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·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> First, enforcing a youth social media ban raises major ethical concerns. Enforcement efforts invade people’s privacy and are likely to hurt marginalized people more. For example, the technology that determines age based on selfie uploads makes more mistakes with young faces and people of color. Banned youth may also miss out on important resources and communications provided via social media, as schools, clubs, and most other youth-serving organizations use social media as a main form of communication.

Really grasping the straws with this argument...
rwbt
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I use this framework to build prototype applications and it's always a delight. Something about Lua just feels right. Once I'm satisfied with a demo or prototype, I later on port it to native C/C++ implementation.
rwbt
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
That's not really a bad thing, IMHO. Many people successfully make a living creating niche products.
rwbt
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
They just offered free batteries.
rwbt
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Nope. I don't think they even recognized the defect till many years later (probably for legal reasons?).

For users, that were still under warranty - they offered free RTC batteries (which also stopped working later).

Either way, I won't buy anything from them going forward.
rwbt
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I appreciate the response, but my suggestion would be to offer a mail-in service program so that users don't have to fiddle with potentially dangerous soldering (ideally Framework bearing the shipping costs or atleast subsidizing it).
rwbt
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
The permanent fix involves soldering stuff on the mainboard, which I don't have any prior experience. The RTC substitute module you mention is just the ML220 coin battery that will also eventually stop working.
rwbt
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I purchased the first generation of FW13 laptops and got burned. The CMOS/RTC battery drains if not plugged in so the laptop never keeps proper time. I don't think I've ever used a gadget in the last few decades that needs setting the correct date & time every time I turn it on.

Granted, it was their first ever shipping product so I gave them a free pass but I thought they would atleast issue a recall or have a repair program where you send in the laptop to get it fixed. Instead they first denied it was even an issue, later on when enough people complained - they started a battery program where they send you a new ML220 coin battery that will also eventually stop working.

I was told buying a new mainboard (12th or 13th gen Intel) would fix it, but I decided to just buy a new ZenBook instead.
rwbt
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I don't think it's UB if you init the struct before using it atomically from multiple threads.
rwbt
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
I switched to Orion from Safari a few months ago and so far loving it. I tried Orion a couple of years ago but it wasn't as reliable. Now it seems very stable and the kagi search integration is really nice.

On a side note - I don't know why Apple still doesn't let you set a custom search engine in Safari even today, so random.
rwbt
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
One can use `@(require_results)` to force the user to check for error. That paired with `or_return` or `or_else` in Odin mostly take away all foot guns.
rwbt
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
I'll add another point i.e. Odin is effectively done from a language point of view unlike Zig or others. The project is currently working on improving the std library and toolchain but the language itself is finished according to it's BDFL.

From my experience so far, Odin is a delightful modern alternative to C.
rwbt
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Odin supports multiple returns and the `make` proc returns an error value that can be optionally checked.
rwbt
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Great write up and I share very similar ideas. But I wish there was something a little more than a library where people with similar interests can actually socialize and build a sense of community.