pitaj

May as well just use RFID tags, unless you have a lot of data.

As long as it's very consistent, you can use differences

> It seems that VBA will continue to exist as the programming front end for MS Office

They already recommend that new projects use their JS-based Office Scripts instead.

It's really about the leading digit being one less. Our intuitive sense of quantity knows that 1X is always greater than 0Y, and that on average given random X and Y, 1X is three times 0Y.

Our mind is a superposition of intuitive sense and reason, so even when we can reason that they're very close in price, our intuitive sense still plays into our decision-making. That's my theory anyways.

Not trusting Microsoft when they something runs locally probably means you shouldn't be using Windows, period.

Have you ever heard about the Jones Act? The US tried to specifically keep shipmaking capabilities, but implementing such protectionism arguably backfired. The point is, what policies would you have implemented to keep that manufacturing capacity?

Using the term crappy made me immediately lose respect for julian-klode.

Ah gotcha. Yeah `GlobalAlloc` is known to be non-ideal. Hopefully we can get a better API soon.

The APIs do tell you how many bytes are actually allocated. For instance, in the following

    fn allocate(&self, layout: Layout) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocError>;

You can get the length of the returned byte slice (`[u8]`) to know how many bytes were actually allocated.

My understanding is that they're better not in reliability, but in lower maintenance (oil replacement etc).

As a user I prefer YouTube because their premium offering is a great value especially shared in a family (zero ads + music streaming).

I'm curious, can you share more details? For instance, which Glacier tier do you use?

I think a better policy would be requiring, as a condition of copyright registration, a copy of the multiplayer-related server and client code to the government. If the public servers are shut down, that code is released to the public so anyone can run a server.

You'd have to tailor the law so that they can't just keep a single, underpowered server up rather than release the code or whatever. But it might be possible to accomplish.

That said, I'd rather copyright just didn't exist in the first place.

Nuts that any significant open source project would choose to not use any kind of version control, especially nowadays.

Except we know it's a building issue. Housing starts are lower than they were in 2000 despite adding 50 million in population.

Vacancy is good - higher vacancy is related to lower prices. Vacancy rates are the lowest they've been in decades.

We just need to build.

You must understand that teenagers have a limited amount of time outside of school.

> The role of Airbnb cannot be ignored; it is negatively affecting housing availability as landlords can make much more profits on short-term rentals than long-term ones.

It can be ignored if it's insignificant - I haven't seen any evidence to show that banning short-term rentals significantly improves housing prices.

Because it's been tried and there's little evidence it actually works.

There's little to no evidence that banning short-term rentals materially decreases rental or housing prices.

Just wanted you to know that the formatting of your quotes is messed up. You probably need to add some more linebreaks.

> continuous code

> continuous logic

This is terminology I'm used to. Generally this is called "combinational logic" in my experience. Is this a language or regional difference?

Higher vacancy rates are associated with lower rents and lower house prices. Vacancies are at the lowest rate in years in high demand areas.

That sounds entirely unrelated to this outage which began only a few hours ago.

There's a setting for it on Android at least:

Settings > Notifications > Notify When > Contact joins Signal

I don't see why that couldn't be represented like this in Rust:

    struct X {
        text: Option<Box<str>>,
    }
    fn main() {
        let pX = Box::new(X { text: None });
        // automatically dropped (freed) at end of scope
    }

Yeah I really enjoyed the whole trilogy.

I imagine it was an auto-correct typo.

> The biggest economic miracle of our time is China's industrial policy and it isn't particularly obvious what the facts about that are.

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but I think it's pretty well understood that the growth of China is thanks to the market reforms in the 70s and 80s.

That is not the definition of slavery. Slavery is being forced to work.

The console evaluates what is passed to it as an expression, which is a different context from how scripts or modules are evaluated.