Valmar

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by Valmar 8y ago
> Cyber-espionage is a valid role Agreed, but the NSA doesn't seem to act like they care about defense, but wielding it only as a weapon. If they care about defense, I'd be interested to see any meaningful examples.
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Disney Forces Captain Marvel on Australian Cinemas for an entire week [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Valmar 8y ago|1 comments
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by Valmar 8y ago
The thing that worries me the most about these technologies is when we make changes with them, those changes seem fine in the lab, and then when those changes spread in an ecosystem for long enough, suddenly, problems start popping up due t
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by Valmar 8y ago
Who knows whether they'll see much use, due to C++ needing to keep backwards compatibility for older projects that demand older versions of C++. It probably partially depends on whether old-style headers can be used simultaneously with
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by Valmar 8y ago
I have to wonder how long the drug industry knew about this, but just brushed it under the rug like they do with all of their drugs, just to get them approved. When there's money to be made, dangerous side effects don't matter to
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by Valmar 8y ago
Fevers are used by the body in an attempt to weaken invading bacteria and viruses, and make it easier for the body to heal. You don't want to stop a fever ~ just keep it within the safe zone where it's healing, but not dangerous.
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by Valmar 8y ago
Whenever I see blanket statements like this in such studies ~ it's like they're trying to avoid pissing any powerful corporations that profit from whatever we're told to not draw any conclusions about. They don't want to
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by Valmar 8y ago
Depends entirely on your choice of I/O Scheduler. With bfq-mq, I've encountered no desktop freezing under heavy I/O.
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by Valmar 8y ago
This is better than his old style. If Linus doesn't put his trusted submaintainers into line, they'll think they can violate core rules of kernel maintenance ~ something as bad breaking userspace. Linus was right to reply exactly
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by Valmar 8y ago
Except that he hasn't ended Eric's ability to hack on the kernel, which is a big difference. Basically, Eric might be forced to go through others, who will examine his work for pulling quality. If Eric can prove that he's cha
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by Valmar 8y ago
The Top 500 run Linux, if I'm not mistaken?
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by Valmar 8y ago
Well, yes. He was both polite ~ yet criticizing. His expressed his annoyance in a great way. "Complete garbage" is polite for Linus, compared to his old style. Still brutal, yet effective. Linus is something of genius when it come
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by Valmar 8y ago
Erm, no. I was never suggesting that. Maybe I expressed myself imprecisely, then. What I meant by attitude is exactly what you meant ~ the nonchalant attitude towards breaking userspace, and thinking that it's okay if no-one notices. W
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by Valmar 8y ago
What I meant is this ~ Linus is able to express himself just as well as before, but with different language, without using swearing. Actually, instead of hot like before, this Linus is cold. Instead of raging, he coldly expresses his disapp
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by Valmar 8y ago
> D is a mess Hmmmm ~ can you elaborate on why you think that this is the case?
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by Valmar 8y ago
He seems just as pissed as he ever has been when trusted maintainers have fucked up. He's just more choosy about his wording. Nevertheless, he gets his point across very well: > Yeah, this is complete garbage. > Eric, your behavi
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Re: [BREAKAGE] Since 4.18, kernel sets SB_I_NODEV implicitly on userns mounts(lkml.org)
110 points by Valmar 8y ago|49 comments
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by Valmar 8y ago
Linus hasn't lost his touch, if this is any indication: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221
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Linux 4.20 released(lkml.org)
348 points by Valmar 8y ago|195 comments
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by Valmar 8y ago
Right ~ sugar, namely fructose, is an indirect cause of diabetes. Fructose over-consumption -> insulin resistance -> diabetes. Heart disease follows. Cholesterol is just the scapegoat for fructose over-consumption's horrifying ef
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by Valmar 8y ago
Unpredictable, therefore being dangerous and extremely risky? They're often partners in crime, when it comes to subjects not well understood. Especially with something as fragile as DNA.
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by Valmar 8y ago
GM foods are actually more dangerous, due to how GM works. Cross-breeding allows nature to combine things that fit together in all of the right places. And we just don't know how that even happens, or why. We don't understand natu
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by Valmar 8y ago
You have too much faith in science. Scientists are highly fallible, and prone to making errors, as well as being corruptible by politics and corporate greed. DNA is ridiculously hard to understand, and it continues to defy current theories.
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by Valmar 8y ago
Exactly. And that's why the OP is a bit horrifying. DNA's compiler seems to love undefined behaviour ~ probably because the DNA writers knew precisely what to do, without errors. Undefined behaviour? Whatever ~ creativity ftw! S
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by Valmar 8y ago
Indeed. DNA is the most fucking complex and complicated programming language. We have barely any understanding of how the whole thing hangs together, let alone how it's parsed and written, and how it all translates from stem cells to w
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by Valmar 8y ago
If you really want your encryption, use GPG, and have the people you send to use it as well. It's one of the few ways to ensure privacy between two people who trust each other.
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by Valmar 8y ago
Thanks for the reminder. :)
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Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing a Package Over Its Name(phoronix.com)
50 points by Valmar 8y ago|47 comments
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by Valmar 8y ago
A few grams of whole ginger root is great for motion sickness, and the side effects are little more than a mild burning sensation in the gut. It completely kills any horrible car sickness I get from any small motions.
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by Valmar 8y ago
If there are issues, then it is very important to abort the experiment, and go back to studying DNA. Altering something so crucial to life, and its life-long health, is fraught with many-faceted issues. It's dangerous to tinker without

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