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The equivalent in English would be writing "ghyche" when trying to write the word, "fish". Yeah, that combination of characters/marks can make sounds equivalent to "f" "ih" and "sh" but
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It's quite simple, really: The government shouldn't be giving money to religious institutions because that would be, "respecting an establishment of religion". You could argue that the 1st Amendment only applies to laws
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The exterior of a property (i.e. the land it sits on) is distinctly different from the interior. The 4th Amendment requires warrants to search the following: persons, houses, papers, and effects, The land a house sits on is not, &
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It's not a "legal philosophy" that's how states work (i.e. it is their land). The state always controls all the land within its borders. "Ownership" is a tradeoff: Individuals get to do what they want (
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I'm torn on this one: Should law enforcement need a warrant to search your property? Certainly. Seems obvious, right? Except this is a "conservation officer" who has been granted certain rights (by the state of PA) to:
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This assumes the entity suing you actually performs some business other than litigating patents. You could have the largest patent portfolio in the world but if a laywer who owns a single patent files suit against you that "IP war che
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> invent more The world does this despite the patent system. Not because of it. If the patent system were to disappear today all that invention would still go on. It would just put a lot of lawyers out of work and make a bunch of ri
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Also, the build tools, whatever's necessary to sign/flash firmware, and they must demonstrate repeatable builds.
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If it hasn't changed since 24.04 the default power governor in Ubuntu 24.10 is "powersave". I'd be curious to see how performance improved if Phoronix tested with the "performance" governor.
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If it hasn't changed since 24.04 the default power governor in Ubuntu 24.10 is "powersave". I'd be curious to see how performance improved if Phoronix tested with the "performance" governor.
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Imbesi's Law of the Conservation of Filth: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
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> How is any of this going to lead to meaningful art? Nearly all the movies that go to theaters aren't "meaningful art". Not only that but what's meaningful to you isn't necessarily what's meaningful to
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> the impending death of a society A society. The old society. To be replaced by a new society that doesn't work like the old one. The new society is evolving towards humans that behave like frogs: They're born in a ce
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> Convenience is king Price is king. Everyone knows glass containers are better and consumers prefer them. However, shipping glass containers has a considerably higher cost than plastic from both a weight perspective as well as a fra
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In reality you say, "AI" but in your head you really mean, "Analog Intelligence" that way you're never lying :thumbsup:
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The employee demands are usually simpler: They want their employer to pay the most and inconvenience them as little as possible. "cater to their every whim" is nonsense. Nobody expects that. Employees know what the job will e
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I knew someone that didn't trust their employees (small business). In the past they ran a different small business where their own employees would steal from them (not money; inventory) and this lead this person into a life-long dis
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At least swimming pool equipment is mostly just turning things on and off. If you look at the controller board for any given pool "timer" it's just a bunch of relays (for the pump, lights, and valves/servos). Temperatur
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> However, as some users have pointed out, implementing these requirements could significantly disrupt how games are developed, particularly when games rely on proprietary servers or content licensed under restrictive terms. "Yes.&q
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Yet I see it constantly . That pattern of `for foo in whatever: for bar in foo` is everywhere . People don't even think about it... They just write the looping part then start thinking about the logic below. It's such a com
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I've seen memoization improve performance by enormous amounts. Even for simple functions that do a few simple calculations before returning a result. Another go-to of mine is to take conditionals out of loops that really only need to
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What does that have to do with paying? Only RHEL requires that you pay for patches/updates. If you're running Debian, Ubuntu, etc you get all your patches and updates for free; no need to pay.
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Because it used to stand for extended Berkeley Packet Filter and it has since moved far, far beyond just packets. It now hooks into the entire network stack, security, and does observability/tracing for nearly anything and everythin
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eBPF isn't "watching the watchers" it's just a tool that lets other tools access low-level things in the kernel via a very picky sandbox. Think of it like this: Old way: Load kernel driver, hook into bazillions of sys
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I had read previously from an unverified SQL Server engineer that the thing they wanted most (with Linux support) was proper containerization (from a developer perspective). Apparently containers on Windows just don't cut it (which is
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...just like they did with Kerberos! And just like with Kerberos they'll define a standard then refuse to follow it . Instead, they will implement subtle changes to the Windows implementation that make solutions that use Windows eBP
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Transgender folks are represent about half a percent of any given population. So if the study had 1500 participants that would mean ~7 were transgender. If you look at the graphs from the study those people could be the outliers but no mat
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Twitter/X is not functional at all. You're only looking at it from a technical standpoint and not a money-making standpoint. It has completely collapsed in the money-making department and has lost 71% of its value as a result:
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Hah! The "once a week" job guy recently retired but instead of hiring someone new they handed the task to an existing employee without consulting that person (to see if they had the requisite knowledge). Now that task is failing
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There's a difference between a bullshit job and a job that's 95% bullshit (which is a whole heck of a lot of jobs). For example, my company pays a highly skilled individual a six figure salary to do one thing that takes him five
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