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by seoaeu 4y ago
That’s like saying that if you donate to a charity, the value of the goods you gave must be zero because it was a donation
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> > Even in this environment, you can still have dangling pointers to freed stack frames. > How frequently does this happen in real software? I learned not to return pointers to stack allocated variables when I was 12 years old. Th
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by seoaeu 4y ago
I think of it as jeopardy rules: any time you are correcting someone you must phrase it as a question. If they’ve made a mistake, it lets them save face. And if you are actually wrong, you save face
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by seoaeu 4y ago
U-Boot is over 2 million lines of code. I don’t know off hand exactly what functionality that does and doesn’t include, but I think it is fair to argue that neither one is especially simple
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Nearly everything supports the C-extension. The designers were initially expecting that small cores wouldn’t implement it, but quickly discovered that the code size improvements more than paid for the extra gates
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by seoaeu 4y ago
“On disk” really downplays the amount of code required to implement drivers for loading off USB, SATA, NVMe, etc.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> I don't see labels on bleech bottles, saying not to mix it with vinegar or you could die. Have you looked? Mine says “STRONG OXIDIZING AGENT: Mix only with water. Mixing this product with chemicals […] may release hazardous gases”
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by seoaeu 4y ago
"Bank error in your favor. Collect $200"
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Don’t remember the model, but I used a very early Oculus VR headset and came away thinking it was like looking at a blurry image through a screen door.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The linked article practically goes out of its way to obscure how much this work is incrementally building on Linux’s existing paging design versus designing their own solution. Sure there’s a couple places that mention Linux defaults don’t
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by seoaeu 4y ago
If an iPhone owner wants to use an app that Apple has banned from the App Store, they cannot simply purchase it. Instead they must make the widely disproportionate move of spending many hundreds of dollars on an android phone. In practice a
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by seoaeu 4y ago
And once higher labor costs drive up the cost of living, you just ship away the next tranche of people who are now below the poverty line?
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Because the tenants will surely be thrilled to commute from places “nobody wants to drive to”
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by seoaeu 4y ago
First off inclusionary units are not a “secret”. But more to the point, that not the kind of affordable housing that the article is talking about: The article is about 100% affordable developments which are almost always by non-profits rece
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The problem is that when people are suffering now, they don’t want to be told to wait a decade or two for current luxury housing stock to filter down and become affordable. Just imagine closing a local food bank and replacing it with a vagu
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by seoaeu 4y ago
And in this proposal who is going to work as baristas, janitors, and delivery drivers?
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by seoaeu 4y ago
You’d better take down all those “refugees welcome” signs then
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by seoaeu 4y ago
“The USSR is a free market, you can just move to America if you want to buy something that isn’t for sale there”
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Honestly, when I’m looking at buying something OK is usually all I’m looking for. Sure getting the best widget would be nice, but I’m happy as long as it doesn’t break right away or otherwise cause me problems.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Yeah, the difference is whether you can run the same air through the filter multiple times.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The problem is drivers seeing you. If you are in a serious crash it is probably going to be because they hit you, not from you hitting them. Motorists look for other road users they may be overtaking, but usually don’t expect to see oncomin
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by seoaeu 4y ago
University press departments are (indirectly) funded by grant agencies. Thus, it is strongly in their interests to convey to those agencies that their institution is doing groundbreaking work.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
All effects disappear if you don’t use strong enough measurement techniques
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Efficiency percentages are the wrong way to look at it. If you instead frame it in terms of tons CO2 equivalent, then locking in the emissions every year between now and 2050 is going to be worse, compared to the alternative of burning a bu
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Sure, in many cases that's the right thing to do. From the outside, however, major retrofits like that are going to look a lot like the construction that the article is taking about
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by seoaeu 4y ago
More likely once the 90 years expires the area discovers that it is not actually capable of doing the replacements required. Of course, pretty much only suburban areas have infrastructure/buildings built over that short an interval. Co
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> But constant tearing up of streets isn't necessary for life No city has literally all the streets torn up at once. Which means by definition all road construction is in stages. I’m somewhat puzzled how what you’re proposing is dif
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Using buildings constructed before the invention of modern insulation is terrible for the environment too.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Physical things this need maintenance, repair, and eventually replacement. Needs change over time. If the buildings around you have a lifespan of 50-100 years and you aren’t replacing 1% or 2% of them every year, then you are falling behind
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by seoaeu 4y ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and say a lot has changed in cryptocurrency since 2013

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