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by mjd 10mo ago
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Related and perhaps interesting: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/114730157688607856
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by mjd 10mo ago
O'Rourke also said “The Republicans are the party that says that government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it,” which I've thought about a lot this year.
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by mjd 10mo ago
Have you read the opinion?
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by mjd 10mo ago
You have missed the point of the story. GP is not a customer of Ovo energy. They sent him a bill in error . “Companies cannot just go charge random people” And yet they do. Anyone can send anyone a bill.
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by mjd 10mo ago
“By default, deleted values are overwritten with NULL bytes (0x00). This is a safety feature since not doing so would leave 'deleted' entries intact inside the datastructure until they are overwritten by other values. If the user
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by mjd 10mo ago
Asked to comment, Carney's office stated that they had told those hosers to take off.
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by mjd 10mo ago
That's the wrong question to ask. The right question is whether I have made any important files world-writable. And the answer is “I don't know.” So, containers. And I run it with a special user id.
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by mjd 10mo ago
And reading any world-readable file. No thanks, containers it is.
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by mjd 10mo ago
Yes, although the example I had it operate on was different.
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by mjd 10mo ago
A few months ago I noticed that even without `--dangerously-skip-permissions`, when Claude thought it was restricting itself to directory D, it was still happy to operate on file `D/../../../../etc/passwd`. Tha
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by mjd 10mo ago
I was a bit disappointed that this didn't turn out to be analogous to the “bee space”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstroth_hive#Bee_space
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by mjd 10mo ago
The path taken did not traverse the boundary of every atom along the way, or even every grain of sand. Even if it had, the airtag location service is not accurate enough to have detected that.
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by mjd 10mo ago
“The number of pageviews on your website and the number of likes on your tweets are fun to look at and sound impressive, but optimizing for them completely misses the point if they don’t lead to something more important (e.g. profit).” Prof
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by mjd 10mo ago
I love that fake citation that adds George Costanza to the list of authors!
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by mjd 10mo ago
I had an interesting conversation with someone many years ago, possibly Brent Yorgey. We were thinking of arrays in quite different ways. To me, it was a data structure, with a specific memory layout: a contiguous block of memory containi
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by mjd 10mo ago
I LIKE PIE
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by mjd 10mo ago
When are you planning to run lsof? Emacsclient exits immediately when it can't find the socket.
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by mjd 10mo ago
I assure you that the author has been using strace since it was invented in the early 1990s.
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by mjd 10mo ago
It's just poor editing. The author started with one idea about the audience, before he realized that it might not be possible to write this article for that audience. Then he didn't go back to clean it up afterwards.
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by mjd 11mo ago
LinkedIn is over there.
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by mjd 11mo ago
You're right, 5111 is more pertinent here. 5111(a)(1) says “shall mint and issue coins” but qualifies it explicitly with “in amounts the Secretary decides are necessary to meet the needs of the United States”. This is a clear delegatio
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by mjd 11mo ago
I think this is wrong. As far as I can tell the relevant statute is 31 USC §5112, and it does not require the minting of all authorized coins: “(a) The Secretary of the Treasury *may mint* and issue only the following coins: ... (6) ... a
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by mjd 11mo ago
Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies. “Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded acco
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by mjd 11mo ago
It used to be that whenever I told people about his work, they'd ask if that was the beer guy.
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by mjd 11mo ago
There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.
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by mjd 11mo ago
Adherence to the rule of law is not an “aesthetic”.
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by mjd 1y ago
I wouldn't lick my own keyboard, but licking my own asshole sounds interesting
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by mjd 1y ago
$32 million settlement for a lawsuit *they had already won*. They were supposedly “settling” with Trump so that he wouldn't refile it. It was a straight-up bribe.
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by mjd 1y ago
I don't remember being able to buy eggs for $1.50 a dozen.
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by mjd 1y ago
Not for the sake of optics. For the sake of upholding the law. Because having a government that follows the law is more important than one man's life.

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