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Do you have one or more public examples of this?

> it quite literally is the worst language to make large scale updates beating even C++ Having worked in both C++ and Rust codebases professionally, my experience has been the comp…

Unfortunately, the world is opt-out, not opt-in.

Yeah, I’ll update the README to be more specific about this. This is also why I didn’t provide instructions on how to use the tool :)

Author here. Those are kind words! I’d like to add the last part of that quote: > The page you're on right now is my mess. Now go create yours!

As an alum of Stony Brook, I’m grateful for all Jim Simons did for the university. Aside from having been the chairman of the math department, he’s the reason we have the Simons Ce…

> This means it’s not possible to race data, dead lock, live lock, etc. While this statement is true when you look at fibers as a N:1 proposition Deadlocks are still possible when …

GitHub Enterprise had (has?) an interesting loophole to discover the existence of private repositories. Attempting to transfer ownership of a repository to another user was aborted…

How does Clearspace differentiate itself from One Sec, which has existed in this space for almost two years (if not longer)? I’m particularly interested in: - Is Clearspace cheaper…

Do you mean “sinks” instead of “toilets”?

I think you’d like a blog post I wrote in November where I put forward an outline of what such a system would look like: https://lukas.dev/posts/how-to-trust-again/ Digital signatu…

I’ve always thought of the array index operator: a[index] as syntactic sugar for the pointer arithmetic: *(a + index) From this point of view, the existence of a “backwards” index …

The trusted GPS problem might be solved by actually turning GPS upside down and having the device emit the signals instead of receiving them—it’s known as reverse or inverted GPS. …

One way to get a verifiable time stamp would be to show knowledge of an unpredictable but well-known thing in the past (providing a lower bound), then to create the same thing your…

Your comment inspired me to post a blog post on this very topic. You can find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33558566

Hi Hacker News, this is the first blog post I’ve ever published. I’ve been sitting on this for a while, but reading a few comments on the MIT Moon Disaster post a few days ago conv…

Link to that article: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/higher-minimum-wage-inflation...

The number denotes what section of the manual the command (or function, etc.) comes from. Aside from that, it also helps clear up potential confusion about what you’re talking abou…