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the whole article kinda reads like "i have a leak in the basement of my house in the pacific northwest. the solution? im moving to nevada" i dont dislike rust at all (infact, its r…

I think you've misread the article, specifically the purpose of the Brooks quotes. They're clearly not to denigrate anyone for wanting a more useful or convenient way of generating…

"dont prematurely optimize" is talking about optimization SEPERATE from architecture (and how pre-mature optimization as Knuth describes gets in the way of correct architecture). n…

Weird take--SOLID, to me (I work in embedded but have done basically everything), represents a system of design principles that mean well and are probably fine in a heavily OO envi…

maybe, but they're burning the compute regardless. it seems ostensibly likely that reducing the ROI for compute burnt will cause less compute to be burnt long term

> Na is 30x the volatility of Li. Elemental sodium is reactive. Ionic sodium is not, lest you blow up your dinner. Furthermore, the lithium part of a Li-ion battery isn't the flamm…

> The FDA is partially to blame for this situation: ... > The cost of performing a New Drug Application starts in the mid hundreds of millions of dollars range and can extend into …

any commercial rtos shop where QNX may be appropriate is either using 1. some wacky expensive proprietary rtos that you've never heard of, 2. freertos or 3. real-time linux dependi…

Without Oxford comma: "We invited JFK, the stripper and Stalin." [three distinct items in the list] With Oxford comma: "We invited JFK, the stripper, and Stalin."[two named items i…

There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

Same here--same for some members of my immediate family as well. Had a few days in a row where I got virtually no sleep and wasn't tired, either. Haven't had any symptoms and am in…

No, I don't think harassment in any form is acceptable. I do think the case of Hsu is worth using as an example here: an intra-university conflict; a group of grad students is peti…

Unfortunate, for sure. The NYT has no real reason to post his name (as far as I'm aware--the tone of the article could affect that conclusion), so I'm not really sure why they'd di…

> So I never saw any indication that this was malicious on Apple’s part. They intentionally slowed down all iPhones in the face of more user-friendly options to fix an issue a minu…

> Firstly, they only slowed down older phones to prevent them from crashing as they had less and less reliable battery draw I see this posted a lot and I honestly just don't buy it…

Your point about unsafe pointer handling in Rust is specifically what dissuaded us from using it in an upcoming project. It really feels bad prepending all of the code that you act…

> Is this actually true? It kinda depends on what exactly they mean. Is it true that if you had zero glucose available in your bloodstream at all your brain would be unable to func…

Literally all of vsyu's posts are submission links to either confluent or buzzsprout talking about Apache Kafka. No comments, just banal advertisement.

They've been used a lot in the past--most notably, for me, in Diablo II back in the early 2000's. I remember writing a bunch of D2JSP code back in the day and getting my account "f…

> Removing the filler "uh" the sentence becomes "Like their purpose." Which could be semantically understood as "[I/He/They] Like (or enjoy) their (whale's song) purpose." A semant…

> However, "Like, uh, their purpose." is grammatically and semantically meaningless How can something be grammatically meaningless? Further, because you're not able to understand t…

> The problem isn't that we don't know how to make more powerful batteries right now, the problem is safety. No, this isn't the problem. The problems are weight, volume, energy den…

Honestly, I'm a little disappointed with this article. Plagiarism detectors themselves are neither a crutch nor a problem--they're simply a tool. People's use of them as the grand …

I've been a member of the sub since its inception, and I've long defended Scott's analyses, but, as a longtime reader and (former) participant in the CW threads, I think he's gross…

I don't think this is the case. I played on a B/C-tier Overwatch team as the main DPS (mostly Tracer) for several months and I can tell you there is a stark difference in snap-refl…