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"What I am proposing is simple - the End key should do what it says on the label, which is take you to the end of the web page. So for infinitely scrolling web pages, which have no…

"But after it was assembled, I found a defect - a faint, flickering green band across my monitor. It sounds like a problem with the monitor or the cable, but it wasn’t - it disappe…

They say it is always easier to con intelligent people, because they don't think they are capable of being fooled.

> Ideally, you don’t want to make a self-referential struct in Rust. Instead you should leverage other types to accomplish the same thing; for example Rc can be used for things lik…

The reason people use systems programming languages is because they need to efficiently and effectively manage and manipulate memory. That's why C was created in the first place - …

Right, I understand that big corporations are pushing a new systems programming language that they say saves programmers from their own mistakes. My question was whether any progra…

> So, what does the current ferment about Rust tell us? That the industry is ready to accept that programmers take a more disciplined approach by embracing strong data typing enhan…

I heard that systems programming used to be dangerous and scary but then Rust was invented so now its okay.

Confusion? No it's just flat out obfuscation.

This sounds like a /r/politics headline.

While I generally agree that when someone does something violent, you blame them rather than the words on the page or the screen that they read, Reddit is an awful example here sin…

Found this comment when I did a ctrl-F to see who was breaking the first rule of Usenet LOL

Read up on creatine - it may help you.

As far as I know, Musk hasn't removed any comments critical of him or his management.

This is a really important question and one that MBAs miss all the time (speaking as one myself). The value of a tech company isn't in its existing product portfolio and revenue st…

I'm not sure how this is the lesson you're taking away from twitter when the workers are getting three months severance, unlike your typical service sector worker who can basically…

There's some willful denial here on HN and in other places that 1) twitter is being punished because it seems its role as supporting free speech rather than policing misinformation…

The problem is that I've read "If you give a mouse a cookie" to my daughter so many times that I would naturally assume that giving a twinkie to a monkey would result in a bedtime-…

Media publishers (and I use the term in the broadest sense) knew, going in, that the Internet was designed to distribute and copy information, in many cases completely anonymously.…

Unless your social / situational awareness skills are highly developed and you think you've found another use for your skills in the same firm that they haven't thought of, no I wo…

This is a great thread. I have had a home server for almost 10 years at this point for files & media, and added a second dedicated dev server this year. They both run FreeBSD and I…

Thanks!

I understand why any commentary from Torvalds is notable, but when I read this my takeaway isn't that we need ECC everywhere, its that a hardware component failed much sooner than …