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by jpollock 4y ago
I can confirm that I have never had a friend beaten by someone operating in their official capacity as an employee of a corporation. Nor have I ever had a friend threatened with violence by someone acting in their official capacity as an em
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by jpollock 4y ago
It was in the early 90s. Why would you expect it to make the news?
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by jpollock 4y ago
I have no desire to be part of a union because of my one-person removed (friends) experience with union violence. 1) Interns, not being part of the union, needed to cross the picket line (Canada Federal Government strike). My friend (female
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by jpollock 4y ago
I think there are different perceptions on what Facebook's tool does. It could be "send to the front of the moderation queue." or, it could be "ban it immediately globally". People's perception also probably de
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I'm talking about NZ's history of censorship, the tools that they already have for Internet censorship, and why the NZ government considered it important. The IP block is a tool. It is also able to intercept HTTP traffic for sub-d
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by jpollock 4y ago
NZ would have turned Facebook off, and said precisely why - Facebook wanted the ability to continue to distribute videos showing a terrorist murdering New Zealanders who were praying. The NZ Government would have won that argument. "F
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by jpollock 4y ago
New Zealand has always had an official censor (Office of Film and Literature Classification [1]), responsible for what works are available in the country. They already have an internet filter which blocks access to certain domains/ip r
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by jpollock 4y ago
The problem the FCC is solving is: Person is in an emergency, they pick up the closest device and dial 911. That needs to go through, complete with location information. The specific triggers for the rule were old-landline handsets plugged
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by jpollock 4y ago
Probably related to [1]: "The FCC requires that providers of interconnected VoIP telephone services using the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) meet Enhanced 911 (E911) obligations. E911 systems automatically provide emergency s
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by jpollock 4y ago
https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=791114&p=5747565 "Google also copied the nine-line rangeCheck function in its implementing code" Comparison between the two, discussed back in 2012: https://news
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by jpollock 4y ago
Those are quite copyrightable, in the same way that rangeCheck() is copyrighted.
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by jpollock 4y ago
I work to "assert one thing", and the assertions are added to help with debugging. I sometimes even assert starting conditions if they can at all change. Without a "assert one thing", what tends to happen is there will b
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by jpollock 4y ago
Paying for maintenance is part of a viable risk management plan. Due diligence is a measure of the size of the risk. Eventually, the risk will outweigh the cost of checking. Some firms will track the cost vs risk and act based on that, othe
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by jpollock 4y ago
Risk management reveals risks such as: "the vendor disappeared", "the vendor hacked us", "someone hacked us through the vendor", "the vendor is no longer providing support". Those are all risks associ
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by jpollock 4y ago
Isn't this the responsibility of the team choosing to use that project (transitively or directly)? If this was a commercial vendor that went out of business, we wouldn't be discussing it. It would be a failure in the procurement p
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by jpollock 4y ago
We can't determine if this is a large number or not without knowing the total population - of either rent stabilized apartments, or all apartments available for rent. A certain amount of empty property should be expected - they do requ
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by jpollock 4y ago
There are high costs to an empty apartment. The bank doesn't stop demanding payment if the apartment is empty. Same with property taxes, heating, insurance, groundskeeping, etc. You can even find that the maintenance costs increase as
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by jpollock 4y ago
There haven't been many recently. Airbus/Boeing accidents while taxing: https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:11:::NO ::: 2021: 1 20210220001669I - ON TAXI OUT FROM THE DE-ICE PAD THE RIGHT WING STRUCK AN IMP
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by jpollock 4y ago
The "Strengthening Exercises" for the soleus muscle would be a way to target it? Unless it needs a specific interval to get it into some sort of oxygen deficit or something? (From the linked page[1]) Some exercises to strengthen y
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by jpollock 4y ago
Think remote file system where a different node is providing the mtime, so it can have substantial diffs between nodes.
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by jpollock 4y ago
I think __DATE__ without redaction pushes the dependency change 1 level down, to the .o file. The .a/.so/.exe would no longer match the inputs (the .o files), causing a re-link.
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by jpollock 4y ago
Yes, you can go out of your way to make your builds non-deterministic. That should break in Make as well. I don't know enough about bazel to answer your question definitively, but "stamping" is what you want to search for. h
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by jpollock 4y ago
Bazel is more strict about what constitutes a dependency change. It doesn't use mtime on the file, it relies on the checksum. It also considers the command line flags to be part of the cache key. So, spurious changes (touching a file)
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by jpollock 4y ago
This does work. At least it works for me. There is a difference between doing a crappy job and solving a crappy problem. This is the difference between "toil" and "eliminating toil". https://sre.google/sr
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by jpollock 4y ago
The argument was that the addition of a transmission would allow more control in snow. Is that only in situations where there isn't traction control, or where it is disabled? Would traction control be expected to outperform a human on
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by jpollock 4y ago
I'm curious on the relative performance of traction control? Isn't the goal of traction control to limit the power to the wheel? Reading on how TCS works [1], it seems it applies the brake and may limit power from the engine? [1]
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by jpollock 4y ago
When I went to games as a kid, you would frequently see people watching the game with a radio and ear piece to get the commentary.
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by jpollock 4y ago
Without knowing the number of tests performed, you can both be correct. Theirs would be the false positive rate (FPR) or false negative rate (FNR), and yours would be an probability, which takes the FPR (or FNR) rate, the number of tests an
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by jpollock 4y ago
Hostile to human life means "humans cannot exist without technological assistance". It doesn't mean mass death, that's a measure of the Carrying Capacity. Hostility means carrying capacity is zero, or close to it.
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by jpollock 4y ago
My understanding is that it can be extremely difficult to layoff individuals/teams inside of France. It might be easier to shut down an entire company/line of business.

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