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by cperciva 3y ago
Hate speech has a lot of case law around it. The fact they're inventing a new term "harmful speech" makes me think they're trying to avoid that case law.
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by cperciva 3y ago
FWIW most organizations aren't accepted every year -- they have a limited number of slots and they like to use some of those to invite new organizations in each year. So don't start looking for reasons why any organization wasn&#x
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by cperciva 3y ago
Yep, I got stuck for 10 minutes on the first level because I didn't realize the pieces couldn't rotate. It's much easier to solve once you know about that constraint!
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by cperciva 3y ago
40 year old female with depression and hypothermia screams Hashimoto's disease to me. Have you had your TSH checked?
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by cperciva 3y ago
Yes, the government gave airlines a bailout conditional on them issuing refunds.
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by cperciva 3y ago
it's a tribunal idk what that is The Civil Resolution Tribunal is better known as "online small claims court". It's something BC introduced a few years ago to streamline the process.
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by cperciva 3y ago
My favourite application for "deterministic computer" is creating a cluster in order to have a virtual machine which is resilient to hardware failure. Potentially even "this VM will keep running even if an entire AWS region
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by cperciva 3y ago
Simpler isn't necessarily worse. Having fewer features tends to make software more reliable and secure.
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by cperciva 3y ago
The opposite of OSS is not "write your own", it's "buy commercial". I agree, but that's not the counterfactual the authors considered. They asked how much it would cost for everyone to independently rewrite
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by cperciva 3y ago
second cousins? Cousins-once-removed? Whatever the one is for my cousin's kids Since it doesn't look like anyone else has answered: Your cousins' kids would be your kids' second cousins; and your first cousins once rem
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by cperciva 3y ago
The authors are talking about a counterfactual of companies building software internally, not buying it from a publisher.
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by cperciva 3y ago
We then calculate the demand side value based on a replacement value for each firm that uses the software and would need to build it internally if OSS did not exist. Presumably in the absence of OSS, companies would write far simpler soft
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by cperciva 3y ago
Yes, a DBMS may be servicing many requests at once, which is why individual stalls don't matter. Other threads will be making progress. That works if you have a thread per request. Not all servers are structured this way; thread-p
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by cperciva 3y ago
Yes and no. The authors are very correct in drawing a distinction between read-only mmaps and writable mmaps. Read-only is pretty safe -- the biggest concern is probably sanity-checking data being read from disk, but for some applications
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by cperciva 3y ago
> the amount of code and level of risk taken would be exactly the same. The amount of code might be the same, but that doesn't guarantee that the level of risk is the same. A lot of bugs are introduced at interfaces -- the provid
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by cperciva 3y ago
It depends if you're converting it to cash or hiding it in a cache. In most cases you mean the former.
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by cperciva 3y ago
Given the stated currency, I suspect the bank account in question is in the UK, so the criminal law wouldn't be entirely identical. But in any case, it wasn't necessarily a crime -- someone (especially if elderly or impaired) m
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by cperciva 3y ago
I don't understand. There is a near-infinite number of banks and credit unions that don't charge fees or allow over drafting. Note that a bank not allowing overdrafts (e.g. by returning checks NSF if the account has insufficient
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by cperciva 3y ago
In American English, "check". In British English, "cheque".
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by cperciva 3y ago
Next up: "Porting Doom to run on an LED candle".
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by cperciva 3y ago
You'll have trouble finding powerbanks over 100 Whr, due to FAA regulations.
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by cperciva 3y ago
FreeBSD on EC2: Last year between my Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/cperciva ), private "consulting", and a GitHub Sponsors donation from AWS, I received $20k to support my open source work. It's not a lot
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by cperciva 3y ago
this [1] is a Harvard entrance exam from 1869! We don't routinely teach Classics in high school, so it's not surprising that those sections would be beyond most students today. The sections on that exam dealing with Mathematics
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by cperciva 3y ago
If you're male and an absolute beginner (as sitting in a chair all day implies), you can gain significant muscle mass with just 90 minutes a week of strength training. Can confirm, almost 3 year ago I started lifting and carrying aro
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by cperciva 3y ago
Long term non-transferable mortgages are the home ownership equivalent of rent control. In both cases housing ends up being used suboptimally because moving is too expensive.
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by cperciva 3y ago
You do need to shake hands with the virtio devices; that's a bit easier than most hardware, but it's not trivial. The "take a snapshot after you finish booting and resume that" approach can work (Lambda does it) but it o
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by cperciva 3y ago
Some of his phrasing sounded like he hoped the parole board would be reading it: I accept responsibility for my crime, I'm using the skills I'm learning in prison, etc. etc. This is true; but it also struck me as being very simi
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by cperciva 3y ago
The bug Netflix tripped over was something I introduced while shaving off milliseconds, yes. The "other issues I didn't get around to fixing" are things like precomputing lookup tables (we can wait and do them on demand, or n
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by cperciva 3y ago
With 1 CPU and 128 MB of RAM. Sure, it's a small system, but it's enough to be useful for some purposes -- more useful than medical discoveries in mice, at least.
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by cperciva 3y ago
It depends? With defined contribution plans the payout absolutely depends on the market returns. Even with defined benefit plans there's an indirect connection -- with higher expected returns, employers will offer larger pensions.

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