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541.
by cperciva 3y ago
how would you make it different? Have smarter users. If your package breaks because it depends on trivial code which got deleted, you shouldn't have depended on that in the first place . Preventing people from deleting their code -
542.
by cperciva 3y ago
Absolutely. Even within one department, since accounts often originated from different institutions.
543.
by cperciva 3y ago
FWIW, being off by 10s of dollars sounds to me like different ideas of how to count days. Banks sometimes use calendar days, sometimes business days, and sometimes a fictitious calendar with 12 months of 30 days each.
544.
by cperciva 3y ago
It would be very nice if they would publish a libreoffice spreadsheet, yes. Heck, it would be very nice if they would create a libreoffice spreadsheet, even if they don't publish it. If they had to read their own document, it would
545.
by cperciva 3y ago
There's several pages of formulas for dealing with people moving between CPP and QPP. So glad I don't have to deal with those.
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by cperciva 3y ago
None of this complexity is from trying to plug tax loopholes. Most of it is from politicians wanting to name things. For example, for decades Canada has had a "personal amount" tax credit -- for arcane reasons, rather than saying
547.
by cperciva 3y ago
To be fair, Nova Scotia, Yukon, and Ontario each only add a handful of extra nodes. I just didn't want to bother with those because I'm in BC. Quebec is a different matter; far more complicated to calculate payroll deductions for
548.
by cperciva 3y ago
// FIXME: This breaks on negative numbers on ones-complement machines
549.
by cperciva 3y ago
The most common cause of hypothyroidism is the autoimmune destruction of the thyroid gland. No amount of Iodine helps; you need T3 (usually administered as T4 which is then converted to T3 endogenously).
550.
by cperciva 3y ago
But it's not the case that "T3 is the active form" as you'll read in the literature, it's that the removed iodine is the active or useful thing. Supplementation with T3 yields a rapid correction in bradycardia and
551.
by cperciva 3y ago
Is consent under duress consent? If someone is told "God will strike you down if you do not accept the punishment imposed by the priest-king" and they agree to having their finger cut off, are they agreeing to their finger being
552.
by cperciva 3y ago
At a certain point, the line between religion, culture, and law becomes unclear. In a culture with ancestor-worship, where do you put "my grandfather always said that if someone steals food they should have a finger cut off"?
553.
by cperciva 3y ago
Don't forget Old New Year!
554.
by cperciva 3y ago
Oh, absolutely. MRI machines are incredibly dangerous if not handled properly. But the overwhelming majority of MRI-related dangers are well understood and avoidable.
555.
by cperciva 3y ago
I think it's an important point to reinforce because news stories like this can make patients afraid of MRIs, potentially resulting in them avoiding necessary imaging. Most people on HN are probably not going to make that error -- but
556.
by cperciva 3y ago
Note: MRIs are incredibly safe. Your risk of dying due to an MRI machine exploding is significantly less than your risk of dying due to falling while climbing into the machine.
557.
by cperciva 3y ago
If you suddenly have thousands of L of He gas on your hands, venting is better than exploding.
558.
by cperciva 3y ago
Santa Claus was issued a Canadian Passport in 2013: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-issues-... That said, it expired a few days ago; I don't know if it was ever renewed.
559.
by cperciva 3y ago
The original article has load-bearing typography in the title, which was lost when it was posted here. dang, can you add some punctuation to change the title to "Sudo without a setuid binary; or, SSH over a Unix socket"?
560.
by cperciva 3y ago
You're missing the point. If you need 24 m^3/day of fresh water, you can have a desalination plant producing 1 m^3/hour and a water tank to match supply to demand. But if you only want to run the plant for 3 hours/day
561.
by cperciva 3y ago
The only time I copy data (or keys for that matter) is when I'm constructing the new serialized page(s). All the rest of the work is done with pointers into the old page or the request structures.
562.
by cperciva 3y ago
Ah, that would explain it. Yeah, I have a total datastore size which is out of core, but the working set is generally in core... partly because I can use all the RAM on the system if I want to, whereas filesystems are (usually!) expected t
563.
by cperciva 3y ago
For my workload it's optimal to keep working nodes deserialized anyway. YMMV but what I'm doing gets me over a million operations per second -- 1 Gbps of requests -- on a single CPU so I don't think I'm going far wrong.
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by cperciva 3y ago
Note: In most cases you don't want to split pages prior to insertion as is being done here. Instead, you want to insert data first, and then restore the page size invariants at the end (prior to committing the operation / writing
565.
by cperciva 3y ago
See also the FreeBSD Errata Notice: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:16...
566.
by cperciva 3y ago
Remember, keep Cicadas away from your hard drives.
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by cperciva 3y ago
I wonder if that's due to this bug? It's definitely possible. Once we get this bug patched I'll definitely be updating the builders.
568.
by cperciva 3y ago
Came here to mention this too. It seems to adjust octaves for you automatically, but that's not at all clear... and I really don't see why it's necessary either.
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Some late-breaking FreeBSD 14 breakage(daemonology.net)
20 points by cperciva 3y ago|2 comments
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by cperciva 3y ago
Yeah, we considered following Linux's lead by creating a new "i386 with 64-bit time_t" ABI but frankly nobody was interested in doing a lot of work for probably very little benefit.

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