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by armitron 2y ago
The only explanation is that the "report" is obviously detached from reality and using massaged metrics to make political points. The NHS is as bad as it gets. "More than 120,000 people in England died last year while on the
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by armitron 2y ago
> I disagree with Hofstadter that consciousness and free will are illusions. But I wholeheartedly agree with his most original, profound claim: at the bottom of everything, something is doing something to itself. This is a ridiculous cla
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by armitron 2y ago
The web is full of independent observations of that exact fact, here's one that even comes with photos [1] but don't let me shatter your illusion. Feel free to keep giving them your money and supporting the enshittification. &quot
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by armitron 2y ago
A moleskine is an overpriced crap notebook at this point. Paper quality has drastically diminished from what it used to be, to the point where one can't use fountain or gel pens without bleed through. Another example of enshittificatio
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by armitron 2y ago
Never tried it or even seen it in supermarkets in Texas. I will if I get the chance.
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by armitron 2y ago
Only "deli" meats I will eat are PDO Prosciutto di Parma imported from Italy and less frequently PDO acorn-fed Jamón ibérico imported from Spain. Pretty much everything else sold at US supermarkets is filled with nitrites, even wh
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by armitron 2y ago
Mark Dowd's 2023 presentation "Inside The Zero Day Market" [0] is extremely informative and a must read for everyone interested in a low-level exploitation career. [0] https://github.com/mdowd79/presentat
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by armitron 2y ago
Having lived in a number of European countries with single payer systems some of which are in a state of collapse, that's not even remotely true. I would characterize the level of care I receive in the US (fully paid by my employer) as
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by armitron 2y ago
For someone who's been writing "C for 20+ years" according to your other post, you come across as extremely ignorant of how modern optimizing C compilers work. I suggest you thoroughly read and understand Russ Cox's simp
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by armitron 2y ago
I'm afraid it's not simply a matter of wasted money but one of profound institutional rot that drives away large numbers of the best and brightest. The article outlines this by focusing on the proto-scientist archetype and the spi
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by armitron 2y ago
I found so many mistakes, badly understood concepts and entirely wrong explanations just reading for 5 minutes, that I can't possibly recommend this. It's obviously written by amateurs / people with minimal experience of the
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by armitron 2y ago
It's absurd to believe that consciousness is in any way responsible for decision making. There's no plausible scientific model that would allow for that to take place without breaking causality. Instead, we have strong evidence th
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by armitron 2y ago
The "GPT-4 Can't Reason" paper [1] [2] is excellent and proves without a shadow of a doubt that there is no reasoning taking place. It also raises strong doubts about the efficacy and reliability of multi-agent approaches tha
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by armitron 2y ago
It's Kouros with no aldehydes, less sage, no coriander/cinammon/leather, retaining the civet but a bit different: the pissy notes are now even sharper but the "fecal" notes are gone, more citrus/fruit (some say
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by armitron 2y ago
It's not ambergris that gives Kouros its characteristic pissy notes, but civet (also real oakmoss and strong aldehydes) ingredients all of which they toned down in the early 2000s and then completely removed in 2008 (Loreal era). The K
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by armitron 2y ago
> Margaret Hamilton worked out how to write bug-free software during the Apollo 11 project. The IT industry collectively went, "meh." That's an often repeated myth but it collapses the moment one digs a bit further (rather
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by armitron 2y ago
That's not accurate. They retired SICP and added a new introductory course [1] based on Python to placate the suits. Neither Sussman nor any of the other SICP folk is involved with that. Sussman created a follow-up course to SICP [2] w
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by armitron 2y ago
Idiosyncratic with a genius-level 155 IQ (which is something that the prevailing cultural zeitgeist does its best to bulldoze)
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by armitron 2y ago
Lisp is not for everyone and based on what you wrote, it seems to me that it's clearly not for you. So I would suggest you stop wasting your time with a language that's obviously not a good fit.
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by armitron 2y ago
> You can't allow an adversary to take what they want and win every battle "because they have nuclear weapons" without capitulating world domination to that adversary. Strawman. Ukraine is not in NATO and is thus forced to
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by armitron 2y ago
They are already winning (how can anyone today look at the situation objectively and come to a different conclusion?) . Not only that, but they retain escalation dominance. If it comes down to a few tactical nuclear weapons, it is highly un
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by armitron 2y ago
Ukraine has permanently lost huge chunks of its territory. On top of that, the entire country is being structurally wrecked and it will take decades to climb out of the bottomless pit. It's mind boggling that one would not see this as
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by armitron 2y ago
I don't see any merit in this line of thinking as it lacks strategic depth and comes across as wishful thinking. Ukraine is not in NATO which means that the Russians have and will maintain escalation dominance. They can detonate nuclea
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by armitron 2y ago
Delayed ACKs are not the "real problem". For the last 10 years I haven't encountered a single environment where Nagle's algorithm would be a net win. No heuristics, no fancy auto-sensing. It should be off by default. If
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by armitron 2y ago
When I was there (admittedly, years ago) one could have fired at least 50% of the managers PLUS engineers, and Google would have been much better off. Based on what colleagues who are still there tell me, the situation has drastically deter
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by armitron 2y ago
I predict Wayland will be dead long before we stop using X.
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by armitron 3y ago
> Bypassing ssh auth means getting a root shell Only if you're allowed to login as root, which is definitely not the case everywhere.
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by armitron 3y ago
I wrote 'was possible' and 'enabled', not 'created'. By paying more attention to what others write you'll avoid superficial dismissals that prevent you from improving your understanding of complex issues.
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by armitron 3y ago
The backdoor was possible because Debian introduced a dependency into sshd, libsystemd, which in turn linked to liblzma. Official sshd does not have a systemd dependency in the same way that official sshd back in 2008 did not suffer from a
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by armitron 3y ago
It's not constant, most C projects don't have anywhere near the number of library dependencies seen in your typical cargo project. From a supply chain attack perspective, Rust and Node promote ecosystems that are total disasters.

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