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Russia invaded their neighbor. They want to dominate Ukraine. They’re killing civilians in the street, digging mass graves, raping babies, targeting hospitals.

Tell me what can the US do to lessen the chance of these violent occurrences?
> It was really just one trick, which was to immediately sticky select new posts.

and (imo) if they were really wanting to fix this trick they would have just made it so something that was ever stickied couldn't show up on /r/all. Instead they did what (to me) was basically a complete change of their algorithm with very slow changes to placement.
50 can be so many different things: Some people at 50 present as old, and others present as younger. For interviews that probably makes a difference. I come from smaller startups and now work in an enterprise org. Everyone's older here.
> The Zumwalts are cancelled now.

Sure, but they are the newest destroyers we have, and illustrate (along with the Flight III Ashleigh Burke) a pattern. DDG(X) won't be twice the Ticonderoga-class displacement like the Zumwalt-class, but they'll also be bigger than the Ticonderoga by a sizable margin.
Musk can never be the POTUS, because he's not a natural-born US citizen.
Good luck defining "evenly"! :)

I don't think Elon is going to allow Nazi spam, and he shouldn't if he wants the platform to be relevant.
I have tinnitus too, and would love a cure/solution. I do play drums and have been exposed to loud music, but my tinnitus nevertheless developed from a glandular fever, and my hearing is actually fine. Would just love to get rid of the constant 3-4khz sine waves and enjoy silence again.
He cannot do it.

The Constitution places a few limitations on who can be President. One of these is that you must be a natural-born US citizen.
I find it’s more of a convenient way for cynical or buffoonic politicians or bureaucrats to shut up squeaky wheels.

Nearly every last squeaky wheel requesting a stop sign is wanting a solution to something much more complex. Even though an unwarranted stop sign can’t solve the problem, it’s the cheapest and fastest way to solve the problem, so it’s chosen.
> Are they mad that Elon wants to buy twitter because he's rich? Are they mad because of his stated position on free speech?

I think yes to both. But they don't want to just blatantly say it so it's wrapped in some kind of gibberish.
My account is 10 years old. I have noticed no shift. But I do not subscribe to any of the popular subreddits, I only subscribe to niche subs, which is clearly the best way to use the site and avoids the issue of political nonsense getting in the way of enjoyable conversation.
"SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen()."

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
A few more speculations here https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?p=94672
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This would be amazing for me. I have had unilateral hearing loss due to mumps since childhood.
I believe that law takes it into account. If you approach the intersection and there is an approaching vehicle that has a reasonable chance to collide with you if you proceed, then - by definition - intersection is not clear and you are obliged to stop. Let alone the fact that in the absence of 4-way stop that vehicle may have the right of way.

If restricted visibility does not allow you to assess whether the intersection is clear - stopping always is also the right thing to do.
Being allowed to turn right on red is the law in every US state. The only real exception is that it's banned in a few downtowns and, obviously, wherever a sign says otherwise.
Absolutism feels righteous and is simple to describe and follow (and therefore makes it easy to avoid the appearance, real or not, of hypocrisy), but it's just not realistic.
Pretty sure the kingdom of Saudi already owns your precious public square.
I'm curious:

1. Do you live+work in a state where non-competes are enforceable?

2. Does the contract say they need to compensate you (e.g. some % of salary) for the period during which they want to enforce the non-compete?
You mean the public characterizations of his past behavior, don't you?

I'm not an EM fan but that doesn't mean he always gets a fair shake from the media.
Cargo defaults to downloading stuff from crates.io. I certainly wish cargo was just a build system which doesn't care where you get your packages from, but that's not what it is.
About 2002 here. Some companies were more conservative than others. One was okay with Linux for dev systems, but not production. Another had a "low end" product ported from AIX, which ran on Linux.
When I first moved to Seattle, the lack of stop signs in most residential neighborhoods blew my mind! But when I started biking to work, being able to just look both ways and breeze through without stopping was amazing.

Not sure if Seattle is still like this or if it was confined to specific neighborhoods (I lived in Leschi until 2018).
I get the idea that we feel the social contract is getting a little frayed, but it seems like a pretty long way from Death Race 2000 ... I am still pretty sure there aren't many people on the road for whom the criminal sanction is the factor that's stopping them mowing down other road users.
A small road joining a larger road is also an implicit yield in America, but no one reads the bloody drivers manuals!
Sure. I'm much more comfortable at home and in the long run get more done because I'm likely to actually stay at a company for a longer period of time... But there is nothing like being in an office and feelings like you have to be locked in for productivity.

I can simulate a lot of that with pairing though.
Why haven't you rewritten those parsing scripts you loathe so much?

Since you haven't, it seems a bit ironic that your are complaining about those who didn't.
If you go to a doctor and say "I think I have cold" but then you say you have no symptoms I don't think they are going to take you seriously...

