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541.
Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)
40 points by riffraff 9mo ago|21 comments
542.
by riffraff 9mo ago
Namespaces are a cool idea that didn't really seem to pan out in practice.
543.
by riffraff 9mo ago
I know nothing about this, but bubbletea-ruby was in the news recently https://github.com/marcoroth/bubbletea-ruby
544.
by riffraff 9mo ago
same experience for me, I translated a few chapter to Italian while in university, I learned a lot and the translation project was super well run.
545.
by riffraff 9mo ago
this proposal exists under the umbrella of the 28th regime[0] idea, as per their FAQ. Which.. would be a good idea, but I am not holding my breath for it to happen in the next 10 years. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
546.
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data(politico.com)
12 points by riffraff 9mo ago|3 comments
547.
by riffraff 9mo ago
At a glance this looks like an obviously nicer format that a zip of jpegs, but I struggle to think of a time I thought "wow CBZ is a problem here". I didn't even realize random access is not possible, presumably because reade
548.
by riffraff 9mo ago
I feel that came out wrong but the "maybe" was intended to be a way of saying "no guarantees", to avoid giving people the idea "solve this, get hired".
549.
by riffraff 9mo ago
Older relics can be tested, but the Catholic church won't really allow it, e.g. San Gennaro's blood in Naples is a flask of red clotted liquid which melts during some ceremonies, and is quite likely not blood at all. But there&#x2
550.
by riffraff 9mo ago
I remember when Japan was supposed to take over the world in the '80s, to the point that "back to the future 2" had Americans speaking Japanese to their managers. Toyota did become the dominant producer, but American and Euro
551.
by riffraff 9mo ago
I have a friend who works with american tourists visiting europe, mostly older folks, mostly to religious sights. They are, for the vast majority, indoctrinated beyond any chance of reasonable change of opinion. Talking with him makes _me_
552.
by riffraff 9mo ago
> why is Trump burning so many bridges for such a superfluous, unnecessary, counterproductive action? Maybe he thought it would be an easy land grab. Maybe it is to distract from his hugely unpopular immigration policy. Maybe it is becau
553.
by riffraff 10mo ago
I read that and assumed this must be some joke article and/or art stunt. After reading the article and linked sources, I'm still not sure that ain't true.
554.
by riffraff 10mo ago
https://riffraff.info/ Been blogging on and off for 20 years. Most of the old stuff is on now deleted blogs (which I plan to import back one day!), so this one only has a few recent things, mostly short book reviews so I ca
555.
by riffraff 10mo ago
I think the suggestion is that one can have rdbms-specific optimizations while still keeping a standards-compliant base implementation. Both MySQL and Postgresql could get their own optimizations.
556.
by riffraff 10mo ago
if anyone at igalia is reading: there's a typo in a caption: "Evolution of GitHub stars for Servo from start-history.com" should be star-history.
557.
by riffraff 10mo ago
I didn't like the person he became towards the end of his life, but Dilbert gave me a lot of laughs and was a perfect representation of what the corporate world looked like to my younger self. May he rest in peace.
558.
by riffraff 10mo ago
Congrats and good luck! If I may ask, do you think you will be able to cope with the lack of willpower once you stop taking the drug? I don't want to sound dismissive or argumentative, I'm asking out of pure curiosity, forgive me
559.
by riffraff 10mo ago
I guess the difference is that one can point to the ToS and say "look we said no deepfakes" and block you if you upload a deepfake produced locally, but not if you use the built-in deepfake generator.
560.
by riffraff 10mo ago
FYI (this was news to me, so it may be to other people), DOGE no longer exists. So in the end they did manage to cut some waste, themselves! https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eigh...
561.
by riffraff 10mo ago
I remember when terrapower was supposed to build a kind of reactor which would use depleted/unenriched uranium which was basically a hole in the ground slowly burning up, but now it seems they're doing a molten sodium "classi
562.
by riffraff 10mo ago
Cola nut also contains caffeine, so quite an energy drink between the two.
563.
by riffraff 10mo ago
It's a recumbent trike, this sort of design seems to still exist today, so presumably it works somehow. https://www.rad-innovations.com/blog-our-news/about-recumben...
564.
by riffraff 10mo ago
the Amazon's Grand Tour episode which compared the Jeep Wrangler, a Chevrolet Silverado, and Panda 4x4 as jungle cars was highly satisfying.
565.
by riffraff 10mo ago
the filters the Italian authorities complain about also only apply in italy. It's likely a process thing, Italy has had website bans since forever, but the new regulation applies _without going through a judge_. Some copyright holders
566.
by riffraff 10mo ago
IIRC "Object Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer makes it a point to argue against common inheritance examples (Rectangle < Shape, Employee < Person, etc), while still arguing for the utility of (multiple!) inh
567.
Git-pkgs: explore your dependency history(nesbitt.io)
1 points by riffraff 10mo ago|0 comments
568.
by riffraff 10mo ago
GGP didn't say they worked at Microsoft, the comment is a bit hard to parse, but they wrote "I left the company I worked at".
569.
by riffraff 10mo ago
I don't mean to downplay how terrible the current US administration is, but removing political leaders in Latin America has been a USA tradition and nobody really considers it odd. The US invading an allied country hasn't happened
570.
by riffraff 10mo ago
Russia has been theoretically cut off from advanced machinery for years, the west just started selling stuff to central asian countries who resell it to Russia and we all behave as if it's normal.

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