robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@rysiek

> If it's not in the ToS, it's not binding.

I wouldn't be sure. The standard legal theory is that intent of the parties when entering the contract trumps its letter (e.g. if the letter of the contract contains a typo that changes its meaning, and it can be shown that both parties intended to enter a contract without that typo, the contract without the typo can be enforced). The blogpost can be very strong evidence of intent.

That said, arguing that in front of a court will be risky and costly, regardless of whether it's actually correct.

@freemo
A simple example I could easily find: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/clone/trait.Clone.html

(That might not satisfy the "in action" part, but I guess is a reasonable pointer and I couldn't quickly come up with a better example; people don't write that much Rust in functional style.)

@freemo

Rust traits (~interfaces) bypass this problem by having the ability to refer to the type that implements this interface in prototypes of required functions (so you can say that an interface requires e.g. a function `append_element` that returns the same type as the the type that implements this interface).

Naturally, that can only work in languages where you cannot inherit from anything other than interfaces. (It still works for interfaces inheriting from other interfaces, though.)

@_dm What is this a quote from (if it is one)?

#nixos

Why would one ever want to use `nix-env` on NixOS? It causes a lot of confusion for new people when they realize that what needs updating is not only channels of their user, and channels of root, but also nix-env-installed packages. Even once you resolve that confusion, you are still stuck with one more independently updated thing that you need to update in sync (due to graphics drivers), so the promise of easy rollbacks is a bit further away (because one needs to roll back one more thing and remember to do that).

@foone That's actually done! I have a waterproof mp3 player that has exactly one connector: you can connect either headphones, or a USB cable there.

@harriorrihar It's often to one's monetary benefit to complain about ethical issues of one's competitors.

/* this might be a boring direction to look into, because this self-refentiality disappears if one uses a different definition of "question the ethics" */

@Yora And if your atmosphere is oxygen-nitrogen mix for any reason, wearing oxygen mask makes the situation equivalent to the one where your atmosphere was pure oxygen.

@Yora

Doesn't the threshold pressure depend heavily on what atmosphere you have there in the first place? (I'd expect it to be nearly 5 times lower if the atmosphere was pure oxygen compares to same mixture as air on Earth.)

@FMarquardtGroup @johncarlosbaez

Do they mean that the total energy absorbed by the Earth is ~1e-18W? If not, I'm confused by the units: I'd expect people to talk about power per unit of surface area.

@grrrr_shark I'm kinda surprised that positive antigen test is not sufficient (false positive rate there is IIUC small, and more importantly false positives are not correlated with fever), but I assume this is some weird bureaucratic sillyness.

@harriorrihar

I wonder what's the range of technoliberal opinions on questioning ethics of others' profitable actions when such questioning is profitable.

@rowerowesygnaly Warto zauważyć, że to jest nadal prawda nawet jeśliby każdym z tych dwu samochodów jechało 5 osób.

@grrrr_shark I'm probably stating the obvious, but repeating a rapid test is probably worthwhile (even if only to save you the effort and hassle of getting yourself to a sample collection point if it turns out positive).

@retr0id How does that get rid of rattles? By making it more difficult to shake the thing?