cwillu

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by cwillu 1y ago
CMPXCHG8B is required as of a month or two ago, not 16B (i.e., the version from the 90's is now required) See https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/4/25/409
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by cwillu 1y ago
Might be a cultural difference; we routinely have fire bans, parking bans, etc, and everyone knows that it's not permanent.
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by cwillu 1y ago
On the osx keyboard layout (which you can use under linux): “ < altgr + [ ” < altgr + ]
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by cwillu 1y ago
- < key between 0 and = – < en-dash [compose] [-] [-] [.] — < em-dash [compose] [-] [-] [-]
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by cwillu 1y ago
It's muscle: use it or lose it.
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by cwillu 1y ago
I live in a place with very harsh winters, and our used cars usually command a premium, simply because we get cold enough that road salt is no longer effective, so the municipalities generally don't bother in the first place.
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by cwillu 1y ago
> effectively doing the integration It's doing nothing of the kind, because again, it's the same dimensional unit. It's exactly like describing a distance as a speed per day or a distance as acres per mile: both technical
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by cwillu 1y ago
Scroll down to the last example: https://una.im/popover-hint/#lets-see-it-in-action
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by cwillu 1y ago
Remove the 24 h/day, and then you can use the actual unit W instead of the frankenunit W•h/day
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by cwillu 1y ago
@dang doesn't do anything; but they're quite responsive to email.
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by cwillu 1y ago
Avoiding frustration in learning is like avoiding resistance in weight lifting: it certaining makes it easier, at the cost of entirely eliminating the benefit. Frustration is what a learning brain feels like.
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by cwillu 1y ago
If something outside USMCA was unfair, why wasn't it part of the negotiation?
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by cwillu 1y ago
“Fair in both direction”? Remind me, who negotiated the USMCA again? Some president starting with T… Truman? Thomas? No, I remember, it was Trump!
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by cwillu 1y ago
Has anyone implemented a rng based on america's current tariff schedule? Seems like it should be pretty secure.
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by cwillu 1y ago
“Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". ” -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguide
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by cwillu 1y ago
And how does a protocol enforce that, even in principle?
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by cwillu 1y ago
Accidents happen, but that's exactly why the delete-as-suggestion feature exists.
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by cwillu 1y ago
Points 2 and 3 seem to be a denial of reality: you never can delete something except by asking everyone else very nicely, and it's always possible that someone will repost something that they had that you didn't think they did.
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by cwillu 1y ago
It's not currently flagged, on my screen at least? And it still shows up in the regular list, although no longer the first page.
950.
by cwillu 1y ago
When it isn't, will you acknowledge you were wrong and change your predictions?
951.
by cwillu 1y ago
“We have both kinds of music: country _and_ western”
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by cwillu 1y ago
“2023 The Internet Archive, a non-profit research library, makes use of internal processes and tools, including human review and hash-matching, as well as reports from external parties to identify, disable access to, and limit the reappeara
953.
by cwillu 1y ago
DB is easier to say, and everyone knows what I mean, so I will continue to say DB9. Standards that ignore human frailties will be corrupted by humans, and that's a good thing.
954.
by cwillu 1y ago
None of this has anything to do with companies having rights. You as a person can choose to not to business with another person.
955.
by cwillu 1y ago
Companies shouldn't have rights.
956.
by cwillu 1y ago
Nobody said it was stupid, but you wanting something doesn't make it a requirement for a project with different goals.
957.
by cwillu 1y ago
And if the “obviously correct” last entry is actually an old entry that just hadn't been overwritten yet? Or if it was only permitted because of something in the corrupted section? The database should absolutely not be performing gues
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by cwillu 1y ago
The benefit is that you're left with a database state that actually existed; there's no guarantee from the database's perspective that dropping some committed transactions and not others that came after will result in a valid
959.
by cwillu 1y ago
You agree that your statement that it runs firefox extensions is misleading, right? If I said “linux runs windows software and games” without further remarks, people would be correct to call me out on it.
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by cwillu 1y ago
I prefer stylebot to stylus, as it doesn't require an unnecessary dance to make a specific theme and then mark it as only for the current site, before you can plop some css into the sidebar for that specific site.

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