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I had to laugh at the title. Imaginary numbers may be real, but they're also outside the set of real numbers ℝ.

By "extremely privileged", are you referring to people whose parents didn't pay for their education and so they had to take out loans?

> Output per worker is lower than ever before!

Citation needed. In 2021 corporate profits increased more than any year in recorded history:

https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2...

> When taxes are factored in, last year’s corporate profit increases were even more of an outlier. They soared 37% year over year, more than any other time since the Fed began tracking profits in 1948.

Companies that embrace this mysterious "massive shift in the way people work" will have a nice competitive advantage.

Yeah I was about to say something similar. Our existing insider trading laws don't quite fit this situation, which is why they're being charged with "wire fraud conspiracy" instead of something more specific.

Ok fine, we're in a depression. But it's the millennials' fault.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/millennials-are-to-blame-for...

They already do that.

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Oops you're right, I take it back. $1500/year is still pretty steep though.

That is an unreal amount of money to be spending on subscriptions. I can't imagine paying more for software every month than my mortgage.

I have a list of movies/TV shows in a txt file. New entries go at the end. I watch them in the order I added them. Zero decision fatigue!

I think at this stage it's impossible to fairly distribute a coin to new users.

Bitcoin was born into a unique environment. The world did not know what to think, and largely ignored it, so it was able to spread organically for years, detached from any notion it would ever be worth anything. Because it had no value, it could grow without having to worry about these kinds of attacks. Only once it spread far enough did it begin to take on economic value and an exchange rate, reaching one penny and beyond.

Airdrops these days do the exact opposite. They're premined, listed day 1 on exchanges, and the creators try to pump the exchange rate in order to finance later development. The entire process is corrupted by users viewing projects through an economic lens, and creators trying to extract value before delivering value. Now that the cat is out of the bag, it's likely the conditions of bitcoin's creation will never happen again.

Your HTTP request is very important to us and will be answered in the order received.

If you can stomach kubernetes, you get this for free for all languages. Just panic!() or die(), and you'll get a fresh pod in a few seconds.

Outside of k8s I try to use the lang's preferred tool. Python -> supervisord, Node -> pm2, etc.

There are individual limits to demand, but not societal limits. If LEDs become more efficient, I will not throw up more lights, but Times Square will - and eventually they'll expand operations and build Los Angeles Square.

Jevons Paradox is about these societal demands, which influence collective usage of a resource in the opposite direction from individual usage.

Comcast rebranded themselves as Xfinity to try to shake their reputation. Maybe this project should be renamed too.

When I hear you say "Lombok problem", it makes me think you're writing getters and setters and generally treating the language as if it's Java. You might get along better if you try to unlearn some of those habits. There's nothing wrong with public fields or free functions; in fact I'd say most of the time the straightforward approach is preferred.

Maybe you know this, but he already released an MVP for a GUI library: https://github.com/linebender/druid

Small comment: It's possible to stitch together UI/video/3D without dealing with the compositor, if you use child windows instead (or in wayland terms, a subsurface). On win32 at least, it's a much simpler approach.

Thanks, edited. I guess they didn't like all the traffic. Luckily archive.org has a copy too.

That applies only when all participants are willing. The owner of private property such as a house, restaurant, or hosting service, is allowed to control who may access their property.

I managed to grab a (hopefully) uncorrupted version somehow. I'm putting it somewhere other than imgur so they don't recompress the image. MD5 d30fcc384a8e2de4fab3056bde42b00b. [EDIT: Removed dead link, use archive.org instead]

> I'd be curious to know what failure mode(s) conjured the 0xf6's into existence.

Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Though this is linux running on Mac hardware, reading a disk that should have actual data, so maybe that isn't the reason.

In jacobr1's comment we already have a way to get a Result<_, Infallible>. But converting a slice to an array returns a real error type, so my comment wouldn't apply.

For your case just stick with `.try_into().unwrap()`. It's the easiest way. Unless of course someone on crates.io made a fancy crate with const generics.

You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.

You'd pair it with something like this https://docs.rs/unwrap-infallible/

That's helpful for that one example, but it doesn't solve the general case. I can think of a hundred different examples that aren't handled by the type system or stdlib.

  fn high_word(n: u32) -> u16 {
      (n >> 16).try_into().unwrap()
  }

Unless someone manages to solve the halting problem, we'll always need unwrap() or equivalent.

Also how do they know the password at all? Is the CIA storing passwords for classified material in plain text?

Parent didn't ask for "groundbreaking", they asked for "even one single useful use case". The bar wasn't high.

More charitably you could call them 1. micropayments and 2. disrupting rent-seeking incumbent banks. You use a currency to pay for things, so yeah, the use cases will tend to circle around payments and transferring money. What did you expect, a cure for cancer?

If you buy drugs on the darknet with USD you're playing a dangerous game

We've had two crypto threads in the past two days. They both had a real world use case in the top comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094142

Or do those not count?

MS had "edit and continue" (aka hot reloading) in Visual Basic in the 90s. Then I switched to other languages and I've gone without it the rest of my career. I don't think VB the language is very good, but the developer experience still beats anything I've used since then.