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"US jurisdiction" also includes foreign heads of state residing in, and present in, their own country. I don't think a theoretical definition of jurisdiction is tenable; only a realist one.

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Is this a very obscure Norm Macdonald reference?

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há 18 diasdiscuss

How does that work when you don't have enough assets to cover the cost of the thing you broke or stole?

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há 24 diasdiscuss

I bought my 8 year old daughter the hardcover box set for Christmas. When she opened it her initial reaction was definitely "oh...thanks" (she was clearly not excited about it but wanted to be nice). Within a week it was borderline impossible to get her to put them down and go to sleep at night.

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há 24 diasdiscuss

There are some absolutely fantastic web comics out there but none of them have had the cultural impact of Calvin and Hobbes. I don't see how any of them could, to be honest. Even though the technical means of distribution are there at near-zero cost, there's no logistical way in practice to get a webcomic in front of a vast cross-section of society for an entire decade.

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há 24 diasdiscuss

IIRC that is how Uber implemented their "Greyball" system, which was designed to prevent government employees from actually hailing rides, without completely locking them out of the system (same idea as "shadowbanning"). One team works on "figure out where people work" with the pitch that you can improve routing and ride-share capacity for predictable demand. Another team works on "Display fake data to users" with the pitch being "This is for testing the mobile app in new markets with no drivers yet". Another team works on "mark a user as unable to successfully hail rides" so you can test the failure paths in the app. Then, only the people at the top have the full picture and can put the pieces together to shadowban the regulators.

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há 25 diasdiscuss

Martin Amis level prose is neither possible nor desirable for a technical blog post.

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há 29 diasdiscuss

How much liability coverage are you getting for ~ $100/month? In other words if you injure or kill someone with your vehicle how much of that cost will be covered by your insurance company? With Waymo the answer is "not my problem".

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há 29 diasdiscuss

I've never lived in Los Angeles but the one that gets you in San Francisco if you do street parking is the street cleaning, and the random vandalizations.

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Vibe coding is the breakthrough. There's always been "no-code" solutions to problems in various business domains, but they were invariably janky, underpowered, and/or overpriced. Now we have a way for domain experts to go directly from ACTUAL natural language directly to implementation in a real programming language, fully automated, in minutes or hours. How is that not a science-fiction level breakthrough? In 2011 if anyone had said that would be possible "in 15 years", I think most professionals at the time would not have replied with "yeah it's coming but your timeline is off". It would have been "you have no fucking idea what you're talking about".

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Pale Fire is one of my favorite books of all time. BTW the crown jewels can be found in the book, if you know where to look :)

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I used exactly what you posted; should I make an empty hello-world type of file instead?

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> Just creating a file with dummy test like

> if (2 * 2 != 5) { @panic("fail"); }

> And running `zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe` takes a couple seconds on my computer.

What kind of computer are you on? I just ran that test (latest master build, first run):

   ~ % time zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe
   file.zig:1:17: error: expected type expression, found '{'
   if (2 * 2 != 5) { @panic("fail"); }
                ^
   zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe  0.03s user 0.44s system 505% cpu 0.094 total

Granted I'm on an M4 Mac but I wouldn't expect another system to be 20x slower.

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I love Zig and I am generally very happy with Andrew's benevolent dictatorship and the benefits of having one single smart tasteful person in charge of decisions, but the unused variable one really hurts. My guess is that he's seen what a mess C code can be with regard to warnings and so is just totally unwilling to compromise by adding the concept of warnings to Zig. But if I had one wish about the language, it would be for a command-line flag to disable unused variable errors. So much effort has been put into making iteration fast (all this build system stuff, the custom backend, incremental compilation) and then there's just this giant blocker preventing fast iteration on the editing side.

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

Multiple people in this thread have mentioned the Seattle real estate market going to shit (for sellers) - is that related to tech layoffs or is something else going on? San Francisco's market is just as crazy as ever.

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

If OP hadn't written his reply to 'dhouston 19 years ago I for sure would have flagged it as LLM-generated.

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

It's a compelling example of the common phenomenon where a certified genius in one field makes a blunder by attempting to reason from first principles to analyze a problem in another field. Not that such things never work; there are success stories too, but it's not guaranteed.

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

If you were buying a computer today to use for DS4 (budget under 10k) what would you get? I care more about inference quality than speed. Or is it better to wait for the rumored M5 studio?

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

> Assuming the port is actually 1:1 without any behavioral changes, these bugs already exist in the Zig code

The "1:1" assumption is a massive unjustified assumption. Rust and Zig have different memory models, so it's possible to do a "1:1" translation of Zig code to Rust and end up with undefined behavior in Rust.

For example, Zig code might make assumptions about lifetimes based on implicit knowledge of which allocator was used for some memory. That could cause problems in Rust if you erase the lifetime https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/main/src/bun_core/string...

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

If we're imagining a world where the US can't stop China from doing that, I'd probably go on the internet and complain about it.

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