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by cgh 2y ago
The Darfur Genocide is still happening, is on a much larger scale than Gaza and despite media coverage, the people who are very worked up about the Israeli actions don’t seem to care. I wonder why that is.
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by cgh 2y ago
No, he specifically referred to things such as eg China’s social credit system, the gamification of certain workplaces and the Unabomber. I wouldn’t trivialize his overall point.
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by cgh 2y ago
The article is primarily about breaking up certain technology companies into their broad constituent parts and mandating interoperability, presumably by law. That seems a lot more realistic than your average person self-hosting, which almos
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by cgh 2y ago
Haha, fair enough.
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by cgh 2y ago
No, US immigration are notorious for exactly the opposite. See my other comment in this thread.
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by cgh 2y ago
I worked for a large Silicon Valley company as a foreign national (Canadian) and I flew down at least once a quarter. When I said I was going for “unpaid business”, I was questioned enough that it led me to ask my employer to get me the pro
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by cgh 3y ago
Note: 1 ppt == 1 ng/L. The EU limits are 500 ng/L for the sum of all PFAS in drinking water. Canada has an "objective" of 30 ng/L but I don't know how well it's enforced. The US proposal is for 4 ng/L
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by cgh 3y ago
Yeah we learned x86 assembly at my school too. We had to make a “database” (basically a flat file), complete with a text-based ui.
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by cgh 3y ago
I’d rather take the hits to the head, thanks.
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by cgh 3y ago
Consider spending less time online.
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by cgh 3y ago
Not in the 1970s, which was when these events took place.
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by cgh 3y ago
Canada is a little slower. It takes one day and $200 to incorporate: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/corporations-canada/en/serv... For an extra $100, there’s a four hour express service.
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by cgh 3y ago
Judged by number of war-related deaths per capita, we are living in the most peaceful time in human history. The last major conflict was the Second Congo War in the ‘90s, which killed around 5.4 million people and involved a bunch of Africa
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by cgh 3y ago
Comment I saw on Ars: >Interestingly enough, "Jia Tan" is very close to 加蛋 in Mandarin, meaning "to add an egg". Unlikely to be a real name or a coincidence.
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by cgh 3y ago
How so? It looks a lot like a less-rich Java, whose type system has existed for literally decades. In fact, the generics syntax and type erasure was directly influenced by Java.
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by cgh 3y ago
This is about as succinct a summary as it gets re mRNA's potential: "To create an mRNA cancer vaccine, a patient’s tumor is biopsied to identify unique target mutations —> mRNA correlating to mutations is synthesized and inject
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by cgh 3y ago
A lot of people going to be disappointed when Dune Messiah gets made into a film. Even more so if (I can only hope) God Emperor hits the silver screen.
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by cgh 3y ago
I assumed the original poster was talking about extant wars, not threats. This doesn’t even rate compared to say the Cuban missile crisis or even just the normal state of the world in the ‘80s.
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by cgh 3y ago
War? We live in one of the most peaceful times in human history.
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by cgh 3y ago
> The lack of first class interfaces/traits/typeclasses is not my favorite. The currently suggested alternatives are so un-ergonomic I'd almost call them hostile. The use of anytype as a sort of universal interface is my l
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Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by cgh 3y ago|1 comments
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by cgh 3y ago
2010 Subaru Forester or equivalent.
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by cgh 3y ago
Java has in-memory file systems that are essentially geared for this exact use case, eg jimfs[0]. You create your filesystem and any files you need when your tests are starting up, and your classes talk to them rather than the “real” ones.
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by cgh 3y ago
He’s referring to the syscalls necessary to share data back and forth with eBPF. These are wrapped in userspace libraries, eg libbpf.c. Data is shared with the kernel in buffers which in eBPF parlance are referred to as “maps”, which are ba
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by cgh 3y ago
This Canadian site attempts to lay out a "who pays for it" plan of sorts: https://www.ubiworks.ca/howtopay A lot of it is pretty hand-wavy and I'm not sure how legit it is. I'm posting it because they cl
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by cgh 3y ago
He does mention the thrilling surreality of the LA Yellow Pages.
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by cgh 3y ago
The way I read it, he moved on from ikiwiki to his "newest approach", which looks to me like regular hand-written html+css. And why not, it's just a bunch of words, no frameworks necessary. This guy has software running on Ma
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by cgh 3y ago
The entire Maritimes region in Canada. Just go to a pub, raise your glass to someone and you’ll have a roomful of friends in minutes. So friendly it brings a tear to the eye.
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by cgh 3y ago
Nearly every subject matter expert I followed has left. Scientists, mathematicians, journalists, authors, comic book people, and so on. What I now see are people with demented political opinions about women and American politics. It sucks.
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by cgh 3y ago
Astounding fact: I have never had a cup of coffee in my life.

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