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by samus 7mo ago
> We subsidize food production. Electricity and water distribution is subsidized by urban customers. These things usually happen far outside of the cities. Without infrastructure for the countryside these things would not happen.
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by samus 7mo ago
Once introduced, keywords and Java syntax is nearly impossible to change or to remove. If it's possible to get the job done using a class, perhaps with some JVM magic, it's not wise to whip out new syntax.
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by samus 7mo ago
There might also be many optimization opportunities that still have to be seized.
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by samus 7mo ago
The same technology can also be used to force people to live with bodies engineered to make their existence a living hell. Similar things can be done with brain uploads.
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by samus 8mo ago
I fully understand why the courts are slow, and they should indeed not rush decisions (especially since they have a huge weight in common law law systems), but because of this they are not able to restrain another powerful institution that
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by samus 8mo ago
That's true in theory, but really missing the point. In practice these checks come far too late. The court system is notoriously overworked and slow. In this case, most of these tariffs will not be returned because the government will
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by samus 8mo ago
It really depends on what you're doing with your hardware. Overclocking, overheating, unstable power supply, and things like that increase the likelihood of memory bitflips.
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by samus 8mo ago
It makes economic sense to keep selling non-ECC hardware to maintain market segmentation.
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by samus 8mo ago
Maybe a partial solution would be to duplicate pointer data, compare pointers at every deference and panics if it doesn't match up. In essence a poor man's version of ECC. It's a considerable runtime overhead, but it might be
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by samus 8mo ago
They probably should have been. But the presidential system putting de-facto unchecked power into the president is just asking for such abuses to happen. Almost by design one might think.
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by samus 8mo ago
You might anyway have to check them out so you can review them in depth. PR can give you an overview of what changed, but only very limited insight into the context of the change, and no oversight at all into whether something is missing.
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by samus 8mo ago
If your code is modularized then you have at least protection from modules polluting each other's packages.
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by samus 8mo ago
I rather hope it doesn't. It's not so much about action; it's subtle worldbuilding and a certain vibe that is easily distorted on screen. Also, it would destroy everybody's personal vision of the Shrike...
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by samus 8mo ago
I find it awesome that the true nature and mission of the Shrike remains a secret.
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by samus 8mo ago
He predicted social media as well. So many themes in this work only mentioned in passing, too many to develop in full...
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by samus 8mo ago
It starts very slowly and the worldbuilding is exquisite and you will likely uncover many facets only upon rereading it. However, it is well worth persisting. Works with considerably more action are Olympus and Ilium.
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by samus 8mo ago
It's up to anybody to not have a particular taste for religious topics, however, spirituality (or the lack thereof) is an important part of human culture and psychology. Therefore a science fiction novel in a sufficiently different set
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by samus 8mo ago
That's the weird thing though. One is criminalized, the other isn't. The impact on job performance is unrelated to that though.
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by samus 8mo ago
The point is that they seem to worry more about being a weed user than being an alcoholic.
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by samus 8mo ago
Why wouldn't they? There are Discord servers about anything you can imagine and also what you can't or don't want to image. As long as they don't start disrupting their infra Discord couldn't care less. Also, how wo
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by samus 8mo ago
The Win32 ABI is also just a wrapper on the native API, which is only stable in practice, but not officially according to any Microsoft documentation. Glibc is userspace seen from the perspective of the Linux kernel.
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by samus 8mo ago
Indeed, OpenBSD recently added hardening measures and started restricting the generic syscall interface to libc.
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by samus 8mo ago
With the crucial difference that Linux places high value on syscall interface binary compatibility, while the NT native API is not guaranteed to be stable in any way. A bit more comparable is OpenBSD where applications are very much expecte
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by samus 8mo ago
The low n is not the only questionable thing about the study. What a big n gives you is diversity of samples and tighter confidence intervals, but it can not correct for methodological limitations. Specifically, they didn't invite any
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by samus 8mo ago
Do you really think you have a holographic sign floating above you that tells them you are a citizen? How are you sure you are above suspicion to be an undocumented immigrant? Could you prove you aren't if some goons decided to pick yo
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by samus 8mo ago
One other aspect to consider is whether people actually want to have more than two kids per couple, even in an ideal world. Raising children is a huge effort and biologically and mentally very taxing on the parents, especially the mother.
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by samus 8mo ago
A combination to some degree. Scientists yearn to stumble upon something hitherto unexplainable that requires a new theory or validates or definitely rules out some of the more fringe theories. While other natural sciences often suffer fr
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by samus 9mo ago
Our primate ancestors required tails so they could effectively move around on trees. A tree dweller without a functional tail is slower and has a harder time gathering food and escaping from predators. That's a very strong selection
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by samus 9mo ago
Parents must also be alive for long enough to care for their children until they can sustain themselves.
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by samus 9mo ago
That remains as it is because it's very difficult to evolve away from. Evolution is very good at chasing and sticking around local optima. Big changes are risky.

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