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by fmajid 1y ago
I am (very slowly) migrating from iOS to GrapheneOS, for the same reasons as OP (privacy, Apple's increasingly user-hostile and developer-exploitative policies). Apart from migrations concerns, which are not GrapheneOS' fault, the
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by fmajid 1y ago
And yet it ignored the primary lesson of Erlang: no shared memory access whatsoever, which is what makes it so robust.
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by fmajid 1y ago
I’ve seen this behavior (backend processes don’t honor pg_terminate_backend(pid); ), albeit in an older version (PostgreSQL 14), and it was caused by excessively long plans for the LLVM-based JIT. Disabling the JIT fixed it.
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by fmajid 1y ago
UNESCO also has the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission under its umbrella, and the Trumpists want to rake the seabed for polymetallic nodules, environmental catastrophe be damned.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Add https://archive.ph/ before the URL and it will strip the paywall. But better to shun people who use Medium altogether.
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by fmajid 1y ago
io_uring is meant for high performance I/O, in other words server use. The desktop is almost entirely irrelevant.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Not to be confused with JOVIAL, Jules' Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language, which ran the US air traffic control systems for the longest time.
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by fmajid 1y ago
There aren't many global cities that can compare. New York, Paris, Tokyo, possibly Seoul or the San Francisco Bay Area. Dubai isn't it, unless all you care about is shopping.
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by fmajid 1y ago
It's capped. The Duke of Westminster is not paying 1.8% on his substantial feudal holdings in London.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Keep in mind UK terrorism legislation has been abused and is continuing to be, from prosecuting the failed Icesave bank to proscribing the non-violent Palestine Action activist group. If the Terrorism Act 2000 had been in effect in the 1980
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by fmajid 1y ago
London is also an attractive global city like few others. Most rich people would not want to live in Andorra-la-Vella just for tax breaks.
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by fmajid 1y ago
That Socialist hotspot, Texas, taxes property at 1.8%, vs. 0% in the UK. Can't inconvenience the feudal aristocracy (i.e. parasites descended from thugs), starting with Chuck von Battenberg, Sachsen, Coburg und Gotha.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me. If you used KeepassXC, you wouldn't need to worry about this at all since if is entirely free.
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by fmajid 1y ago
You need to add to your threat model having a stroke, where you no longer remember your passwords.
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by fmajid 1y ago
It can be a side-effect. Francis Ford Coppola lost all his family photos when his PC was stolen in a burglary while in Argentina to shoot “Tetro”. Of course, he didn’t have backups.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Dependencies introduce risks, but not using them at all puts you at a competitive disadvantage against those who are using them and thus achieve faster development time and time to market. What you need is a process to manage dependencies:
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by fmajid 1y ago
They have a staff of 7, and Google just hired 1,500 lawyers, on top of those they already had, to fight them. Interestingly, he was complimentary of the Trump administration’s efforts, including seeming no-brainers like vetting expert witne
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by fmajid 1y ago
Listen/Notify is potentially lossy and should not be used. At one of my previous companies we used it for cache invalidation (a trigger on tables would sent notify messages to invalidation Redis keys for potentially affected cache entr
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by fmajid 1y ago
FWIW, I was speaking yesterday with a friend who works on Big Tech antitrust at the European Commission, and he surprised me by telling me he considers Apple the worst of a rum lot, followed by Meta, Amazon then Google.
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by fmajid 1y ago
The officer in charge, Cressida Dick, was given a slap on the wrist. She was later appointed head of Scotland Yard, where she was a signal failure. The Mayor of London, fed up with her equivocations on malfeasance, corruption and abuses in
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by fmajid 1y ago
I had Serge Abiteboul and Xavier Leroy (author of OCaml) as TAs, teaching ML. The only effect was a deep and abiding hatred for the language.
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by fmajid 1y ago
No, they bought huge quantities of senior water rights in California and are shipping alfalfa grown there back to Saudi, essentially laundering water.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Usually that is a sign of subsidized water below cost, which disincentivizes the more efficient irrigation methods you highlight, at least that's what happens in California with is baroque system of senior and junior water rights and i
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by fmajid 1y ago
The UK is busy destroying the little agriculture it has with free-trade agreements like the one with Australia that has far fewer animal-welfare safeguards, thus tying British cattle growers' hands behind their backs, when Australia al
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by fmajid 1y ago
The same thing that would happen if you tried to land on a cloud.
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by fmajid 1y ago
The actual HP archive, held by Agilent, went up in flames during a California wildfire: https://spectrum.ieee.org/loss-of-hewlettpackard-archive-a-w...
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by fmajid 1y ago
Reminds me of the scene in “Barton Fink” where the Hollywood producer is made a Lieutenant Colonel immediately after Pearl Harbor.
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by fmajid 1y ago
In the Athenian system, after a conviction, the prosecution and the defendant would offer competing sentences for the crime. The prosecution recommended death, Socrates said he should be housed and fed for life by the state. The jurors were
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by fmajid 1y ago
And Bertrand Russell in his contemporaneous "History of Western Philosophy" (1946), which goes into more details on the historical context with Sparta. Plato was basically a disgruntled aristocrat who despised Athenian democracy t
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by fmajid 1y ago
They didn't need algebraic notation to see that water spouts follow a parabola.

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