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by gizmo686 5mo ago
That still requires detecting when a misaligned load happens.
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by gizmo686 5mo ago
One time pads are the only solution that is secure from an information theoretic perspective. In practice, however, that is not important. You would essentially be securing yourself against a weapon that no one has, and most experts think c
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by gizmo686 5mo ago
I could imagine somewhere trying to make that the rule, but I have a hard time imagining that rule being enforceable. At least for US federal taxes, losses do not need to be tied to revenue. As long as they occur in the same tax year, you c
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by gizmo686 5mo ago
At 8 layers of management (so 9 layers total, with the bottom rung being non-management), 3 reports per manager comes out to 6561 employers on the bottom rung. At 5 reports each, that 8 layers would give you over 300k at the bottom, an 10 e
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by gizmo686 5mo ago
The negotiations that were occuring directly prior to Spirit's shutdown were not merger related; but a direct government bailout.
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by gizmo686 5mo ago
Why does any of this imply they should become a regulated utility? This seems like a textbook case of the free market pushing prices down to cost. Having alternative revenue streams pushed that minimal price down; but even without that, the
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by gizmo686 5mo ago
Bankcruptcy and corporate death in general are important. However, the details of how that is managed can vary wildly, and not all implementations are equal. In this case, the bankcruptcy was handled by cancelling all flights with 1 day of
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
I think the death spiral breaks at step 3. Financially stable and literate people do not pay credit card interest. They pay off the full balance every month resulting in 0 interest payments. In cases where they need credit beyond the short
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
People are used to living in highly regulated markets. When they go to a grocery store to buy lettuce, people don't stop to ask "what regulatory regime is this lettuce being sold under?". They just trust that food being sold
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
That may be surprisingly difficult in Rust. We generally think of Option<T> using O to represent None. However, it can actually use any invalid value of T
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
Maybe I just haven't worked in enough start ups. But where I have worked, there are a lot of things stopping that. Most people don't have access to any production keys. For those that do, we have policies about how to manage them.
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
The closest I am aware of is clippy (`cargo clippy` in a standard Rust project will run it with default configurations). Clippy is essentially a linter; and one of its checks catches cases where different enum variants have a significantly
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
Open source is driven by contributions. Most of the time, if someone wants a feature, implements the feature, and submits a reasonable PR to a project, that project will have the feature. In this case, the PR appears to have been written by
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
Anything that requires an electrician to come and modify your mains connections (followed, presumably by a municipal inspection), defeats the main benefit of balcony solar, which is that it is a commodity unit that can be installed by non-e
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by gizmo686 6mo ago
The Department of Health and Human Services releases a figure every year. Their current estimate ranges from $6.6 million to $21.5 million. Note also, that we also often talk about statistically life years and statisicsl quality life years;
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
The problem for a would be attacker is that the US still has enough military power to give almost any country on the planet a very bad day every day for as long as the US cares to. Historically, the way to win against the US is to survive l
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
C strings also allow you to do a 0 copy split by replacing all instances of the delimeter with null (although you need to keep track of the end-of-list seperatly).
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
Engineers don't build the cheapest bridge that just barely won't fail. They build the cheapest bridge that satisfies thousands of pages of regulatory requirements maintained and enforced by dozens of different government entities.
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
It is more than just a problem of tutorials. Game engines absolutely favor some genres over others. If you are inexperienced and asking for advice on making a game, the most common answer nowadays is to use Unity. That is reasonable advice.
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
LED light bulbs exist exclusively for compatibility with Edison sockets. Every LED fixture I have seen had a single transformer for the entire fixture; and that transformer was reasonably separate from the LEDs themselves.
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
At least for servers, power supplies are highly modular. It just takes 1 moderately sized customer to commit to buying them, and a DC module will appear. Looking at the manual for the first server line that came to mind, you can buy a Dell
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
Even programs are just specifications by that standard. When you write a program in C, you are describing what an abstract C machine can do. When the C compiler turns that into a program it is free to do so in any way that is consistent wit
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
I think there are two distinct attack types for LLMs. Jailbreaking is what most people think of, and consists of structureing a prompt so the LLM does what the prompt says, even if it had prior context saying not to. The other type of attac
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
I've implemented trits a bunch of times and have never regretted it. How you get 5 possible values into a tri state Boolean is beyond me though.
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
It's not clear from the article, but "niche optimization" does not mean "optimization that is only useful in a very specific circumstance". It is a specific optimization based on the idea of storing one type inside
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
I doubt they were thinking about Option<bool> when making niches work like this. Option<NonZeroU32> seems like a much more reasonable to justify this with. Also, enums can easily have invalid bit patterns that are unused without
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
I'm surprised that trinary logic has not become a standard part of standard libraries yet. Almost every project I have worked on ends up with some form of a yes/no/maybe abstraction.
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
No. SELinux is based on the Linux Security Module framework, which places explicit hooks at key points within the kernel. They also operate under pretty fundamentally different philosophies. Seccomp is based on a program dropping its own pe
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
You can mostly do that with Seccomp on Linux (I have no experience with FreeBSD). Child processes inherit the restrictions from the parent. You can therefore have the parent fork, setup it's rules, then exec. This is exactly how syscal
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by gizmo686 7mo ago
Refundable tax credits are a thing the government knows how to do. If a negative income tax law was written to allow refunds to people who owe net negative taxes, the IRS could do it.

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