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by couchand 2y ago
That doesn't mean that naive single-threaded code is necessarily interrupt-safe. If the allocator is interrupted and the interrupt service routine needs to make use of the allocator's data structures for any reason there could ve
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by couchand 2y ago
And the beautiful thing about domains is that they're hierarchical, so you can arbitrarily split your trust boundaries.
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by couchand 2y ago
The credentials for service accounts are generally available to a system admin but I think in most cases it would be a strange request to ask for them, so not a strong vector for social engineering. A service account is used to give limited
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by couchand 2y ago
Any uc worth programming on has interrupts!
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by couchand 2y ago
Turnstiles are a barbaric solution to a non problem. People need to get around. Taking mass transit is the best way for humanity for them to get there. Therefore, the fare should be zero. Even if we feel a fare is needed, plenty of places
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by couchand 2y ago
That time is now. I've been shipping Rust code to browsers for years...
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by couchand 2y ago
Is this the world you wish to live in? Where the greatest concern is not for the provisioning of housing for all but instead the punishment of those who have no other options available?
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by couchand 2y ago
Good link! > Automatic index management identifies indexes that should be added in your database, and indexes that should be removed. Applies to: Azure SQL Database
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by couchand 3y ago
You are theoretically correct (the best kind of correct). However: Is this difference of a magnitude exceeding everyday nonrelativistic clock drift?
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by couchand 3y ago
More half-broken solutions is not the answer...
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by couchand 3y ago
Can we change the link to the Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x ? What else was the human doing besides generating text and images while that CO2 was being produced? Is the human suppos
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by couchand 3y ago
Particularly after basically giving a pass to the companies for not prioritizing security!
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by couchand 3y ago
Your experiences may differ, but I'd say pretty much anyone who lived through the past few years has reason enough to pay careful attention to their mental health.
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by couchand 3y ago
Ideas are like currency: you can find them on both sides of the balance sheet.
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by couchand 3y ago
The MLK quote is "a riot is the language of the unheard", and the full context is rich: > And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or f
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by couchand 3y ago
The latter is shown to be type-based static analysis, even though it "looks like" there's a runtime component: the Never plugs one of only two holes in Result, so it statically becomes equivalent to a newtype. The former can&
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by couchand 3y ago
If you're working in an environment that categorically requires all high-level concepts (say, iterating over a collection or representing mutually-exclusive data) to be encoded using low-level mechanics, your productivity will suffer.
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The Future of Computer Science (2018)(dr-knz.net)
35 points by couchand 3y ago|13 comments
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by couchand 3y ago
An important perspective. I'd remind the author that it's never necessary to repeat abhorrent positions when you defend the liberty of others to take them. Uncritically repeating the argument, even as a mere descriptor, shows a s
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by couchand 3y ago
I think you missed an /s
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by couchand 3y ago
This is an interesting perspective. I've recently been playing with sequent calculus, and I'm writing everything upside-down because I'm starting with the statement to prove and applying the derivations mechanically to produ
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by couchand 3y ago
Always downvote copy-pasted LLM garbage seems to be a good heuristic. HN is a valuable community exactly because human beings provide their valuable insights here.
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by couchand 3y ago
> I mean it’s definitely a weaker argument than 2 years ago. Is it? I see no evidence that machines are any closer to "thinking creatively" than they ever have been. We certainly have been developing our capacity for computati
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by couchand 3y ago
I didn't mean to imply your own political beliefs, merely describe the character of the example given. It is certainly the case that (in the old US of A at least) we seem to make a sport of trying to tear up our roads as frequently as
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by couchand 3y ago
Worst possible future this one. The brightest minds are all trying to figure out how to speedrun through the previous generation's Chesterton's fences.
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by couchand 3y ago
Your liberatarian dreamland example (though not reflective of any rural [public development] area for the last few decades that I'm aware of) is a perfect illustration of my point. Even those areas with private roads [private developme
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by couchand 3y ago
GP said, "if right of ways were reasonable." In the context of internet connectivity, I interpret a reasonable right-of-way policy being collectively-owned fiber which can be shared. We don't say, "everybody who wants a
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by couchand 3y ago
I have to say, this is an incredibly arrogant and unhealthy attitude. Based on your comments here it sounds like you might actually be the main problem at your organization. I would recommend spending some time reflecting on your ability t
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by couchand 3y ago
If we're going to arbitrarily categorize groups and order them by attention to detail, the canonical listing is: - docs - tester - dba - project manager - dev - manager But given the state of the industry i
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by couchand 3y ago
My own experience is that those non-devs feel as much attached to the success of the project as anyone, and the changes they want to make to automations are taking a broader view of consistency across multiple domains of the project.

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