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by nine_k 8mo ago
The pornography is a real issue, but not the real issue. As many people have noted, a different system could delegate the enforcement to parents. Instead of forcing a web site (or an OS!) to collect identifying information and certify t
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Missing something? Perhaps. Pornography is a very convenient pretext. The real target is anonymity and pseudonymity. Both have been abundantly available on the early Internet. Both were and are being gradually squeezed out from it. Various
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Pydantic models are validating. Hence their natural place is interfaces with external systems, outside the reach of your typechecker.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
SQL is a pretty high-level, declarative language. It's unnecessarily wordy though, and not very composable. The problem with ORMs is that they usually give you a wrong abstraction. They map poorly on how a relational database works, an
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Nice! But what about type checking?
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Mostly not marketing (still large), but the R&D costs and clinical trial costs. The latter are in hundreds of millions to billions range for the entire journey from a promising discovery to an FDA-approved medicine.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
It's a travel router which power users buy to get good connectivity away from home and office. An hotel won't offer you that (and chances are that they'll try to rip you off on their wifi).
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by nine_k 8mo ago
(Tangential, regarding GL.Net routers: I find it satisfying that these routers run OpenWRT out of the box, and top the "Travel routers" category on Amazon: "Overall Pick" and "Amazon's Choice".)
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> Through a partnership with a Chinese fab, the team got space on Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) and received back their RISC-V general purpose processor. The project went viral, the media caught on, and the project gained national attention
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by nine_k 8mo ago
We need a compositor that exposes everything as an extension. Preferably in a hot-reloadable, tweakable way, say, using Lua (with JIT). And also exposing its APIs in a way that allows having an analog of xdotool.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
The Wayland standard does not prescribe it (unlike X), and the reference implementations were monolithic for a very long time. Wayland in general had a rather cavalier approach to doing away with things that X users take for granted, like,
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Something like this should work, assuming your encoding is Unicode (normally UTF-8), which grep would interpret: grep -P '[\x{200B}\x{200C}\x{200D}\x{FEFF}]' code.ts See https://stackoverflow.com/q/7812
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by nine_k 8mo ago
The rule must be very simple: any occurrence of `eval()` should be a BIG RED FLAG. It should be handled like a live bomb, which it is. Then, any appearance of unprintable characters should also be flagged. There are rather few legitimate us
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Slavery was not supported in half of the initial US of A, and initially Native Americans had relatively benign relationships with the settlers, while the latter were weak. The course of America as a moral project was pretty meandering, but
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by nine_k 8mo ago
The land of the free, and all that. America was a radical moral project when it was founded, as a republic (when monarchies dominated the world) with enshrined religious freedom (when state-enforced religions were the norm). The Civil War a
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by nine_k 8mo ago
To pay for a human connection, take someone out for a dinner, and foot the bill. At OnlyFans you're paying for a video feed, and computers are pretty good at producing convincing video feeds now.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
This is footage of a drone strike against personnel in a building from July 2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wbb1yh/ua_su... This apparently has more footage from 2022: https:/
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Even the best space comms system does not make your ICBMs invisible to your adversary, and does not allow you to shoot down your adversary's return salvo of ICBMs. Hence the mutually assured destruction is not going away, and the side
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Bzip2 is great for files that are compressed once, get decompressed many times, and the size is important. A good example is a software release.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Gzip is woefully old. Its only redeeming value is that it's already built into some old tools. Otherwise, use zstd, which is better and faster, both at compression and decompression. There's no reason to use gzip in anything new
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by nine_k 8mo ago
I don't think that Starlink affects nuclear deterrence / the MAD doctrine in any meaningful way. But it does seriously affect "conventional" warfare. And China is rather visibly preparing for a conventional war.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
China may have been a voice of reason (relatively) during the Deng Xiaoping times. Under comrade Xi, China is a voice of something different, alas.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Consumer tech "exceeded" military tech when the first consumer-grade FPV drones started destroying tanks and bombing trenches in 2022. Exactly as cyberpunk books predicted, the technology is so advanced that all you need to create
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by nine_k 8mo ago
That's when you especially badly don't want a sudden disconnect, or the battery dying.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Amazon Music sells DRM-free MP3 files.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
This is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what makes school boards buy this software, while many alternatives apparently exist. I don't think that school officials are unaware that kids hate it, and parents agree with t
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by nine_k 8mo ago
How did you keep the motivation up? (I tried doing a PhD while working full time, and quit the idea after 3 years.)
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by nine_k 8mo ago
If implementation of anything is easy, far fewer people would be needed to keep the projects alive. AI is okay at doing simple things, but it needs to be overseen. Even before any viable AI, I used to read code more than to write. And Ema
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Helium has the second highest [1] specific heat capacity (after hydrogen); it's significantly higher than that of even water. It's damn efficient at cooling or heating. With that, it's chemically inert, unlike hydrogen or amm
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> transmitter still at least looks like a point source of blackbody radiation The whole trick is that on average it is a source of blackbody radiation exactly like any other piece of matter next to it, same temperature. It does not p

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