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by Y_Y 11mo ago
So you don't like OpenBSD, but you do like Ubuntu? This person seems like they know wht they are talking about and given it serious thought, but I cannot fathom how you could make such a conclusion today.
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
> so make sure you're on the latest version of our SDKs. Probably even safer to not have been on the latest version in the first place. Or safer again not to use software this vulnerable.
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
> even if I find a bug, how am I going to patch it without access to the source code? That's how. Bethesda put a mod manager in Skyrim and works with some of the developers, they distribute fixes as game patches, you can distribute
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Consider that the average CTO is about 50† and that roughly people expect to retire at 65 and die at 80. If you can get away with one or zero overhauls of your infra during your tenure then that's probably a hell of a lot easier than e
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
> everybody wants to be american Not in Europe. I know personally several people who have moved here recently, and none who want to go the other direction. In fact there's been an uptick in the number of people who've told me t
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
You can fix bugs without source lots of ways, although many are arcane and finicky. An example of a healthy and productive ecosystem for this is in game modding. Sometimes this relies on vendor supplied tools (like a modkit, e.g. Elder Scro
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Just pass a string and `eval` it.
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Is like to order a complementary question to the sibling one. What are you going to add to (/remove from?) Algol 68 to get Algol 26?
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
> The firms can coordinate by agreeing on a strategy they deem necessary for the future of the industry As long as it doesn't fall into the "collusion" prohibitions of the relevant competition law. > “People of the same
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Maybe we can just stick an outboard motor and some runway markings on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and call that a supercarrier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Sounds like you need to switch OS
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete - an alloy of the two greatest structural materials of all time, ice and sawdust! It turns out that if you don't need your ship to go fast, all you need to do is hav
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
And what about inflation preventing well-organised militias from forming? There ought to be a federal gun credit for every man, woman and child!
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Perhaps Ukraine could spare a few troops for a quick invasion of the West Bank?
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
How do you think dang puts bread on the table?
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Sorry I lost the chat, but it was default parameters on the 32B model. It cited some books saying that they had three stomachs and didn't ruminate, but after I pressed on these points it admitted that it left out the fourth stomach bec
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
I've been trying to get LLMs to make Racket "hashlangs"† for years now, both for simple almost-lisps and for honest-to-god different languages, like C. It's definitely possible, raco has packages‡ for C, Python, J, Lua,
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
I asked it if giraffes were kosher to eat and it told me: > Giraffes are not kosher because they do not chew their cud, even though they have split hooves. Both requirements must be satisfied for an animal to be permissible. HN will have
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
That are reptiles!
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Unequal
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Okta sucks balls. That's from my perspective as a poor sod who's responsible for some sliver of security at this S&P listed megacorp that makes its purchasing decisions based on golf partners.
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
I won't argue that the availability of payloans (or any other product) is a net positive for the rational consumer. I'd still be willing to bet that (ceteris paribus) a society like the ones we live in is better off without them t
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
The trouble with quantum supremacy results is they disappear as soon as you observe them (carefully). Sorry for that, but seriously, I'd treat this kind of claim like any other putative breakthrough (room-temperature superconductors sp
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Dowtcha biy!
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Murphy's is clearly superior
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Ah, you're absolutely right. Only when reading your comment did I realise that I'll often go to the UK for some human-mediated service I need in English. (This despite Ireland and Malta having it as an official language, and the N
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Strongly agreed. Reading the actual bible is (mostly) boring as sin. There are a couple of gems in there that you can just take on their own though. My personal favourite is Ecclesiastes which, apart from a couple of lines of slop added by
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
Where? When there's not a more obvious choice trade is done in English, packaging usually has multiple languages (which are often mutually comprehensible with other nearby languages) and your instruction booklets and regulations are gi
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
That's actually pretty cool. I was somewhat disappointed, however, to aee that this applies only to "major rules" from "executive agencies" and as such doesn't seem to apply to an executive order. There would h
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by Y_Y 11mo ago
> Businesses have absolutely zero incentive to say that regulations are not bad. Your overall point is solid, but I'd like to what I think is another reason that businesses could desire regulation. You're right that a dominant

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