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an immutable black hole might as well be a shredder. the OP in the reddit did precisely that. that money is GONE. locked away forever. it has not been transferred to anyone else.

Call me weird, but I'll take callbacks any day over async await. If it goes too many levels deep, we have to ask what we are trying to achieve and perhaps consider a better approac…

tangent: why is the basis of most async functionality a form of polling underneath? Why are interrupts not used? or are they? source: epoll, select(bsd at least), isn't kqueue also…

And the US was already having issues in terms of STEM competitiveness... I believe the term is "decline" or "decadence"... I do not approve of publicly funding parochial religious …

and here i thought this was about undocumented behavior in a programming language... https://crystal-lang.org/

I have issue with the massive cost in other peoples lives you seem to be ok throwing away with such pronouncements. We have to FIX our system, not make it worse. The reality of try…

energy usage is RISING with increased difficulty of proof-of-work, as intended.

except that bitcoin doesn't replace any traditional financial systems. in the real world, crypto holders also have banks and buy and sell cryptocurrencies with/for fiat. very few r…

why not (get rid of) both? When do we auto-organize as a species and ditch these primitive blame games and Mutually-Assured-Destruction madness such as competitive wasteful economi…

I have no notion of what metaphor you are referring to. In real life, POW is a waste of electricity that produces nothing external to proving that CPU cycles were wasted, with an e…

Think of it as some sort of elaborate Dilbert, rather. The essence of it is the dysfunction of corporate office life.

front-end build toolchains and the alleged difficulties in coding es5, cough cough...

or proxying https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction

The fate of life on earth depends upon 2 corrupt fossil-fueled obstructionists. Why is Joe Manchin even in the Democratic party? His voting record during the Trump admin was atroci…

Maybe I'm being terribly naive, but I don't see this from a maths perspective at all, I see this as about the shape of data and about memory allocation. If one increments pointers …

this is nuts. essentially, serving a website to older devices that are missing the X1 certificate is broken now that the X3 certificate expired yesterday... or? (meaning, it's not …

that will need to bootstrap first, and you won't be able to use such GC code in the initialization code for the OS. GC code using Boehm would not be suitable for device drivers nor…

no Zig nor Nim nor D but you include 2 GC'ed languages as suitable for "low-level code"???

It just doesn't seem like there was a comprehensive plan from day 0. Conflating: 1) the hideout of some rogue Saudis who architected 9-11, and the search for them. 2) regime change…

needs to be coupled with subsidies for alternatives, transport (public, electric vehicles, etc) and with the knowledge that a poor person will drive that old diesel car into the gr…

The point I got from the OP was that traditional culture was low-carbon from day 0, and that at least Britain's climate change minister was jetting about an AWFUL lot, and there ar…

The actual report https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/ I suspect that bad-faith-social-actors will attempt, as always, to undermine this report and minimize the obvious need …

not the OP, but I'll propose that the code inside methods is largely procedural code, and this is one level (what you need to learn first), and then how it's organized is a whole o…

Which sort of presumes that there are other places said people can shuffle off to. Their occupation of public parks is largely due to not having a designated place to go, or enough…

in all seriousness there is no backup beyond a few hundred beds in even the largest cities, with waiting lists, and not exactly the first thing you think of when things turn strang…