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by gwd 3y ago
> Maybe you should check who you are replying to. Looks like we both need to look at who we're replying to more closely -- this is my first post in the thread. ;-) > In my own personal life, my parents had a cop search my car bec
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by gwd 3y ago
> If the charges were dropped; does it really matter what they have to say? Obviously you don't owe anyone here an explanation. But you're the one who seem to want us to believe that you were innocent enough that throwing you
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by gwd 3y ago
For Xen, it's historical reasons funneled into "don't break things for your users". In the olden times, Xen had our own fork of QEMU, as well as our own fork of Linux, and some other useful tools like pvgrub. These wer
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by gwd 3y ago
I half wonder if that's actually some part of their brain which actually wants to be caught.
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by gwd 3y ago
A few years ago my family went to a pub / Thai restaurant, and the portions were larger than we were expecting. I asked the owner if he could put the leftover food in a box for me to take away; he said, "Sorry, I can't do th
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by gwd 3y ago
You should only be waiting if someone else is writing. And yes, disallowing any concurrent writes, as SQLite does, is certainly going to be a bottleneck at some point, but unless you have a particularly write-heavy workload, it will pr
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by gwd 3y ago
I'm relatively new to the DB field, and have only really used SQLite; but it seems obvious to me that if you're doing a transaction, particularly a complicated one, then you should expect your transaction to fail occasionally du
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by gwd 3y ago
For my project I've been using Litestream to Cloudflare's R2, which is compatible with Amazon S3, and has a very generous free tier.
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by gwd 3y ago
Bingo: https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/superheating.h... .
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by gwd 3y ago
> I don't really know this space very well, and still have bad feelings toward Microsoft for their behavior in the 80s and 90s, but is MS actually abusing their monopoly position here? It's not illegal to have a monopoly, but o
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by gwd 3y ago
> There are simply no viable alternatives to something like Excel, for a lot of organizations at least. Anyone want to educate me on this? Anything I want to do in a spreadsheet, I can do in Gnumeric, Libre Office, or even Numbers; anyt
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by gwd 3y ago
Important context missing from TFA, if true. Do you have a reference? (A quick search didn't turn up anything.)
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by gwd 3y ago
> Spain's High Court has ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram's services in the country after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission, according to a court source.
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by gwd 3y ago
> C/C++ can’t be parsed accurately if only because of the pre-processor Yeah, decided to check this out to see if it could help review in our massive C-based project. Unfortunately, in a recent patch, of the 90 "hunks", 8
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by gwd 3y ago
(Replying to myself) I guess one answer to this is that particles which are (supposedly?) massless, like the photon, are affected by the space-time warping effects of gravity. A parallel construction wouldn't be true of magnetism or a
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by gwd 3y ago
But the acceleration meter won't measure any force because gravity is acting on every part of it uniformly. If you had an acceleration meter entirely made out of the same magnetic substance, and you brought a magnet near it, would the
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by gwd 3y ago
> It would be illogical to remove options and have less exploitation. It may be somewhat counterintuitive, but it's certainly not illogical. > Minimum wage laws are incredibly damaging as well. For example, the unpaid part-time &
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by gwd 3y ago
Well, look at the history of workplace safety laws (removing the option to work in dangerous conditions), minimum wage laws (removing the optin to work below a certain amount of money), and union protection laws. I haven't done a stud
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by gwd 3y ago
Go read about working conditions at factories in the 19th century. Those people weren't slaves either; they "chose" to work 12 hour days, 7 days a week, in extraordinarily dangerous conditions, because the alternate from the
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by gwd 3y ago
> This shall not prevent any technical storage or access ...or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service. If the functionality
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by gwd 3y ago
Most of it seems pretty good, but I'm not sure what to make of this one: "It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not hav
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by gwd 3y ago
Having a slab of asphalt in the middle of a city instead of something more useful, like an office building, shops, or a block of flats, is a negative externality.
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by gwd 3y ago
> But job applicants with criminal records are only going to match this description once or twice. For the rest of their lives, it's not going to be an unexpected question, and they'll have lots of practice in denying their rec
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by gwd 3y ago
I didn't say one should assume it, just that many people do . "Chemistry researcher committed fraud" is simply not the same as "Dishonesty expert committed fraud". You give an alternate explanation, but it'
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by gwd 3y ago
> I don't, but if I did, and I chose to lie about it, random Chinese parents would never know the difference. (Though entering China might have been a challenge.) Why ask? I think you'd be surprised how many people are really b
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by gwd 3y ago
Sure, that might have been the "trigger"; but that's missing the key thing that needs to be explained. If this were dishonesty by someone doing chemistry, it's unlikely that this would have hit the front page of HN. As
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by gwd 3y ago
Reportedly, a lot of people who choose to study psychology are motivated originally to figure out what's going on in their own heads (which they have a sense is not quite normal) [1]. I wonder if there's a similar dynamic with &q
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by gwd 3y ago
The X asked for a regex , not a command-line parameter. It's possible that the user was actually using POSIX grep, in which case Y ("don't invert the regex, use this command-line parameter to invert what's done with th
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by gwd 3y ago
"All models are wrong; some models are useful."
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by gwd 3y ago
Worth shipping, but not worth investing massive amounts of time in. On the other hand, suppose you actually hoped to grow and make enough money on something to pay the salary of a few dozen people. Let's say you start with golang and

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