murderfs

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by murderfs 5y ago
Sandboxing libraries with webasm is an interesting step forward, but on the whole, Firefox is still way behind chromium in security. There's still a massive amount of memory-unsafe code in Firefox, and the granularity and quality of th
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Because they're not using it for heat, they're using it for electrolysis.
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No, I'm asking for specific examples of deadly viruses that have become less deadly over time. Like, take smallpox as an example. It's probably been endemic in humans for thousands of years: what's happened to its mortality r
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> In a vacuum this isn't true: diseases will select to be more transmissible, that can mean less deadly, but not always, think HIV. Is there any evidence of diseases that have selected to be less deadly, aside from by killing all
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by murderfs 5y ago
It would be hilarious if just like this argues fairly convincingly for ivermectin, all of those (well, the first two) actually turned out to be true, but only for malaria infected and vitamin D deficient patients.
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> that sounds negligible compared to the engineering investment that was preferred instead. Can you trust Oracle not to raise the pricing in the future, given that they've raised it once already?
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Lots of them require periodic internet access for distribution of key material.
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> warehouse workers are better protected (only 2 shifts are allowed), whereas in Poland those sweatshops run 24/7 I don't understand how mandating inefficiency is protecting workers?
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> Analysis on most technical or important FOSS projects prove otherwise, with EU having the brightest. Such as? All of the prominent Europeans I can think of live in the United States: Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, Guido van Rossum,
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by murderfs 5y ago
That's actually the exact opposite of reality: Dart was a retention project for Lars Bak, and it was designed specifically with a focus on being able to make a fast VM implementation. The goal from the beginning was to have native supp
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by murderfs 5y ago
> These small, lightweight, weak EVs are a bad joke in that context, they'd be useless. [citation needed] Power is not the limiting factor in icy road conditions, traction is. While a heavier car is easier to get moving due to incre
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> Well.. my main objection would be that it seems impossible to detect such manipulation, and therefore these ToS are toothless. I don't think that's true: LEDs can also be used as light sensors. If the camera sees a bright day
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It's defined relative to the ecliptic plane: the north pole is the pole that's on the same side of the ecliptic plane as Earth's.
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Comparing it now, it looks like it's only competitive if your time is completely worthless. A nonstop flight from Seattle to SFO or SJC is $50, and is ~2 hours plus whatever time it takes to go through security. Via Amtrak, it looks li
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I refuse to use it out of spite in response to how hard Microsoft has tried to force Edge down everyone's throat: resetting the default to Edge after a windows update, making start menu searches go to edge regardless of the default b
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by murderfs 5y ago
> I think this is a false axiom that young people have more potential. You actually have very low signal about people that age. That's exactly why they have more potential: they're much higher variance. A lot of the "hig
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by murderfs 5y ago
`mremap` with `MREMAP_FIXED`, but this consumes the original mapping. If you want to actually copy, this isn't possible without destroying the source (because modifications to the destination would be reflected in the source otherwise)
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by murderfs 5y ago
Right. Pretty much every other technology has to choose between high thrust and high specific impulse (i.e. efficiency). Chemical rockets have tons of thrust, but bad efficiency. Electric propulsion (ion drives, etc.) is really efficient, b
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120 degrees Delisle is perfectly comfortable!
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The big problem is that they need to be fucking huge, because nuclear warheads only scale down so far. If you're not going to be using it in atmosphere, that raises the question of how you're going to get the thing into orbit in t
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by murderfs 5y ago
Ballasts are only needed on fluorescent lamps (because they have negative resistance, so if you run one by itself without a current limiter, it'll consume more and more current until it explodes)
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by murderfs 5y ago
My understanding is that the masters pool is a rather significant improvement in your chances: some Googling finds a random source that claims your chances are 60% higher: https://www.waylit.com/post/what-are-my-chances
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by murderfs 5y ago
The article doesn't mention one of the biggest draws: having a masters degree from an accredited U.S. institution improves your chances at getting an H-1B visa.
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by murderfs 5y ago
> Auto in auto-immunity is not the "auto" from "automatic" (which is also from the Greek auto meaning self)
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> OTOH reaching the asteroid belt and Jupiter in reasonable time is only possible with non-chemical rockets, and nuclear fission power is the only realistic option now. Nuclear fusion is another feasible option, if you can get around the
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by murderfs 5y ago
I'm vaguely amused that IC4 and above don't have to "practice the Dropbox Diversity Commitments on a regular basis".
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> curious about Android side of things. before uninstalling App, is it better to do logout from App, clear cache, clear data , force stop , and then Uninstall the App ? Logging out from the app might result in other side effects (e.g. in
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by murderfs 5y ago
One comment also says that it's a Communist conspiracy. Over in reality, though, the only permissions it has are to use the internet and bluetooth: https://hastebin.com/yexoyuluzu.xml
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My guess would be that it's the other way around: corporate buyers aren't very sensitive to the price, so they can jack the price up by $400.
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by murderfs 5y ago
It's vaguely amusing to me that there's nothing even vaguely resembling an East Asian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Skin_color When are the hair color or epicanthic fold ZWJs getting added?

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