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by mcherm 4y ago
If I were running this as an interview question I would do exactly that -- give them 5 minutes to think then 5-10 minutes to describe their plan. But THEN, I'd let them actually try to DO it. Because there is a huge swatch of people ou
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by mcherm 5y ago
What happens today when a kernel module has to be removed due to a critical CVE or court order? That's not just a rhetorical flourish, I'm actually curious what the answer is. As far as I know, (1) it almost never happens and (2)
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by mcherm 5y ago
Because I didn't participate in that vote, along with huge numbers of people who are similarly situated. I am a user of Wikipedia and a regular donor, but I do not follow whatever list there is of issues to be voted on. This was not a
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by mcherm 5y ago
(1) I understand your point: consistently obeying sensible conventions makes code understandable and maintainable. That's a fairly good argument in favor of consistently using Error for all thrown things. (2) One unrelated point: I sus
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by mcherm 5y ago
Can you provide some examples of specific situations in which throwing objects not derived from Error causes difficulty? I ask for two reasons. First, because I find argument from authority to be a very annoying logical fallacy. I have actu
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by mcherm 5y ago
Are you saying that Federal law requires Verizon to truthfully identify the origin of spam text messages I receive? Because they are CLEARLY not doing that.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Does that mean I can get my opponent's political campaign raked over the coals by sending some false-flag spam? After all, the whole POINT of these spam messages is that the systems are (and this simply reeks of incompetence) incapable
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by mcherm 5y ago
Here is the simple rule I use: in English, pronouns never use an apostrophe for the possessive. He --> his She --> her They --> their We --> our I --> my You --> your It --> its (Since someone will probably point this o
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by mcherm 5y ago
Given that this existed in the 80s, how can this be patentable? Has anyone read the actual claims of the patent and feel qualified to explain what it is that Apple is claiming is novel and patentable?
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by mcherm 5y ago
Yes it is! Hence the mountains.
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by mcherm 5y ago
In the USA the government also knows the money you make. They have all the data they need to be able to generate a pre-filled draft, and taxpayers could use that as a starting point and modify it if they needed to take a large tax credit fo
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by mcherm 5y ago
Experts in AI. The statement "Experts largely agree that current forms of AI are not conscious" connects to two pieces of expertise: expertise in consciousness and expertise in AI. It is plausible an expert in AI might have the ba
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by mcherm 5y ago
> If they would've continued, then the prosecutor would've been laughed out off the court by the judge. The lawyer defending the journalist would've called this the easiest case of his/her career. Yes, I'm sure t
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by mcherm 5y ago
That doesn't HAVE to be true. Consider a newspaper with articles and ads. The customer is absolutely aware of the attention currency when there are articles side-by-side with ads. And the customer may decide NOT to pick up the free loc
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by mcherm 5y ago
> And yet we're allowed to spend our money freely in casinos. That actually isn't true. In the US, almost all states have restrictions on gambling.[1] These are generally enforced by criminalizing or requiring government oversi
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by mcherm 5y ago
> P.S. don’t bother responding if you are coming from the privilege of never having lived under a terrible government. Please don't tell me whether or not to respond. If you want to point out that the question has much more salience
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by mcherm 5y ago
Thank you.
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by mcherm 5y ago
I thought it was failing due to load or something, but seeing the other comments it seems it might just be due to me being a Firefox user.
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by mcherm 5y ago
The same policy for assigning housing or employment would run afoul of federal racial discrimination laws. I propose that those laws should be extended to make racial factors in medical treatment illegal as well. Just as employment discrimi
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by mcherm 5y ago
> any reputational damage is probably nullified In this case, Professor Chen lost his research grants. He lost several grad students. He lost a year's worth of progress in his field. Do you think this NY Times article nullified thos
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by mcherm 5y ago
Of course, offense is just as difficult and impossible to judge as intent. In both cases, one can simply ask the individual, "Were you offended?" or "What was your intent?" But biased or motivated itself reporting makes
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by mcherm 5y ago
I have an very efficient and "practical" algorithm for determining the score in a sports match. In almost all cases it tells us which team had the higher score -- the only time it fails is when the game in close. In those cases, i
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by mcherm 5y ago
My solution to this problem would be legislation that allows customers, if they wish to, to return devices for a full refund if the company that manufactures the device makes a change that removes functionality that the customer valued. Thi
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by mcherm 5y ago
> I'm not opposed to seeing any ads; I just don't want badly behaved ones. While I support this sentiment, a definition of "badly behaved ads" which is based on whether or not the advertiser paid money to some third p
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by mcherm 5y ago
This seems to be solving the wrong problem. As far as I can tell, the problem is not that we lack good mechanisms for making payments to open source developers and deciding how to allocate such funds. The problem is that cash donations are
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by mcherm 5y ago
Nope - this doesn't violate net neutrality regulations in the US... because there aren't any! This article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/where-net-neutrality-t... talks about how many are h
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by mcherm 5y ago
Using your numbers, the base metabolic rate accounts for 2/3 of the difference; if one engages in just 100 calories of activity during 4 waking hours then 100% of the difference is matched by energy expenditures.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Actually, you care about shaving padding when the FIELDS are small compared to the alignment, not the structs. This frequently is a concern in Go.
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by mcherm 5y ago
If so, how would that forgery substantiate a claim that he was racist?
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by mcherm 5y ago
All US states (I think) have some statute of limitations on debt collection, although each state is different. After this amount of time has passed (assuming that no court case has been filed), the courts can no longer be used to demand pay

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