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by brenns10 3y ago
I work in Linux kernel related stuff, and from a brief inspection it doesn't seem like the items are terribly inaccurate, but they're not perfect. For example, kmem_cache_alloc() is listed under memory mapping, but it has nothing
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by brenns10 3y ago
That's such a cool thing the way you describe it. I honestly wish I was that way. But for me, my most direct connection to expressing thought is a keyboard connected to a capable text editor. I remember trying to take notes by hand in
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by brenns10 3y ago
The issue with your argument is that transaction fees are pretty much the most obvious example of market forces at work. If it were unsustainable for Visa to operate with its low transaction fees, then it wouldn't be in business. If it
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by brenns10 3y ago
If anything, that statistic (roughly one per person) doesn't inspire confidence. The correct takeaway isn't "wow, so few of the guns in America are used to kill people." It's "wow, there are so many guns that a
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by brenns10 3y ago
TPMs typically won't give out a secret unless all of the software which has been loaded and executed was "measured" and found to be unmodified from when the secret was stored. So you couldn't simply stick your own hard d
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by brenns10 3y ago
People have been let off for crimes they obviously committed because the rock-solid evidence against them was illegally gathered or handled. I assume that's the sort of argument that should be leveled here: your evidence is illegal, yo
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by brenns10 3y ago
GPL breakers wouldn't be breaking GPL if they kept their own work. They break it when they distribute a compiled work that's only partly theirs, and mainly somebody else's, without sharing the source code for it. You're
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by brenns10 3y ago
> Maybe I'm in the minority, but I never really understood the appeal. I think one of the theses of the article is that a lot of its success derives from the nostalgia it earned getting associated with "special occasions"
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by brenns10 3y ago
> That's just not true, and I'm a bit tired of the tendency online to blame "big bad boogeyman conspiracy" whenever it's convenient. > Yes, the auto and related industries have had huge impact on the design of
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by brenns10 3y ago
Children don't have the luxury of choosing their parents. Having guardrails to increase the odds of success for a child with imperfect parents? I'd say that's a good idea.
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by brenns10 3y ago
$100 / year. Since the idea is that you need to host as many times as you camp, that means that you'd be limited to camping only half the year: gotta stay home to host for the other half. So you could only hope to use 180 days, so
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by brenns10 3y ago
Yes exactly. I definitely sympathize with the other complaints: the newer Word UI is pretty garbage (I truly do hate the ribbon bar). There is a bit extra padding in the newer UI. But really, it all comes down to the PPI which seems obvious
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by brenns10 3y ago
To be fair, I think a big part of anyone's experience living two blocks away from Moscone is... two blocks in which direction :P We may be four blocks apart which colors our respective experiences quite differently.
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by brenns10 3y ago
> Okay, and? My primary reason for commenting was simply to add my anecdote. People tend to overvalue anecdotes, and I thought it unfair that my experience was not represented in the anecdotes already in the thread. So I added it. There
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by brenns10 3y ago
I live near Moscone and walk around there during conference season, never had an issue for several years now.
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by brenns10 3y ago
Consistency? I don't quite understand. Automobiles have benefitted from the largest public subsidies in history, starting from the interstate highway system, to oil industry subsidies, all the way to the current subsidies for EV purcha
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by brenns10 3y ago
I think especially in cities, people don't like the idea of replacing one problem with another. Sure, ICE cars cause more air pollution than EVs. But things like public transit tend to create even less, since there's not a need to
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by brenns10 3y ago
Just like the automobile :)
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by brenns10 3y ago
Java added lambdas in version 8, around 2013, after this was written. They probably omitted the lack of lambdas for the joke regarding C#, since it had lambdas since around 2007.
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by brenns10 3y ago
I feel like the term "discoverers" discounts the existing human residents of the Americas who also had written histories: e.g. the Mayans, whose written histories were largely destroyed by Europeans. I get what you mean though: ho
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by brenns10 3y ago
Maybe you don't know who's using it because you uninstalled it? Obviously anecdotal, but almost all my friends and family are still using it, and usage has increased compared to SMS or other options.
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by brenns10 3y ago
They said login attempt, not successful login. So no.
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by brenns10 3y ago
I don't know if you meant it this way but you sound so classist with this garbage. Afraid of the non-techies coming in and being 'vile' and trashing things? You only want to share space with wealthy, upper class people, as if
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by brenns10 3y ago
> Swapping print() and len() to use in the same program? That would trip any human up, it's tailor-made to be difficult for us to process. And, as it again turns out, so it is for LLMs, because they really seem to process associatio
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by brenns10 3y ago
I think the issue is just that, however silly or pointless the puzzle is, it's clearly understandable by any human who knows Python. You just use "len" any time you mean "print", and "print" any time you m
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by brenns10 3y ago
But that doesn't fix it? Sure, no more infinite recursion, but now print() calls len() which calls __builtins__.print(). So it's not doing the expected swapped behavior. len() is swapped, but not print(). It seems obvious that the
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by brenns10 3y ago
Isn't the reason that the industry person is "right" about regulation being necessary usually... because the tide of public opinion is turning towards regulation, so they are getting ahead as my strategy above described? It&#
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by brenns10 3y ago
This site has whole sections on "things that don't work" and "things that work, but not that well" based on experiments. Here's boiling water first: https://www.alcademics.com/2017/10/
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by brenns10 3y ago
Tested on this very website! https://www.alcademics.com/2017/10/boiled-versus-rested-wate... Conclusion they came to (your opinion may vary) is that it's not worth the time and energy to get e.g. 1/2&quo
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by brenns10 3y ago
Reminds me of SBF calling for crypto regulations while running FTX. Being seen as friendly to regulations is great for optics compared to being belligerently anti-regulation. You can appear responsible and benevolent, and get more opportuni

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