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Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:26PM (#50223289)
Roku uses Gitlab internally so could just be a standardization thing.
Re:Why does Mill use Scala?
on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:47PM (#43043357)
Bazel splits the build into multiple phases. Starlark only comes into play in the first two, load and analysis. During these phases, Starlark code doesn't have access to the filesystem, except in a few very limited cases like using the glob() function to expand a wildcard to a list of source files. Furthermore, it only generates an abstract graph of build actions. The Bazel engine is responsible for executing this graph in later stages, which might result in non-hermetic things happening but usually not.
Starlark has intentionally limited functionality such as lacking Turing completeness or global variables. This provides guarantees that it can be executed in parallel and will have a finite runtime.
Re:Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:18AM (#42820305)
Being a first mover didn't prevent them from adopting standard gauge which already had existed for 100 years.
Re:Tesla Normal Operating Sounds
on Saturday November 25, 2023 @02:15PM (#38415777)
I've seen a Model 3 with very similar sounds coming from the passenger side mirror. There was a loose piece sticking out of the bottom, pushing it back in fixed it.
Re:Apple Gets 36% of Google Revenue in Search Deal, Expert Says
on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:19PM (#38258633)
I assume that both parties have market research showing that enough people (maybe even 36%) don't care enough to figure out how to change the search engine or buy a different phone.
Re:Airlines Are Just Banks Now
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:18PM (#37606268)
Assuming they don't intentionally make economy worse to increase the perceived value of first class.
Re:Airlines Are Just Banks Now
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:10PM (#37603567)
It's price discrimination. Some airline users are not price sensitive (the wealthy, corporate travelers with expense accounts) and they don't care about getting maximum value for their dollar. Economy fliers do.
Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:20PM (#36180162)
> Rent control: A random windfall for whatever tenant snags these coveted apartments when someone dies in a 3 bedroom apartment they haven't needed in 30 years but "can't afford" to downsize from since they have been paying $650 since 1989. Also the illegal subletters who are numerous and shameless, from personal experience.
This is a misrepresentation of SF rent control. Rent increases for pre-1979 apartments are only capped if the same tenant lives there continuously -- when the apartment lease turns over, the rent can be raised to market rates.
That being said, there are some people that abuse the system by keeping a lease for a place they haven't lived in for 20 years and subletting it, sometimes for a profit, but there aren't apartments where the rent is permanently capped at 80s levels like you're suggesting.
Re:The Anatomy of Your Salary
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:14PM (#35378265)
That's... not a cartel though? A cartel is a group of firms conspiring to artificially control the supply of some good in order to increase its price, what you described is just several independent firms that have a high demand for workers and are bidding up salaries for them.
It was more cartel-like when Apple and Google were conspiring to keep tech salaries down by setting salary caps.
Re:Is the Living Computer Museum Dead?
on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:03AM (#34832094)
Such a shame, it's hard to believe that Paul Allen didn't put his wishes for how LCM should be run after his death in writing.
Re:Git archive checksums may change
on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:43PM (#34589124)
The people that this broke weren't directly depending on the output of git archive being stable, but were assuming that the response data for a particular URL would stay constant. Maybe not a great idea either but not entirely unreasonable IMO.
Re:Git archive checksums may change
on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:06PM (#34587949)
The setup instructions for almost [1] every [2] major [3] rule set [4] only provide one (GitHub) url in the Starlark blob you're supposed to copy and paste, so hard to blame users here.
[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/releases/ta...
[2] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/releases/tag/0.17...
[3] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_java/releases/tag/5.4.0
Re:Crypto.com Will Delist Tether in Canada
on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:20PM (#34333815)
At the limit, the exchange would only redeem it at par if Tether the company can also do so, right? That's the big open question since Tether has never publicly completed an audit.
Re:Invisible Characters
on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:08AM (#33862469)
So I guess the only future-proof solution to check for this is to render user input off screen and count the number of solid pixels, at least until "falsehoods programmers believe about names" gets updated to include "Names must consist of at least one readable glyph".
Re:Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'
on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:01PM (#33657689)
There are a wide range of other options here, including negligence and magical thinking.
Re:Ask HN: Is Archive.org Down for Anyone?
on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:07PM (#32588548)
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1562622023968256001
> A core piece of Internet archive networking equipment has failed and a replacement is being sourced right now.
Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:12PM (#32197179)
What’s hard to believe about several thousand sellers all copying each other’s homework?
Re:Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:07PM (#30016679)
By not having test cases for those specific domains, and by passing your input through some general purpose internal URL handling library that does more than you thought it did [1]. Neither is (very) surprising.
Re:What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:12AM (#29889237)
I think the organizations that spend tons of money to run the central repositories we all use are a good candidate for that.
Re:UBC bans non-minority candidates from applying for tenure-track qua...
on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:26PM (#29655490)
Because this is in Canada, where they aren't bound by US Supreme Court decisions? Also I don't think straight white cis-male is a protected class in any case.
Shouldn't this have content in Catalan to qualify for a .cat domain?
Re:Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due
on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:09PM (#29179042)
Because they don't have it
Global Deal to End Tax Havens Moves Ahead as Nations Back 15% Rate
Re:More details about the October 4 outage
on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:57PM (#28763049)
With an outage this big, even a post for a technical audience will get read by non-technical people (including journalists), so I'm sure it helps to include details like this.
Re:Dude, where’s my stuff
on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:31PM (#28690013)
The Jones act restricts ship traffic between US ports solely to US-flagged vessels dramatically reducing competition and increasing costs, and you move freight by ship across a continent with rivers and canals
Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:18PM (#28637591)
Not a game dev but I don't think that's really feasible in a world where network latency is a thing, and it's necessary to send game state to a client that may not currently be visible on screen, unless you'd like us to move to a Stadia-like model of game streaming and dumb terminals.
Re:Healthcare in America Is Simply Extortion (2019)
on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:48PM (#28598018)
Hospitals in the US are required by law to provide stabilizing care to anyone that comes into the ER regardless of ability to pay. Prices are inflated for everyone else to subsidize this. It's like universal healthcare, but more expensive, less transparent and with worse outcomes!
Re:EU to make Bitcoin traceable, ban anonymous crypto wallets
on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:52PM (#28293218)
In other news, the government has declared by decree that you can't move objects outside of an arbitrarily defined border that a piece of paper says is someone's "house", and then exchange those objects for different pieces of paper that the very same government has declared has value.
Re:San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)
on Sunday August 15, 2021 @06:42PM (#28193249)
My understanding is that it's only economical to bury utility lines when there is frequent enough inclement weather to bring them down, which definitely isn't the case in San Jose.