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by interroboink 9mo ago
Ultimately, the Senate decides on whether to convict/remove for impeachment. The SC does not decide it. Sure, I imagine the Senate would generally want to broadly stay in agreement with the SC, but they don't have any obligation t
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by interroboink 9mo ago
> So there is literally only the goodwill of one single person Well, not quite. Immunity from prosecution is not immunity from impeachment/removal (which is a political, not judicial, process). Of course, that has its own problems
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by interroboink 9mo ago
I think you are imagining a high-speed chase, and I agree with you in that case. But what I was trying to describe is a "mild mannered" getaway driver. Not fleeing from cops, not speeding. Just calmly driving to and from crimes. S
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by interroboink 9mo ago
But I think you're missing their "like bank robberies" point. Punishing the avenue of transport for illegal activity that's unrelated to the transport itself is problematic. I.e. people that are driving safely, but using
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by interroboink 9mo ago
Hear hear. I'm also a daily LMS/squeezebox user, across many years. In fact, given the full-throated open source nature of that platform (you can even build your own player with a raspberry pi[1]), I doubt I'll ever need to u
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by interroboink 10mo ago
Random curious person here: does mlock() itself cause the pre-fault? Or do you have to scribble over that memory yourself, too? (I understand that mlock prevents paging-out, but in my mind that's a separate concern from pre-faulting?)
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by interroboink 11mo ago
Yeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1]. Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2]. Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server. [1] ht
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by interroboink 11mo ago
Also, beware of taking generalities (such as the claims of this study) and applying that directly that to your specific life, or anyone else's. I mean, I like your comment and am glad you got thinking about this, but it's just a l
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by interroboink 11mo ago
To say nothing of the launchpad sound suppression water system[1] that dumps 7,300 gal/sec (about 2–3 seconds for one swimming pool)! Though that's just gravity-fed, of course. Still pretty cool though, I think (: [1] https:&#x2F
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by interroboink 1y ago
I don't know your exact situation, but be sure you're not mixing up "thrashing" with "using swap". Obviously, thrashing implies swap usage, but not the other way around.
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by interroboink 1y ago
It seems to me that someone like you, seen from the outside (e.g. from a code-reviewing colleague), simply appears to be getting more productive, with no drop in quality. Maybe some stylistic shifts. I don't think anyone is complaining
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by interroboink 1y ago
By some logic, that would mean it is the most battle-tested and highest-stakes (and therefore most carefully-managed) choice. I.e. reasons in favor. Not that I disagree with you, but maybe not for the reasons you say (:
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by interroboink 1y ago
> Run that on someone else's managed k8s setup ... this way I'm only responsible for my application and its interface. It's the eternal trade-off of security vs. convenience. The downside of this approach is that if there
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by interroboink 1y ago
I've heard Einstein's General Relativity described that way. Special Relativity was not such a big breakthrough. Something like it was on the verge of being described by somebody in that timeframe — all the pieces were in place, a
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by interroboink 1y ago
Basically the .plan file revived (: [1] John Carmack was well-known for keeping his development notes and other thoughts in a .plan file[2][3] Aside: it saddens me a little how the simple idea of copying files onto a server is so many step
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by interroboink 1y ago
Time to re-watch Starman (: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(film)
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by interroboink 1y ago
This idea of a curated "weird video clips" stream has always interested me. I've seen a few variations over the years. It's on my back-burner list to make a portable projector that does this. For a purely-online version,
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by interroboink 1y ago
Obligatory "there's an xkcd for everything": https://xkcd.com/1500/ (:
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by interroboink 1y ago
I haven't read the article, so just speaking generally... (and not meaning to contradict you, just thinking aloud) I think there's some overlap between "taste" and "thinking for yourself" — though they are not
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by interroboink 1y ago
FreeBSD has had jails since version 4 (~year 2000), fwiw. Much of the technology was there, but Docker was able to achieve a critical mass, with streamlined workflows. Perhaps as much a social phenomenon as a technical one?
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by interroboink 1y ago
Jujutsu has many Mercurial-style features, one of them being revsets[1] - a set-notation-style DSL for selecting changesets (eg: which ones to log, etc). I have never found anything as powerful as revsets in Git.[2] [1] https://j
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by interroboink 1y ago
In case it helps you, I found this overview helpful: https://metacpan.org/dist/LWP-Authen-OAuth2/view/lib/LWP/Aut... Clearly written by someone who was also frustrated by the experience (:
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by interroboink 1y ago
The thing I like here is that it runs locally. I use Vim keyword completion[1] a lot for next-word completion. It does a broadly similar sort of "look at surrounding code to offer good suggestions" thing (no LLM stuff, of course).
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by interroboink 1y ago
Yeah, agreed it's weird. For another data point, this catalog.data.gov site[1] lists the license as "us-pd" (ie public domain in the USA). But then yeah, like you said the attribution demand is invalid. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by interroboink 1y ago
If anybody just wants to download the hi-res images, Internet Archive is your friend: https://archive.org/details/usda-pomological-watercolor-coll... You can have fun with 'em since they're public domain (:
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by interroboink 1y ago
This is one of those interesting galvanizing points where different people's POVs are fascinating to me. To abuse your metaphor a bit... I get the sense that some people see the "nihilist pit" (or somesuch) as a dark scary th
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by interroboink 1y ago
This is not embedding the C Lua runtime and compiler, but rather a complete implementation of Lua 5.3. This feat is made possible by the underlying Luerl library, which implements a Lua parser, compiler, and runtime, all in Erlan
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by interroboink 1y ago
The old "it's easier to port a shell than a shell script" quote comes to mind (:
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by interroboink 1y ago
I thought your phrasing of "take some good memories" = photographs was kinda interesting, given the topic (: As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1314/ (though I do find myself in the "don't w
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by interroboink 1y ago
From "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"[1]: What would happen if I print all this down at the scale we have been discussing? How much space would it take? It would take, of course, the area of about a million pinheads ... Al

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