By definition symptoms affect your quality of life.
It's not anti-stop sign. Stop signs absolutely have their place. The opinion is against the misuse of stop-signs, where other forms of traffic control are more effective.

Unfortunately a grid system lends itself to 4-way stop signs because two roads at a right angle are equal. In a tree-shaped road system (like in much of the world) you have a main road and a side road. The side road gives way.
making everything below 100k completely unenforceable doesn't make everything above 100k enforceable, there are still considerable tests to if a non-compete is considered fair or not which governs it's enforceability.
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Because the mentality is to stop, look, and wait for it to be clear, rather than stop and immediately just go.

Stop and immediately go is particularly a problem for less visible road users like pedestrians and cyclists.
Sounds like Twitter is already government controlled.

Not the US government though… rather, the Saudi government, who hold an unknown but presumably massive portion of the shares.
I've been hit four times on a bike, and every time it was by someone making a right turn into a busy road too focused on traffic to look for cyclists.

Luckily the speeds were low enough it was more of a bump every time, but still, enough to put me on the ground
> Could it be more that the noisy journalists are on Twitter, but the rest of us don't really care all that much ... ?

Most of the available evidence seems to indicate most of Twitter is bots or people who are indistinguishable from bots because they don't have any opinions of their own. I don't see much loss in Twitter being bought, or ceasing to exist entirely.
> California style allowed right turn at red lights.

How are these different from other 'right turns on red' in the US ?

I find turning on red to be a pretty bad idea, because Americans rarely stop fully and look out for pedestrians. I think a majority of pedestrian accidents occurs on turn on reds/stops .
It's because we don't actually love the science, it's just what we lkke to say. Elon was the darling until we didn't need him anymore, he talked to the jujitsu guy, and now he is othered.
I'd just like to point out the subtle use of language to objectify motorists and thus make it easier to ignore their side of the issue when these discussions come up. You can see it very clearly here:

"laws built for those cars over cyclists"

If one wishes to engage with people who like using cars, instead of dismissing or ignoring them, use motorist instead of car. I hope our societies are still human centered enough that we can agree that cars are used by people to do things, not the other way around.
What basic needs aren't covered for Americans?

Our poorest people are also our fattest, so it isn't food.

Less than .2% of our population is homeless, so it isn't shelter. And there are state and privately run shelters for those .2%.

Health care is state-provided and free if you have too low of an income, so it isn't health care.

So...what is it exactly?
What I have started doing is simply ignoring some stop signs. Will I eventually get a ticket?

Eventually, but it hasn't happened yet!
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I wish my state would introduce the "treat a red light as a stop sign". I've wasted way too much time waiting for a red light that won't change until a car shows up and trips the sensor.
There are lots of rules that are implicit on European roads. You have to actually read the signs. And as an American, it really requires studying before attempting to drive there.

As an example, in Germany, the speed limit on 2-lane highways is (from memory, it's been 5 years) 100 kph. But when you enter a town, which is designated by a specific sign that tells you the name of the town, the speed limit drops to 50 kph. There is no sign that says "speed limit is now 50 kph." It is implicit from the sign saying you are entering that town. Upon leaving the town, there will be a "speed restriction removed" sign. This doesn't mean there's no speed limit, it means the speed restriction has been removed and your speed limit is back to 100 kph.

Yield or "give way" signs make tons of sense. Think of a small two lane road that crosses a four-lane highway. The cars on the larger road have the right of way and cars entering or crossing must give way/yield to that traffic. There's generally no need for a stop sign, but we as Americans are used to it and see it as the only way to do things.
For sure. The reason they are changing the law is that the law makes sense for cars, not bikes. I'd suggest spending some time cycling in your area; you'll discover that most cyclists are not "Totally ignore all rules of the road", but instead have reasonable and sensible behaviors that are just different from what make sense for cars.
Absolutism implies achieving even moderation by not moderating - though even that is arguably not "even application", if one side of some issue thrives more on strategies that are harmful to conversation than the other.
I've been saying this for a long time too. The VAST majority of stop-signs in the US should be replaced by yield signs. Also roundabouts are far superior, even many 4-way light intersections could be replaced with them.
> An overweight man with no friends who plays computer games all day is not depressed unless he feels bad about it.

This is entirely wrong. You can suffer from depression (and anxiety) and attribute it to other things, such as personality traits. Many people think "that's just me" with those that know them thinking the same. For less acute forms of depression such as dysthymia, that's common. People can think they're entirely normal and they're just not good at certain things.

If you talk to sufferers of serious and disruptive mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar with psychotic features, most of them will deny they're ill at all and rationalise their behavior. They'll generally talk about it by saying "well my doctors say..." and suggest that their doctors have been mislead or have misdiagnosed them.

