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Comment · 2 years ago
AIUI, Servo has been a failure because Rust is not very good at this problem domain. Browsers have to deal with circular references and this is easily handled in C++.

Hopefully someone who knows more will explain this better

Comment · 2 years ago
Quarterly fees are ~$15k

The domain for my work project was over $400k. Buying a gTLD would have been way cheaper, but wouldn't have managed to get us the cool domain we have.

edit: on the other hand, we're hostage to a country who could ruin everything. I guess someone above my pay grade rolled the dice

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, take two heat pumps in series and run one as AC and another as heat and you'll get far more than 1.5 gallons of drinking water out of arid air than this
Comment · 2 years ago
Words have meanings other than what the government says they are
Comment · 2 years ago
But they will ride high in a pile of money until the curtain is drawn back. It's worth it to them
Comment · 2 years ago
> If Apple feels these rules are so just and fair and indispuitably correct, why does it go to such measures to hide them from its consumers?

Because if would harm shareholder value. You don't need a more complicated explanation about the whole situation.

Comment · 2 years ago
you can also use access methods on structs in 1.17 so you don't need the Access.key hack with get_in
Comment · 2 years ago
It does a great job picking up voices though
Comment · 2 years ago
We still emulate a typewriter that communicates over telegraph in our modern *nix OSes. Good luck removing that and keeping everything built upon it
Comment · 2 years ago
I think we all agree that their lives are more valuable than whatever the cost of the recovery mission would be to bring them home safely, but isn't it disheartening that the only reason we could agree to spend that much money to save so few lives is because of the spectacle of it all?
Comment · 2 years ago
Doesn't have to. Same story. It's going to be possible but not economical.
Comment · 2 years ago
Boeing has competition in the USA?
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