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541.
by lixtra 7y ago
Abducting people in western countries unfortunately seems to be the norm in the war on terror, not only by the Israelis [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case
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by lixtra 7y ago
I don’t think anything is possible risk free. So it comes down to your/societies risk tolerance how save, expensive and slow or risky, cheap and fast progress should be. Ideally the risk is taken by conscious and free individuals. But
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by lixtra 7y ago
The problem with cows is supposedly their farts and blurbs that contain a lot of methane- a powerful greenhouse gas.
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by lixtra 7y ago
Learn to use a profiler for your programming language. It will tell you what’s worth optimizing in your programs. I.e. if your program spends only 10% of the time talking to others than that may be the maximum you can optimize by choosing a
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by lixtra 7y ago
One side of me agrees, the other thinks of the Wright brothers. Oh wait, they got someone killed.
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by lixtra 7y ago
> In fact it's quite a bizarre thing to codify in a constitution otherwise. I don’t know about the US but in many jurisdictions you cannot be forced to testify against close family (spouse, children). It’s clearly about the state no
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by lixtra 7y ago
And do you support other backends as well (i.e. MySQL?). Does EdgeDB still offer a regular SQL interface because people need time to migrate. Even if I was convinced EQL was the future I wouldn’t throw out the old stuff. If the old stuff co
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by lixtra 7y ago
In particular since the base image is shared among all containers using it. It's 35 mb extra for n containers (n>>1).
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by lixtra 7y ago
Yes, see https://github.com/IanLunn/Hover/issues/123 . Last pure MIT version: https://github.com/IanLunn/Hover/commit/7b2597e011c3495511f9...
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by lixtra 7y ago
Related: https://ianlunn.github.io/Hover/
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by lixtra 7y ago
Such a clause would be nil in most jurisdictions. EDIT: to be more specific: if you get raped at work, the criminal part against the rapist goes to court as usual. The case against the company because of establishing a rape culture and you
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by lixtra 7y ago
Ok, I will try to counter that. The stack grows higher. More specialized employees become more effective. In 200X you just needed a Linux admin. Now on top of being good a good Linux admin you also need to know docker, kubernetes (the admin
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by lixtra 7y ago
Yes, if determined the government agencies have tremendous capabilities. But will they use it at a large scale, i.e. against an arbitrary lawyer?
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by lixtra 7y ago
I think we simply don’t know in this case. But if a super sophisticated approach is used, they could just as well catch and prepare your computer before you receive it i.e. if you ordered it by mail.
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by lixtra 7y ago
>> You can make it harder to do on accident >That's a major point of exfiltration prevention But that’s not how it is advertised. Usually they claim is to catch hackers and mal intending employees.
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by lixtra 7y ago
Except, that in this case params is a string containing an arbitrary program. It would help the discussion if you read the TFA (edit: more carefully). Rewrite() in this case modified the params program to harden it against Spectre.
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by lixtra 7y ago
Testing for equivalence? Don’t you need to solve the halting problem for that? EDIT: I’m curious if a down voter can provide a piece of code that tests whether two compilates are equivalent. The root cause of the bug in the article was intr
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by lixtra 7y ago
Depending on the numbers in the test case it wouldn’t have triggered. Depending on the user, it wouldn’t have triggered. The other problem is that eBPF is a far way from KISS. But then that’s what’s needed for power and performance. EDIT af
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by lixtra 7y ago
That’s an important feature, just like reflow. But does the former make PDF World’s most important file format ?
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by lixtra 7y ago
Tell me when PDF can reasonably reflow in all environments/devices.
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by lixtra 7y ago
What happened to HTML? Nobody could read nor discuss about PDF here without it.
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by lixtra 7y ago
It is super relevant if it happened before because, even if no human witnessed it, there could be proxy data that shows how this unfolds. It could explain past sudden changes in climate change (and accompanying mass extinctions) that are no
563.
by lixtra 7y ago
Is this unique to human caused climate change or does it happen each time earth heats up?
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by lixtra 8y ago
My point is that you should ignore advise from people that shrug of millions of dead. Of course you can finally come to the conclusion that the cause is worth the price. But considering the cost it should be carefully weighted.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Didn’t one of those revolutions kill 20 million people? So to the Chinese: stand firm to improve your lot but do it carefully.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738120
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by lixtra 8y ago
There’s also article 11 EU charter of fundamental rights [1] that still applies in GB. Possibly even after Brexit. [1] https://fra.europa.eu/en/charterpedia/article/11-freedom-exp...
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by lixtra 8y ago
What is the tax status of razor blades in your state?
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by lixtra 8y ago
Or they just saw huge amounts of advertiser’s money and didn’t think about the content as long as advertisers didn’t object.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> I'm more than willing to pay more in taxes That’s a everybody should pay more taxes in disguise. If it was only your taxes, nobody is holding you back to support a charity of your choice to do the job you want to be done. But plea

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