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howinteresting

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    Comment #39795694

    Good communication has always been a part of making sure your work is influential.

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    Comment #39795690

    The M1 and M2 don't have that bit.

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    Comment #38003381

    A human driver at what percentile? I think AVs need to be better than p95 or so to be socially accepted.

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    Comment #37784573

    It's not just about the engine itself, it's about things like supporting extensions. Safari's content blocker API is less powerful than Firefox's on desktop/Android, for example. I…

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    Comment #37760279

    That's Axios for you. I'm sure it appeals to some people.

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    Comment #37730855

    If a company doesn't want at least some element of that, the solution is very simple: drop below a USD $10B valuation by spinning off parts of the company. Note that I said TEN BIL…

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    Comment #37730209

    I generally think any company with a >10 billion (2023 US) dollar valuation should be forced to do things that may not directly benefit them but benefit society. Having to publish …

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    Comment #37727524

    While one can bring a lot of nuance to the conversation, most imperative languages do not have the &/&mut separation that Rust does and are therefore bad. &/&mut is basically essen…

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    Comment #37663737

    Thank you.

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    Comment #37661448

    It's just another reminder that Apple, like all other big tech companies, is full of mediocre software teams working on unreasonable deadlines.

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    Comment #37661371

    Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. You can start your project in C and release it on an AS IS basis, and we can make fun of you for it, object to its use in profes…

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    Comment #37661335

    While yes, that's theoretically possible, do you have data to establish this? For example, having small sections of the code be marked as unsafe would allow for greater scrutiny of…

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    Comment #37655046

    Do you sincerely believe what Apple is doing is the least restrictive means to achieve that goal?

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    Comment #37647800

    I found this site and switched to the secure knot many years ago, and my shoelaces have literally never come undone since. One of those quality of life improvements that I now take…

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    Comment #37636463

    > Rust type system doesn't help when the data resides in a shared memory segment accessed by multiple processes. This isn't quite true. You can provide a safe abstraction that invo…

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    Comment #37636408

    Thanks, Captain Obvious. The fact that both sides think they're correct has absolutely no bearing on who is actually correct. For that we must turn to evidence. The evidence in fav…

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    Comment #37629102

    You've strung a lot of words together that are not attached to reality. Plenty of people are acting very scientifically with regard to trans people—there are hundreds of studies in…

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    Comment #37627838

    The difference between the two sides is that one is correct and the other is not, and that what "normal" (uninformed lay) people think is not really relevant. edit: Your response h…

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    Comment #37627340

    This is a plague among high-IQ people like physicists, quant people and engineers (speaking as someone who has consistently tested 2.5-3 standard deviations above the population av…

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    Comment #37627300

    "On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you…

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    Comment #37627271

    Better to remain silent, etc.

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    Comment #37626947

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-randomized-trial-show...

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    Comment #37613319

    There's the whole dialectic in history between structural and contingent factors. Valve and PC gaming is massively, massively contingent. It could very easily have been a much wors…

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    Comment #37546927

    You got downvoted because you didn't consider for even a second the game theoretic result of judging products based on the number of CVEs they've had.

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    Comment #37536775

    This is Rust, which is a language that doesn't have data races (though other kinds of races are certainly possible). For an application like yazi async is likely a much more pleasu…