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it has everything to do with the current political climate, and the fact that extremist views on one side are tolerated, while ones on the other are actively being fought against

if you don't want to listen to "nut jobs", you don't have to, nobody's shoving Alex Jones in your face, but banning people you find objectionable sets up a dangerous precedent

i don't understand why anybody, especially a person with technical knowledge, would purchase and install a device that constantly listens to its surroundings and uploads conversations to the internet

it's scary what a third party can do through your smartphone, let alone all the IoT garbage connected to an Echo

So, a government organisation is openly telling Facebook how to moderate speech now, and they're complying? I know Facebook's a private company, so they don't have to uphold the 1st amendment, I'm just wondering how far do we have to go down this rabbit hole before people wake up.

The article as a whole is well-worded, and surprisingly neutral given what's been going on in the community lately, that's why it boggles mind why you'd write something like "This discouragement particularly affects members of disprivileged demographics (...)". All this is going to do is upset people.

Writing Rust code isn’t that hard, sure. The annoyences start when you try modifying code or moving things around.

Prototyping and editing code makes for most of my work, and Rust makes that a chore. That’s my main gripe with the language. It’s more like moving through molasses than encountering a brick wall.

If the car is at fault here, then Uber should bare the full consequences.

At the same time though, the person with the bike had no reflective markings, wasn’t blind or anything, and was crossing the road without any respect for the incoming traffic at an unmarked spot. They didn’t even flinch when the car was about to hit them. The guy in the car looked away for like 5 seconds. He clearly wasn’t absent-minded. If the visibility wasn’t that bad, any suspicious activity on the left would have grabbed his attention.

You can't seriously justify introducing massive library into your code just to display some text, and use a few native calls. If it works for you, that's great, but if anybody needs an example of why the software you use is so terrible these days, even though we had huge leaps in technology, look no further.

Experience? I would much rather have the freedom, and reliability of a native platform than to deal with HTML’s limitations, poor performance, and having to worry about the „optimal rendering path” that’s basically black magick you have little control over.

HTML breaks in ways you won’t predict. Some things you’ll have to hack together so hard you’ll want to take a shower afterward. And it’s only a matter of time untill that piles up enough to justify using native UI from the start.