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pirocks··on Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
IMO the issue here is with the question mark operator. If the Rust question mark operator was more like Kotlin's this wouldn't be an issue.
pirocks··on Java Edition is moving house
In my experience no, if you are encountering issues with garabage collection stutter, you should try tuning -Xmx
pirocks··on Java Edition is moving house
From the POV of a long time minecraft it seems to be close to the earliest versions of minecraft, and not really the game I love. It's simply missing to many things, and has a massively smaller community.
pirocks··on Java Edition is moving house
A lot of us(longtime motivated Minecraft players) bought our first accounts when we where fairly young, and often used emails from parents/school, which we no longer have access to. Another reason why this is a huge deal is that this means Microsoft terms of service apply. Also this means that the random account banning that can be experienced with Microsoft accounts will come to Minecraft.
pirocks··on Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel
I my experience sailing, anything that moves will break fairly quickly, anything that doesn't move can break to. I imagine the forces involved are an order of magnitude higher than for a motor, simply b/c motors are comparatively small.
pirocks··on PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
Not OP, but probably because the patriot act was passed in the aftermath of 9/11 when the understood meaning of terrorist attack was 9/11 scale not a dozen people max.
pirocks··on Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup
Going by that chart standard oil looks to have been split into several presumably competing companies. Seems like mission accomplished to me.
pirocks··on A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn
But the OP was asking about sharks as a predator which are clearly being restored.
pirocks··on XB-1 Supersonic Rollout
Virgin Atlantic wasn't sold to Alaskan airlines, only Virgin America.
pirocks··on What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
Mathematica has a function called NDsolve which attempts to reduce/simplify/solve fully symbolically and then falls back on numeric methods. Never actually used it for anything real, but could have potentially avoided this situation.
pirocks··on Google Services Experiencing Disruptions
I was writing a longish note in google keep, and now keep.google.com gives me 502s.
pirocks··on Mark in the Middle
Not sure what your saying. But if your saying they got it wrong they gave trump a 25+% of winning. Things with a 1/4th probability happen all the time.
pirocks··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
Just wanted to let you know that all those file types have support. Markdown and rst via the official markdown plugin, and plantuml via a free(in both senses of the word) third part plugin.
pirocks··on A Picture of Java in 2020
If the Eclipse language server is anything like using Eclipse, I would not call it acceptable. The difference between Intellij and Eclipse is night and day in so many areas.
pirocks··on A Picture of Java in 2020
For IntelliJ-based IDEs this is broadly correct, though some languages may occasionally call out to third party tools.
pirocks··on The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
>How can this process of continually tricking the next investor possibly work out quarter after quarter?

I imagine that if the next investor was someone like a retirement fund this could work out pretty well, since they have a steady flow of money being paid in. I don't know to what extent that actually happens.

pirocks··on Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy
I don't know about Paris, but London public transport reaches almost every corner of the city. I'm making some assumptions here, but I assume you've only ever lived in an American city. You often see Americans thinking that the terrible public transit they see is what public transit is everywhere. This is very much not the case.
pirocks··on Chrome is not the new IE
I absolutely blame Google + a number of other companies, for the bloated state of the web today. They encouraged and invented most of the bloat.
pirocks··on Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps
In a real plane you can fairly easily exceed the maximum extended speed for flaps, and break them. Don't know exactly how fs2020 handles this, but xplane displays a warning and then simulates the effects of asymmetric lift caused by one set of of flaps failing.
pirocks··on Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years
I mean often online discourse is different from real life discourse. Additionally I could imagine that OP could be fairly upset about this, I know such a culture would drive me insane after a few days.
pirocks··on Jensen Huang’s vision for data center dominance may destroy the Arm ecosystem
Sorry for the snark, but what if my workload contains branches?
pirocks··on No Hello (2013)
I'm guilty of doing this. A large part of it is that I'm thinking of what to write as I write it and keeping on coming up with afterthoughts etc.
pirocks··on California bullet train contractors botched bridge project
Because going from San Francisco to LA was too expensive(I would assume high nimby density as you get closer to both those cities), but the doing a high speed train thing was already decided. Apparently there will be extensions to SF and LA at some point.
pirocks··on Gmail and Google Drive Outage
My understanding is part of google cloud failed(Google Cloud Storage), causing many outages, including but not limited to google drive/email.
pirocks··on 'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader
Apparently my browser(firefox) is unsupported. Seems to work fine when I change user agent to chrome.
pirocks··on Google: Open Letter to Australians
I have turned off personalization for several years now. I prefer it off, though admittedly I adblock, and block thumbnails etc...
pirocks··on Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden
In all fairness its by no means over yet.
pirocks··on Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light
Well for starters colours would be all weird.
pirocks··on Oh Shit, Git?
In the past I've done stuff like not pushing until the end of the day/coding session. Usually though I just end up committing and pushing immediately and then realizing I need to amend something and make a note to rebase later(I totally always do that rebase /s).
pirocks··on Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year
Gdpr has a right to deletion within 30 days. Companies have been fined for failing to do so.
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