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by avar 4y ago
Iceland's combined first- and second generation immigration is around 18% of the total population[1], [2] seems to suggest it's around 25% for the US. The country has also signed up to accept practically unlimited immigration. It&
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by avar 4y ago
We know what it's like in software because we have e.g. the example of how the Space Shuttle's flight control software was developed and audited. It's weeks of meetings, tests and change processes etc. obsessing over changing
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by avar 4y ago
The limitation isn't the RTG or solar, it's that a rover moving at that speed would likely get itself stuck in the sand within a day. It happened to Spirit, and it was moving at a glacial pace, with a team of people carefully revi
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by avar 4y ago
> Idling combustion vehicles is bad. Not really, you're spending a fraction of the fuel you'd use per minute if you were driving. So, in terms of pollution it's no worse than taking a short detour to wherever you were goin
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by avar 4y ago
It's because in addition to fuel being cheaper in the US, many EU countries tax you on engine displacement, CO2 emissions, fuel economy etc.
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by avar 4y ago
Yes, you're right. It's been a while, I didn't think of that edge case. For the purposes of that code it's still OK. It would read a kernel thread's file, fail to find the ending ")", and stop looking. It&
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by avar 4y ago
Interesting. That code will only need to the "stat" files of processes in userspace, so it's correct for its use-case. But you're right that a more general parser would need to ignore what proc(5) has to say about the li
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by avar 4y ago
I noticed this around a year ago when writing a /proc/paid/stat parser for git (for logging the chain of parent processes). Here's that commit, it has a comment with an overview of the kernel limits and caveats involved:
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by avar 4y ago
Aren't you quoting numbers on grid electricity production? In Europe many household solar installations are connected to batteries, and don't feed directly into the grid. You won't see such use in production statistics, only
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by avar 4y ago
Their plans include minimizing the sonic boom, and to convince the FAA to lift that restriction.
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by avar 4y ago
It's unclear exactly what you mean by the upthread comment, i.e. how "using a lot of memory" maps to e.g. Linux smaps statistics. But you do mention e.g. gnome-shell taking ~2GB. My own gnome-shell has e.g. a 100MB allocation
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by avar 4y ago
> If a desktop environment is using a lot > of memory, this means the same memory is > not available to my other apps. No, it doesn't mean that. Your mental model of a how an OS allocates and manages memory i
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by avar 4y ago
I ride a bike daily in Amsterdam, and almost everyone on an E-Bike is cruising at 20-25 km/h. It's common to see people up that to 32 km/h (20 mph), which you can do by setting the limits to US ones instead of EU ones, and tr
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by avar 4y ago
> Why couldn't we find a few kg for NASA missions? It's not a technical problem, but a bureaucratic dispute. NASA has been getting the Pu essentially for free, but the DoD/AEC made it as a byproduct. Now they don't an
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by avar 4y ago
Which parts? Maybe they do mention it along with other flags in examples, as far as I know any actual official specifications are intentionally coy on the matter. I.e. the Unicode consortium explicitly didn't want to get into the mess
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by avar 4y ago
Unicode doesn't have the flag of Taiwan, it has a way of encoding "tw" in the context of an ISO county code.
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by avar 4y ago
It wasn't uncommon, most websites made by these popular GUI tools retrained these banners, You're using some narrow definition of "advertising" that doesn't match common use. You don't need to be paid to be a w
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by avar 4y ago
Some of them were advertisements as we know them now. In particular website authoring tools would add these unprompted as self-advertisement. That was part of the joke of "made with GNU emacs" or whatever, that you were manually a
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by avar 4y ago
This is probably borderline flamebait, but my impression as an outsider looking in is that Richard Stallman not being as involved as he once was in setting policy for FSF projects held it back quite a bit. Most notably, he had a long-time p
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by avar 4y ago
It's interesting that searching for "xemacs" doesn't suggest "emacs", which wouldn't be cute, but actually useful. XEmacs has long been obsolete, so anyone finding old references to it & searching it o
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by avar 4y ago
The author isn't dismissing your existence as a non-westerner. They're describing how a foreign culture looks to someone who's a westerner.
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by avar 4y ago
The Netherlands has essentially the same system. It's not broken, it's by design. The system is meant to benefit long-term residents at the cost of everyone else. It's not there to provide a general housing subsidy.
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by avar 4y ago
Typically, but it's also watered down to the point of being synonymous with "icky" in some contexts. E.g. you'll see posts of the inside of wasp nests and the like being marked NSFL on Reddit. NSFW has also evolved to me
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by avar 4y ago
It asked my for the permission earlier. I thought I'd granted it already and I didn't notice the sneaky domain switch, I've now revoked it. I wish browsers had a more granular way to grant this and other permissions. E.g. Fir
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by avar 4y ago
I'm saying that if you wrote conforming C99 code that made the assumptions C99 guaranteed your code will be subtly broken by C23. Whether that was a worthwhile trade-off is another matter.
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by avar 4y ago
Yes, there's also a collision check, but it's not truncating to 7 characters and adding as needed to get past collisions. Rather it's truncating to N and then adding as needed. N=7 for a new repository, but it'll relat
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by avar 4y ago
Git hasn't used "seven-character prefixes when there are no collisions" in a long time. It's a combination of the "repo size" (as in, estimated number of objects) and a hard floor of seven characters. You can
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by avar 4y ago
Exactly, and the way "intmax_t" was previously defined in C99 implied that you needed to break that ABI compatibility if you introduced larger integer types.
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by avar 4y ago
So, a "what your mother didn't tell you about C standardization!". I.e. that some popular compilers flaunted the standard, as wider and supported integers should surely have been "[u]intmax_t". And now code written
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by avar 4y ago
Sorry, you're completely right. I had digraphs confused with character-constant escape sequences (as defined in "6.4.4.4" in C99). I.e. that the trigraphs need to be parsed like that both because they're replacements for

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