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> how is an advanced society handling the practical matters of writing contracts and keeping records without it By "it" I guess you mean grammatical plurals? It's indeed semantical…

> disparity between I can’t afford a car, and I will never be able to afford a car is vast There's no disparity. Either way you're not going to own a car any time soon. You're not …

I am using sqlite in my project. It definitely solves problems, but I keep seeing overly arrogant and sometimes even irresponsible statements from their website, and can't really a…

Ai is a she. Ai is a common given name for girls in Japanese.

Rust doesn't require you to think about concurrency if you don't use it either. For global variables you just throw in a thread_local. No unsafe required.

The site UI has been going downhill these years. It's become heavy and slow, and the buttons are more and more randomly placed. Like after you search for something in the repo, to …

Isn't it the other way around? I mean, I keep seeing western people advertising that the ways of living in those countries are wrong and they must change, while I don't often see a…

You can't learn these from either Gaza or Ukraine. Neither is over. Not even close to an end. Both are longer and the technologically superior side suffered more than expected.

About the `if else` producing a value matter. Well, if you look at things that way, C can be said to be syntactic sugar of assembly, as for every C program you can write equivalent…

This is equivalent to the `if let` syntax of Rust. In Rust at least this is treated as a special syntax but not a boolean. I once complained it's kinda confusing that it makes one …

Browsers are applications that embed web technologies though?

Trades compression rate for much higher speed. This is really good trade-off for certain applications.

A thing that could be interesting particularly for hn folks: in China, you can sue entities for open source license violation citing American-origin licenses like GPL, and win. The…

Nazi Germany had Jewish officials. I'm sure they didn't commit _genocide_ against Jews.

Then you have misunderstandings about urban warfare. Bakhmut is urban warfare. It's actually called an urban meat grinder, the worst form of urban warfare. Civilian casualties at B…

Hard to say. Americas have been far less dense in population than the old world, and colonizers brought old world tech with which they immediately could start to make use of the la…

I was once forced to use older (but not deprecated) LTS Ubuntu and I hated it. New software come out and you're gonna want to use them (often forced to use them), and they of cours…

Your parent comment labeled themselves off-topic but I'd say they were still pretty on it, but you're like way too off-topic. The point isn't whether some country or some people ar…

> My question to the FOSS community is why Firefox is not used to build more independent browsers the way Chrome is? I actually looked into this. Say you consider yourself as part …

I think this solves his problem. He said he wants a read function that turns the unsafe buffer into a safe buffer, and this API does that. IIRC it's not that hard to convince the c…

Before opening up in 70s, China had acquired the ability to build by itself: huge numbers of machine guns and grenades, tanks, fighter planes, rockets and satellites (aka missiles)…

Chinese is one of the offical languages of Singapore.

Wait, I have the impression that water torturing is either US or Soviet invention?

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