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by foldr 4mo ago
Your comment perfectly illustrates that all sorts of groups of all sorts of different political stripes (or none at all) have been treated unfairly at times. All of the issues you raise are serious ones, but they don’t support the spurious
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by foldr 4mo ago
That's because there's a pending appeal. It may take a while for the situation to fully resolve, legally speaking, but I think it's unlikely that the ban will be sustainable in the long term.
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by foldr 4mo ago
>But they were acting on policies which require them to treat non-white members of the public differently. There is no actual evidence of this. Some people apparently think they can read the minds of the officers on the scene. And, being
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by foldr 4mo ago
The Palestine Action ban was overturned by the courts. And putting this together with the Nowak case leads to an almost contradictory position. Whatever the issues with police handling of pro-Palestinian protestors, they're not instanc
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by foldr 4mo ago
There's a thought experiment in the philosophy of mind where your brain is gradually replaced, neuron by neuron, with artificial units that replicate the exact input and output mappings of the original neurons. The question, of course,
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by foldr 4mo ago
It’s hard to say. What would happen if Germany demanded that US forces leave? Germany undoubtedly has the right to do this. I don’t think anyone can say what would happen with any confidence, as it’s quite an outlandish scenario. My guess i
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by foldr 4mo ago
Or, to put it more succinctly, Iraq is occupied by the US in about the same sense that Germany is. And while the US no doubt exerts influence over Germany in part via its military power, I think the position that the US military presence in
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by foldr 4mo ago
The US military presence in Iraq is already far smaller than its presence in Germany and many other countries. Certainly, the US is a global superpower (albeit a declining one) that exerts influence via its military strength. But Iraq is no
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by foldr 4mo ago
My post wasn’t defending the Iraq war. It was just pointing out that the war was not a land grab. Iraq is not now a part of the UK or US (in contrast to the situation with Russia and Crimea, for example).
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by foldr 4mo ago
Ok, but you can say the same for the US. It also has vastly more troops in Germany than Iraq, and it also does not control the Iraqi government. And the less said about Afghanistan the better. So where is the land grab?
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by foldr 4mo ago
What land did Tony Blair grab? You can disagree with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq without making the exaggerated claim that this was part of some kind of long-term imperialist occupation. The UK currently has fewer military personne
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by foldr 4mo ago
Yes, it’s quite common for people to stay in abusive relationships, which can certainly include sexual abuse or rape.
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by foldr 4mo ago
If you can understand what someone means when they talk about a “small elephant”, then you can understand what they mean when they talk about “portable assembly”. In this case, the relevant point is that you can write ARM64 assembly routine
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by foldr 4mo ago
Obviously. Who could possibly be writing ARM assembly code who is not also aware that system calls, etc. will vary across platforms? Sometimes you do seem to make negative comments just for the sake of it.
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by foldr 4mo ago
The article is perfectly clear: > The good news is that it is very easy to write assembly which targets Apple’s computers as well as the other 64-bit ARM devices running operating systems other than Darwin.
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by foldr 4mo ago
Most programming language features are not strictly needed. They’re just quality of life improvements that are on balance a good addition to the language.
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by foldr 4mo ago
Twitter feed is endless copypasta whining about how untidy SF looks on account of people who are vastly less fortunate than this guy. Oh, and a Pepe meme for anyone who's not able to read the subtle signals .
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by foldr 4mo ago
>I write in the past tense because I haven't crossed paths with [Andrew Tridgell] in two decades But err, don't let that stop you, Space Hobo! I'm not sure how anyone is taking this Mastodon post seriously. The author bar
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by foldr 4mo ago
I should think most open source software is maintained by people without any special training or qualifications. And would you expect to obtain the services of, say, a highly qualified plumber or electrician for free? It might be more usefu
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by foldr 4mo ago
If you want to go down that semantic route, then being an open source maintainer clearly isn't a profession, as it requires neither specialized training nor qualifications! In terms of abuse, I was thinking of this issue thread: https
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by foldr 4mo ago
Same issue there. A profession is an occupation that you get paid for doing. AFAIK the rsync maintainer does it for free. And he mainly seems to be getting abuse in return for that service.
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by foldr 4mo ago
That's an interesting use of the word 'job'. How much is the rsync maintainer paid?
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by foldr 4mo ago
On the contrary: it's the people posting unhinged comments on an issue tracker that will be rushing to delete them in the years to come.
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by foldr 4mo ago
That’s not a test of whether the changes are bad; it’s a test of the Democrats’ character. We know the changes are bad. If subsequent administrations do nothing to reverse them, then they are bad too.
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by foldr 5mo ago
This is a bug that could also happen in Rust if someone used 'unwrap', or if the code panicked for any other reason. You can have logic bugs in any language. Remember the Cloudflare outage of Nov 2025. It's also worth noting
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by foldr 5mo ago
Clearly we don’t need this feature. Just because the Go team decides to implement a feature doesn’t imply that they must think that the language needs the feature. You’re searching for contradictions where none exist.
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by foldr 5mo ago
Nil references in Go aren't likely to be a source of CVEs. Dereferencing a nil reference is not undefined behavior in Go; it's guaranteed to panic.
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by foldr 5mo ago
But they haven’t added generic methods, really. This change just lets you use method syntax in cases where you could have used a function. It’s a pretty conservative change that I think a lot of people here are misunderstanding. Actual gene
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by foldr 5mo ago
I think the jury’s still out on how big an impact AI will have on overall, average productivity. But it’s definitely a productivity boost for someone who’s capable of writing code without it. If you want to be super conservative, don’t even
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by foldr 5mo ago
The artificial horizon hadn't failed.

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