Cyph0n

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by Cyph0n 2mo ago
I have always found the adoption loophole to maintaining a family business hilariously smart. I also understand why it’s not something common outside of Japan. Selling your family name in exchange for (maybe) keeping your business alive is
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by Cyph0n 2mo ago
There is nothing inherently special about Japan or Japanese people. You can pull similar examples from many other countries.
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by Cyph0n 2mo ago
I am assuming that Fil-C introduces orders of magnitude less overhead than ASAN or Valgrind. Also, it’s probably fast enough for apps to be deployed in something like a staging environment for integration tests to run against them. Producti
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by Cyph0n 2mo ago
But the runtime cost of Fil-C means that - in most cases - your actual production application will be compiled with a standard C compiler. This applies not just to your code, but to all dependencies (due to ABI). So I don’t see how Rust is
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by Cyph0n 2mo ago
How is Fil-C’s wrapper approach different from someone (not necessarily the Rust stdlib) implementing a safe wrapper around a particular syscall? mmap is a bit of an outlier because it is not possible to implement a fully featured safe wrap
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
“But Morocco didn’t exist!” - addressed in another reply, see sibling. The UN argument boils down to Spain lobbying the UN early on (post-WW2) at a time when Morocco and other North African and West Asian states either did not exist yet or
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
Yep, it’s always justified by the fact that Morocco never existed and therefore has no claim. But applying this logic universally would change the world map, not to mention that this justification ignores the fact that the concept of a nati
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
It would also be great if Ceuta and Melilla returned back to Morocco, and if Western Sahara in turn gained its independence from Morocco. As an aside, I have always found it ironic how Spain continuously whines about Gibraltar while doing t
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
Or intentionally repatriate colonial administrators who oversaw torture of misbehaving natives and place them in cushy government positions back in the metropole. Or repeatedly elect ex-Irgun and Lehi terrorist leaders into the highest posi
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
The middle ground I go with is to structure the pool using datasets and zvols, and then periodically backup the critical ones using zfs send. For example, I can live without my movie collection, but I cannot afford to lose personal photos
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
This is the case virtually everywhere thanks to FATCA, unless the country’s banking system is OK with getting punished. It applies not just to US citizens, but also to US permanent residents.
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by Cyph0n 3mo ago
Jovian is as close as you’ll get. Works like a charm and gives you a SteamOS-like experience on desktop.
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
And the best of the best of medical students the world over compete to enter the US market. Being US board certified garners the highest pay even outside the US (eg GCC). It’s kind of like our industry - the higher comp is a big reason behi
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Understood, but you're removing the moral aspect of the capitalist's exploitation of labor from a discussion on why the capitalist gets to make a billion dollars and the farmer doesn't.
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
> But it is precisely the same as the capitalist model It’s only the same if you consider natural resources and human labor to be equivalent. To me, that sounds quite reductive.
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
And you seem to not realize that a census has a much wider impact than allocation of federal funds. It’s a nationwide survey done once every 10 years. No other survey compares in scale. Now think about the data you could collect and the dec
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
It’s because people are significantly more likely to lie or omit some facts if you don’t guarantee their privacy, which means your census data ends up being worth less than a pile of shit. The alternative is to water down the census questio
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Hogwash? More like state-backed propaganda disseminated by so-called objective and professional media organizations in order to justify an offensive war against Iran; a war that has achieved virtually none of its stated aims. I personally t
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Ah, so now none of the protesters were gunned down in the streets? How convenient. > As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health t
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
I would love to see an agreement on the supposed number of (unarmed) civilians killed. Over the course of the past few months, I have heard claims of thousands up to 50k. You would think the traffic and surveillance cams hacked by the Israe
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Do you blame them? If a global ring of elite pedophiles turned out to be true in spite of all the gaslighting and denial, then why couldn’t the moon landing also be a conspiracy? Keep in mind that the elite class couldn’t give two shits wha
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Astounding to watch the mental gymnastics at play. It’s like how Israeli lobbying orgs state that “claiming Zionist orgs control the media is antisemitism”, and then the solution is literally “we should use our contacts & supporters in
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Yes, more specifically IBM -> AMD -> spin off.
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
IBM no longer has fabs (spun off as Globalfoundries and later sold), and no longer manufactures PCs (sold to Lenovo?), but it does make mainframes I guess?
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
So BYD for cars and Samsung for phones and consumer electronics more generally (from fab upwards). In fact, I believe Samsung is the only company on the planet that can design & build a state of the art smartphone from scratch - silicon
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
I never had the opportunity to try out quadlets, but they seem powerful. I maintain one of the competitors listed in that README (compose2nix), so I am a bit biased haha. For now, I prefer the ability to interop with Compose.
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
Ugliness is subjective :) But my question was around readability: were you able to understand what the snippet I shared is doing? Re: build-time checks - but systemd hasn’t done it, and I am also unsure where exactly this verification would
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
I believe that probably won’t work unfortunately; the generated unit files have a bunch of hardcoded Nix store paths.
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
No. Is that not readable to you lol? I think anyone with even a passing familiarity with systemd would understand what that chunk of Nix is doing. Compare it to the alternative of using plain systemd (including command(s) required to enable
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by Cyph0n 4mo ago
I define all units in Nix because: a) It is way nicer and you get decent validation at build time b) A LLM can port units over if the need arises; it’s a very light abstraction around systemd syntax c) I personally don’t see how I would eve

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