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by cyphar 4y ago
In fact, this did happen last year[1]. Moxie has infamously made the argument that decentralisation reduces reliability because if any one server goes down reliability is affected (ignoring that partial outages are better than total outag
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> The blacksmith, being a wise old sage, starts with the first blow saying: "Like this!" Then, the apprentice follows the master's strike with another, saying: "Oh, like this!" ... The term does originally come f
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by cyphar 4y ago
"Back-channeling" is the English linguistic term for the concept, but 相槌 is actually referred to in normal conversations in Japanese, while most people (the author included it seems) don't know or use it in conversation.
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by cyphar 4y ago
In Australia, SMS is still fairly widely used for messaging people you're not in usual contact with (to be fair, Facebook Messenger and Instagram are far more popular for communicating in general if you've added each other).
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Sure, but if your threat model is that the attacker has enough access to your machine to extract your password manager's database, they can also just copy your session cookies from your existing browser session. Even in the case of pas
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Even if that does waive their legal liability (which I'm not sure it does), there is a moral obligation to try to not endanger the many people that the app developers know are going to disregard that warning. It would be intellectually
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Some time ago, I somehow ran into a YouTuber who talks about foraging in the UK talking about how effective these apps are[1]. Each one of them misidentified at least one plant, and two of three gave incorrect (or misleading) results for th
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> Whereas Japan would’ve continued the war and brought it back to the US mainland eventually. This is simply ahistoric. Japan was on the brink of loss and everyone knew it (including all of Japan's military and political leaders) --
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by cyphar 4y ago
I believe that git bisect is a bit smarter when there are proper merge commits (it won't test a random patch in the middle of a patchset unless it's figured out that the issue is in that merge). You can also revert an entire merge
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by cyphar 4y ago
Adrian is one of the CRIU folks and has been working on integrating CRIU and containers for a while.
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Checkpoint/restore is supported by runc and there were demos of live migrating Docker containers several years ago. A better question is why Kubernetes isn't working on integrating it (though I suspect there's a KEP for it so
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In that case the argument should be about whether or not it should be a criminal offense at all (meaning whether European CEOs should be jailed in the case of malicious actions against their users). The fact it would theoretically extend
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Believe it or not, committing a crime in a foreign country as a US citizen will result in you being incarcerated in said country regardless of your citizenship status.
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I use a randomly generated passphrase and store it in my password manager (like "correct horse battery staple" but usually 8 words).
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by cyphar 4y ago
Quite a few countries in Europe have the issuing authority scheme (Serbia, for one -- but there's probably a list of countries which do this somewhere). While you could argue it is sometimes useful to know if a car is from out of town,
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by cyphar 4y ago
Dunno about this one, but ttu[1] is a very popular offline web-based HTMLZ and EPUB reader in the Japanese learning community. [1]: https://github.com/ttu-ttu/ebook-reader
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by cyphar 4y ago
The indentation is broken, so one possible way to interpret it is: def is_prime(n: int): result = True for k in range(2, int(n ** 0.5) + 1): if n % k == 0: result = False break return
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by cyphar 4y ago
Is there a plan to make the existing Chrome extension update to this (somewhat neutered) version automatically when the time comes for v2 deprecation (which appears to be in January 2023 for non-enterprise Chrome users)? I ask because I hav
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by cyphar 4y ago
"X times smaller/cheaper/etc" is a very common phrase in English with a very well understood meaning (1/Xth the size/price/etc). It doesn't really matter whether it makes sense to you.
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> Yes, and [artificial ammonia production] should be mentioned I did mention it, that's what the Haber process produces (and the discovery of the Haber process is what allowed us to produce ammonia on an industrial scale rather than
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> Kanji is the script. Kanji is part of the Japanese writing system, it's not the entire thing. "Translated to Japanese kanji" is like saying "translated to English consonants". > Kanji characters were print
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> Produce food under the new conditions This alone is an incredibly difficult problem to solve, as evidenced by the fact that the entire history of our species has been spent trying to solve the food problem. Only very recently have very
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> Incorrect. First of all, utility scale power storage can be done many ways, such as pumping water up a hill in the daytime and then letting it flow back down the hill at night. This requires specific geography (natural elevation and wa
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by cyphar 4y ago
Sorry, you're quite right that they don't use rare earth metals -- I was thinking of the Cadmium telluride and CIGS combinations used in some thin-film solar panels (which aren't rare earth metals -- it's been a while si
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> Also it's not green. The mining of the fuel isn't, nor is its transportation, vitrification, fabrication, refinement or enrichment. The concrete and cooling of the plant isn't nor is the waste stream side of the equation
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While that is technically true standard 敬語/honorifics (です/ます and a few word choices) aren't really that complicated. There are additional levels of honorifics which can be far more complicated but (outside of workplace honori
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by cyphar 4y ago
Not to mention some words like パターン (pataan/pattern) have either very specific meanings that an English speaker would not understand naturally or other words like テンション (tenshon/tension) have completely different meanings that an
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by cyphar 4y ago
Katakana are used for far more than loan words, loan words is just the first example you learn when you first start learning Japanese. Among many other stylistic uses, katakana are often used for native onomatopoeia and are used to write na
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by cyphar 4y ago
They like four-character abbreviations a lot (obviously you have 四字熟語, but most onomatopoeia are four kana, and a lot of other emphatic words are four kana). I was watching a let's play YouTuber who started referring to Breath of the W
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Is Switzerland not a "Western country"? Several other countries in Europe (and many more throughout the world) still have conscription. Even the US still requires you by law to register for the draft[1] and technically still has t

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