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811.
by anamax 5y ago
Section 230 provides immunity for "interactive computer services" (such as Facebook) wrt content from other providers and wrt restricting access to content from other providers. However, there's nothing in Section 230 that pr
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by anamax 5y ago
I neglected to mention that duplexes don't have the mechanisms associated with single-family or apartments for dealing with the problems that they share with both. I also should not have said that they're never the right choice.
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by anamax 5y ago
The problems are that duplex/triplex/quadplex are all compromises. They don't have any of the strengths of either apartments or single-family. At the same time, they have all the weaknesses of both. The result is that they&
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by anamax 5y ago
There was at least one IBM machine that had a similar "feature". It could run in slow-mode or fast-mode. Always-on fast-mode cost more per month than slow-mode. (Yes, these machines were leased, not sold.) However, you could ge
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by anamax 5y ago
[1] What's their plan for moving data from the old CMS (which will be unavailable) to the replacement CMS? If they're not moving data, then throw out the zip file and put up a "we don't have any content" page (becau
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by anamax 5y ago
We're not going to see eye-to-eye because you think that other folks should work for free to make Microsoft products more secure. I think that when security problems in Microsoft products are Microsoft's responsibility and no one
817.
by anamax 5y ago
Oh goody, you want to argue that other people want the wrong things because their preferences conflict with a mechanism that you want to use for your social goals. There are costs and benefits to every kind of living arrangement. Most peopl
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by anamax 5y ago
Pretty much everyone in a duplex would rather live in single-family. Pretty much everyone who has lived next to a duplex would rather live next to single-family. (I'm not saying that every instance of living next to single-family goes
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by anamax 5y ago
> There is so much evidence all around us that statically type-checked, compiled languages produce better, more performant code, and allow for application stability and longevity much more easily. Does any of this evidence address how th
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by anamax 5y ago
The motivational effect is independent of their intent. Unless you work for free, you don't get to criticize others for getting paid for their work.
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by anamax 5y ago
The security of Microsoft products is Microsoft's responsibility. Microsoft seems uninterested in fulfilling that responsibility, therefore the responsible thing to do is to "motivate" Microsoft.
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by anamax 5y ago
If Microsoft doesn't care, why should he?
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by anamax 5y ago
Is the fee going away or just being hidden, aka bundled into other things?
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by anamax 5y ago
I didn't claim that there was support for specific special cases. I also didn't say that the general case supporters had gotten their way. That said, if the general case folk get their way, I assume that your special case will be
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by anamax 5y ago
In what universe is "there's significant political support for {X}" contradicted by "{not X} happened" or even "there's significant political support for {not X}"?
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by anamax 5y ago
There is significant political support for effectively open borders, which has the effect of importing unskilled labor without the permit implied by a guest worker program.
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by anamax 5y ago
While almost every process can be improved, you've either made a big mistake or want to make one. If they're suffering the dire consequences that you predict, the mistake that you've made is joining the team. Newcomers can&#
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by anamax 5y ago
That takes me back. I wrote SH-3/4 simulators that were significantly faster than the actual parts. (The cheat was that the simulator ran that fast on an early 200MHz Pentium while the SH-3 was something like 35Mhz.) I also wrote a syn
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by anamax 5y ago
Even in embedded land, there is code that manages IO devices. And, in much/most embedded systems, there is some separation of concerns, if only because such systems do multiple things. Data comes in. Via some combination of device co
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by anamax 5y ago
There's always a bread cartel. In this case, what fool would make bread when they can get $1000 by sitting around and smoking weed?
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by anamax 5y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. https://xkcd.com/303/
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by anamax 5y ago
Courier. Before that, VT52/100.
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by anamax 5y ago
Interrupts vs hardware polling is in the OS. I'm writing about how user code gets "data ready" from the OS, which is independent of how the OS handles hardware.
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by anamax 5y ago
Interrupts vs polling hardware is in the OS. Regardless of how the OS handles IO, user code can either poll the OS or have the OS wakeup a thread when there's a change, such as data for a blocking call.
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by anamax 5y ago
If everyone has $1000 to spend on bread, bread seller can charge $1000 without losing sales.
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by anamax 5y ago
The switch overhead need not be the same. When the OS wakes up a thread and schedules a processor to run it, it has to make sure that said processor has whatever state it needs. If said processor was previously doing something else, the O
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by anamax 5y ago
There's another axis - is the peanut butter and jelly mixed before it's put on the bread?
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by anamax 5y ago
> But, the idea of using them to claim "ownership" of a JPEG or something seems ridiculous to me on its face. IIRC, it's worse than that. You don't "own" a JPEG. A database says that you "own" a
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by anamax 5y ago
Screwed isn't the worst case for salmon. They can get eaten by a bear.
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by anamax 5y ago
It's related to Jevon's "Paradox", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox , which actually isn't a "paradox" at all, but merely an entirely foreseeable consequence of supply&#x2F

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