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by cperciva 8mo ago
You can access /rescue without rebooting, for one thing.
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by cperciva 8mo ago
The parasite is not the disease; the parasite causes the disease. Similarly, SARS-COV-2 is a virus which causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes AIDS. People often conflate parasites or virus
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by cperciva 8mo ago
More people attending college, for a start. The increase in low-income households is much smaller than the increase in high-income households.
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by cperciva 8mo ago
... primarily because households which would have been middle-class now have upper-class incomes instead.
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by cperciva 8mo ago
It's still there; and yes, people are using it.
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by cperciva 8mo ago
If you're going to do that analysis, you would really want to distinguish "karma from comments" from "karma from posts", since only the former is associated with words of comments. I'm not sure if that data is
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by cperciva 8mo ago
Not to be confused with a kilonibble, which is 500 bytes.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Evidence goes before a judge What evidence went before a judge prior to the two latest executions in Minneapolis?
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Cattle are inefficient consumers of grain , but highly efficient consumers of grass . Most land used for pasture can't effectively be used for anything else.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Yes, arm64 support has been Tier 1 since FreeBSD 13.0.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
And obviously PicoPCMCIA means "very small people can't memorize computer industry acronyms". (Or possibly s/computer/complicated/, that's how I remembered it at least.)
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Technically Carney was never the head of a foreign central bank; he was the head of a Commonwealth central bank. Canada and the UK do not consider each other to be foreign nations, as evidenced by their exchange of High Commissioners r
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Fair enough. The comment was about software, and to me the Nitro hypervisor is software while the Nitro card is hardware and firmware. ;-)
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by cperciva 9mo ago
You sure about that? Maybe it's just a coincidence but the low-level people I've talked to are almost never based in Seattle.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Sovereign-by-design but still runs a software stack that is largely written and maintained by a US staff... Not as much as you might think. The most important component -- Nitro -- basically runs out of Germany.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
There is some elasticity of demand. Some people will eat more potatoes and less bread or rice. Other people will fill up their cupboards; just because the farmer doesn't want to store these for later doesn't mean that individual
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by cperciva 9mo ago
We didn't forget how to do it cheap. The ALARA (As Expensive As Reasonably Achievable) policy simply made it illegal to do it cheaply.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Publishing updated FreeBSD AMIs every time there is a security or errata update. This will make life easier for FreeBSD/EC2 users since they won't need to wait for patches to download when they first launch an instance.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
The only common factor between these patients is Dr. Marrero.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Let me rephrase that. People need to feel empowered to stop a potentially dangerous process. They definitely shouldn't be empowered to implement new dangerous processes without external review.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Right, people need to feel empowered and not just worried about ruffling feathers.
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by cperciva 9mo ago
Not just when documents are written, but also when the practices they describe are implemented. You don't need to know a lot of chemistry to realize that mixing organics with nitric acid is a bad idea. Why did none of the technicians
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by cperciva 9mo ago
each person can only own one property. You're going to need some exceptions. What happens when someone dies and leaves their house to their kids? What if someone's home is temporarily unlivable (say due to a fire or flood whic
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by cperciva 9mo ago
I can't help wondering to what extent the length of sentences used by English speakers has been influenced by the limitations of the technology which they used and grew accustomed to in their formative years; indeed, with both text mes
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by cperciva 10mo ago
focus all tax collection to top 1% If you do that in the USA, you're ignoring 79% of income. The top 1% earn a lot more than average but they're still small in number, and their collective income is only 21% of the total. (And
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by cperciva 10mo ago
A few years back I patched the memory allocator used by the Cloudflare Workers runtime to overwrite all memory with a static byte pattern on free, so that uninitialized allocations contain nothing interesting. Note that many malloc implem
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by cperciva 10mo ago
That code is not guaranteed to work. Declaring memset_v as volatile means that the variable has to be read, but does not imply that the function must be called; the compiler is free to compile the function call as "tmp = memset_v; if
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by cperciva 10mo ago
Injection drug user here. We're advised to rotate injection sites but the largest issue is actually the insulin (most of it diffuses into the bloodstream but there is a local effect, usually taking the form of increased fat accumulati
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by cperciva 10mo ago
Nuclear is insane levels of expensive likely due to overregulation. It's not just a matter of "overregulation". ALARA, aka As Expensive As Reasonably Achievable is an explicit goal of nuclear regulation.
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by cperciva 10mo ago
They don't break encryption, they circumvent it. To quote a former Chief Scientist of the NSA, Rule #1 of cryptanalysis is "look for plaintext". Implementation flaws are very common.

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