It's much more complicated than it seems. It's all part of the perniciousness of mental illness.
Right, sorry, my bad - X and Y - X will be negatively correlated
I’m glad to see Valomilk mentioned in the article—they sprang to mind instantly as a smaller producer I want to see continue.
Free until they sneak in some "optional" component that's bundled automatically and then sue the shit out of you. Gotta love Oracle.. :X
Taken at face value, what the DK data shows without autocorrelation is that more skilled people are, in fact, better at evaluating themselves than unskilled people. The correlation is positive. It's only when you introduce the difference in score vs. assessment (autocorrelation) that the correlation appears negative ("skilled people evaluate themselves as less skilled than they are").
> I would rather see things changed so that some people who would prefer to rent have to shrug and buy something instead

This would make things even worse. Imagine having to go through the whole house buying process every time you want to move. What are young people or poor supposed to do, live with their parents until they can hopefully afford a house? What if someone just can't afford a house?
One counterexample, right turn on red is not allowed anywhere in any borough of NYC. And outer Queens/Brooklyn/Staten Island are indistinguishable (to me) from the rest of Long Island (suburb). (i.e. not just downtown/busy areas of NYC)
I hope you're right! The lack of an update on that post, combined with the FAQ saying the opposite thing, makes it even harder for me to know what their policy is. Respecting robots.txt is a civilized thing to do and I hope they do it.
Private media companies are different from platforms. Twitter, Facebook is more like phone network than a broadcasting or printing company.

Media producers have always been since founding been owned and controlled by someone. I really don't understand why is it different that now a some new billionaire owns it...
That should be a yield, not a stop sign! Preferably with a low 15-20MPH speed limit on a street that narrow.
Well, with everthing wrong about Bezo's treatment of employees and workers, his ownership of the WP is somewhat different from those other examples. For now.
When your roads are laid out in a neat grid, like many US cities and suburbs, a lack of stop signs encourages you to treat residential streets like shortcuts to avoid traffic lights. People who live in those residential areas don't want a ton of cars cutting through their neighborhood and would prefer that those cars took the main streets. One way to make it unattractive to drive through residential streets is to put a stop sign at every corner.
He was not born in the US. Like Arnold, unless the law changes he won't be able to do it. Unfortunately.
You should better consult a lawyer than a bunch of random people if this is important for you. Or better yet: not work for a company that tries to make you sign such agreements. And especially not this one :)

I don't know where you live. In my country (France) overly broad non compete are not enforceable, and also you need to be paid during the non compete period (at least 1/3 of your compensation or something like this), which means that employers will almost always waive them except for very rare exceptions.
What about announcing it on Twitter along with the trolly memes Elon is also posting about it? If it's not the threshold of "loud" its at least certainly not quiet. By comparison, how many memes did the president of nVidia tweet about hot boxing ARM's board?

Not to say being loud is bad but c'mon. Its only not loud _for Elon_. This is a pretty loud as far as SEC filings go.
Fossilization is really rare and the conditions that enable fossilization usually involve being quickly buried under something.
Just as there are people that think that everything is racist, there are people that think that nothing is racist.

I saw an interview where even infamous neo-Nazi Richard Spencer claimed to not be a racist, he just doesn't think races should intermingle, and that white neighborhoods should stay white.
Another change we could be seeing. Reddit allows mods to collapse comment threads as of 03-12-2019.

> such as an ability to auto-collapse comments by users[0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/b0a8he/dete...
Maybe I need my mind opened but I can't imagine the space requirement for every side street intersection to become a traffic circle. Surely you're referring to intersections only between arterials?
I'll agree with your first example but still question the use of need in your second.
The most concerning thing about twitter is the combination of A) people on twitter thinking twitter is representative and normal, combined with B) journalists taking A as gospel.
Not sure how that would work where I am from… there are so many cars, the one direction that didn’t have the stop sign would be constantly full and the other three directions would just sit there.
Cyclists have extensive practice in avoiding getting hit by cars, so I expect there will be little difference in cyclist injuries from this change.
Sure, they are not ideal. They are there because changing road design for safety is expensive and not something that engineers in the US seem to understand how to do. Removing stop signs doesn't magically solve anything. Road design needs to be changed to keep things safe.
> Or going the wrong way in a one-way?

why should cyclists be required to follow one-way signs? the point of one-way streets is that the street can be narrowed to a single car width; cars are too wide to pass in narrow streets, so a single direction of travel must be shown on both ends, otherwise cars will be stuck in the middle and have to reverse to get out. bicycles don't have this problem. the only justification for one-way cycling is high-traffic streets with danger of collision, but in such high-traffic scenarios I think 99.99% of cyclists will self-organize into reasonably consistent traffic flows, no sign required.
> But even if it has broken, I can just download an old linux distro. They effectively form a cohesive snapshot of the state of the toolchain whenever they were assembled. Slackware 3.1 from 1996 might be appropriate.

