ii41

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by ii41 5d ago
Well, sorry but not really sorry for that. We all know that literature aka the art of conveying something regardless of what that thing is is an art. We all need to take responsibility for not only what we say but also how we say it.
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by ii41 5d ago
A lot of Americans do have a policy of "as long as we're comfortable (economically, etc), we'll let the government do whatever they want.", some justifying it by saying "they're doing it for the Middle Eastern
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by ii41 5d ago
Well no. This series of events happened exactly because the laws set up by colonial British would let loose a murderer. Joshua Wong went to the streets for the murderer, not against him, by the way.
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by ii41 5d ago
And those "Free Hong Kong" protesters were for him, not against him.
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by ii41 5mo ago
> how is an advanced society handling the practical matters of writing contracts and keeping records without it By "it" I guess you mean grammatical plurals? It's indeed semantically redundant. Say in a context of contract
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by ii41 7mo ago
> disparity between I can’t afford a car, and I will never be able to afford a car is vast There's no disparity. Either way you're not going to own a car any time soon. You're not freer when the legal system prevents you t
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by ii41 7mo ago
I am using sqlite in my project. It definitely solves problems, but I keep seeing overly arrogant and sometimes even irresponsible statements from their website, and can't really appreciate much of their attitude towards software engin
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by ii41 8mo ago
Ai is a she. Ai is a common given name for girls in Japanese.
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by ii41 10mo ago
Rust doesn't require you to think about concurrency if you don't use it either. For global variables you just throw in a thread_local. No unsafe required.
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by ii41 10mo ago
The site UI has been going downhill these years. It's become heavy and slow, and the buttons are more and more randomly placed. Like after you search for something in the repo, to go back to the repo front page you needed to click on t
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by ii41 10mo ago
Isn't it the other way around? I mean, I keep seeing western people advertising that the ways of living in those countries are wrong and they must change, while I don't often see anyone urging western countries to change their way
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by ii41 11mo ago
You can't learn these from either Gaza or Ukraine. Neither is over. Not even close to an end. Both are longer and the technologically superior side suffered more than expected.
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by ii41 1y ago
About the `if else` producing a value matter. Well, if you look at things that way, C can be said to be syntactic sugar of assembly, as for every C program you can write equivalent assembly. `if else` producing value is very useful because
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by ii41 1y ago
This is equivalent to the `if let` syntax of Rust. In Rust at least this is treated as a special syntax but not a boolean. I once complained it's kinda confusing that it makes one think the `let` pattern matching syntax is a boolean ex
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by ii41 1y ago
Browsers are applications that embed web technologies though?
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Snappy Compression Library(google.github.io)
11 points by ii41 1y ago|2 comments
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by ii41 1y ago
Trades compression rate for much higher speed. This is really good trade-off for certain applications.
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by ii41 1y ago
A thing that could be interesting particularly for hn folks: in China, you can sue entities for open source license violation citing American-origin licenses like GPL, and win. There are many such cases. So one can potentially sue e.g. Onyx
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by ii41 1y ago
Nazi Germany had Jewish officials. I'm sure they didn't commit _genocide_ against Jews.
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by ii41 1y ago
Then you have misunderstandings about urban warfare. Bakhmut is urban warfare. It's actually called an urban meat grinder, the worst form of urban warfare. Civilian casualties at Bakhmut is one or two orders of magnitude smaller than t
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by ii41 1y ago
Hard to say. Americas have been far less dense in population than the old world, and colonizers brought old world tech with which they immediately could start to make use of the land, so they face far less scarcity. For any group of people
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by ii41 1y ago
I was once forced to use older (but not deprecated) LTS Ubuntu and I hated it. New software come out and you're gonna want to use them (often forced to use them), and they of course use newer dependencies. I had to do the distribution
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by ii41 1y ago
Your parent comment labeled themselves off-topic but I'd say they were still pretty on it, but you're like way too off-topic. The point isn't whether some country or some people are real communists or not, but that an individ
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by ii41 1y ago
> My question to the FOSS community is why Firefox is not used to build more independent browsers the way Chrome is? I actually looked into this. Say you consider yourself as part of the FOSS community, and want to build a new browser, a
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by ii41 1y ago
I think this solves his problem. He said he wants a read function that turns the unsafe buffer into a safe buffer, and this API does that. IIRC it's not that hard to convince the compiler to give you a safe buffer from a MaybeUninit. H
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by ii41 1y ago
Before opening up in 70s, China had acquired the ability to build by itself: huge numbers of machine guns and grenades, tanks, fighter planes, rockets and satellites (aka missiles), nukes. These minus nukes and missiles plus battleships is
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by ii41 1y ago
Chinese is one of the offical languages of Singapore.
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by ii41 1y ago
Wait, I have the impression that water torturing is either US or Soviet invention?
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by ii41 1y ago
If the "just a string" is html, sql, python, etc., the programmer is making a mistake as string interpolation shouldn't be used for those things in the first place, and I really hope < 80% cases of "just a string&quot
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by ii41 1y ago
I'm shocked by that they took the class/struct differentiation from swift. I HATED it when I had to deal with it in the past when working with swift. What's wrong with letting the programmer take the reference whenever they w

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