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Wyden once again shows he is the single politician who cares about how technology affects our daily lives.
Re:The M.B.A.s Who Can't Find Jobs on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:11AM (#39027876)
But unless we're saying that literally all graduates from top MBAs get jobs before those from other schools, the overall MBA count is still relevant.
Many Spanish speakers do use 'Americano' to refer to the Americas as a whole.
Re:Was Rust Worth It? on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:19PM (#38019598)
Would re-exporting partially solve your problem?
Re:The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @04:16PM (#37836898)
It does strongly imply it. HTTP2 is needed for more than just the bloatware of the modern internet.
Re:Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:21PM (#37711265)
The sentence is worded a little confusingly, but my interpretation of it is that for certain companies, since Amazon is a competitor in the business domain of that company, AWS is a nonstarter even if it's product offerings are a better choice. Walmart is the canonical example.
You don't spend a percentage, you spend a fixed amount. $1.5 million is enough to live in a nice house, eat what you want, send your kids to nice schools, Aruba in the summer and Aspen in the winter, and still have enough to buy a very fast car. It's easier to focus on EV once you live this life.
Re:Therac-25 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:43AM (#37497415)
What about the infamous [patriot missile failure](https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html) in which faulty floating point arithmetic caused a missile not to be intercepted, killing 28?
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:17PM (#37268637)
Double sided devices are inherently more fragile, for one.
Re:Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:02AM (#37236045)
People are pretty damn good at buying drugs with fiat, too.
Re:Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:39PM (#37203987)
Out of curiosity, what's your reasoning for using musl exclusively
Re:Source code for Quake 2 rerelease on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:23PM (#37084365)
In case you were unaware, the source code of the original is included along with the re-release in this repository, as stated in the first sentence of the readme.
I think the majority of the HN audience could guess exactly what the issue was from the title alone.
Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:51PM (#36594352)
Many devs are the same, hence loyalty to a language
Re:Effective Rust on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:24PM (#36344583)
There are certainly areas where idiomatic Rust needs to fight against the borrow checker. If that wasn't the case, things like `ouroborous` and `pin_project` wouldn't be as widely used as they are.
Re:Effective Rust on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:17PM (#36344501)
But any standard web framework already would use a panic handler to turn a panic within application code to a 5xx error.
Re:AWS us-east-1 down on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:48PM (#36317020)
doesn't every service use IAM?
Re:NordVPN library and client code open-sourced on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:59AM (#35153644)
Every VPN worth its salt is located in a similar country, as it's critical for a VPN to operate out of a jurisdiction that does not require log retention for a certain period of time nor cooperates with Five Eyes law enforcement.
Re:OpenJDK mailing list: Null-safety and value types on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:49PM (#34701736)
I am a fan of Rust, but I feel obligated to point out the return type of the current function does not provide any guarantees about the type which '?' was used on, even on stable. Since the generic requirement to use '?' with a return type of `Result<T,E>` is just `Into<E>`, you would still need to look at the called function since `From<E> for T` could be satisfied for (almost) any T.
Since it's trivial, I look forward to your proof-of-concept in the near future
Why not just write C, then? Sounds like you're just setting up for NPEs
Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:34PM (#33902492)
As a Rust fan, it is not a great experience without an IDE
Re:Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding on Friday November 25, 2022 @05:47PM (#33747700)
Does your protocol provide any advantages over bincode?