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by armitron 5y ago
It's banned in every European country I've been. In the US, it's in pretty much every popular toothpaste one can find including all the big brands.
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by armitron 5y ago
You realize most of what you perceive regarding Ukraine is manufactured psyops? Zelensky is a construct, propped up by far more powerful interests in the shadows, one of which is the oligarch Kolomoisky. All it takes is digging for 20 minut
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by armitron 5y ago
Normally, I'd find your comment amusing, but I know there are policy folks out there with decision-making power that are pushing similar utterly idiotic narratives. That's very scary.
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by armitron 5y ago
In realpolitik terms, nuclear war is the most likely outcome of any further escalation w/ NATO including the US / West refusing to lose face / back off. It's just that most folks do not think in such terms and are crafti
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by armitron 5y ago
Yeah let's further escalate because "you believe" it won't spark a war with Russia. I've read a wide range of opinions in the last few days, with almost all belonging to the trash. What has become more than apparent
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by armitron 5y ago
This looks absolutely terrible and I would never accept it in any code review.
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by armitron 5y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/22/swedens-brut... "The chances of men between the ages 15 and 29 in Sweden getting shot were ten times higher than their counterparts in Germany, a
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by armitron 5y ago
Education, language, skills are all attributes of "cultural compatibility".
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by armitron 5y ago
Look at what happened to Sweden. Gangs, bombings, no-go areas, zero integration, all in the span of a few years. Look at what's happening in France. In fact, if you look anywhere where large migrations of non-culturally compatible popu
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by armitron 5y ago
To me this is a near-certain failure in waiting, and here's why: + Limited information, bad comparisons (that "simulated" text rendering image is atrocious, where are the actual pulled from device and pulled from the OS image
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by armitron 5y ago
It’s not at all competitive with Linux performance-wise and also lacks observability (eBPF). These are strong reasons to pass.
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by armitron 6y ago
I remember Thomas Ptacek (tptacek) being particularly vocal and unjustifiably venomous towards Assange. One could say he went out of his way (on HN and social media) to broadcast his egregious views on the matter. Has he apologised? This is
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by armitron 6y ago
The vast majority of data shared over bittorrent is not executable. So your scenario becomes an issue if you're downloading executable data that you deem :trusted: without any additional verification besides the hash itself. If that&#x
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by armitron 6y ago
Collisions in the context of bittorrent are not a big deal. We could (and will, there are millions of torrents around that will never be updated) keep using SHA1 and the world is not going to end.
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by armitron 6y ago
A v2-aware client that also supported v1 and hybrid torrents would tick all boxes and be able to participate in multiple swarms (for the same torrent). The main issue that I see is the existence of millions of torrents in private trackers t
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by armitron 6y ago
There are vast data archives exposed through private trackers that work on top of bittorrent. This isn't widely known due to their private, invite-only (and in some cases, entirely closed) nature but the fact remains that these exist a
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by armitron 6y ago
Nothing stops you from downloading pieces in a specific order that allows for streaming. It's the client that determines order, not the bittorrent protocol.
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by armitron 6y ago
I didn't find a single thing that I liked here. Rather, I thought these syntactic layers made things worse rather than better, in terms of clarity, understandability and ease of writing simple, straightforward code.
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by armitron 6y ago
Strict aliasing violations happen when values are accessed, not during casting. You need to have a model of how the compiler/optimizer works. In your example, it's important to know what objects you're working with and what t
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by armitron 6y ago
Casting void* to uint64_t* is definitely NOT UB, as I said this would break: uint64_t *a = malloc(8); What you're running into in the context of your example, is breaking strict aliasing. You're starting with uint32_t po
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by armitron 6y ago
Well, it's not the act of casting/dereferencing void* that's UB (otherwise malloc would trigger UB) but the potential for violating alignment requirements. If you're certain there is no violation (such as with malloc), t
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by armitron 6y ago
It's actually a big problem and anything but common sense. Do all C programmers know what strict aliasing means? How about pointer provenance? Have they memorized integer promotion rules? These are all potential sources of undefined be
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by armitron 6y ago
You can use memcpy or unions. No C programmer that knows the language should be casting and dereferencing void* to anything other than char* for portable code.
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by armitron 6y ago
There is no undefined behavior in your example period. The fread implementation sees dest as a void pointer and will access it going through char*, which is explicitly allowed.
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by armitron 6y ago
They're not the same thing which is why they're not as useful. Magnet links apply to an entire collection of files, as snapshotted by the creator. There is no way to pick a single file and refer to it, immutably. It's all or
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by armitron 6y ago
Your argument collapses if one notices that Google Search used to be a lot more accurate in the first 10-15 years of its operation. One could say they were actually trying to organize information back then. The damage that has been done in
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by armitron 6y ago
There have been plenty of credible scientists rising alarms over the years, none more tragic and important than James McDonald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._McDonald
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by armitron 6y ago
You're presenting this as if investors have no choice in the matter. As far as I know, there is 401k transparency meaning that investors know what their money is invested in. On top of that, all companies I've worked for in the US
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by armitron 6y ago
No, this is perverse in the worst way possible. It's incompatible with modern debuggers. It's incompatible with shared libraries. It's limited to a feature-poor "unified" API (that might as well be seen as a cripple
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by armitron 6y ago
Newton was first and foremost, an alchemist. His mathematical pursuits were an afterthought, certainly not what took up the vast majority of his time which was alchemy. There is a lot we still don't know and the tendency to condense an

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