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ramranch··on Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police
Wyden once again shows he is the single politician who cares about how technology affects our daily lives.
ramranch··on MBAs who can't find jobs
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.
ramranch··on Single-Dose Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Clinical Trial
Many Spanish speakers do use 'Americano' to refer to the Americas as a whole.
ramranch··on Was Rust Worth It?
Would re-exporting partially solve your problem?
ramranch··on The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack
It does strongly imply it. HTTP2 is needed for more than just the bloatware of the modern internet.
ramranch··on Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
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.
ramranch··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
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.
ramranch··on Therac-25
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?
ramranch··on Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
Double sided devices are inherently more fragile, for one.
ramranch··on Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them
People are pretty damn good at buying drugs with fiat, too.
ramranch··on Scripting with Go (2022)
Out of curiosity, what's your reasoning for using musl exclusively
ramranch··on Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
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.
ramranch··on White nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak
I think the majority of the HN audience could guess exactly what the issue was from the title alone.
ramranch··on Companies must stop using Google Analytics
Many devs are the same, hence loyalty to a language
ramranch··on Effective Rust (2021)
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.
ramranch··on Effective Rust (2021)
But any standard web framework already would use a panic handler to turn a panic within application code to a 5xx error.
ramranch··on AWS us-east-1 down
doesn't every service use IAM?
ramranch··on NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
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.
ramranch··on Nullness markers to enable flattening
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.
ramranch··on Hackers demand $10M from Riot Games to stop leak of ‘League of Legends’ code
Since it's trivial, I look forward to your proof-of-concept in the near future
ramranch··on What should I know about garbage collection as a Java developer?
Why not just write C, then? Sounds like you're just setting up for NPEs
ramranch··on Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API
As a Rust fan, it is not a great experience without an IDE
ramranch··on Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding
Does your protocol provide any advantages over bincode?