dmatech

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by dmatech 4y ago
The first example might not be a violation of the law at all. It's deeply unethical, but it might technically be legal. The second example has many different interpretations. The most favorable one is that Trump was urging them to ch
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by dmatech 4y ago
Understandable. Some of us actually want team cohesion and collaboration instead of working on Jira tickets in isolation. Others want a purely asynchronous communication style that keeps the chit-chat to an absolute minimum. I personally
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My favorite aspect of this site is that one might voice an unorthodox or troubling idea so long as one does it respectfully. Rather than an expectation that everyone be highly emotional all the time, people are expected to be a bit more lo
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by dmatech 4y ago
I wouldn't necessarily call it introversion. It borders on misanthropy. Collaboration and communication require sustained interaction with other people. Management requires even more than that. You can only get so much done by worki
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by dmatech 4y ago
Under current law, you absolutely can get them for free after the copyright expires (if copies are still around). And you can make as many copies as you want.
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by dmatech 4y ago
That strictness of x86 execution order has been substantially relaxed in the last two decades and can be a bit of a pain to deal with in multithreaded code for the novice. The Pentium 3 added SFENCE (with SSE) and the Pentium 4 added LFENC
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by dmatech 4y ago
That's hardly the only option. They could simply lock the accounts in question without vanishing all data associated with them. This is how bans have historically worked. The Twitter approach of hiding everything is a counterproduct
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by dmatech 4y ago
Managerial types who value interpersonal interactions definitely value being in the office. But I've noticed that a lot of individual contributors in the technology field are almost outright antisocial. Perhaps their days are so full
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by dmatech 4y ago
I never remember hearing about this sort of behavior in the CPAN scene. There's something different at a cultural level with Node. With Node, there have been several instances of otherwise competent coders destroy their own work to m
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by dmatech 5y ago
So they cited Ian's 2016 article (which contained the AMD diagrams), then basically rendered those same diagrams in black and white in the patent. Pretty lazy.
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by dmatech 5y ago
Think of it as the CS equivalent of cell division and differentiation in biology.
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by dmatech 5y ago
It's very easy to use argc/argv securely as they currently are. POSIX clearly states that argc can be zero, but polkit didn't know that for some reason. When you're writing privileged software, you can't make assu
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by dmatech 5y ago
It seems abundantly clear that programs are allowed to pass an empty list as argv to execve, although these programs might not be POSIX-compliant. As for the "main" function, argc is only guaranteed to be nonnegative. A well-wri
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by dmatech 5y ago
The same could be said of Law & Order or any other police procedural. One of the tasks jurors have is specifically to assess the credibility of witnesses. But they can't act as an expert witness in the jury room and present their
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by dmatech 5y ago
Fear tends to polarize people. It drives them to seek drastic solutions to problems because the stakes are seen as too high to be calm and deliberate.
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by dmatech 5y ago
At this point, there really should be some sort of compiler warning when using "YYYY" and "MM" in the same format string. GCC does vaguely similar things with printf-style formats.
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by dmatech 5y ago
Hardly. Humans are not first and foremost political creatures. The notion that "everything is political" didn't get as extreme as it is now until recent years. It's made society far more combative because it's ma
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by dmatech 5y ago
"Platform manipulation" includes things like leveraging one account to promote another. This person mentions having multiple accounts suspended. If this person was having one account promote or retweet another (not uncommon with
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by dmatech 5y ago
Which model? I'm not above reverse-engineering a driver and building my own. I have an HL-2270DW, but I've never needed to print from Linux.
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by dmatech 5y ago
I think the age thing is about habits. A lot of older people grew up preferring reading stuff on paper to reading it on some flickering CRT display, and that habit is still with some of them. Younger people never got into the habit of pri
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by dmatech 5y ago
It's actually pretty complicated. https://www.ncsl.org/Documents/Elections/The_Canvass_May_201...
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by dmatech 5y ago
Unfortunately, YouTube seems to be trending away from letting people downvote stuff and having the vote mean anything. If I could see the upvotes and downvotes before viewing something, I'd know better than to view the spam.
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by dmatech 5y ago
I've reported quite a few tweets for linking to it or showing screenshots of it, as it's against the rules. While I don't much care for the content of these sites, I don't think legal websites should have to win a popula
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by dmatech 5y ago
Productivity is a function of both labor and capital. The owners of a factory might invest in machines that are 10x more efficient, but if they're no more difficult to operate, then the labor won't be any more scarce (and there
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by dmatech 5y ago
We already have that. It's called "fraud", but the definition of "profit" is not terribly loose.
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by dmatech 5y ago
Yeah for those (assuming it's TCP), you can do "ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev interface0 advmss 500 mtu lock 500" and see if it still freezes up. A lot of paranoid admins break PMTUD because they're terrified of ICM
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by dmatech 5y ago
Discipline can scale, but only among very smart and careful programmers. If you're going to have a one-size-fits-all standard that expects to include novice programmers, it can't include anything dangerous. Even smart and careful
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by dmatech 5y ago
It's presumably for the same reason that people make knock-offs of chips like the MPU-401 UART and the ELM327. There's a large installed base of applications for them. The drivers themselves can't possibly be that complex.
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by dmatech 5y ago
After the whole Fram situation, my trust in the WMF's direction and leadership is pretty much non-existent. That told me all I need to know about their priorities and ethics.
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by dmatech 5y ago
This advanced the short-term goal of keeping masks available to doctors at the expense of the long-term goal of maintaining their own credibility. People tell me that I should trust those those who lie to me because at least their goals are

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