tangent128

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by tangent128 2y ago
We allow people to self-identify their religious beliefs. The government doesn't declare you to be a Catholic or a Buddhist and force your driver's license to say such. Unless you're proposing making the military- and the res
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by tangent128 2y ago
Without enforcement mechanisms (a PIER plan in this context), the 14th Amendment is just blots of ink on paper.
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by tangent128 2y ago
Rustup downloads toolchains from third-party (to the distro) repositories; distros do not want to be in a position where they can no longer build packages because of an external service going down. So, if you are developing something you wa
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by tangent128 3y ago
Your questions are related. For context: since a base64 character represents 6 bits, every block of three data bytes corresponds to a block of four base64 encoded characters. (8 3 == 24 == 6 4) That means it's often convenient to proce
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by tangent128 5y ago
If you want your function to block until the promise resolves, then the function calling it also has to block, and the function calling that has to block, and so forth. At the top of the chain, this ultimately blocks the entire event loop (
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by tangent128 5y ago
It's not easy to divorce "culture war" from "problem solving", since the question of whether problems even _exist_ and need to be solved is frequently a culture-war issue. For example, you can't pursue "en
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by tangent128 5y ago
The bytes[0] crate is a popular library in the Rust ecosystem for taking reference-counted slices of a shared byte buffer. [0]: https://docs.rs/bytes/1.0.1/bytes/struct.Bytes.html
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by tangent128 5y ago
(I think your definitions are reversed- a decrease in money supply is associated with deflation , not inflation.)
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by tangent128 5y ago
rust-embed is one: https://docs.rs/rust-embed/5.9.0/rust_embed/trait.RustEmbed.... This macro lets you embed an entire folder of assets in your binary at compile time, to simplify distribution. Taking the con
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by tangent128 6y ago
tl;dr: Hyperbeam is roughly a netcat tunnel that connects via a DHT topic instead of network address; use it where you want a secure one-off tunnel. (for example, to transfer a key for Wireguard) Wireguard: + Can tunnel arbitrary IP traffic
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by tangent128 6y ago
Most drivers in Linux are loadable modules- see the output of `lsmod`. They are built (usually) at the same time as the kernel, yes, due to the lack of ABI stability guarantees, but most drivers you don't use won't take up any R
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by tangent128 6y ago
If there's "too much" lag or packet loss, delay-based netcode will also become unplayable; the difference is that rollback has more tools to address bad connections, so that rollback is often not even visible: - predicting th
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by tangent128 6y ago
It was possible with the early, finite-world-creative-only "Minecraft Classic", but as long as I remember (I started playing mid-Alpha, a few months before the Nether was added) the game was played through the launcher.
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by tangent128 6y ago
They may be thinking of IPFS, which is written in Go.
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by tangent128 6y ago
Data in a dat, just like data in a torrent, only lives as long as there are peers interested in seeding that particular dat; it's not a blockchain-style "everybody has to replicate everything". You can't unilaterally wit
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by tangent128 7y ago
Potentially. Most network protocols are big-endian while x86 is little-endian.
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by tangent128 7y ago
Moving accounts is supported; your old account posts a machine-readable "moved to x@y" message, which tells your followers to automatically switch to the new location. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving
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by tangent128 7y ago
You can commit code that doesn't compile onto a feature branch so people can see what you're up to, I guess, but I don't see that helping with bisecting later, and I wouldn't expect the commit messages to be useful. To
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by tangent128 7y ago
Squashing changes isn't the only use of rebasing. It's reasonably common for me to start exploring a problem space, stub out a concept, and have a long drawn-out conversation with the compiler that touches many files, before final
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by tangent128 7y ago
I love much about Fossil and used it a lot several years ago, but my workflow have mental model have since come to rely heavily on interactive rebase, a philosophy that Fossil abhors.
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by tangent128 7y ago
Make the pay high enough to match the value generated, and you'll find enough janitors and garbage collectors.
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by tangent128 7y ago
"Capitalism" is used as the label for the policy one might more precisely describe as "regulatory minimalism"; the philosophy that opposes minimum wage laws, that opposes collective bargaining by employees, that opposes
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by tangent128 7y ago
How is the ability to amass resources relevant to competence in determining the appropriate allocation? That's like saying that winning a game makes you competent to referee it.
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by tangent128 7y ago
Additionally, disclosure of one's vote can't be provable, or the failure to prove you voted "correctly" can itself invite retaliation.
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by tangent128 7y ago
It's hard to fix that problem when the people who benefit from it are in charge of setting the relevant policies.
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by tangent128 7y ago
It's being left in Rust, yes. Firefox already contains Rust components, such as Stylo.
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by tangent128 7y ago
They do, and have been helpfully annotated: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList
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by tangent128 8y ago
Gerrymandering is utterly irrelevant to the Senate and the Presidency... in the sense that, if you lift the restriction for representative districts to have comparable populations, the resulting distortions of the popular will no longer cou
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One chip to flash them all (2017)(makecode.com)
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by tangent128 8y ago
The moral hazard is that if a union has second-order effects benefiting other workers in the industry but not in the union, workers in the industry lose their short-term incentive for membership in the union. At which point everybody loses

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