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by mehrdadn 6y ago
This is a bit like how a mail service might guarantee they'll deliver your mail to a safe mailbox at that address but not guarantee anything about who is at that address or whether they'll be reachable at any point in time. The on
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Okay, I removed that phrase, but what do you want me to say here? Entire disciplines have devoted decades of research into providing useful guarantees and yet you're here observing that no human could possibly prevent some disasters...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> How can the device provide those guarantees? If the system crashes hard in a power surge and the head crashes there's not going to be any use in claiming 'but the API guaranteed it'. There's no true durability. By y
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> How can software possibly be expected to ensure what a physical device returns after the system restarts? By giving instructions to the device that the device understands and provides guarantees for...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Durability is about systems that are shut down (possibly unexpected and in an uncontrolled manner). POSIX is carefully worded to not give any durability guarantees. What part of the POSIX specs are you reading? "The fsync() func
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
For reference, the CDC says "Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that handling food or consuming food is associated with COVID-19." [1] Similarly, the FDA has said "To date, there has not been any evidence that food
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DNA reveals that cows were almost impossible to domesticate (2012)(io9.gizmodo.com)
1 points by mehrdadn 6y ago|0 comments
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South Korea’s Universal Basic Income Experiment to Boost the Economy(youtube.com)
15 points by mehrdadn 6y ago|1 comments
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Here's one for sitting in a car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6VKxmUPb3g
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Merely knowing about when subshells occur doesn't explain this. You need to know that && and || suppress -e.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Ouch, that's horrible. Thanks!
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, this is probably a bad idea. You don't want to go sit in your car either.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Do you want to trap INT, or EXIT?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Wait until you realize set -e; (false && true); echo hi does nothing, but set -e; false && true ; echo hi prints hi.
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FWIW the author did previously take donations.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
It's not all-or-nothing. Numbers do exist between 0% and 100%.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Oh thanks, that at least gives some idea of the potential. I see e.g. "HTTP/2 trailer out-of-bounds read" and "SSL out of buffer access"... I guess there might be some candidates.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
How often have libcurl HTTP or TLS backend bugs resulted in exploited vulnerabilities in the past?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The thing is you only want to make this trade-off when the bandwidth is actually starting to suffer. It'd be nice if there was a nice way to make this adaptive and use NNs only when throughput is low, but the nonlinearity of the distor
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Is it just me or do the videos no longer look natural? I feel like I see highly non-linear movements (parts of the video moving when they shouldn't, or vice-versa), and facial expressions don't really look quite the same.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> then given infinite time even the infinitesimal chance of spontaneous order will have it's moment. Does this hold true for a 1/infinity chance event? Or (not sure if this is analogous) if you choose infinitely many real numbe
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I wasn't the one who compared this with the width of a car and then got confused what a shorter width would even mean. But sure, if you say so.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> What does "1 inch narrower" mean to you, in the context of this analogy? Are you suggesting the interfaces have different names? Different sized arguments? Your question is exactly my point. I'm suggesting what I said ea
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> everyone knows that the Unix APIs are often seen as elegant while the Windows APIs are seen as ugly I think people consider the UNIX CLIs ("do one thing and do it well") to be elegant, not UNIX APIs. UNIX APIs have quite mass
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You can't seriously suggest copying the width of 1 door handle is equivalent to copying all of the Java API, right? I don't think if Google provided an alternative for 1 function it would be in this lawsuit. Your analogy is just
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're saying a car that's 1 inch narrower somehow wouldn't fit the same roads?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The interoperability width is already set by the road... you're copying the road at that point, not the car. The lawsuit involves UX for a software framework. Which its API constitutes. The user happens to be a developer here and their
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I don't think that's a good analogy at all. A car's precise width is not part of its interface nor a part of its design anyone particularly cares about. Its interface is more like, the design of the UX... how the steering whe
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Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle reaches Supreme Court(npr.org)
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah, I was just talking about the mathematical less-than operator. How we choose to represent anything computationally or visually is orthogonal to it.

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