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by buckminster 6y ago
Sorry, you're right. fsync will report failure nowadays so you're not getting silent corruption. A different failure mode: the drive reorders writes and doesn't respect flush commands. Edit: of course, you can't avoid t
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by buckminster 6y ago
It "works" in the sense that if nothing goes wrong you get the expected result. But you can omit the fsyncs and it still "works" to this standard. The article gives a concrete example of a failure mode: fsync can silent
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by buckminster 6y ago
It shouldn't matter. But the system was designed to track trajectories of recognised objects. So every time it changed its mind about what it was looking at it started recalculating the trajectory. By the time it settled down it was
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by buckminster 6y ago
Uber's system famously couldn't decide if someone pushing a bicycle was a pedestrian or a cyclist. It flip-flopped for a while before resolving the dichotomy by running her over.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Thank you.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Thank you! I tried that one a few days ago but it hadn't been updated since the github takedown so I incorrectly assumed development was happening elsewhere.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Thank you, but I wasn't very clear. What I'd like is a download including the .git directory, not just a snapshot of the latest code.
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by buckminster 6y ago
It would be super nice if they published a copy of their latest git repository. It doesn't need to be anything fancy. Just a .gz file pushed to the website once a day (or week even) would be great.
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by buckminster 6y ago
No. Just as Amazon and eBay maintain that your transaction is with the third-party seller, not them, Grubhub claim that your transaction is with the restaurant, and the restaurant is responsible for problems. Except when the restaurant di
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by buckminster 6y ago
A middle man is responsible to the consumer. A subcontractor is not. Grubhub does not tell the consumer whether they are acting as a subcontractor or middle man for a particular restaurant. This is deceptive and harms the restaurants who
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by buckminster 6y ago
There seems to be a new version coming out in the next couple of months (ISBN 9780136657125) but I can't tell if it's a new edition or just a redesign.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Yes, but the transcriptions are not published. You have no right to see them. There is no objective public record of English trials.
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by buckminster 6y ago
The toxicity lies in the effect it has on the employee. The employee does not know what is going on in the manager's head. That's the point. The manager may be looking to find fault or may have an open mind, but the employee is
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by buckminster 6y ago
This. The sums of money at stake in soccer are far greater, the rules are much clearer and the participants routinely cheat yet no-one is ever prosecuted. Even the suggestion they ought to be seems risible. I never understood the point of
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by buckminster 6y ago
<pedantry> It wasn't a pedantry tag. And yours is differently misspelled! </pedantry>
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by buckminster 6y ago
This is one of those "hidden in CSS" sites so disabling JS doesn't help. Anyway, the squiggle is a disappointment. Closing the tab is the best option.
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by buckminster 6y ago
In the UK the electoral register can be purchased by advertisers, etc. You can opt out of this. The electoral register is also given to the big credit reference agencies. This is obligatory. If you want a vote then Experian (and the rest) g
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by buckminster 6y ago
Being pedantic, those box drawing characters are neither ASCII nor ANSI. They are part of the original IBM PC character sets. Windows refers to them as the OEM character sets.
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by buckminster 6y ago
> How are you going to convince others that they should pass on those too based on your particular ethical code? Every recruitment process I've ever been involved in required unanimity for a hire. I don't need to explain my b
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by buckminster 6y ago
You don't need an HR department to create a training plan, and you don't need a training department to deliver it. There are lots of businesses providing training courses.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Sure you don't have cyberwarfare, but you do have old-fashioned vote selling and coercion. Postal voting denies many women a free vote.
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by buckminster 6y ago
I had the same behaviour from Android Firefox, so I disabled Javascript and now Twitter gives me the old (i.e. fast) site.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Command lines! That's some fancy UI. For utilities I won't use very often I just hard code the parameters. If I want different parameters I edit the code.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Yes
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by buckminster 6y ago
I stopped using shampoo just over a year ago and even though I've known many people say shampooing is pointless I was still amazed at how little effect the change had on my hair. The current lockdown is an ideal time to try it. In the
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by buckminster 6y ago
I think you mishurd.
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by buckminster 6y ago
I don't know about medical-grade but it's usually illegal for a brewery to produce alcohol strong enough to be useful as a sanitizer.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Maybe Canada is an exception, but in most places the chlorine is left in the water because the distribution network isn't entirely sterile.
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by buckminster 6y ago
But what's his conspiracy? If he's saying that 5G is giving us covid then he's an idiot. If he's saying that 5G is intended to provide better connectivity for smart appliances to report our activity to advertisers then h
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by buckminster 6y ago
Might-have-beens have no relevance to the ethics of the choices we make now. We are in the middle of a vast medico-economic experiment. It is bizarre to consider the ethics of only the medical side of the experiment, not the experiment as

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