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gedhrel

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  • 570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.

    Data on "hundreds of thousands" of people can't provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.

    It can reliably predict when people are black, though.

  • Germany may look to withdraw its gold from US

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  • That's a lot of toilets.

  • Labels go brrrr

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  • And as for your specific question: typechecked code doesn't get to production with a type error; it won't compile. There's a common phrase, "left-shifting errors". It means catching bugs as early in the development cycle as possible. In terms of things like developer time (and patience), it's far more cost-effective to do so.

  • Labels go brrrr

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  • I worked on OpenStack back in the day: millions of lines of untyped Python.

    Let's say you've got an X509 certificate. You know you can probably pull the subject out of it - how? Were I using Java (for instance), the types would guide my IDE and make the whole thing discoverable. The prevalent wisdom at the time was that the repl was your friend. "Simply" instantiate an object in the repl then poke at it a bit.

    And it's not just that kind of usability barrier. "Where is this used?" is a fantastic IDE tool for rapid code comprehension. It's essentially impossible to answer for a large Python codebase.

    Don't get me wrong: python is still a great go-to tool for glue and handy cli tools. For large software projects, the absence of type enforcement is a major impediment to navigation, comprehension and speed of iteration.

  • DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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  • Not just domain logic. The implementation logic is often weird too. Cobol systems have crash/restart behaviour and other obscure semantics that often end up being used in anger; it's like using exceptions for control flow, but exceedingly obscure and unfortunately (from what I've seen of production cobol) a "common trick" in lots of real-world deployments.

  • Journalists Demand More Synonyms for Stupid as Trump Administration Enters Third Month in Office

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  • They are also running out of euphemisms for "Nazi salute".

  • Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public

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  • That's pretty nuch why every one of these cases has settled before it reached court. The first thing the prosecution would do would be to get documetation of how many times this had happened, and the met policy that knowingly encouraged it.

  • Henry Symeonis

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  • Wait until you hear why Cambridge exists.

  • Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

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  • Whilst it's gotten a lot better in the -17 and -20 iterations, the fact that there was recently a doorstop book published solely on the subject of C++ initialisation semantics is pretty telling.

    I really like what Herb Sutter's doing around cppfront; I still wouldn't use C++ unless I absolutely had to.

  • Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

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  • To add something to this: linux has avoided internal SPIs for a long time. It's often lauded as one of the reasons it hasn't ossified.

    However, some subsystems have a huge amount of complexity and hidden constraint in how you correctly use them. Some of that may be inherent, but more of it will be accidental.

    Wrapping type-erased shims around this that attempt to capture (some of) those semantics shines a light onto the problem. The effort raises good technical questions around whether the C layer can be improved. Where maintainers have approached that with an open mind, the results are positive for both C and Rust consumers. Difficult interfaces are a source of bugs; it's always worth asking whether that difficulty is inherent or accidental.

  • Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

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  • Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

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  • You're wrong, but it's possible the article gave you that impression. Read the mailing-list thread.

    It's particularly worth reading Ted T'so's contribution, which (considering his rude behaviour at the recent con led to a previous round of this nonsense) seems much more positive.

  • Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

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  • What's in your mind does not coincide with the professional experience of Greg KH. You shoyld read what he had to say on the subject.

  • Trump doubles down on annexation threat, says Canada would be ‘cherished state’

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  • Post Sept 11, (lots of) flights were grounded for several days.

  • Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’

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  • If you want to nudge the ketohead narcissist, you have to pander to the ego.

  • How do I listen for HTTP requests from the internet?

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  • How do you know it's a bad idea without knowing what the goal is?

  • How do I listen for HTTP requests from the internet?

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  • Seems like lots of vpn providers offer port forwarding after a fashion. It surprised me too but there were summary comparisons just a search away.

  • How do I listen for HTTP requests from the internet?

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  • Assuming your vpn provides a stable remote IP, your client connection needs to use that. Try "whatsmyip" or similar over the vpn. The remote address almost certainly won't appear in the local output of ip a.

    Locally, listen on the "this host", 0.0.0.0.

    You may need to check your firewall locally.

    You don't need to run your http service to troubleshoot - simple tools like netcat can listen for incoming requests - nc -l 0.0.0.0 8000 or what-have-you.

    Finally: you might want to look at using a shell host as the client rather than targeting your vpn ip from your local host, just to take hairpin connections out of consideration when troubleshooting.

  • People who claim that other languages beyond C, C++ are BS. What is their deal?

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  • C++ is one if those languages where writing a library feels hugely different from using it. Boost is a case in point here: there are brilliant peiple behind it, but (error messages aside) the ergonomics of using thise libs in an application are usually pretty good.

    (Scala felt similar to me. There are other languages where it feels much less like I'm swapping hats as I flip between parts of a codebase.)