nmilo

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by nmilo 3y ago
Sounds like FUD
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by nmilo 3y ago
Wow that is annoying, especially since any malloc is going to give you 8-byte aligned allocations anyways.
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by nmilo 3y ago
There should be a from_raw_parts-like interface for Arc that can construct one out of a pointer to a T + control block. That way you can shift the string data over and stick the control block inline (which is how I assume it's laid out
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by nmilo 3y ago
So then memory safety isn't the end-all be-all for security anyways. What do you suggest we use instead?
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by nmilo 3y ago
The fact that YAML is so bad is why being "understandable by a human" shouldn't be the ultimate goal of any configuration language. I would gladly make concessions like quoted strings or bracketed lists to avoid the hell of t
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by nmilo 3y ago
Okay, I was being a bit hyperbolic and I'd rather not go back and forth, but I do really hate the newtype pattern. I'm not sure why they don't introduce something like what Go has, like `type UserID = uint32`.
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by nmilo 3y ago
I didn't mean any offence when I called the change simple, though I do now see how it can be interpreted that way. When I call it simple it's because I am ignorant about programming language design changes, because, well, I don&
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by nmilo 3y ago
The no-foreign-traits-on-foreign-types rule and the terrible ergonomics behind the newtype "pattern" combine to make one of the worst development experiences I've ever seen in a language. It basically means you can only use o
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by nmilo 3y ago
Each of those arcs do have a meaning, they're called 'degrees' and any human being whose not being obtuse for the sake of argument would tell you that they're 'real'. The point of calling nautical miles &#x27
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by nmilo 3y ago
Example?
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by nmilo 3y ago
Curious because I've never done it, how do people buy used cars off classifieds other than with cash? Checks can bounce, e-transfers can be reversed, etc. Seems any method other than cash is very susceptible to scams.
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by nmilo 3y ago
Why not right-shift all the pointers and set the int's top bit to one instead? That way arithmetic stays mostly the same and to dereference pointers you just left-shift before.
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by nmilo 3y ago
> Look at you trying to change my beliefs via rational debate. What a hypocrite. LOL this is only proving my point. You're digging your heels and getting angrier without changing. You're right, I'm wasting my time.
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by nmilo 3y ago
Slavery wasn't abolished by changing people's minds via rational debate. Did you forget we had to literally send people with guns to shoot and kill the people that held that belief. They only changed their beliefs after decades un
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by nmilo 3y ago
There comes times that you need to put your own principles aside for the good of yourself and for the other person, and forget trying to be "correct" all the time. Life gets a lot better when you realize that you probably can&#x27
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by nmilo 3y ago
That's why it was proposed iCloud or whatever big tech provider does the key distribution, just like they do for iMessage. It would be a big win for Apple if they actually cared about privacy. But maybe it's just a pipe dream.
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by nmilo 3y ago
I don't follow. Simple single-sender-single-receiver would still be 100% secure so use that if it's life or death. Forwarding and multiple recipients can come with a warning that it will be unsecure. Same with the headers. Anyone
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by nmilo 3y ago
Why are you letting perfect be the enemy of the good? Regular email doesn't preserve sender identity when forwarding, and why should that even matter for encrypted mail? Encrypted clients can disable including the original email in a r
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by nmilo 3y ago
People smoke from 15-20 years old but still don't die in their 30s. It doesn't mean it's not bad for your health. This is the same thing, it's bad for the health of the company. High dev turnover, poor working conditions
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by nmilo 3y ago
HN readers massively overestimate the willingness of the average person to "fight the power" or whatever. When Netflix cracked down on password sharing, I was fully expecting people to realize how bad Netflix has become and to mov
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by nmilo 3y ago
What are you talking about? It's the engineering definition of "works" because engineers live in the real world and incorporate economic factors into their decision making to make something that works better under real-world
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by nmilo 3y ago
Security by obscurity very obviously works, in the sense that it raises the bar of effort required by potential attackers. You can't rely on it to be your only security, but there's no reason why it wouldn't help.
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by nmilo 3y ago
I'm sick of this weird HN trend where readers pick out a single sentence only tangentially related to the rest of the article and then try to prove how smart they are by rebutting it.
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by nmilo 3y ago
I've always read comments like this and just assume it's confirmation bias on two levels: 1. Out of the 1000s of ads you see every day, at least one of them might coincidentally relate to something you talked about. You don't
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by nmilo 3y ago
That's the whole point. Consciousness is a fuzzy concept and shouldn't be used as an ethical basis as to what is OK to harm and not harm.
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by nmilo 3y ago
Plants, bugs, and fish are all "beings" despite having varying degrees of consciousness and ethical allowability-of-harm. But fine. Whatever, my bad. Replace "being" with "entity" and my question still stands.
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by nmilo 3y ago
You found the wrong form of the word. There's the medical consciousness found in the dictionary, as in, "He is asleep so he has lost consciousness," and there is the metaphysical consciousness as in "does a fish have con
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by nmilo 3y ago
What are you talking about? I'm not trying to pull an underhanded argument, I'm genuinely confused about others' views.
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by nmilo 3y ago
A lot of people have wrote about the ethical considerations and to me they make no sense. Since when did our generally accepted ethics say that imposing suffering onto a conscious being is bad, but non-conscious beings is fine? This is the
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by nmilo 3y ago
Because pointing out that a slogan is simple and in-nuanced is unhelpful, and in bad faith. They're supposed to be simple. Slogans in a democracy are calls to action towards a general idea, and the more complicated they are the less pe

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