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by haberman 8y ago
> The current set of namespaces in the kernel are: mount, pid, uts, ipc, net, user, and cgroup. [...] [Time is] not namespaced. [...] The kernel keyring is another item not namespaced. I've always argued that "everything is a
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by haberman 8y ago
> This doesn't give you any more precision than using floats directly, just a wider 'mantissa' range. I think this analysis misses a deep and important point. The library you linked uses decimal floating point (in softw
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by haberman 8y ago
That definition of "malicious compliance" refers to orders that come from a superior . Why should people outside the SQLite project have standing to give such an order to the SQLite maintainers in the first place? Why should the
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by haberman 8y ago
Review of what? As I understand it, the title company reviews and insures everything related to the title. And the Purchase and Sale agreement is a standard form contract. What would a buyer need a lawyer to review?
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by haberman 8y ago
I like those insights. The danger with labeling words as violence though is that it leads many to the conclusion that words should be policed in the way physical violence is. A critical difference between words and physical violence is th
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by haberman 8y ago
I don't think Ted Ts'o is a "rape apologist", nor a "reprehensible person." I don't think that calling him that is "educating people", I think it is expressing a particular narrative and world v
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by haberman 8y ago
> But we have set it to never charge over 80% of capacity to maximize that limit. New Tesla owner here, hadn't heard that! Will you not charge above 80% even on trips?
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by haberman 8y ago
Social Constructionism and Blank Slatism are theories that can be tested. There is plenty that can be published on these topics that is based in evidence rather than ideology.
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by haberman 8y ago
This isn't simply a case of poor quality control. Sure, hoax articles have made it through some (largely pay-to-publish) journals in other fields from time to time. And yes those incidents should inspire reflection and correction, as
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by haberman 8y ago
> “There have been numerous objections to this bill, and serious legal concerns have been raised,” Brown said. “I don’t minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation. Nevertheless, recent events
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by haberman 8y ago
> C doesn't let you write "string x = y" because it doesn't have string as a primitive variable type; that's the whole and only reason. But why does C not have string as a primitive variable type? It's for
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by haberman 8y ago
C teaches you how a computer works because the C abstract machine is defined such that operations that must be manually performed in assembly language must also be manually performed in C. C doesn't let you write something like:
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by haberman 8y ago
If you're suspicious about me, it's not very well-founded, considering my main comment thread on this story takes issue with the blog's claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039801 I just prefer to h
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by haberman 8y ago
There is a lot of detail here, but the higher-level takeaway is this: the Python C API is a very "wide" API. It exposes lots of details of CPython: the good, the bad, and the ugly. You get direct access to pointers to the underl
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by haberman 8y ago
> If you can build a system that doesn't require time synchronization, yet doesn't have any significant drawbacks relative to what Spanner provides, you'd be better off using this alternative system. But you describe exact
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by haberman 8y ago
Disagreement about what though? Does Spanner's solution have an objective problem? Do you or others in your community have specific reasons to believe that it cannot deliver on its promises?
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by haberman 8y ago
Without some description of what "false claims" and "misinterpretation" you mean, this is a content-free post.
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by haberman 8y ago
> We will trace the failure to guarantee consistency to a controversial design decision made by Spanner that has been tragically and imperfectly emulated in other systems. This post doesn't establish any "controversy" abou
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by haberman 8y ago
According to the article, publication was approved by Editor-In-Chief Mark Steinberger, who founded the magazine 25 years ago. The members of the editorial board did not just threaten resignation, but (according to the article) threatened t
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by haberman 8y ago
> I think the NSF would be justified in quashing this paper early instead of letting it play out in the marketplace of ideas, because of the risks to the marketplace of ideas itself if the paper is put to the debate it otherwise deserv
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by haberman 8y ago
Looks to be a complicated issue, with very different performance profiles across different microarchitectures: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-isa-extensions...
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by haberman 8y ago
Terminal emulators have tabs/windows, tmux has tabs/windows, vim has tabs/windows. All with different keyboard shortcuts and semantics. I wish this were all unified into a single window/tab/keybinding model. That
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by haberman 8y ago
Interesting. It seems then that we can understand the difference between the 16->32 design of IA-32 (1985) and the 32->64 design of x86-64 (2003) as being heavily influenced by the fact that out-of-order execution had become an impor
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by haberman 8y ago
Who said anything about genocide? The only specific position I have mentioned on this thread is dissenting from a corporate diversity policy. Do you have a genuine desire to understand what I am saying? If so, why would you suppose I am
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by haberman 8y ago
> Some people that are loudly ignorant, especially those that defend their ignorance vigorously, face consequences in professional settings. Sort of like Galileo did? Sometimes the societal norms of what is considered "ignorant&quot
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by haberman 8y ago
Appreciate the heads-up. I think it is a legitimate point despite its unsavory origins. But I agree that its origin makes invoking it a poor choice in low-trust discussion.
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by haberman 8y ago
I understand your position. But too often people who have legitimate gripes with society (like you say) are quick to classify legitimate disagreement with an attack on their identity. Disagreement over a company's diversity policies
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by haberman 8y ago
I think this is a very cool concept, but it doesn't seem to protect you from your environment. When you write the program in your editor, how do you know it's not inserting rogue code before it writes them to disk? When you run
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by haberman 8y ago
I have nothing against shorts -- they're betting on what they believe and I respect that. I can't even say I disagree, though I hope the longs are right. My point was only that when there's a lot of money on the line, we sho
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by haberman 8y ago
Is there any corroboration of this? Like that this is even someone who worked at Tesla? I'm certainly not discounting that it could be real, but with so many people shorting Tesla, any uncorroborated information should be looked at w

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