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631.
by adwn 5y ago
Yes, create a kernel module which registers a custom device, then change those syscalls to ioctls on that device.
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by adwn 5y ago
> Today I learned that billionaires can be disingenuous lol In what way does that make them different from non-billionaires?
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by adwn 5y ago
You make a valid point. I understand why ModernMech doesn't want their work to be used to inflict harm on others, but at the same time, they're enjoying the freedom afforded by the military that protects them. The sad truth of our
634.
by adwn 5y ago
A lack of capital is hardly the reason for Intel falling behind TSMC. If it were, they wouldn't have lost their lead in the first place, and TSMC wouldn't have been able to overtake them.
635.
by adwn 5y ago
You think the DOS shell is in any way equivalent to a modern Unix-style terminal? Why, because they're both text-based?
636.
by adwn 5y ago
> depending on time period It is evident to any human that the question includes an implied "right now" temporal qualifier. You've just failed the Turing test ;-)
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by adwn 5y ago
> They can just hire anyone off the street. No, they can't, not quickly. First they have to find a large number of new hires (which takes time), then those new hires have to be taught how to use the equipment and do the job in gen
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by adwn 5y ago
> one "organized entity with power" that you're leaving out: private capital in its various forms Private capital is not "one organized entity", especially not in "its various forms".
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by adwn 5y ago
> What unskilled workers need isn't a union, it's some way to make unskilled labor more scarce, e.g. a UBI [...] Here in Germany, unions work as intended. The solution is simple: you can't be fired for participating in a
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by adwn 5y ago
> That just means they're shadowbanned, as I understand it. And for good reason, judging by their other comments.
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by adwn 5y ago
> Assuming the GPL did not exist and the author would have made stuff proprietary, would that be better ? That's a false dichotomy – there are many more open source licenses which wouldn't have led to the problem described in
642.
by adwn 5y ago
I stand corrected, thank you. From a sibling comment, which stated that cordite (a low explosive) was an end product, I wrongly concluded that all end products were low explosives.
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by adwn 5y ago
Minor nitpick: They were used for low explosives (not high ). See [1] for details, or [2] for a video. Surprisingly, high explosives are harder to ignite than low explosives. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosi
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by adwn 5y ago
It seems the author gets a little bit confused by the FMA instructions: > AArch64 nmadd equation is -(A * C) - B [...] Having an add instruction subtract is a curious decision from ARM [...] AArch64's nmsub equation is (A * C) - B,
645.
by adwn 5y ago
That's a bad example: first, it's a question of definition, not of notation. Second, it's defined pretty consistently within physics, and pretty consistently within electrical engineering (none of which is mathematics).
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by adwn 5y ago
> Sure I did, and that is fine when talking about the last fad in web programming. But we don't need such nitpicking for articles on more stable arguments. ... right, that is the reason for putting the year in titles ... Or mayb
647.
by adwn 5y ago
You've been active here for 9 years and haven't noticed yet that posts from previous years get a [year] tag in their title?
648.
by adwn 5y ago
Those CEOs weren't business owners, and especially not SMB owners.
649.
by adwn 5y ago
In the context of Wikipedia articles about the Western US city commonly called "San Francisco", the concept of "mayor" is sufficiently well defined that there is a single answer to it. The concerns voiced here sound a
650.
by adwn 5y ago
How could this be any worse than tracking and updating those shifts of definition across thousands of articles in hundreds of different languages ?
651.
by adwn 5y ago
As a house owner I pay property taxes. Some of that money is spent by the state to maintain the road which connects my garage to the rest of the world. Some of it is spent to finance the school my kids go to. And the school bus. And the roa
652.
by adwn 5y ago
What's your point?
653.
by adwn 5y ago
There are very few states today which don't return something in exchange for taxes, be it infrastructure, welfare, or other governmental services.
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by adwn 5y ago
> If you scale the idea of 'country' down to the size of a tribe, then you can call it taxation, whithout any euphemism. No. "Taxes" in the modern sense implies that the taxees [1] as a group receive something in re
655.
by adwn 5y ago
That works for 3D space. What about n-dimensional vectors?
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by adwn 5y ago
> Two (non-collinear) lines share a plane. The angle on that plane is just the ordinary angle, no matter how many dimensions the two lines are embedded in. Okay, but now you've got a plane in n-dimensional space. How do you define
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by adwn 5y ago
> dot product of two vectors is just cosine of the angle between them, multiplied by their lengths How do you define the "angle" between two n-dimensional vectors? Most likely using the dot-product and the arccos. "cos(a
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by adwn 5y ago
> but is understood to be plain text It's not. Plenty of Unix tools work with binary files. > A "message" tends to have formats associated with it It doesn't. At least, not any more than a "file" tend
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by adwn 5y ago
> while other providers offer comparable service with.. 3 sattelites They really don't. Not in terms of bandwidth, not in terms of latency, and not in terms of maximum number of serviceable customers.
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by adwn 5y ago
Trace amounts of any element, whether in soil, water, or air, are basically useless, because they can't be mined economically. Even rare and valuable elements like platinum are only mined where they've been concentrated by geolo

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