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lostglass

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    Comment #48869471

    I lived in Ontario for 20 years then I lived in Seattle for the next 17, I assure you that the healthcare I receive and received is pretty much the same - except in Ontario it's wa…

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    Comment #48841796

    It's not though. It's fast enough for many applications but if you need to write a hypervisor then suddenly bounds checks and atomic pointers become significant. Not to mention tha…

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    Comment #48818144

    This is a very different take than I have. People who are good tend to leave sinking ships much faster.

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    Comment #48705098

    "You can't use reflection if the classes aren't in the class loader" "I see why you would think that however this should work, let's test it." -Claude, burning my company's money.

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    Comment #48665459

    What do you mean how? I know engineers in Berlin that work for AMZN, MS, meta, and Google...

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    Comment #48655840

    Hey, if you can handle a dystopian Kafka inspired shit show all major tech companies have an office in Berlin.

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    Comment #48619874

    Calculated risk? Nah those guys are gloriously insane. They do minimize risks, but they also go into the air wright-bro-style except instead of a glider that will go 200m they're s…

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    Comment #48520239

    Sorry I was painting a broad image. I'm also worried about copyright infringement, discovery, someone switching to a different different that requires glpl, etc

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    Comment #48512124

    Most of them involve very weird and unlikely scenarios and bad security practices or access to the ffmpeg binaries and being allowed to run arbitrary commands at an elevated permis…

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    Comment #48512076

    Yeah, then you need to stream content in real time between multiple processes. And not screw up the licensing. And get hardware acceleration working...

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    Comment #48512045

    Speed and security are not good bedfellows. Combine that with really shitty standards and dozens of years of development... Oh, and licensing. Licensing is the real killer. I could…

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    Comment #48463409

    Forcing developers to consider and more is harmful though. You're arguing to put all of the forethought upfront, when you have the least context and least understanding of what can…

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    Comment #48436710

    I was also able to set this up entirely with a web interface.

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    Comment #48288411

    Ah yes, I too am something of an armchair engineer and I can speak confidently on topics I have no insight into.

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    Comment #48170289

    So I've got a foot in each camp, I think you're just using different languages - you guys mean different things with the same words. You can't claim he doesn't know what he's talki…

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    Comment #48156143

    To be honest Rust has the exact same supply chain attack pattern - it's just newer and more maintained at the moment. Give it a decade.

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    Comment #48031332

    Is it? It's kind of the heart of the matter - just because something is common doesn't mean it's acceptable. The difference is that in our society we've all agreed the sacrificing …