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by dexen 8y ago
Ah sorry, only want to ditch the shared libraries; added mmap is a later edition didn't realize it's unclear. Of course mmap is necessary.
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by dexen 8y ago
>all the kernel page tables still need to be copied and for a multi-GB process that's nontrivial Only in the pathological case where the large process is backed solely by the 4kb pages. The hardware has long now supported large pa
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by dexen 8y ago
To expand on @jvanderbot excellent reply, there's "Roche Limit" [1] - region of space close to massive bodies where gravitation gradient will break up the orbiting body. Given that white dwarfs remain in the cool-down phase f
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by dexen 8y ago
>Those people who put their travel porn pics on Instagram should be among the first :) To push back mildly: watching others' travels is a substitute to traveling yourself. Every Instagram celebrity is thousands, if not tens of tho
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by dexen 8y ago
>zero tolerance to toxicity That's a straightforward path into irrelevance. Every user and developer has a bad day or two; every user and developer has an obscure subject that riles them up well beyond what's reasonable. Zero
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by dexen 8y ago
You have significantly over-estimated the procreational success rate of men. Consider this research[1] - in the ancient past, the rate of long-term descendants was seventeen women to one man. Note that this is about long-term, multi-generat
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by dexen 8y ago
>still widely considered liberal democracies The Yellow Vests in France may disagree - for several weeks they were protesting in large numbers, every weekend, and yet their wants and needs haven't really registered in popular awar
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by dexen 8y ago
>it would still be a democratic state Only through the first election cycle [1]. Your idea is valid in a static, nothing-ever-changes world, with no significant political dynamics to speak of. However, out in the world as we know it, p
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by dexen 8y ago
There's a difference in perception between blasting music for fun versus paying people to landscape.
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by dexen 8y ago
>Firstly, many of Tesla's problems are self-inflicted. Fair enough. There's always the alternative angle of, “Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. “No”,
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by dexen 8y ago
>[or you can see this as] “there’s always something going wrong.” Which is literally the truth in any business, in any industry: there is always a major problem, and a plethora of smaller ones to boot. Whether it's the competitors
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by dexen 8y ago
Please explain how doing away with staging will handle my workflow. Right now I'm using staging area to prepare commits. Usually it's all the changed files, but quite often I want to commit only some of the changes - as I prefer t
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by dexen 8y ago
There's a community fork named `9front' [1]. Most of the development happens in its community (IRC, mailing list). Expect some hermetic memes. [1] http://9front.org/
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by dexen 8y ago
Having a single, uniform router (function/class/whatever) is only valid for trivial software. Any non-trivial system is better off with multiple independent URL routers with different semantics.
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by dexen 8y ago
make the right thing easy with security. All other things being equal, security is usability[1] anti-pattern. You don't get to make clever hacks (in the original sense) on a secure system. Unix was not designed to stop you from do
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by dexen 8y ago
There is something to be said about PHP's staying power. The early versions of the language weren't considered "right". Except maybe they were right for the problem at hand. The way I see it was PHP captured the vecto
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by dexen 8y ago
Did you say Sprint missiles? https://youtu.be/xZTjA44T6tY?t=93
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by dexen 8y ago
>why can't they just stop tracking those users? It's defense in depth. Aside of this particularly shady and/or illegal practice, Facebook is[1] engaged in several other practices that could or should be questioned. Aband
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by dexen 8y ago
To expand on that: Back in 2012 when ACTA was on the agenda, there were numerous popular protests against it in Poland, mostly centered around young internet users. Donald Tusk, then-Prime Minister and chief of the Platforma party, reacted
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by dexen 8y ago
Thank you a lot, josteink; I mixed up map format's with renderer's limitation.
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by dexen 8y ago
>Quake and Doom were all about elaborate fake 3d A nitpick: DooM (1 and 2), just as well as Duke Nukem 3D were indeed "2.5D" elaborate fakery of 3D. One of examples of the ruse: a level was basically a (floor, ceiling) height
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by dexen 8y ago
>those babies were being passively euthanized. Starved to death This breaks my heart. Doubly so, given that I have similar cases[1] in recent memory[2] where the medical staff and even the even parents were forbade and forcibly preven
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by dexen 8y ago
The progress in medical sciences can be surprisingly messy. Moral issues abound, and a lot of important work has been done against the scientific consensus. Early operations on human heart were gonzo and against the prevailing wisdom[1]; di
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by dexen 8y ago
Preferring the groups we identify with is a practical heuristic for being efficient with your well-intended actions. Helping primarily locally will often (heuristic) be time & energy efficient. Belonging to the same group as the ta
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by dexen 8y ago
Quoting verbatim from the GGP, >Think of the way people are castigated for not believing in scientific "truths" and > the author is trying to burn religious texts and dissenting viewpoints to their "settled science&q
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by dexen 8y ago
This engine is meant for Skylon spaceplane, an unmanned cargo vehicle. As for noise, there are no reasons to have it overflight any populated areas. I presume there would be less noise abatement technologies employed due to need for efficie
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by dexen 8y ago
Going both by surveys [1] and by informal chats with friends of all ages, the Millenials were the peak AGW / Global Climate Change generation, with the subsequent generation (Gen Z) being both less convinced and less likely to demand e
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by dexen 8y ago
>the myth of laziness If anything, there is a myth of "hard work" as a singular trait that a person has or doesn't have. And then "laziness" is described as contrast to that. So is "hard work" a singu
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by dexen 8y ago
It may seem ironic that the ecological policy is enabled by riches derived from extraction of their sizable oil reserves. Nonetheless this is the pattern we've seen repeat time and time again through history: the more surplus (energy,
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by dexen 8y ago
Somebody is still running Beto's campaign to the old (Clinton/Bush era) standard of use the media to build up brand and brand . Meanwhile there is a crop of new-style politicians, all over the spectrum, that run via the new (AOC&

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