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Why? Did Fuschia enable any new features on Google Home Hubs which would have been more difficult/impossible with a Linux kernel? It's an honest question, my bias is that Fuschia i…

Imagine if what were Trump? Per the article, the Trump administration sought "help from the tech companies to combat misinformation."

China has already banned Google which is of a similar scale and impact.

Apple in many cases goes out of their way to avoid collecting your data. See Maps for example. Users' usage of Maps is associated with a random rotating identifier not tied to thei…

How would you handle clicks and stuff?

Is the neutron similarly complicated?

> historically they have never told my spouse about my affair Have we forgotten Google Buzz? Google changed GMail to publicly list the people you email most. In one case, this de-a…

It's of note that Trump wanted to reduce the SPR by half. The plan was rebuffed by Congress. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/24/trumps-strategic-oil-reserve...

It's common in other programming languages for string literals to have type string. It's weird and confusing that they do not in both Rust and in C++.

I think you DO have to know about those, or close analogs, in writing Rust. I like both C++ and Rust but I will rise to defend C++. 1. Exception safety becomes "catch_unwind." You …

Rust's "feature surface area" reaches or exceeds that of C++ through procedural macros, which surfaces the entire Rust AST to the developer. Major Rust crates like serde use this f…

It's about personal taste: some people want no ketchup on a burger, others only a little, some want a lot. Separate ketchup gives the customer that choice. Those little ketchup pac…

The C++ stdlib (aka STL) is 100% usable without exceptions. This is deliberate: major players and code bases disable exceptions, including Google, LLVM, Firefox, so it has to work …

The chief perceived benefit of Bitcoin is its speculative asset value. We may try to unseat this with a new, less environmentally harmful speculative asset, but it's unethical to d…

How does Go handle allocation failure? In my understanding objects may be allocated on the stack or heap per the compiler's whims. If a heap allocation fails, you just get "fatal e…

The case for particles is quantization. We've never seen half a photon or half an electron. This dates back to the ultraviolet catastrophe. If it was all about waves that would be …

Yes Chrome installers install themselves. Chrome is bundled with installers for unrelated products, and you have to deliberately uncheck it to not install it. Example: https://www.…

Microsoft got in legal trouble for coercing OEMs like Dell to ship IE. The OEMs, not Microsoft, should decide what ships on their own hardware. Here Apple is the OEM and is being c…

It is possible to allocate every object in its own page. In practice this is useful as a debugging tool but far too expensive for day-to-day operation.

A few years back we had this same discussion orbiting around Service Workers. Here's a post from 2017 where the top comment argues that what's holding back the web is the lack of S…

The cost of a bitcoin transaction is not adequately captured by transaction fees. There's two alternative ways to look at it: 1. Divide miner revenue (fees + seignorage) by the num…