ShroudedNight

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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
If a party is arguing a position of moral superiority, and respond to any seeming demonstrations of moral failings with 'you do it too', it's not obvious to me why their rhetorical counter-party has any reason not to view the
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
What redeeming value do these regimes have if US foreign policy constitutes a seemingly strict _upper bound_ on how ethically these countries must behave? "If the US' worst is your best, what's your point!?"
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
That stops working if they believe you're a convenient link to a person of interest. There's no evidence Xu Jin's sister-in-law had significant ties to the PRC outside of a family member's marriage.
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
From experience, being raised in dysfunction provides a model for (maybe?) survival, but if one wants to improve things, the only model you have is one of failure. Knowing what fails can be useful, but it is orders of magnitude more useful
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I know many people with mental health issues (including myself), but my sample isn't terribly generalizable as they're either from my family or my wife's family. For me personally, the scenarios I've opened up in are, wi
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I don't believe that was the intent of your parent. The 6 hours of tattooing was instead a scenario they have personally experienced where they have also observed others having wildly divergent experiences from themselves, despite the
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I've been pondering / ruminating with this too; I've been somewhat surprised that few operating systems have played with reserving per-thread address space as thread-local storage, or requiring something akin to a 'far&#
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if they continue to defederate any instance with open registration. We're back to dodging Eris, are we?
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I'm using Firefox on Android on an S21 FE 5G and having the page as the active tab without any interaction seems to cause 30% CPU usage in my about:processes listing.
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I have never used a third party app. I've used compact mode (i), old, new and their first-party app on Android. The information density on their first-party app is so low as to be painful. Then there are ads that feel like a run-by ass
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
Here (Ontario Canada) 5% is sold as light cream.
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
> here in Canada it can last a month. This seems to depend on the container as well as the brand / market segment. "low end" Nielson / Sealtest / Beatrice in bags seems to last < 2 weeks, whereas stuff like Na
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
> Most useful values frameworks have inherent tension in them. That's ostensibly why Cantrill was going on [fairly entertaining] tirades about the difference between principles and values. By providing a cultural foundation of muddl
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
It's my understanding that the website that worked fairly well was i.reddit.com (which was disabled recently) Side-by-side comparison (i.reddit.com on the right): https://old.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
> HN is possible because it's not optimised to it's full monetary potential. This sounds eerily similar to congestion-based breakdown in data networks, or the impossibility of a 100% efficient windmill. If you squeeze too hard,
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
Were you using i.reddit / compact mode, or the default mobile layout?
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
This is probably an unreasonably hard problem, but I asked ChatGPT to write me a boot sequence for an AWS machine that would write "hello, world" to the serial port then terminate the instance. What I got was some fairly generic s
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I miss TFC. I remember learning how to conc-jump with the medic and figuring out the detonation points for pyro, and ultimately getting to the point where my presence was materially beneficial to my team. I never managed to get there in TF2
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I would expect shareholders to start caring if labour appears organized enough to threaten continued operations of the company.
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
As a mildly related curiosity, why didn't 4G memory address threshold on PCs get referred to as 'the bar'? I see in the first answer, both 1M and 4G RAM thresholds get referred to as lines, which matches the terminology mainf
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I have, albeit not terribly extensively. I will readily agree that there are cogent arguments for replacement that pass the Chesterton's Fence test. But I also see quite a lot of "That's too complicated to bother understandin
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I've experienced this changing the API for a primary memory allocator in a frequently updated code-base. Each location updated was perilous and it needed to be changed in bulk to avoid an endless war of attrition.
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
One of the stories shared with me while working on OpenJ9 was of a customer that used stack overflows as a scheduling mechanism, and at some point they were compelled to update their JVM to a version that incorporated tail-call optimization
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
"Fair and impartial" is aspirational: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
> but expecting outrage at Amazon for defending their interests in a lawsuit mostly shows a lack of understanding how litigation works. This is cast as an aspersion of the author, but this seems like a perfectly reasonable position for s
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
This reminds me of the old adage that the most secure computer is one that has never been, and can never connect to anything. It's also rather limited in its usefulness.
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
It seems that NIH also manifests generationally: ? -> CORBA -> RMI -> SOAP -> REST -> GraphQL? ? -> SOA -> Microservices ? -> EDI / X12 -> XML -> JSON p-code -> ? -> JVM -> WASM
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
My experience with CPython (a while ago now) was that it ran like a dog on POWER, and that if you didn't account for the idiosyncrasies of the architecture in the interpreter's implementation, running "well" was a pipe d
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
I am rather belligerently anti-ad, but when I sit quietly to contemplate alternatives I must admit that in certain limited contexts, I found advertising incredibly useful in the [relatively] distant past: I would pick up the computer paper
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by ShroudedNight 3y ago
If your parent is like myself, as I have gotten older, the perceived delta between "close to a decade" and "past few years" has converged to approximately nothing.

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