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by butlerm 4y ago
A clustered index is certainly not actually the physical order of the data stored on the disk, at best it tends to approximate it by placing data associated with similar keys in similar blocks. You would have to actually physically reorgan
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by butlerm 4y ago
It is not a bad thing as such. The main problem comes when a business is stripped of all its assets and/or weighed down with more debt than it can repay and fails as a consequence, leaving employees out of a job and communities without
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by butlerm 4y ago
Pretty sure that the developers that are left will not be liable for anything unless they are knowingly participating in criminal activity such as criminal negligence that is the direct cause of someone getting seriously injured or killed.
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by butlerm 4y ago
If it were remotely feasible to create a competitive operating system kernel in a memory safe language with a tracing garbage collector, a kernel written in something like Java or C# would have taken over the world by now.
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by butlerm 4y ago
malloc is not a system call, it is a C library function. Modern operating systems clear memory when providing it to a process, but malloc implementations reuse the same memory locations previously used an arbitrary number of times within t
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by butlerm 4y ago
Operating systems with support for memory protection and virtual memory generally don't behave that way for security reasons. Everything that is allocated to a process will be zeroed explicitly or on first reference. There are older o
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by butlerm 4y ago
There is (generally speaking) no prior restraint against publishing classified information in the United States. Snowden is in trouble for disclosing classified information that he didn't have a right to disclose by virtue of his emplo
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by butlerm 4y ago
Anyone dealing with arrays containing a billion elements or more really ought to be using 64 bit arithmetic to avoid problems like this. Certainly better to do this the right way though.
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by butlerm 4y ago
As a minor, his signature on a contract would probably be worthless - or at least beyond the value established by name and reputation.
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by butlerm 4y ago
Wholesale rates are set in a free market for a variety of reasons, but it is true it is ultimately up to governments whether to let residents suffer in the heat or freeze in the dark, either by discouraging new, adequate generation or refus
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by butlerm 4y ago
European conditions aren't normal though - given adequate time new sources will be brought online and a new normal will be established. The prices can't and won't stay as high as they are projected to be under crisis conditio
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by butlerm 4y ago
This is not an emergency program, it is planned for years in advance. If people sign up for demand management programs like this, utilities do not need as much power during peak periods, and that results in the construction of less power g
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by butlerm 4y ago
Every jurisdiction also has some sort of plan to generate or acquire enough electricity so they do not have to engage in rolling blackouts under normal circumstances, and a hot afternoon during the summer certainly counts as normal. If ther
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by butlerm 4y ago
On a prospective basis the alternative to this kind of demand management is to build more natural gas or nuclear power plants or grid scale batteries. There is no requirement to maintain an infrastructure that cannot handle a relatively or
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by butlerm 4y ago
I am afraid you have an unreliable source. The Constitution was ratified by the states, not signed by delegates. At the time of ratification, the average age of the delegates was 42. James Madison, for example, was born in 1751 and was
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by butlerm 4y ago
It certainly implies developers recovering for several days between sprints.
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by butlerm 4y ago
Spraying water on your house usually doesn't accomplish very much unless your house is on fire. But if your house really is on fire, it is likely the only thing that works.
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by butlerm 4y ago
Turkey is a member of a military alliance with the United States and sources parts from other NATO members as well. If they were not a part of NATO, the U.S. would have little or no say about who they sold drones to. I think if you asked
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by butlerm 4y ago
Considering that TikTok is a government controlled corporation (and all businesses in China effectively are) I don't know why anyone should be particularly inclined to trust their representations on this matter if they cannot be indepe
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by butlerm 4y ago
The U.S. can ban Tiktok within its own borders (for whatever reason) without making any attempt to legislate the rules for Tiktok in any other country.
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by butlerm 4y ago
This reminds me of an Amiga utility someone made called 'viacom' that when run would create a nice semi-transparent pattern of static interference all over the screen.
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by butlerm 4y ago
They could have just as easily considered the terrestrial invertebrate in question (the Trinity bristle snail) to be an exception or to fall under "mollusks". The problem is that there are canons of construction by which they coul
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by butlerm 4y ago
Not quite. The problem with the way the law is drafted is that the court could have just as easily (and perhaps more likely) applied the legal rule of construction known as noscitur a sociis (Latin, it is known by its associates) and int
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by butlerm 4y ago
I don't imagine that constitutional amendments are fully implemented with immediate effect in areas that are congenitally hostile to them is why. It is not exactly news that the South did everything they could to resist the Fourteenth
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by butlerm 4y ago
There is nothing civil about civil asset forfeiture. It is straight up robbery, about the most uncivil government action you can imagine short of rounding suspects up and shooting them.
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by butlerm 4y ago
A civil war was fought and lost by a side who pretty much treated the principles of the Declaration of Independence like dirt for decades. So count the aftermath of the Civil War as the Second Founding, the amendments made that fulfilled t
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by butlerm 4y ago
When the police do anything it is ultimately an exercise of raw force. They come, evict you, and change the locks. The only question is do they have legal justification for their actions that will stand up in court? Warrants, judicial sanc
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by butlerm 4y ago
The original was contradictory, it was the result of a political compromise. The current version is not - not legally anyway. Three new amendments to the constitution made the earlier contradictions about slavery a dead letter of no legal
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by butlerm 4y ago
The normal way engineering is done is to create a safety margin so that the probability of a serious problem under normal operation is vanishingly small. Airliners do not fall out of the sky on a regular basis in the United States for that
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by butlerm 4y ago
Almost no one has a job taking care of a pet server. They would be bored to tears when any decent sysadmin can take care of dozens to hundreds.

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