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by cyphar 6y ago
The title is the verbatim title of the linked article and the article is about the topic of people not reading papers when discussing them. I don't see how you'd come to the conclusion it's an inappropriate title.
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by cyphar 6y ago
Actually, yes. If you have more than $75k in revenue per year, you are legally obligated to register for, charge, and pay GST[1] -- our equivalent of VAT -- and you have to register as an Australian business (though for most overseas compan
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by cyphar 6y ago
Yeah openSUSE has ppc64le builders. I think there are openSUSE ports to ppc64le, but they definitely exist because we support SLE on ppc64le. (Disclaimer: I work for SUSE.)
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by cyphar 6y ago
I didn't say it was better, I said that the description wasn't correct. If we're going to criticise something, we should describe it accurately -- otherwise our opponents can simply say "they're being hysterical and
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by cyphar 6y ago
It's not that the charter says "you cannot be competitive with other media", it's that their charter doesn't say "you should be competitive with private media". The ABC and SBS exist to provide both info
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by cyphar 6y ago
Look, I'm not going to deny that this is obviously motivated by News Corp and Fairfax lobbyists. However, the ACCC is legitimately one of the really brilliant government agencies here in Australia -- our consumer protection laws are ac
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by cyphar 6y ago
While I vocally opposed that piece of legislation (and are included in the public comments collection), that is not an accurate description of the law. The government that can force you to add backdoors in certain circumstances, and you can
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by cyphar 6y ago
I agree with your broader point, though it should be noted that public broadcasters (namely ABC and SBS) will not be able to make use of certain rights under the new legislation (namely the forced arbitration system). So it does give slight
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Same with containers and Vm's all duplicating a bunch of the same system files. You get isolation and reuse because its done at a lower abstraction. Deduplication of containers is incredibly coarse-grained -- it's done a whol
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by cyphar 6y ago
I just used the metric from the article: > librsvg-2.so (version 2.40.21, C only) - 1408840 bytes > librsvg-2.so (version 2.49.3, Rust only) - 9899120 bytes For your application, I imagine most of your application's code
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by cyphar 6y ago
If you add 9MB to each binary on the system by statically linking them, and your system runs 200 programs (including system services) on average, your system now uses about 2GB more memory (to be fair, probably not all the time but it does
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by cyphar 6y ago
Have you tried it with a different homeserver (either hosted or some other community server)? Matrix.org has a fucktonne of users (~5 million from memory), and given how little funding they have it's shocking that they can afford to ru
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by cyphar 6y ago
It's a bit late for that -- the archive snapshot has already been created and stored.
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by cyphar 6y ago
The best one is "current" -- which is a macro that looks like a variable but becomes a function call and thus if you ever want to use the variable name "current" you will get build errors. :D
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by cyphar 6y ago
Huh, I assumed (just as you did) that this would obviously not work -- but you're right that GCC ignores this and allows the assignment anyway. However it turns out that you still get a build error, and even the more explicit versions
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by cyphar 6y ago
These days it'd be harder to write code which is "easy to overlook" -- the innocent version would be something like if (/* ... */ || current_euid() == GLOBAL_ROOT_KUID) But the "backdoor" version wo
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by cyphar 6y ago
> The speed of light is not an absolute constant as Einstein believed. C just represented the speed that light can travel as a relationship between energy and mass. My favorite form of the equation is C equals the square root of energy d
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by cyphar 6y ago
Sadly, this mentality reminds me a lot of the great GeoCities purge of 2009. Have you considered partnering with the Internet Archive to back up any publicly-accessible classic sites which you plan to purge? Whether or not a site has had vi
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by cyphar 6y ago
Fahrenheit was initially intended to have 96°F be equal to body temperature (in fact it was one of the three fixed points in the temperature scale, designed to have 64 steps between the freezing point of water at 32°F and human body tempera
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by cyphar 6y ago
Note that "recent at-risk sexual activity" specifically means (among other things) a man engaging in sex with another man in the past 12 months (at least that's the case in Australia[1]). Practically speaking this means that
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by cyphar 6y ago
> The point with Bandt and for other 3rd party candidates is that these models give them a chance as it removes the issue of split/spoiler votes and people are free to vote how they want but fall back on who they would prefer from a
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by cyphar 6y ago
The reason why our Senate has third parties is because states act as multi-mumber electorates (it's not winner-takes-all as it is for the House of Representatives). This means that a uniform 20% vote for party X in a given state (eithe
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by cyphar 6y ago
I would argue the upsides out-weigh the downsides. Out of two downsides you mention, one actually applies to tar archives as well (the ordering of files can be random) -- it's just that there's no index to compare against. If you
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by cyphar 6y ago
There is a demo page, it's just that the link to it is buried right at the bottom. You'd think that it'd be better to just embed it on the page itself.
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by cyphar 6y ago
A bit of shameless self-promotion, I wrote a blog post some time ago which goes through the history of tar[1]. Tar definitely has evolved through the Unix wars, but I wouldn't say the final result is really that great. While we do tend
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by cyphar 6y ago
So does tar. In fact, tar's dash-less flag support ("tar xvfz") is probably an artefact of the fact that in Unix v1 they hadn't come up with dashed flags, and "tar" appears to have been a successor to (or model
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by cyphar 6y ago
Aside from the UK (which does have two major parties) and Canada (which has only had one of two parties in power for almost all of its history), what other examples are you thinking of? There are very few countries that still use FPTP, the
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by cyphar 6y ago
The UK has two major parties. The fact that the LibDems were in a coalition government once due to a hung parliament (and the last hung parliament was in 1974) isn't really evidence that the UK has more than two major parties. A majo
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by cyphar 6y ago
People already use ad blockers on YouTube which have a similar effect, so this isn't a unique "problem" to NewPipe. I also directly financially support creators whose content I enjoy and most large creators these days have ad
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by cyphar 6y ago
The original comment[1] spoke about "statically linked binaries" which has a pretty specific meaning ("file" says its a static binary). There are similar issues for Debian packaging if you had a hypothetical language whi

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