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by caf 2y ago
It is, at least on Linux for ordinary pipe(2) pipes. I just wrote up a test to be sure: in the process with the read side, set it to non-blocking with fcntl(p, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK) then go to sleep for a long period. Dump a bunch of data i
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by caf 2y ago
Presumably ringbuffer_wait() can also be signalled through making it 'readable' in poll()?
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by caf 2y ago
Making the read side non-blocking doesn't affect the write side, and vice-versa.
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by caf 2y ago
I tend to agree that Who's On First is a exactly the sort comedy that will lose its pithiness in time, moored as it is to the cultural context of baseball and contemporary English wordplay.
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The TikTok Case Will Be Determined by What's Behind the Government's Black Lines(lawfaremedia.org)
58 points by caf 2y ago|124 comments
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by caf 2y ago
This of course makes sense, because Patreon's incentives are the same as Apple's here: they don't want to trick you into paying more for one subscription, because they want you to be confident to subscribe to other creators o
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by caf 2y ago
Blackberries are definitely an invasive species, at least in Australia - you shouldn't eat wild ones because they're commonly sprayed with herbicides to try and control them.
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Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'(colorado.edu)
276 points by caf 2y ago|90 comments
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by caf 2y ago
The classic chroot(2) system call just changes the directory entry that's used for the root in that process. It only affects pathname resolution (including resolution of the pathnames in symbolic links). If an unconstrained uid zero pr
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by caf 2y ago
chroot is a different, older system that pre-dates different mount namespaces.
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by caf 2y ago
Not gonna be awesome for an org that has 20,000 laptops out there at home with users who don't have admin...
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by caf 2y ago
Yeah, it's far from just airlines affected. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crow...
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by caf 2y ago
When I was very young, my parents had a game called 'wacky races' that was based on a multi-groove vinyl. It was a horse-racing game - I can't recall exactly how the gameplay worked, but the vinyl contained racing calls where
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by caf 2y ago
Billy Eilish's latest is intended to be listened as a complete album (but of course the fact that this is known as an exception proves the general rule...)
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by caf 2y ago
In some places, you've shown the same part of the circuit both with and without the metal layers. How did you find the same location on the die after taking the die out of the microscope, removing the additional layers and putting it b
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by caf 2y ago
As the article mentions, producing an optimal layout is an optimisation problem where the related decision problem is NP-complete. Even laying out standard cells has to be done using heuristic solutions - blowing up the size of the problem
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by caf 2y ago
A lot of smart meters also have a simple LED pulse output, that you can read with a light sensor.
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by caf 2y ago
Eating dinner no, but if your washing machine and dishwasher have an internal timer function (most relatively recent models of both appear to), it's pretty easy to load the appliance and tell it to turn on later that night.
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by caf 2y ago
This is definitely the case - if you have a time-of-use tariff and an EV you charge at home, there's a strong incentive to schedule your charging to the cheapest time of day.
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by caf 2y ago
The Australian Ambassador to the United Kingdom is apparently flying with him today, so that should give some indication. (It is probable that if those politicians had been particularly in touch with the views of Australians, they wouldn&#x
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by caf 2y ago
I'm curious about how the unique ID is programmed into each chip. Presumably all the chips on the wafer come out identical - at which point in the process are they individually selected and given a unique personality? Is it done with
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by caf 2y ago
Yes. A lot of students were on outside working crews creating firebreaks, so the survivor accounts tended to be along the lines of "I was sick that day, I never saw my friends again".
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by caf 2y ago
There is currently an additional special exhibition on there as well, containing first-hand accounts from survivors who were high school students at the time.
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by caf 2y ago
It seems to me that the world is replete with rounded, hard objects (eg stones) and soft, jagged objects (eg blades of grass)?
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by caf 2y ago
No it's not. They always have the option to leave.
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by caf 2y ago
The relevant principle of jurisdiction here is that a state has jurisdiction over the acts of its citizens. It's not uncommon and it's certainly not just a US thing (eg. here is a Brazilian court convicting one of its citizens ove
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by caf 2y ago
When I saw the headline I assumed this was going to be about practices from the "banana republic" era in the 60s.. almost unbelievable that they were still doing this in the 21st century.
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by caf 2y ago
Anyone who has ever worked for a medium-large corporation will have done the inevitable employee training that, among many other things, tells you that "no, you cannot pay bribes or facilitation payments in another country even if it&
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by caf 2y ago
It would be the latter, because "transfer those proceeds into bank accounts" implies currency, rather than other types of assets.
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by caf 2y ago
To really drive home the point, in the 19th century there were ingots of aluminium among the crown jewels of some royal families, because at the time it was rare, expensive and required a significant resource investment to refine.

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