanding. If you want to add fractions by individually adding the numerators and denominators and…

I've always done those quick checks myself because otherwise I'm prone to making errors. They give me a quick answer of "no, you can't do this" but I never found they actually impr…

That's not really relevant. You only need to check if the equations hold if you don't understand the math involved. You've already lost at that point. Checking is the smart thing t…

What do you think his right hand might be doing? I'm not familiar with the Tesla interior setup so I don't know what is possible, but I'm having a hard time imagining what he could…

And meanwhile I've been having no trouble with Firefox, but had to stop using Palemoon because too many websites were breaking consistently.

Yes. That single pouch is a significant problem when you generate several a day. They are intended to be used for meal prep, which involves hot water. They're fairly heavy and larg…

Those are really not alternatives to the mentioned uses. The freeze dried food selection is somewhat limited, tends to be very salty, takes substantially more time to prepare, and …

Of course you can compare them. I didn't mean we shouldn't ever look at the differences in how languages do things. We should. I meant I didn't understand how one could be seen as …

Ada addresses memory issues in a couple ways. In a general sense, the language is designed to prevent the need for explicit allocations and pointers as much as possible. The runtim…

As as been mentioned, integer bounds for one. Using aspects in Ada will also let you provide other assurances (at compile time or runtime, depending). Additionally, the "newtype" i…

Again here the word "safety" starts to get rather muddy. What Rust calls safe is not what Ada calls safe. I'd rather be specific about what we're talking about. Memory safety is no…

When things such as the borrow checker are so heavily built in to the language, I find it hard to to see how Rust isn't ultimately intended to do memory safety. Obviously it does o…

This idea that Rust and Ada are somehow alternatives continually pops up, and I still don't understand it. They each have their own ideas on what "safety" is, and how to address it…