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by defen 4y ago
If you're 49% sure someone cheated against you / would cheat against you, that's probably enough to make you never want to play against them, but also not enough to prevail in a court case.
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by defen 4y ago
Do you think it would be possible to use this tool to create a full C frontend (including preprocessor)? I imagine the difficult part would be passing preprocessed text (including generated source e.g. pasted tokens, and expansion locations
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by defen 4y ago
The C grammar is also not complete, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything that it's shorter than the Python one.
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by defen 4y ago
It's not just collection though. If China had access to everyone's credit card purchase info (they probably already do, but whatever), that's "data collection". But with TikTok they also have an obvious mechanism to
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by defen 4y ago
Well, it's undeniable that they are more competent than Facebook in this domain; the proof is in the pudding. So in your terms, you're trading an incompetent domestic influence operation for a competent foreign one. Hard to see ho
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by defen 4y ago
Imagine an actually-good version of the Russian "influence operations" in the US (where they bought a couple hundred thousand worth of Facebook ads for the 2016 election to run shitty memes that didn't even sound like they we
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by defen 4y ago
Sorry about your father. I don't like using personal examples since emotions can be strong, especially at a time like this. If they were to show up and stand peacefully with a sign, I don't think that should be illegal. But if the
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by defen 4y ago
The alternative is that you can be arrested for saying something mean at a funeral. I prefer the American system.
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by defen 4y ago
> Even within that notion, he hasn't actually made a valid argument; by the logic he's using, you could evaluate a diversity program based on how many flat-earthers it admits. This single sentence is a far better rebuttal of th
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by defen 4y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant the people who were directly or indirectly responsible for the troops being there. Not the people who died.
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by defen 4y ago
Did anyone in the "intelligence community" or the military or the unelected bureaucrat class suffer any consequences whatsoever for the abject failures, wastes of money, and wastes of life known as "The Iraq War" and &qu
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by defen 4y ago
> The best argument gain of function proponents have for their research (besides weaponization of course) is to create the next big thing in a lab first so that we can figure out how to neutralize it Did that actually help in this case?
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by defen 4y ago
> Why do people get all worked up over a difference ± a few hundred dollars on a very expensive purchase The size of the purchase shouldn't affect how worked up you get about a few hundred dollars of overcharge, only the regularity
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by defen 4y ago
If someone actually does something , then yes, they should be guilty of a crime. I don't think it's possible to come up with a definition of "stochastic terrorism" in the way that you want, which doesn't result in
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by defen 4y ago
> does not look like it's child-related content at all If you're defining "child" to mean 5 year olds, I completely agree. But I'm almost certain that there are 17 year olds out there who are world-class Rust pro
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by defen 4y ago
> An online service, product, or feature that has design elements that are known to be of interest to children, including, but not limited to, games, cartoons, music, and celebrities who appeal to children. So if you write an extremely t
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by defen 4y ago
This is called fedposting and it's basically the message board version of what the FBI does to entrap Muslim terrorists and white supremacists IRL. The problem you're going to have with making it a crime is, where do you draw the
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by defen 4y ago
Try this in clang and gcc: #pragma pack(1) struct S { char c:1; char d:1 __attribute__((aligned(2))); char e:1; }; _Static_assert(sizeof(struct S) == 1, "wrong size");
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by defen 4y ago
I believe the long-term goal is to implement a C backend for the compiler (compile Zig code to C). Then compile the Zig compiler (which is written in Zig) to C, so you can compile that on your target system which only has a C compiler. Then
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by defen 4y ago
> As long as the Feds were just cracking the heads of black protestors and snatching brown people up out of their beds, Trumpists were hard-core thin blue line. The FBI are investigators, not traditional police; they aren't generall
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by defen 4y ago
The two examples I gave were real: https://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrup... I don't know what the most serious conviction/sentencing was. I'm not trying to construct
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by defen 4y ago
I'm glad these guys are being punished for their actions, but the wildest part to me is that if they hadn't been taking kickbacks - if they were just Law and Order types who thought sending a 14 year old to boarding school for 9
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by defen 4y ago
Can you quote where I did that? Because I have no idea what you're talking about.
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by defen 4y ago
> But don't use "my current circumstances prevent me from using Rust" as an argument as an argument against Rust in general - which is what you're doing. First of all I'm just summarizing the article, I'm in
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by defen 4y ago
> Yeah, writing software in the old language is more convenient because it's older than dirt. More chicken and egg nonsense. It's not impossible to have LLVM add additional targets, right? It seems like you're being needle
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by defen 4y ago
> What do you actually feel you're missing? It explicitly says in the post... for example static analyzers. What is the "Frama-C" equivalent of any language that bills itself as a replacement / competitor of C? > M
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by defen 4y ago
Wait, what's the deal with `+=` ?
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by defen 4y ago
I'm not an epidemiologist, so file this under "baseless speculation by an armchair non-expert", but influenza is an Old World disease - is it possible that First Nations people are more vulnerable to it? Ten seconds of Googli
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by defen 4y ago
How does laundering the info through The New Yorker make it authoritative? Any putative fact checking for the article itself would necessarily entail asking him "Hey Phil, that article you just wrote for us about the inspiration for
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by defen 4y ago
> Fortunately, we did not have the Gilbert Atomic Energy Kit. I assumed this was a joke but I googled it in the off-chance that it wasn't, and I'm glad I did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Ato

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