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The reddit comments on this are worth a read: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1p1yjb4/what_k...
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As in, obviously this isn't the kind of person we should be allowing to immigrate here.
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> AI scrapes niche blogs And further, the LLMs will DDOS you in the process, completely disregarding robots.txt, so self-hosting is a pain-in-the-ass, forcing you to use (and trust) something like Cloudflare (or the Anubis, or Kiwiflare)
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> In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites — after KrebsOnSecur
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> At least once people realized how insecure it was to run shared code on a mod_perl host. People realized this immediately, given how much mod_perl exposed Apache's guts to script writers (so they could write modules in Perl--a fea
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I was both Alpha being quasi-open itself, like OpenPOWER today, and like earlier PDP minis had been, whereas VAX had been pretty locked down, and OpenVMS getting POSIX compatibility (admittedly probably more the latter than the former, but
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For those unaware, Symbolics eventually "pivoted" to DEC Alpha, a supposedly "open" architecture, which is how Genera became Open Genera, like OpenVMS. (And still, like OpenVMS, heavily proprietary.)
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> Here we used mod_perl all over the place and it was glorious. It did take understanding how to use it - well, yes - same as the rest of perl (or apache for that matters). But it was so well integrated! I still miss it. See https:&#x2F
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> No low cost hoster wanted to mess with mod_perl, because it always was a hassle to setup. I am not aware of any way (back then) to run mod_perl, which was powerful enough to facilitate developing Apache modules directly in Perl, safely
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With enough Adderall and estrogen pills, anything is possible. And Big Tech clearly won't stop until every major GPL dependency gets rewritten and relicensed as MIT.
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30 years ago: leaded gasoline and lead-containing paint is harming our kids.
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> It seems people have a blind spot for unwrap Not unlike people having a blind spot for Rust in general, no?
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> For example, the MIT and Harvard scientists whose labs and research he funded, and who visited his island for science-themed retreats. I should add that at least one of them, Marvin Minsky, was accused by name by the late Virginia Giuf
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> The Bill Clinton entity is interesting. Not really. After Epstein got convicted in 2008, he set about trying to rehabilitate his image, to be seen as a philanthropist, a patron of science, and (perversely) a supporter of women and girl
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> NK applied to leave the NPT immediately after they deemed the US untrustworthy in 2003 They started the Korean War by launching an unprovoked invasion of the South (after securing Stalin's reluctant blessing), and continued to wag
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> TIL what the green names mean on HN (new account). You've been here for five years and just figured that out?
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> Could you provide conclusive evidence for that? Could you provide even cases of formally filed rape allegations? It's pretty crazy how far the Overton Window has shifted on Jews. We went from it being prima facie evidence of antis
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> Yet they never point out big tents with Maoists and pedophiles are just big Marxist-pedo tents Are you referring to Mastodon?
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> ...I suppose the sad irony here is that lyme is not getting attention because well... current generations never touch grass and the outbreak never appears as bad as it actually is. The Morgellons outbreak is also much worse than it app
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Before you start supplementing with manganese, know that excessive manganese exposure (usually occupationally) is a recognized contributing risk factor for the development of a Parkinson's-like movement disorder: https://pmc
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> Iceland declares threat to Atlantic Ocean current a national security risk Iceland has no military, and they're concerned about "national security?"
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It seems obvious that with hardware-level memory safety on the way[1], just gradually modernizing existing C and C++ codebases to take advantage of safer constructs (like smart pointers or checked arithmetic) makes much more sense than rewr
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> Maybe (being very generous to him) Biden didn't do a tradeoff between inflation vs employment... maybe the gamble was that increased immigration would boost the economy enough that citizens were not as bothered by the immigrants.
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The air quality is also atrocious, in line with other socialist states, along with the lack of laws against animal cruelty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_and_rights_in_I...
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> truly baffling It's an Islamic theocracy with nuclear as well as regional hegemonic ambitions; what about the corresponding impoverishment of its citizens is "baffling" to you?
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Red Hat's XFS file system originally came from IRIX.
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I consider it a "shallow" copy because it doesn't copy pointer or reference members.
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> defaulted to deep copy semantics It defaulted to pass-by-value, with shallow copy semantics, as opposed to pass by reference.
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> int& lvalueRef = (int&)x; > int&& rvalueRef = (int&&)x; Why are they casting x here?
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They hate America, and more broadly, the west. That's really it. They never object nearly as vehemently to rogue nations like Iran or geostrategic rivals like the PRC spending money on defense as much as they do the US. Orwell noted th

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