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by larkost 1y ago
I have a hard time with this, and I don't think that you understand the word fascism well enough. Rather I think that what you really mean is that Communism has always wound up in authoritarianism. Fascism of course starts in authorita
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by larkost 1y ago
If anyone wants to raid some code for simpler YAML, I wrote a version for the RethinkDB tests a long time ago: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/main/test/common... The problem I was tryin
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by larkost 1y ago
Some years back, at a previous employer I had a related thundering herd problem: I was running an automated testing lab, and if a new job came in after a period of idleness, then we would have 100+ computers all downloading 3 (or more) mult
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by larkost 1y ago
I have never liked this statement of the problem. It is not that `set -e` is bad, it is that bash is a bit weird in this area and you have to know when things eat errors and when they don't. This is not really changed by `set -e`: you
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by larkost 1y ago
I think in this case you just need to change your mailing address with them. There is a California law (and from other comments it looks like 4 other states) that requires them to allow easy cancelations to CA residents. And since it is pro
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by larkost 1y ago
Can you provide more about this idea? I see the Boring company as being pretty feckless, and at the same time extremely boastful. They have gotten hopes up in a number of places about solving city traffic problems, only to go dark when the
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by larkost 1y ago
Just a warning in case others run into it: on very anemic systems (e.g.: AWS T2.micro running Windows, yes... I know...) uv will try to open too many simultaneous downloads, overloading things, resulting in timeouts. You can use ent ENV var
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by larkost 1y ago
In many cases the work is not really voluntary, there are sanctions for not taking it. Prisoners in some states are regularly put into solitary confinement for not "volunteering" to work these jobs (a punishment that some areas de
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by larkost 1y ago
The word "direct" is carrying an awful lot of weight in that sentence. The Catholic Church (as well as the Protestant and others) are very responsible for, or at least implicated in, many horrible things in the last few hundred ye
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by larkost 2y ago
CFRDT (Conflict Free Replicated Data Types) can absolutely reconcile many-writers situations. There are a number of these systems, and they all have their own rules around that replication (sometimes very complicated rules that are hard to
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by larkost 2y ago
The linked article does not go into many details about what they are measuring. So I have to wonder: could this property be used to make thinner wires for conducting electricity in bulk (e.g.: hosing wires, or transmission lines) by stackin
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by larkost 2y ago
I too think that CRDT databases are probably something you should explore. You generally have the whole database locally, and changes get synced pretty easily (but you have to live within the rules of your CRDT). The one I thought of (mostl
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by larkost 2y ago
While I agree with you on the opinion that capital gains taxes are low (I should not be paying less on my winnings from bets on the stock market than I am on the income from my work). I think you need to justify the opinion that income taxe
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by larkost 2y ago
I can't read the article, so I don't really know what they are arguing for there. The headline sounds a bit click-baity, so I don't want to guess what the content is. But looking from a sex standpoint blind auditions are resp
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by larkost 2y ago
Unconscious biases are well studied, and a good presenter can show it live on stage. Please explain to me how %85 of Fortune 500 CEOs are white men. I don't believe for a moment that white men (myself included) are generically better a
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by larkost 2y ago
No. If Tesla (and the other companies mentioned) were investing all of this money into the business, then it would not be showing up as profits. Company taxes are not like individual taxes where only income is considered, and spending (most
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by larkost 2y ago
How do you explain the un-equitable outcomes that we have been getting? The whole point of DEI is that there are (largely unconscious) biases that have been producing these un-equitable outcomes, and we need some conscious effort to get rid
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by larkost 2y ago
This is wrong, and based on a (largely deliberate) misunderstanding of what DEI is. DEI is not a push to have quotas. Rather it is based on the assumption that if you see one group being overrepresented then there is probably a bias in favo
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by larkost 2y ago
The idea of a pardon is exactly that: it erases the record of the crime/conviction. I think you are thinking of a commutation. That ends the punishment while not absolving the person of the crime. So the January 6th criminals who got p
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by larkost 2y ago
I forgot to mention the Madison one that I was in before then: https://www.facebook.com/groups/252293088142844/
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by larkost 2y ago
In the U.S. the name Stammtisch has often been co-opted by German-speaking clubs. I myself helped usher the Philadelphia one through a low point 20 years ago. They are much bigger now, with at least 4 weekly meeting around the Philly area (
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by larkost 2y ago
Here is the STRICT table type page: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html It is fairly straightforward: you just have to add STRICT to your table definition and you have it. And the FOREIGN KEY support is here: https:&#
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by larkost 2y ago
No, you have history on its head. It was not seen as an absolute until the , and 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, then strengthened in 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Prior to that reasonable regulations were allowed (and what
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by larkost 2y ago
We already have that: spray-and-prey is common, as are bystanders killed (even those who are just going about their lives in their own homes). But the weapons of the day were single-shot before reloading. In your argument we would only be r
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by larkost 2y ago
The argument that the grandparent is making is that the U.S. Supreme Court recently created legal president that only restrictions on firearms that have similar laws that were enforced during the creation of the Second Amendment can be cons
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by larkost 2y ago
I would suspect that it is the weight of the vehicle that is the primary driver there. There is some additional negative effects of the vehicle being taller (increasing roll), but that is probably mostly mitigated by the battery pack pullin
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by larkost 2y ago
Outside of a host cell viruses do not fit any of the definitions of life: - they do not seek or consume sources of nutrients or energy - they do not have a metabolism - they do not grow In fact the only place they fit the definition is r
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by larkost 2y ago
The low-earth orbit generally means that this is not as big of an issue as in older satellite technologies. Currently if you are in an area where the satellite does not need to bounce your data through one or more other satellites before hi
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by larkost 2y ago
I think he is probably right, if you think of Starship has a government-paid program to produce a moon lander. The Starship program has blown though the NASA money to produce the basic version (but not yet the additional money agreed for a
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by larkost 2y ago
I would argue that a system like the Japanese Hiragana or Katakana are a better system: they are each 56 letters that directly correspond to syllables. So "ha" is a single letter, as is "he", as is "be". With t

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