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by daymanstep 5mo ago
Doesn't that mean that your process is then responsible for ensuring that an app with a read-only capability cannot do a write ? You're moving the burden of enforcement from the kernel to the user level ?
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by daymanstep 5mo ago
I am so tired of people talking philosophy without knowing any philosophy. So here is some Aquinas for those who want some actual substance. What is the ultimate good for humans? Specifically what does the good for us, and thus our well-bei
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by daymanstep 5mo ago
I had a chemistry teacher who insisted that the fissile isotope of Uranium was U-238 not U-235. I challenged him on this multiple times and he refused to budge on this. I get that it's a simple mistake to make (it seems like U-238 is b
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by daymanstep 5mo ago
Wonderful teachers that give unreliable information with total confidence?
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by daymanstep 5mo ago
How would less competition make the world better?
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by daymanstep 5mo ago
The author might want to look into elite overproduction theory. Same thing happened in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century. Most of the radical revolutionary groups had a core of highly dedicated and highly educated people. Unive
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by daymanstep 5mo ago
You mean surrogate activities
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Bad economy means the interest rate will be cut which means higher stock valuations. Bad economic news is good financial news.
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Happiness is to a large extent related to how many close friends you have and how much time you spend with your friends.
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Nobel prize is usually awarded many years after the work was done and by the time its awarded the scientist is usually well past their prime
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Interesting how much oil dropped on this news despite the fact that the Iranian policy at the strait has not significantly changed: > Iran has told mediators it will continue to limit the number of ships allowed to cross the Strait of Ho
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Which NUC do you have? A lot of the nameless brands on aliexpress draw 10 watts on idle.
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Yeah that's the problem with ARM devices. Better just buy a N100
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
I can't stop thinking about this article while reading this: https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....
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by daymanstep 6mo ago
Why don't you just buy API tokens instead of using subscription
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Which options respect your privacy?
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
I agree. That's why universities should never teach any practical real world programming languages. They should stick to Scheme and MMIX.
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Except they won't. They will just hire those new people away from the firms that trained them. That's what happens now and there's no reason why it won't happen in the future. This is why firms that do actual training ha
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
I'm surprised nobody else has pointed this out. The entire YouTube video has only two short clips of the actual rocket being fired, and in both cases the clips are very short and only show the rocket being fired and then following an e
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
And what is the idle power draw that you're seeing on the NUC? Out of the box or did you have to mess around with BIOS and powertop?
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
You don't need a super powerful GPU to do computer vision. There are cheap small devices that can do it.
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Mark Rober did that one
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
If that's the case, then how comes China, which has a massive excess of males, hasn't erupted into civil war yet?
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Relevant: https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Sorry, but how would this have prevented the xz backdoor? The article seems to be insinuating that it would have, but I don't see how it could.
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Offshoring generally improves the lives of the people who get the offshored jobs. Usually foreign companies pay more and have better working conditions than the local companies.
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Last time I checked, manufacturing employment hasn't gone up since Jan 2025.
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
Managed to do what?
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by daymanstep 7mo ago
I really dislike articles that only talk about vague terms ("arrogance", "humility" etc) without giving any actual concrete examples.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
Recalculating the path every game tick is too expensive. What brood war did was to just have units wait for a second when they collide with something before recalculating the path. This resulted in horrendous "traffic jams". It&#x

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