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> Nostr is a decentralized network protocol for a distributed social networking system. [...] It was designed with goals of censorship-resistance in mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr (Because the linked page
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> The problem isn't just that Zuck is really bad at being the unelected pope-emperor of the digital lives of 3,000,000,000 people – it's that the job of "pope-emperor of 3,000,000,000 people" should be abolished. htt
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As the GP mentioned, it's TLB cache invalidation that can be the problem. Reloading the mappings from virtual (per-process) addresses to physical addresses after returning from the kernel can cause delays (on some architectures), even
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In most countries, retail bank balances are insured by the government up to a pretty high threshhold[0], so `trust(bank)`, `trust(banking system)` and `trust(government)` should all be on a par, which should be vastly different from `trus
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People Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Doing It https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/01/26/doing/
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...and about the written word, by Socrates https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept13/2013/09/29/socrates-writi...
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The point of "lemons" is that for some markets, scammers drive out legitimate businesses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons > Akerlof's theory of the "Market for Lemons" pa
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Why do you have a "conversation archive"? Wouldn't you consider it really fucking weird if every time you had an informal, in-person discussion with a friend, or maybe a partner, or even a co-worker, that they insisted on w
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If the end where fire comes out starts pointing towards space, you are having a bad problem and will not go to space^W^Whome today.
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> The challenge, of course, is convincing netizens to pay for your content, or freeing it in a way that isn't alienating to readers. I like the LWN.net model, where "Brief items" that are essentially links to stories on ot
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How many other news stories about the horrors of people being raped in jail have you read recently? And then one news story that does come up is "Isn't it terrible that this innocent person was raped in jail?". Not "Isn&
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> Most companies don't prioritize legacy support, On the other hand, the more legacy you support, the larger your potential customer base is. Also, if everyone else in the sector only supports the most recent release of only two bro
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By that method, you might claim that all terms of all licenses (Free Software, Open Source, or proprietary) aren't really important, as the copyright holder can always ignore any of them. I mean, yes, that's technically correct. B
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> the build process [...] It's not strictly required by the definition of open source, but.... But it is required by Free Software licenses. GPLv2 §3[0]: > The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for makin
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> Does that mean failure to adhere to the terms of licenses like ASLv2 or MIT would could only be settled in court if the person who wrote the code actually bring suit and that OSS foundations basically become (more) toothless? Until now
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> If you have GCC 23 or LLVM (Clang) 16 gcc 23? That doesn't sound right
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One could argue that pointers are just array indices, where the array is your whole address space, and you only get the one array for all your types.
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Source: https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kf... Commentary: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/
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> but 1 in a million die from reactions to the vaccine. That... seems high? I couldn't find any more info with a quick search as the results were polluted with articles about measles deaths, which also mentioned vaccination. Do you
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By Vectron's mighty claw, so they do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icTrzUuWlHI
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... ... ... username checks out (gd&r)
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Most news anchors don't just wing it though, except in the rare case of live breaking news. The vast majority of the time they read a prepared script off a teleprompter, which is written by - you guessed it - writers. Sometimes the anc
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Well, that would depend on whether the code leading up to the BSOD scrambled the memory of how your disks are laid out or not. It would be ironic if trying to save the files you were currently working on overwrote your partition table or fi
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> Thus you can write a C23 detector Can't you just check `__STDC_VERSION__` ? (Or, is your way a "But, where's the fun in that ?" exercise? Actually, if you're an ioccc entrant, "where's the fun in tha
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> who else has or is planning to develop a methane engine? BO's New Glenn first stage, RocketLab's Neutron, and Relativity Space's Terran 1/Terran R, are all/will all be methane. > which other widely used engi
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> a Linux scheduler written "during Christmas break, just for fun", is better that the current one. ... with certain workloads i.e. it might be a bit better in a few specific cases, but a bit worse in a large number of more co
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> Kilmartin said one of the questions he asked when he first got into the business was “who came up with this idea? He had to be a madman.” Kilmartin should spend more time around rocket scientists. After hearing a few tales of some of t
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> Gileadite soldiers used the word "shibboleth" to detect their enemies, the Ephraimites. The Ephraimites spoke in a different dialect so that they would say "sibboleth" instead. Experience : you just had to say a wor
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Chip fabs have QA departments that check for bad batches and make sure they never get used too, though. ;-)
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> There will be people convicted who really did have their hands in the till. Maybe, but if any of the evidence used to convict them came from the Horizon system, which has been proven to be flawed and unreliable, then IMO the verdict is

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