thaunatos | 1 month ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal website
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thaunatos | 4 months ago | on: The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
thaunatos | 2 years ago | on: No telemetry in the Rust compiler: metrics without betraying user privacy
> I could picture a future where the Compiler Team realizes we have an important question about the behavior of the software, that could be answered by analyzing these metrics, and have a VSCode or cargo plugin that analyzes these metrics locally, and if relevant information is found in these logs an appropriate summary is presented to the user for them to file a ticket.
thaunatos | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Bolt.css – Another classless CSS library
thaunatos | 3 years ago | on: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and FlatMap()
parents.flatMap(parent => parent.children)thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends
> On Thursday, the White House confirmed it would let the moratorium expire because the supreme court said it would block additional extensions unless they were authorized by Congress.
The Supreme Court did vote 5-4 to leave the moratorium in place, but this NPR article provides more context:
> Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who cast the fifth and deciding vote, wrote in a concurring opinion that he voted not to end the eviction program only because it is set to expire on July 31, "and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution" of the funds that Congress appropriated to provide rental assistance to those in need due to the pandemic. He added, however, that in his view Congress would have to pass new and clearer legislation to extend the moratorium past July 31
(https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1003268497/the-supreme-court-...)
It sounds like the Supreme Court would block any renewed attempt to ban evictions, unless Congress was behind the attempt.
thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: Compiling Rust is NP-hard
> Does this mean that rustc should integrate an industrial-strength SAT solver? As hilarious as that would be, I'm advocating no such thing. This will only be a performance issue on pathological examples crafted by bored nerds, and I don't think precious engineering time should be spent on that. Besides, generalizing a SAT algorithm to handle the full expressive power of Rust's patterns might be, to borrow some language from mathematicians, non-trivial.
thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
With the CSS property `columns`, this is pretty easy to do:
thaunatos | 4 years ago | on: How I Practice Piano
For the chromatic scale, I was taught to alternate 3 and 1, using 2 when there are two white keys in a row.
thaunatos | 5 years ago | on: No One Goes There Anymore
thaunatos | 6 years ago | on: Coronavirus and Credibility
> “Under these conditions, and all other things being equal, SARS-CoV-2 infection cannot be described as being statistically more severe than infection with other coronaviruses in common circulation.”
> “Finally, in OECD countries, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to be deadlier than other circulating viruses.”
thaunatos | 6 years ago | on: Refinery: SQL Migration Toolkit for Rust
thaunatos | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store
thaunatos | 7 years ago | on: With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
thaunatos | 7 years ago | on: Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages on GitHub
Skip tracks side effects, and will either (a) memoize automatically a pure function or (b) recognize that a function is impure and avoid the memoization.
thaunatos | 7 years ago | on: Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
> Below the line (BTL) advertising is more one to one, and involves the distribution of pamphlets, handbills, stickers, promotions, brochures placed at point of sale, on the roads through banners and placards. It could also involve product demos and samplings at busy places like malls and market places or residential complexes.
http://www.theadvertisingclub.net/index.php/features/editori...
thaunatos | 8 years ago | on: Redux – Not Dead Yet
thaunatos | 8 years ago | on: Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
Here's a link: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
thaunatos | 8 years ago | on: Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
Unless you mean, is there a button inside the car? I don't know if that is of much importance, seeing as there isn't anyone physically there to press the button.