You will also need era-appropriate hardware to get that software to install.
I believe we're on the same page now. (I assume in the following that where you wrote `strict`, you meant `restrict`.)

I now understand the standard such that it implies that promises made by `restrict` must be upheld in the whole program and distinctions between caller and callee are irrelevant. Both must cooperate such that the promises remain true.

As for the given code for `uwu`, I also believe the first version is allowed and the second is not. Since the second is the result of (hypothetical proposed) optimizations, the latter may not be applied even though they seem fine on the surface.

So we must have a way to determine when optimizations may be applied and imbuing pointer-to-integer casts with side effects certainly fixes this situation. It seems like a sound approach, but I do hope for a formal analysis, of course.
there was a fair bit of noise but the comparison isn't really that apt because the Washington post and the Atlantic aren't even metaphorical public squares but publications by and for the chattering classes and moving from print oligarchs to tech oligarchs in ownership is angels dancing on the head of a pin.
indeed. anything you dont like iant free speech, its hate soeech. even if youre the one doing the hating.
I agree that the parent claim ("Rust will quickly replace C in the Linux kernel") was utterly risible, but your comments just seem like the mirror image of theirs. What on earth is an 'impostor language'? Imposture of what or whom?

I'm tired of having to deal with this culture war crap in our profession. These languages are tools. C, C++, and Rust all compile down to the same LLVM IR (or GCC if you stray from rustc). There are certainly semantic and grammatical peculiarities that affect how each of them do so[0], but by and large running a simple Rust program and a simple C program through Godbolt will do a lot to disabuse you of the idea that the two are irreconcilably different.

To anyone else who wants to write performant Rust, my advice: (1) no_std, if only to focus the mind, (2) .try_foo(), not .foo(), b/c allocation is fallible, (3) always set `opt-level` to at least 1 (1 is far further from 0 than 3 is from 1, ime), (4) use stack-allocated alternatives to heap-allocated types ('smallvec' or equiv vs Vec, 'smolstr' vs String, &c) even at the expense of overallocating buffer space, (5) exploit vectorisation where possible (e.g. SIMD), in general practising mechanical sympathy, and (5) parallelism is not a panacea, whereas cache locality usually is. Measure everything, but also: memorise every instruction and how many cycles it takes, and think in those terms - in terms of your assembled, perhaps-handmodified code - rather than unscientific laptop benchmarks. (Jeff Dean's famous 'numbers every programmer should know' are a good start but are just the very basics, and obv his exact values are long obsolete, in some areas [disk] more than others [CPU].)

[0] These are discussed extremely soberly and intelligently here, for you or anyone else who may be interested: https://kornel.ski/rust-c-speed
> cars who specifically try to wave them on to go first

Ha, yep that’s a lesser peeve. I’ve found that an innocently confused look and head tilt usually gets them to take their turn.
Self resolving problem?
Solaris has been a zombie for years. There's a ton of enterprises that still need it. If you suggested using it for a new project anywhere, you'd be laughed out of the room (or the zoom call, at least.)
More than once I have said that some startups would do a lot better if they used half the money they got from their last round, bought a few grams of mushrooms for everyone, and then set the rest on fire on a beach somewhere, but for a very specific reason. There are legit complaints about VC's as a whole, but being risk averse is not one of them, and one from someone heroically accepting a regular paycheque and a snack fridge from one of their companies every two weeks, calling them out on risk aversion does seem a bit rich.

The reason is too much cash takes the focus off product and turns it inward and creates a zero sum competition internally among managers to loot the excess money instead of focusing on growth from real revenue. Economically, at least the fire would be deflationary. Cash is literally fuel, and unless you can put it into something that grows, it's a volatile nuissance whose fumes impair judgment. If you want to destroy a product and a company, get them indexed on unlocking a covenant or raising another round where the execs get bonused out of it.

Cash is what you have when you don't have product market fit and (I think) it creates a culture that repels customer desire. Why make anything someone wants when you have enough runway to tinker with what you want for yourself, maybe some follie that you can speak at conferences about, or the best devops and ci/cd pipeline to nowhere?

I'm harsh about this because investors buy a ticket for a growth ride, and the best ones are diversified enough that they really do just buy the ticket and take the ride. But watching engineers iterate on refining the exeuction of solved problems, managers focus on "getting resources," and sales acting like the abused secret side partner to some flagship account they're fronting to attract investor/acquirer interest - are all just spinning wheels, imo.

There are lots of legit complaints about VCs, particularly around financial engineering, and some negative culture issues from the teams they can parachute in, but even as an admitted serial IC technologist, the article embarasses me.