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by geofft 5y ago
That's still the norm! You're supposed to use the upstream tarball if one exists, and all of the tooling expects a tarball of some sort. In fact there's an active discussion right now on debian-devel about maybe changing the
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by geofft 5y ago
Debian packaging is its own form of source control: there's a debian/changelog file with versions, and every time you submit something new to the Debian archive, it has to be a new version with a new changelog entry. Debian also h
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by geofft 5y ago
I would not expect that - every distro maintainer is reviewing every upstream change - every distro maintainer is qualified to review every upstream change if the threat model is malicious / underhanded code (either a malicious upstr
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by geofft 5y ago
If the last 20 years of American presence in Afghanistan are anything to go by, no, it's not actually easier.
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by geofft 5y ago
At the top of this thread, I set out a number of reasons why a) you are not "fighting a language" by using Rust or Go or Haskell or whatever - in fact you are more able to focus on the problem you want to solve b) there are many
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by geofft 5y ago
Wikipedia says they failed a safety inspection for breaches of containment. What were they failing to contain and what was the effect of the breach? I mean, the argument of the comment at the top of this thread seems pretty straightforward
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes, but we won't, so what are you going to do about it? Meaningful options appear to be "nothing," "enact some form of retribution/revenge against China," and "invade China so it never happens again, and
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by geofft 5y ago
Hm, I haven't used a ThinkPad in half a decade so I think you're thinking of someone else. :) 'ggreer perhaps?
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by geofft 5y ago
> Safe programming languages solve the easy problems: memory leaks, use-after-free errors, array overruns, etc. Safe languages provide no help beyond ordinary C code in solving the rather more difficult problem of computing a correct an
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by geofft 5y ago
Won't rustc_codegen_gcc effectively solve arch support? It's not done and shipped, but it exists and is usable and is landing into rustc, which is a fair amount of progress. (Or is SQLite portable to architectures that GCC does no
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by geofft 5y ago
I mean, that's definitely not the impression I had after getting the vaccine (first shot March 24, well before anyone came up with the "Delta" name for B.1.617.2). I stayed home and wore masks just as much as I did before the
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by geofft 5y ago
The comment above is asking " how many employers, colleges, etc. are now willing and legally able to require vaccination. " You're welcome to choose not to get vaccinated, and not to go to any such employers, colleges, etc.
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by geofft 5y ago
Long-term mask-wearing seem like an entirely reasonable social change. It's like any other clothing: you're protecting a vulnerable part of your body and also displaying respect for others. And it's mostly enforced by social
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by geofft 5y ago
Is there a particular reason you think that people shouldn't keep wearing masks everywhere literally forever, or is it just that it hurts your feelings? Barely a century ago, it wasn't common for doctors to wash their hands, becau
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes, the ABI in the sense of calling convention is the same on just about all amd64 UNIXes, including even macOS. Wikipedia has a good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#System... And Linu
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by geofft 5y ago
This is about user-mode QEMU, for which the question of "board" doesn't even apply - it runs on your host computer. https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/user/main.html Since the author's goal is
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by geofft 5y ago
I think you misread my comment. I'm specifically not advocating for different treatment. I'm saying any employee who wants to use the bathroom six times a day should be permitted to do so, IBS or no IBS. If you want to enjoy the
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by geofft 5y ago
Going to urgent care to get a routine doctor's note for a non-urgent situation wouldn't be covered by insurance, would it?
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by geofft 5y ago
Why require a doctor's note at all? Humans need to go to the bathroom sometimes, and six times in a workday is, while higher than average, not terribly so. If your business processes cannot deal with humans who need to use the bathroom
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by geofft 5y ago
As far as I can tell, social media was acting like a common carrier here - the @racetrust account was not shut down by Twitter. They appear to have deleted their account on their own.
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by geofft 5y ago
> No Platforming and censoring opposing voices only leads them to thrive underground. Frustratingly, the article offers no evidence for this claim. I understand the argument that censorship and deplatforming are bad because they are mo
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by geofft 5y ago
Was just about to post this. While the day-to-day of my job is like at any tech company, because I work for a regulated employer, a company that says "We will pay you to interview for us" immediately makes me lose interest. (Why d
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by geofft 5y ago
Not every startup idea needs to exist, and the world doesn't owe anyone attention to their startup. I can also imagine bootstrapping a startup that squeezes juice out of a bag using powerful motors and running into widespread skepticis
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by geofft 5y ago
The unsatisfying practical answer: No company whose business relies on their website is going to be comfortable assuming the answer is no. So "commercial" usage, where "commercial" is defined as "worth suing and h
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by geofft 5y ago
We didn't plan on leaving. We planned on winning. Unfortunately, it was a bad plan.
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by geofft 5y ago
In Soviet Russia the government force computer to control you. In capitalist America you freely choose to let a small number of corporations sell you computers which control you. There's a big difference! (In theory, at least.)
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by geofft 5y ago
I saw this recently: "We lost the war. Losing wars often puts you in a worse position. That's one reason starting wars you are unlikely to win is a bad idea." https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/14269
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by geofft 5y ago
As a wise person once said, playing dumb isn't clever, it's just obnoxious.
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by geofft 5y ago
I understand full well that you are claiming that URLs are public by definition. I am disputing that you are interpreting the definition correctly. The invention of the card catalog and the Rolodex does not compromise anything, because th
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by geofft 5y ago
I agree no one is saying that. I think they are being unsound in refusing to say that but also saying that URLs don't count as an authentication system. Is the argument "Information in an email should be treated as public"? T

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