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by choeger 5y ago
> I'm simply pointing out that if we assume that the distribution channel is compromised, any distribution channel could help distribute malicious software, not just if you use "curl | bash" method. And from that you conc
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by choeger 5y ago
Safer and more Secure? Ask the users to run cargo install X or whatever the cargo equivalent of pip install is. Even more secure than that? Upload a signed tarball to multiple mirrors and generate the tarball from a public got repo in a rep
843.
by choeger 5y ago
Chains like McDonald's do in fact waste large quantities of food (in absolute terms). I think this is largely caused by the even larger quantities they sell. But to a certain degree it is down to completely artificial and arguably poin
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by choeger 5y ago
Where in my comment did you read the word subsidies? I was talking about the idea of internalizing "external costs" which I think is impractical and also somewhat impossible because at least some external costs do not occur at the
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by choeger 6y ago
I am not a big fan of this "external cost" talking point. For instance, the health cost do not scale linearly with sales. Why should someone who eats a healthy amount of meat subsidize the health cost of someone who eats an unheal
846.
by choeger 6y ago
Wow. 275g per day is a huge average. Do you happen to know the median? I cannot agree with the cheese part, though. I think if you replace half of that meat consumption with cheese, it would be net positive for your health and the climate.
847.
by choeger 6y ago
If I am not completely mistaken, if you produce a dynamic library with rust, you are limited to the C-ABI. For instance, you cannot import a polymorphic function from a dynamic library.
848.
by choeger 6y ago
You are right on track here. The complexity is real, but so are the benefits of a modular executable vs. a huge monolith. I fully understand why languages like rust demand static linking (their compilation model doesn't allow dynamic l
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by choeger 6y ago
I am not familiar with the SF tax code, but doesn't Prop 13 essentially only limit property taxes for people actually living on their ground? Can you give any reason why someone should pay higher property taxes every year just becaus
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by choeger 6y ago
Yeah, more density, because all that matters is the size of cities and their economy. 90% of children never waking up to the sounds of birds around their house? Who cares? 90% of grownups never plant even a tomatoes? What does it matter! Fa
851.
by choeger 6y ago
Some men decide to behave like wild bears, it seems. So while it indeed doesn't change anything about the responsibility, it is still a good idea to take steps that could prevent becoming a victim in the first place.
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by choeger 6y ago
Responsibility is the wrong word. There is a difference between good advice and victim blaming. Just because the victim was careless doesn't make them in any form responsible for the crime. Nevertheless, I would certainly advise my dau
853.
by choeger 6y ago
If Williams outsourced their CFD with that leak, they might gain an unduly advantage over teams like Haas or Alfa. These teams compete over several millions in price money.
854.
by choeger 6y ago
This year's rule change is about reducing downforce and so slowing cars down to protect the tires. Next year is about following.
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by choeger 6y ago
i think the author is aware of the trouble they could get into for doing realistic CFD on a current F1 car. > The only problematic geometry was the brake ducts which were in pretty bad shape, so I went ahead and made some simplified part
856.
by choeger 6y ago
You can be certain that Williams' competitors will have a very close look at this leak. The regulations were written with such loopholes in mind.
857.
by choeger 6y ago
The author is talking about databases, not programming languages. I do see a different issue, though: The article indeed seems to make no distinction between an absent value and a default timestamp of 0. That limits your database to more or
858.
by choeger 6y ago
The cost was given purely in terms of MWh.
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by choeger 6y ago
Stopped reading at a total cost of more than $300 per MWh for batteries. Quick back-of-the-napkin calculation: Car batteries come in at less than $100/KWh. They're good for at least 1000 cycles at 80% capacity. That gives us at le
860.
by choeger 6y ago
What is the "interface" of an image and what is the "implementation"? In the Oracle case, the terms were clear. The interface is the set of rules that bind the implementation and its consumers. In the case of an image, t
861.
by choeger 6y ago
He won't know until all the templates are instantiated...
862.
by choeger 6y ago
You buy one. You can probably buy a sim card for cash in any high school, college, or public park.
863.
by choeger 6y ago
I have three of them at home. They're easy to make but relatively high maintenance. Because of this, I try to make sure that they learn self-maintenance before self-replication. Let's see how that plays out.
864.
by choeger 6y ago
Regardless of how you define bare-metal, OP has a point here. Besides from bespoke web applications (which should be fully packages and signed, btw.), execution of turing-complete code inside the browser is pointless. At best, it helps to w
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by choeger 6y ago
Also, taxes are money. Essentially, a government issues money to its (armed) servants. It also demands its citizens to pay a certain tax in form of that money. This forces the citizens to work for and sell to the government's servants
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by choeger 6y ago
There was an article here lately that basically stated it would be surprising if DNA, RNA or some similar mechanism wasn't used for storing long-term information because it is so well-suited to the task. Is this more then pseudo scienc
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by choeger 6y ago
How so? That is really non-obvious to me. If site A associates user X with IDs 1,2, and 3 over three weeks, how does that help site B that only sees the IDs? When B sees ID 3, without any further unique identifier, they won't know that
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by choeger 6y ago
Aren't we forced to require replication for a measure of truth in empirical studies? If that's universally accepted, shouldn't we demand that researchers come up with predictions of the form "do X and see result Y"?
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by choeger 6y ago
Err, don't you need a unique ID to associate the different cohort IDs in the first place?
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by choeger 6y ago
CPS is a tool in the box of language theorists and compiler authors (although I don't know if any non-prototype actually uses CPS). IIRC it is mostly a convenient alternative to SSA. So yes, a compiler can transform your code into CPS

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