murderfs

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by murderfs 4y ago
It might not be immediately obvious that this can happen, but in practice, this scenario happens very frequently, because if you free a node and then malloc a node, you're very likely to get the same address back with most memory alloc
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by murderfs 4y ago
> EDIT2: Note: I'm pretty sure (but not 100% sure) that the Head of a linked-list stack can be "simply" compared-and-swapped to remain lock-free and 100% valid (ie: 64-bit compare and swap over the 64-bit pointer). No, you
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by murderfs 4y ago
Corporations raising prices that people are more willing to pay because they have more available spending money because of all of those stimulus checks...
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by murderfs 4y ago
Of course it's not going to do anything immediately: what happens when these students are the ones in university, or performing the innovation?
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by murderfs 4y ago
Basalt tape might be an option: it's commonly used for car exhaust insulation.
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by murderfs 4y ago
Sure, you probably can't come up with a metric that quantifies the whole of human experience, but picking any of those is going to be better than picking a metric that is completely unrelated to quality of life!
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by murderfs 4y ago
Economic mobility studies are interesting, but there's a fundamental issue with the way all of them look at things: they're measuring relative success, not absolute. Of course it's easier to move between deciles if the distri
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by murderfs 4y ago
Yeah, that was my point :-)
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by murderfs 4y ago
What kind of support do you think you're going to get with cheap unmanaged switches? We couldn't get meaningful support from one of the big name vendors with their top of the line routers with millions of dollars spent on hardware
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by murderfs 4y ago
That just means that the actual state machine has intermediate states for each transition.
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by murderfs 4y ago
It's practically impossible to spin stuff out of Google because of interdependencies with the rest of google3 (the monorepo), not to mention assumptions about infrastructure. You might as well completely rebuild the entire thing from s
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by murderfs 4y ago
Yes, the reason this happened was that when a user authorized the Cambridge Analytica app, it would have the ability to view information about all of that user's friends. Sound familiar?
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by murderfs 4y ago
> What do you mean? On what planet is it a provider's fault if a third party farms logins through a custom client. Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
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by murderfs 4y ago
Ignoring authentication, POP and IMAP truly are legacy protocols in the sense that they were designed in an era where bandwidth, not latency was the major constraint for accessing email. It made sense to send a notification that the size of
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by murderfs 4y ago
Most software I can think of lets you configure it independent of the locale.
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by murderfs 4y ago
When was the last time you've seen someone check the return value of printf?
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by murderfs 4y ago
OOE doesn't necessarily save you if you end up with a hard dependency on the value of the read (and even if it did, the little cores on ARM SoCs are in-order). This is a pretty obvious candidate for macro-op fusion, but I'm not su
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by murderfs 4y ago
The sun's temperature is not fixed, it's the equilibrium temperature between the energy generated by internal fusion and the energy that escapes via radiation. If you build mirrors that reflect an appreciable amount of the sun&#x2
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by murderfs 4y ago
It's basically only x86 among modern ISAs that lets you do base + literal + register * literal, aarch64 only gives you base + register shifted by a literal, and I believe RISC-V is similar: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z&#x2
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by murderfs 4y ago
> No matter how big you build the heliostat, the best you can do is bring the thing it's heating into thermal equilibrium with the sun. Its temperature will never exceed the temperature of the sun. If you build it large enough, thou
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by murderfs 4y ago
The Android security bulletins are pretty straightforward and include links to the actual patches: https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2022-07-01...
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by murderfs 4y ago
> It's also not a steamroller ready to crush every problem in its path. That is not particularly convincing, given that they've crushed multiple problems that were viewed as being decades away in just a few years.
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by murderfs 4y ago
Looking at the poster's submissions, this appears to be SEO spam: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mford4065
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by murderfs 4y ago
It varies by area: in the hills, there have been several power shutoffs in the last few years. The big wildfires that PG&E got assigned liability for made them greatly widen the criteria they use to shut off power to prevent wildfires:
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by murderfs 4y ago
I'd guess that they're targeting transoceanic freight. A flight from Shanghai to Los Angeles takes ~12 hours, and a cargo ship takes ~30 days. That's a huge gap that could be filled by an intermediate option.
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by murderfs 4y ago
People keep repeating the refrain of Google/Facebook selling your data, but is there any evidence of a single case where this actually happened? They use your data, to let advertisers target specific subgroups of the population. The
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by murderfs 4y ago
Any war scenario that threatens the mainland United States would probably involve nukes starting flying, and you'd probably be screwed regardless of where you put it. I'd be more concerned with an asteroid that hits just right.
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by murderfs 4y ago
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth
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by murderfs 4y ago
"We did all of our polluting in the past and achieved our industrialization already, why doesn't everyone else just choose to stay poor?"
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by murderfs 4y ago
> we can't pay VC money > we can't pay FANG So you're not paying market salary.

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