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> How big is N today? The simplest assumption is that it is infinity. Any build timestamp embedded into binary packages will change on every iteration. This will cause the process to never terminate. Fixing embedded timestamps is somethi
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Arguably it makes more sense for military budget to reference GDP since military capability is relative to that of one’s adversaries. If their capability has increased, then so must ours to achieve a net zero difference. And their capabilit
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This example does not illustrate what do you think it does. The first is technically illegal. The second is not only within the law, it's required by the law. The speed limit isn't a limit and in most jurisdictions, the law requir
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> Telegram does in fact have E2EE available in the form of Secret Chats, so that's just an incorrect statement from you. But if you turn that on, other features turn off.
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So pass and wait for a sale to occur when you actually have the money. Since you save overall, you only have to go through the pain of waiting just once, hopefully in your youth. After that, your savings on the last purchase (in not paying
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> When the recipient is a Gmail user (enterprise or personal), Gmail sends an E2EE email. The email is automatically decrypted in the recipient's inbox, and the recipient can use Gmail in a familiar way. So what happens with Search?
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Now I feel lucky to have gone to a school where universally the teachers actually understood the material they were teaching. The only poor teaching I had to face was on the teaching aspects, and this was only from a minority of teachers.
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The trouble with these kinds of games is that they put the more diligent students at a disadvantage. For example, someone might compare their experimental result against the textbook constant, realise it's wrong, and spend much more ti
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For a college class grade, everyone is supposed to be tested on the same exercise. If all students were tested under the same scenario then it would be fair. For just one student to be tested under this scenario, but for all other students
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This sort of thing happens all the time, just less obviously. For example in my city it's not unusual to hear that a major tram line is stopped during the morning commute due to a car driver blocking it inconsiderately or colliding. On
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Native applications are way better on Linux, too. But only where they exist. There are plenty of "apps" where there developers have taken shortcuts by getting "Linux support" by using Electron. These app perform noticeab
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The gist uses the orig tarball only, so skips the distro patch that selects the distro packaged libonig in favor of the "vendored" one. At least that's how it appears to me. I only skimmed the situation. Or do you see somethi
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Sure, but jq is very much a "front door" in your analogy. You'd have to look at each individual CVE to assess the risk for your specific case, but for jq, claimed security vulnerabilities are worth paying attention to.
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Indeed, there are many methods to have a custom build and still get security updates, including at least one method that is native to Ubuntu and doesn’t need any external tooling. However my warning refers to the method presented in the art
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Note that if you do this then you will opt out of any security updates not just for jq but also for its regular expression parsing dependency onigurama. For example, there was a security update for onigurama previously; if this sort of thin
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You can't "launder" copyright away like that. The court will see straight through it. See "What color are your bits?" at https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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> Was the modified ENIAC less of a computer than the Manchester Baby because its program was in ROM and could not be changed by the computer? To me, the most remarkable property of a computer is that data and code are interchangeable. Th
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Not all types of approaches are available at all runways (or airports), and sometimes they are down for maintenance. Specific runways may be required due to wind, aircraft weight and runway condition and length. Most airlines ban "circ
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> GPS for tracking phone users should go away anyway. If you are in an unknown city, but a damn paper map. No tracking and you absorb the big picture much faster. Regular GPS is receive-only. GPS receivers naturally cannot be tracked. Tr
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Is money a scam? Not in itself, but you don’t have to go very far to find a scam that involves money. Similarly, it’s hard to answer your question if you consider “crypto” to be a general concept, unless you properly and narrowly define it
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People can use webmail for regular email, but then connect a “better” MUA for patch handling. I get that this would be more steps, but for those who don’t want to do this, they probably just use GitHub PRs, and that’s fine, they can carry o
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> Multiple files to herd. When I get an email with five patch attachments, I have five files to copy around instead of one, with long awkward names. That’s not correct. You can write the email to an mbox file (your MUA lets you do that,
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> ...the Thatcher government in the 1980s gave social housing tenants the right to buy homes, and created laws that prevented local authorities from building new public sector housing projects... Also, with a large discount , so even if
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Perhaps I'm an outlier. I expect to pay for my personal gaming experience. But if there's some necessary part of gameplay I don't like, that's negative experience that makes the game worse for me, reducing the value of t
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Sure it can be done, but there's no denying that a simple scan of a QR code instead of manually typing a URL would make life easier, as would some kind of alternative encoding technology that is more pleasing to the eye.
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Just because something is OCRable doesn't make it structured data that can be used immediately. A table at a restaurant might have a QR code that takes me to a menu with the table number already encoded and pre-entered into the order p
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The order would normally be a matter of public record, and the ecosystem should follow these events carefully and ensure never to issue a certificate to such a company again as it undermines the entire system.
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Perhaps they predict that not enough people would pay for it such that it's not worth developing such a product in the first place.
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> You don't really get to negotiate wages as a federal employee. Not on an individual basis, no. But the rates get set according to the market just like everything else, to the lowest that results in sufficient supply. The market is
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> It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable. You seem to be implying that this is a desirable property of government. I don't think that's true, and I think that the Broken Window Fallacy applies to you

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