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by kelnos 7mo ago
That's from the 1934 Communications Act. You're sure nothing has changed legislatively about the FCC in 92 years?
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Oh I absolutely agree. I'm not trying to "both-sides" this. I'm just saying that calling conservatives stupid/idiots isn't productive and isn't going to solve anything.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Hey, I'm not saying Trump and the GOP are great. They disgust me. But they talk to people in a way they find engaging. Even when they lie, somehow. But regardless, I'm not sure how what you said has anything to do with what I
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Years ago I was renting a condo in a building with a bit of an older system; on the outside there were a series of buttons, each hard-wired to each of the condo units, where the units had a phone handset on the wall, with a button on the ba
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by kelnos 7mo ago
That's pretty cool! If it were me, though, I'd be afraid that I'd forget to turn the socket off after using it. I guess I'd also set it up so right after the voicemail message runs and lets someone in, it would turn the
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Seriously, that was my thought too. Even if we were to stretch credibility and suggest that general consumers don't care about this sort of thing, they just released this for Windows Server in the past year? Windows really is a to
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by kelnos 7mo ago
It's tempting to dismiss them like that, but that doesn't fix anything. The reality is much more complicated. The Democratic party is far from perfect (they kinda suck, in fact), and if they aren't attracting voters, "t
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Yes. Many of these people are rich enough that they could stop working today and their descendants could maintain their lifestyle for generations. It's about power, and leveraging that power over people they don't like, for pett
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by kelnos 7mo ago
... while all the time blaming Democrats for everything they do themselves, at a much larger scale. Hypocrisy works, if you have an electorate that can't think critically and are addicted to "news" sources that confirm their
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by kelnos 7mo ago
A process not working on occasion doesn't mean the entire verification method is garbage. I get the desire to not have to trust a third party, but realistically, there isn't a way to function without doing so, outside of going out
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by kelnos 7mo ago
So you personally test your produce to ensure it's safe to eat, has no pesticides embedded in it that could harm you, etc.? You do that after every single trip to the grocery store or farmer's market? Every trip? You don&#x27
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Where in the Federal Communications Commission's governing legislation does it say that they're only allowed to regulate things sent through the airwaves?
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by kelnos 7mo ago
You're being sarcastic, right? The entire concept of "guaranteed to be secure" is a fantasy. Even EAL7 can't guarantee anything. It can only say that the tools used for verification didn't find anything wrong.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
How? The device phones home to the manufacturer's servers to get new updates. Manufacturer goes out of business, servers get shut down. How does it know where to get updates now?
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> But then vendors want to stop issuing them after 3 years Tough shit. You provide updates for the mandated amount of time, or you lose access to the market. No warnings, you're just done. > And "require longer support&
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> arrive in a new city/country, open Uber, specify in the app precisely where you want to go, choose a vehicle, when to get picked up, etc, track vehicle progress in real-time, up-front pricing This is actually something we should
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> I however did not see this technology coming to our phones, and becoming this commonplace. I didn't see a lot of things coming to phones. I never expected that I'd pay for things by hovering my phone over a payment termina
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Ah duh, hadn't thought of that. Same pipe trick, but with another thread blocking on the read end. That is a much simpler change than refactoring the main thread to poll on several FDs instead of just blocking in recv().
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I think it's more than the syntax, it's just the number of concepts you need to keep in your head to read a type signature, or a trait declaration, or whatever. There's only so much you can pack into a limited language befor
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by kelnos 7mo ago
That was my first thought! I never had this problem with Scala (2.x for me, but I guess there's similar syntax/concepts in 3). The article author does talk about naming trait impls and how to use them at call sites, but never see
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> When something near the bottom needs work, should there be a process for fixing it, which is a people problem? Or should there be a mechanism for bypassing it, which is a technical solution to a people problem? I don't think it&
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by kelnos 7mo ago
This is one of the (several?) things that make me very worried about Rust long-term. I love the language, and reach for it even when it sometimes isn't the most appropriate thing. But reading some of the made-up syntax in the "R
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by kelnos 7mo ago
The problem isn't on the server; the server already knows how to cancel things, and already supports cancellation over TLS. It's just that psql doesn't use it, due to the need for a refactor to make that work. Other psql-li
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> By comparison, delegating cancellation to a background background thread can be done non-intrusively. In principe no code outside the cancel path need changing. pthread_create() isn't async signal safe, though, so they can'
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Well, it does, because -- as the article notes -- psql creates and sends on the new connection inside the signal handler , and that doing the pipe-write thing instead (required since their TLS library is presumably not async signal safe) w
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by kelnos 7mo ago
In theory, yes, endash would be "--" and emdash would be "---", but oof, the three hyphens looks like way too much in normal text. So I've always used "--".
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I have used "--" as a lazy-man's emdash for decades at this point. Once I heard that people started assuming text that uses emdashes was written by an LLM I got worried that people were going to think that I'm an LLM,
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> There are architectural reasons why psql doesn’t yet use libpq’s encrypted cancellation functions (it “would need a much larger refactor to be able to call them due to the new functions not being signal-safe”) This surprised me. I w
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I think you lived in a strange bubble when you were a kid. When I was a teenager in the 90s, we'd have paper maps that we'd bring with us. We had no GPS. I don't think we knew what GPS was. In the late 90s we'd print
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I agree with you on the work shifting. Whenever someone takes some of our work burden from us, someone else just gives us more tasks to do, and we end up working for the same amount of time. Maybe the work ends up being more interesting o

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