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by avar 5y ago
> If they're not willing to [...] buy enough insurance to > pay out the claims [...] they [...] shouldn't be selling > [these] self-driving cars, period. The problem with this view is that you're as
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by avar 5y ago
I wonder how much of this is part of a genuine attempt to bring a safe product to market, and how much is to pressure the German government (and soon thereafter, the EU) into making this sort of promise mandatory for all car manufacturers,
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by avar 5y ago
Easy: You shouldn't have continued pressing the button with people in danger of getting anywhere near the thing while it's in motion. You became liable as soon as you weren't paying enough a attention that someone could appar
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by avar 5y ago
DB and infra folks are often tasked with shoveling shit uphill, and aren't in total control over how data or schemas get organized.
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by avar 5y ago
I'm finding that pushes do go through eventually, this is probably grossly irresponsible, so I don't recommend its use, but I remembered I had this old alias to "push harder" in my ~/.gitconfig: [alias] th
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by avar 5y ago
Incorporate it in Cuba, Iran or another country subject to US sanctions?
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by avar 5y ago
Ice hockey is mostly a Canadian and northern European sport, the US last became world champions in 1960. Even the Czech republic is ahead of the US in rankings.
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by avar 5y ago
Another way to put it: How many Americans in 2018 were clamoring to spend massive amounts of GDP on reaching parity with countries like Peru, Costa Rica, Austria, France, South Korea and Japan? Those countries have (respectively) around 1-6
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by avar 5y ago
If diet related illnesses were unknown before COVID they'd have had an even more dramatic impact on those numbers. We've not only decided that's an "acceptable steady state", but actively embraced it. > Life expe
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by avar 5y ago
For even sturdier externally mounted ones something like the Makita battery format becoming a standard would be fantastic: https://www.worldofpower.co.uk/blog/makita-one-battery-fits-...
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by avar 5y ago
In a word: hyperbole or adynaton.
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by avar 5y ago
They are soft deadlines, launches are routinely delayed due to unforseen circumstances, such as weather.
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by avar 5y ago
We have that mechanism: carbon sequestration. It's what taxes on gasoline should be directly funding.
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by avar 5y ago
For both close() and fsync() it depends on how they fail. You should generally call them in a loop and retry as long as they're returning an error that's EINTR. I.e. to retry past signal interruptions. This is really more about PO
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by avar 5y ago
A real world example of catching (some, but certainly not all) fflush(), ferror() etc. cases is what "git" does at the end of its execution, the first highlighted line is where it's returning from whatever function implements
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by avar 5y ago
> Russia has military might. Haven't the past weeks revised everyone's opinion on that point? They're having tremendous logistical issues within a relatively short driving distance from their own borders. They've got
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by avar 5y ago
Read up on crypto export controls as they were implemented in the 90s, and still are today for anything that falls under e.g. ITAR. It's not a perfect way to block open source, but in practice it could be done and would mostly "wo
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by avar 5y ago
The chassis seems to be around the right size for a DIY project of combining it with an iMac G4 swivel display [1]. With a modern display it would make for a really nice 3rd party accessory. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by avar 5y ago
Is there a name for or community centered around the practical non-toy use of Lego?
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by avar 5y ago
One reason sanctions against Putin aren't harder than they are, is because those of us in western Europe are still taking the relative luxury of (in my case) typing this comment sitting inside wearing an t-shirt, instead of having to w
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by avar 5y ago
An even better reason is that by having an xmalloc() that exits on failure the compiler's code flow analysis will be improved. That's because it knows it'll be impossible for the return value of that malloc() to be NULL.
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by avar 5y ago
> The game industry does this, which is crap No, it's fantastic. If they did what you think you want you'd get the same games perhaps a year later. So because they're doing it you can get what you'd have gotten anyway
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by avar 5y ago
Jupiter might have other plans once your beach ball gets close enough.
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by avar 5y ago
What does "oldest" OS even mean? I haven't used TSOS/BS2000 but its Wikipedia article suggests that while the OS lineage dates back to 1968 that anyone using it currently is using some currently maintained developed ve
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by avar 5y ago
"it flushes out the people who would have supported Turing's ultimately fatal prosecution [...]" That's possibly the most hyperbolic thing I've ever read on HN (from someone who looks as though t
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by avar 5y ago
It is, but those programs are definitely "broken" if they expect any sort of durability guarantees, which was the problem with the programs that ran into problems with early versions of ext4. I.e. it's fine to open(), write()
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by avar 5y ago
So, the sky is falling for unspecified reasons because booleans in C are types instead of macros. And your proposed solution is to sunset C and move on to Rust or Zig, both of which have primitive boolean types.
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by avar 5y ago
The ext4 "issue" was in userspace. Certain software wasn't calling fsync() and had assumed the data was written anyway, because ext3 was more forgiving. IIRC the "solution" was to give ext4 the ext3 semantics, i.e.
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by avar 5y ago
> People who breastfeed are much more likely to be higher income. The median income of a breastfeeding mother is probably at least 1/10th of US median per capita GDP. E.g. Rwanda has some of the highest breastfeeding rates in the wo
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by avar 5y ago
There's multiple RSS to Email services (and trivial open source software you can use to convert RSS feeds to E-Mails to yourself). Isn't that what you're looking for? Then you can use any non-"basic email client" to

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