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> I'd be surprised to hear of any successful case where a non-public good was made public in a Western country.

The UK is renationalising railways now.

Re:No dogs were harmed in the making of this app on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:13PM (#38135079)
I think "software engineers aren't really engineers" is putting "real engineering" on a pedestal that is borne of ignorance. Hillel Wayne's engineer interviews were eye-opening on this: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
Re:Rust is for Professionals on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:37PM (#26795015)
I'm not the person you replied to, but here's some Playground code I just wrote that might be helpful for you, based on the issue you linked:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Re:Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:47AM (#25444739)
Project Oak (at Google) are working on Tink Rust: https://github.com/project-oak/tink-rust, although with this caveat:

This is not an official port of Tink, and is not supported by Google's cryptography teams.

Re:Reddit Is Down on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:05PM (#25379396)
Interestingly, their status page shows mostly green and "Operational" (albeit along with telltale spikes in backlogs and a drop in requests):

https://www.redditstatus.com/

Re:You might not need machine learning on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:05AM (#25197355)
The arrow operator is a field access through a pointer. That is, if you have a pointer to a struct, it's the same as dereferencing the pointer and accessing the field: "(*foo).bar" corresponds to "foo->bar".

I think the main driving logic is on line 228. It could definitely do with some more descriptive variable names, though - "a" for angle, and "s" for sense inputs seems a bit too short.

Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:32PM (#23933387)
It's ironic how my least favorite genre of comments are about people discussing the correct usage of the word "ironic".
Non-paywall link: https://outline.com/4e95fm
Re:Left: Distractionless Plaintext Editor on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:11AM (#23124429)
Since it's not linked on the page, here's the repo: https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Left
> Why don't we have a Free Open Source webRTC proxy server implementation?

Isn't that what Jitsi is doing? https://github.com/jitsi, meet.jit.si

Re:Ask HN: Best way to gift Bitcoin for Christmas? on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:34PM (#15854983)
You could gift a physical coin model, along with the login credentials to a Coinbase account
Re:Concurrency vs. Parallelism: A breakfast example on Sunday December 03, 2017 @01:41PM (#15838803)
This is a great short explanation! I think I'll pull it out next time I need to explain this.
Re:How to rickroll Spotify for Android on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:30PM (#14038264)
Can also be used to intercept Instagram images: http://imgur.com/3cYnSzl
Re:Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:46PM (#13941454)
A little nitpick - energy is not momentum squared: Momentum = mv and kinetic energy = 1/2 mv^2 So energy is proportional to mv^2 rather than (mv)^2
The Panama Papers story is arguably tech related.
Re:University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:21AM (#11876524)
Don't keep the drive always connected and you're fine
Re:Show HN: A simple todo list manager on Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:41PM (#11004146)
This looks good - nice and simple and self hosted, could you add support for multiple lists? That'd be awesome.
Your project looks really exciting! I'd love to run it on my home server, any plans for supporting 32 bit servers?
Re:Show HN: Kipplr – Draw abstract images in seconds on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @06:21PM (#10700570)
Could you add an option to edit each value as a number as well as a slider? Sometimes you want to get the same value again, and you can't get the slider in the same position as before.

Loving the app :D

Re:It's time to update the software update process on Thursday November 05, 2015 @02:09PM (#10515469)
This problem is almost non-existent on any system that uses a decent package manager.
There's been a lot of criticism for that comment and it really shouldn't be taken without a large pinch of salt. For example, it didn't account for people buying it once and installing on more than one device. That's a pretty big oversight.

Much as I love ustwo, it was a stupid comment for that developer to make.

Re:Messer – Facebook chat from the command line on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:09PM (#10382747)
Just tried it - it's very buggy but could be promising