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by nybble41 5y ago
> such that winning the primary … basically promises a win in the general Assuming you have more than one political party, I don't see how that's possible. All but one candidate in the general election will lose, even though th
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by nybble41 5y ago
And German-language content can only be directed at German citizens or residents? There are five other countries which have German as their official language, and many more where German is spoken. It's ridiculous that the court would c
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by nybble41 5y ago
It is unreasonable that an individual who is neither a German citizen nor within German territory would later be subject to "real consequences" from the German legal system for actions which were perfectly legal in the time and pl
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Not that we couldn't come up with a fast-over-the-network protocol. It's just that it's not really here. In practice the "fast-over-the-network" protocol ends up being HTTPS + HTML + CSS + JavaScript, with a we
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by nybble41 5y ago
> I have a feeling that a protocol which changed things less would have caught on a lot faster. Perhaps. IPv6 had more goals than just increasing the address space. Some of these goals were interdependent; for example, just increasing th
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by nybble41 5y ago
> The parents birth and raise the kids to make those choices--this isn't a difficult concept to understand. It's still the kids' choice and the kids' labor. They deserve the credit for doing the work, and receive th
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by nybble41 5y ago
If you run your own DNS resolver for your local network, you can use a Discovery Proxy (RFC 8766) to allow unicast DNS resolution of multicast DNS records. I'm using mdns-discovery-proxy[0] (slightly modified to support a newer version
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by nybble41 5y ago
It's not that IPv6 is bad. There are no other, more successful alternative proposals to grow the address space while maintaining end-to-end connectivity. It's just a difficult coordination problem. From a purely technical point of
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by nybble41 5y ago
How many other services make it relatively painless to download all your data in one place? Or at all, for that matter? For me, the existence of Google Takeout is definitely a selling point when comparing their services to the competition.
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by nybble41 5y ago
1 GiB? That's nothing. I just finished reformatting 280 GiB of Google Takeout data from .tgz format into a 130 GiB SquashFS filesystem (both for space reasons and to allow efficient random access). It would have been nice to be able to
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by nybble41 5y ago
That economic activity is the product of the kids' choices to work and not the parents' choices to bring more kids into the world. Single people are not being "subsidized" by the parents of the other (perhaps also single
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by nybble41 5y ago
Filling in for the missing teammate is only part of the problem, though even that assumes temporary (possibly skilled or specialty) help is readily available for a short-term assignment, or that productivity can be scaled back without missi
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by nybble41 5y ago
> God forbid you get sick, injured, have a family obligation (marriage, funeral, etc), doctor's appointment, etc. This isn't a binary issue. Work/life balance is obviously important for everyone, but where that balance poi
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by nybble41 5y ago
You could equally well get or buy a PC pre-installed with Linux where someone else made sure everything was well-supported. It's not that Windows has inherently better hardware support due to its architecture—rather, hardware manufactu
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by nybble41 5y ago
> For which I contend that governments created corporations to shield these entities from liability. The concept of limited liability for corporations, equitable trusts, and the like predates its official recognition in law. For a long t
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by nybble41 5y ago
Even the largest companies are dependent on maintaining their reputations as organizations which uphold their ends of any agreements. A company which no one will contract with might as well not exist. They're not going to just turn out
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by nybble41 5y ago
I agree that the government does various other things to shield specific companies from liability in specific circumstances, but these are not inherent in the concept of a limited liability corporation under discussion.
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by nybble41 5y ago
The argument is that limited liability is something which can only come from a government and not a free market—not companies in general. To a small degree this is probably true, but you can get very close through ordinary contracts. For
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by nybble41 5y ago
> If you need to get the area under a curve by breaking it into a billion tiny rectangles, so what, your computer will do that calculation in a second or two. That, too, is calculus. However, a closed-form solution will always be preferr
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by nybble41 5y ago
I don't see it as disturbing, just focused. This phrasing helps to put the problem into perspective from one particular point of view—the cost in economic productivity. It does not imply that this is the only cost, or that there aren
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by nybble41 5y ago
> What if we find out several years down the road that the vaccine is causing a drop in IQ, affecting birth rates, etc.? What if we find out several years down the road that COVID-19 does these things? We have a better grasp on the pot
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Well I only ever return one type from a function, I'm not a total madman. I'm sure your APIs are sane (at least to you). It's all the other developers you have to watch out for. > … even in your example it would sho
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by nybble41 5y ago
> why go out of my way to make it not work, when it would be easy to make it work The problem the DWIM approach to APIs is that when you go out of your way to "do something reasonable" with absolutely any kind of argument type,
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by nybble41 5y ago
This is really a fairly trivial exercise in Haskell, provided you pass the arguments as a heterogeneous list—which is semantically equivalent to a variable argument list. Here is my implementation: https://gist.github.com/ny
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by nybble41 5y ago
> I've been doing fine on Debian dropping files in /etc/systemd, with a possible hook to `systemctl enable`. Don't forget `systemctl daemon-reload` to update the in-memory state when the unit files change. The `edit`
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Last time I dealt with this stuff bumblebee was still in use. The primus-vk-nvidia stack still uses Bumblebee. It replaces the original PRIMUS component with a version that shares the image data through the Vulkan APIs, which seems to
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Does `systemctl cat` also work for creating/editing units? No, for that you would use `systemctl edit UNIT...` to create or edit a drop-in file, e.g. to add local overrides for an existing service, or `systemctl edit --full UNIT..
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by nybble41 5y ago
I have a 14" System76 Gazelle running Debian with hybrid graphics through primus-vk-nvidia[0] and the proprietary drivers and I would say it works fairly well, albeit only after a substantial amount of trial-and-error with the configur
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by nybble41 5y ago
The person receiving the messages should always be able to unsubscribe without authenticating as the account owner. They may not have ever had the password, never mind being able to remember it. If I was receiving unwanted emails from som
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by nybble41 5y ago
If a service doesn't provide an easy and obvious way to unsubscribe from unwanted emails—by my definition, not theirs—I personally have no qualms about marking them as spam and letting them take the reputation hit. The same applies i

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