EdiX

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by EdiX 9mo ago
She Just Did It™
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by EdiX 9mo ago
AFAIK Rob Pike has been retired for years.
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by EdiX 10mo ago
This is completely wrong. First, disabling overcommit is wasteful because of fork and because of the way thread stacks are allocated. Sorry, you don't get exact memory accounting with C, not even Windows will do exact accounting of thr
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by EdiX 10mo ago
What they should do, actually, is sue the EU for harassment in the US, like 4chan and the kiwifarms did with the UK. And then the EU can start firewalling X. Firewall everything bad, age gate everything, throw up the great firewall of the E
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by EdiX 11mo ago
> why is 70kb of source code a problem? It isn't but then everyone does it and then everyone does it recursively and 70kb become 300MB and then it matters. Not to mention that "well constructed, well tested, well distributed&qu
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by EdiX 11mo ago
Where were you in the last 6 years? Ah, I see, people you didn't like were being censored so you didn't care.
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by EdiX 1y ago
Version 1 was never licensed to anyone. Version 2 was only licensed to universities for an undiscolsed price. Version 3 was sold as a book, I think this is the version you are referring to. However note that this version contained a license
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by EdiX 1y ago
Ask yourself who is more legitimized to take such enforcement actions: a handful of privately owned corporations acting in concert or a democratically elected government? No, the "first amendment only applies to government" is cop
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by EdiX 1y ago
Hopefully this will give people pause the next time they think about linking to https://xkcd.com/1357/ .
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by EdiX 1y ago
> 2800 day streak here, primarily in Finnish. I haven't been a fan of the app for a long time, but the problem I've always had switching is the question: What else? Something from this list https://comprehensibleinpu
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by EdiX 1y ago
I think you are reading that wrong, go.sum isn't a list of dependencies it's a list of checksums for modules that were, at some point, used by this module. All those different versions of the same module listed there, they aren&#x
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by EdiX 1y ago
> Or you can look at apartheid and post apartheid South Africa - when the political structure flipped, so did the academic scores of the groups Do you have a source for this. As far as I can verify this is not true, the gap in achievemen
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by EdiX 1y ago
Maybe it would help if you articulated it even a little bit.
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by EdiX 1y ago
> capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour You are falling into the breadtube trap of faulting capitalism for a societal issue that has nothing to do with it. Did capitalism force people to have productive hobbies? Woul
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by EdiX 1y ago
The European Union needs to immediately build its own sovereign ecosystem where its citizens will finally be able to enjoy the full protections of EU regulations, such as chat control, digital ID laws and censorship of vaguely defined &qu
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by EdiX 1y ago
This basically matches my experience with Anki exactly. It's too easy to learn something that's on the front of the card other than the piece of information that you are trying to learn. I've also been thinking about the same
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by EdiX 1y ago
It didn't, though. JSON schema is basically dead in the water.
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by EdiX 1y ago
2020 ~ 2021 was a crazy crazy time. I hope we never get back there.
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by EdiX 1y ago
Interesting, but in general it does not imply that. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automa...
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by EdiX 1y ago
I don't think this captures the whole situation. Much of what makes comprehensible input comprehensible, at lower levels, is presence of visual hints.
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by EdiX 1y ago
Underrated comment.
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by EdiX 1y ago
I speak three languages and I'm learning a fourth. Don't study grammar, ever, it's a waste of time. Grammar rules always fall into one of two categories: the ones that are so obvious that you would have learned them after two
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by EdiX 1y ago
US households constitute 21% of all energy use [1], so 22% of this is 0.21 * 0.22, which is 4%. [1] https://rpsc.energy.gov/energy-data-facts
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by EdiX 1y ago
I don't disagree, but you're just explaining why it doesn't work.
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by EdiX 1y ago
> It's a commonplace of international relations, and intuitively obvious, that the more integrated are the economies of two countries, the less likely they are to start wars with each other This is indeed a common way of thinking an
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by EdiX 2y ago
How is this not justified? For that matter, how was rachelbythebay's first post not fingerpointing? "You might not want to be associated with nukem222, not even a little bit, if you know what I mean".
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by EdiX 2y ago
I gave her the benefit of the doubt initially, she usually posts good posts, but this is not the way to do things. Vagueposting about a security vulnerability without properly disclosing it to the mantainers: (1) damages their reputation, (
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by EdiX 2y ago
If search engines were invented today they wouldn't stand a chance. People would complain that they can return immoral results. Different sets of people would complain that they can return links to various isms that offend them. The ow
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by EdiX 2y ago
> Or the lie about funding an opera about a transgender woman (the money was for a university in Columbia, unrelated to a performance put on at the school). You've got that wrong. The grant to fund the opera exists: https:/&#x
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by EdiX 2y ago
> The government is paying claims for people who are 150 years old. This more likely than you think, likely enough, in fact, that it has already been confirmed to have happened in multiple countries [1]. The problem of fraud and data cor

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