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by braiamp 2y ago
And yet, the powers that be, understand that, and have reasoned that the upside of preventing new code with bugs into the kernel is way too attractive to ignore.
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> allegedly because Linus has NAKed patchsets that didn't have fixes for Rust being broken in them He NAKed one patch. One single patch. And the reasoning for that patch was that everyone was in the holidays. Otherwise he was willin
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by braiamp 2y ago
> The problem is that Rust developers aren't magical genies who you can summon to fix Rust code Linus will release a broken Rust kernel. Literally that has happened before in an indirect way because it was the holidays and a patch w
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> Seriously though they have a lot of stock in their warehouse Companies do not price things as they are now, or how much it cost in the inventory, but about how much they must charge to keep the business afloat. That means that prices w
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by braiamp 2y ago
> I understand this can help some US company to sell more products in their country If they are even able to satisfy the needs of the customer, either in quality, price or supply.
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by braiamp 2y ago
No, Linus is saying that to have a say, you have to stake something. You can't veto something and at the same time not engaging with it in any other constructive way. You either ignore it totally, or you don't and become part of t
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by braiamp 2y ago
> Meta responded to this complaint with a motion to dismiss. In a supporting reply filed on Tuesday, the company notes that the ‘torrenting’ allegations, relating to the removal of copyright information and the CDAFA violations, don’t ho
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by braiamp 2y ago
I do not envy Linus position, but he had too much trust on others to see things in a constructive way. The tenet of his argument is that you can't at the same time say that you do not care about something, and then turn around and dict
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And sadly, those are going to die out eventually, so the faster we get there, the less potentials for something breaking in a way that nobody would be able to figure it out.
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> So nothing needs to be "used" to disregard the judiciary's interpretation of laws - it simply doesn't matter what the executive's interpretation of a law - that's the role of the judiciary. Which is import
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The stability here comes from not having to wonder what the next guy is going to do wrt taxes, etc. because those need to pass a process that would be public in congress. Stability doesn't mean staleness. It means that things don'
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by braiamp 2y ago
Those agencies were created by law and given a command by law to fulfill a role in the executive branch. The executive branch doesn't get to decide how to organize itself since that would make a mess when the next guy comes up, so laws
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> I won't be delving into hour-long searches through the mailing lists to support a casual comment Don't worry fam, I got you. https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/03fbbb9a-7e74-fc49-c663-3272... Source vi
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> If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense I've found the same problem with humans too, so it's not like an improvement over
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> dissatisfied customers will be able to hone in on exactly where the problem is This sounds like a truism, when it isn't. The client may know something is wrong, but good luck at them identifying it. Some times, the client will con
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by braiamp 2y ago
And they blew up a rocket with people in it [1] in the process, which made everyone there rethink the whole thing from a project planning and design perspective, that it became a blueprint[2] of how to do a successful project [1]: https:&#
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by braiamp 2y ago
The reason for that is like you expect, someone abused that, and we do not have nice things anymore. That's the same reason why apt-get doesn't allow you to remove essential packages on Debian, without modifying a configuration fi
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by braiamp 2y ago
Dude, lets be real here: most people would say the economy is shit, while still being comfortable with their lives. Anyone's general assessment of the economy based on gut, is meaningless. Unless you were on food banks/stamps, you
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by braiamp 2y ago
The browser or the host system usually informs you about the language. Apple and Google solved the rest by using geofence data. If you have a menu/screen to select the language, you can write as much as you want and have overflow for t
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by braiamp 2y ago
Both are kinda have the same result, do they not?
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by braiamp 2y ago
And yet, X is as flawed as it can be. There's a problem with global shortcuts, that Xorg only fires an event on keyup/key release, rather than on first match on keypress. That is a protocol limitation, and fixing it means breaking
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> Reanalysis of the H1N1 sequences excluding isolates with unrealistic sampling dates indicates that the 1977 re-emergent lineage was circulating for approximately one year before detection, making it difficult to determine the geographi
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by braiamp 2y ago
Yeah, it was more like a joke of the team, rather than something serious with wide implications.
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by braiamp 2y ago
But you don't know that. Nor I would expect most people to know the internal structure of Google.
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by braiamp 2y ago
A privacy law, for starters.
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by braiamp 2y ago
The average consumer doesn't understand nor care to understand about the implications of what they are agreeing. That's why consumer protection laws exists. Because, humans are, by a large, very stupid about most things.
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by braiamp 2y ago
The way that it is distributed is centralized and controlled by a single party. You can generate content all day, but unless the algorithm pick you up and make you popular, your content may as well not exists.
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by braiamp 2y ago
Pss, dude, nobody is small government anything. They are just want the regulation to apply in a manner that they are content with.
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by braiamp 2y ago
No, I will shower you with good old capitalist critiques. The market is not all powerful. Market failures exists because not every market is capable of self-regulation. Some market players can and do abuse their market power. State interven
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by braiamp 2y ago
There's a better way: privacy laws. The US government decided not to use it.

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