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by shakna 6mo ago
The way you spelled that out, is a specific story that almost all clearance holders in all countries are taught specifically means corruption. Its not unjust - its exactly what you are taught not to do, with government contracts! Its not ju
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by shakna 6mo ago
Yes, because all compilers support a non-standard defer mechanism, its now being considered for inclusion into standard C. [0] And that suggested defer standard, is already available from GCC 9 and clang 22. [0] https://www.open-
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by shakna 6mo ago
Factory service manuals? Most of those are free. You don't need to be an authorised service to get hold of those. The right to repair directive also authorises you to bypass any software restriction without violating hacking laws, as l
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by shakna 6mo ago
2027 for phones. Most things since 2024, including cars.
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"Always" up, but maybe not going where you expect. [0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/odd-a...
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by shakna 6mo ago
I have worked with people like this frequently. The ones you're always happy to see on the team. Also worked with people who were frustrated that they had to force push git to "save" their changes. Honestly, a token-box I can
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by shakna 6mo ago
Nice to see sealioning is alive and well on HN.
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You could download books I wrote from libgen, before the actual publish date, and the files were ones I created specifically for Amazon. So I'd assume libgen and Anna's Archive will continue on, operating just as normal.
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by shakna 6mo ago
In some systems, backspace was not buffered. It shifted the last offset position of the memory position to be stored for the next character. Backspace may just be pc--, and every other character is just a poke. This is pre-ASCII. There was
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by shakna 6mo ago
I'd call it even likely, with most of the flat memory OSs of the past. We are talking 50 years ago. C64 had a flat memory map, where the input came as the first address in range 0 to DFFF. What came after that? The kernel. So if you wr
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by shakna 6mo ago
Is a scientific calculator, like kids are expected to use at school, a general purpose device? It has an OS, a network stack, an interpreter. Usually used for games as much as for classwork.
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by shakna 6mo ago
Which is why Google calls it a public API key...
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by shakna 6mo ago
Worse. [0] [0] https://hackerone.com/reports/3595764
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by shakna 6mo ago
"Existing capability" removes the argument against onerous requirements, in a legal setting.
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Electron isAccessibilitySupportEnabled broken since v34(github.com)
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by shakna 7mo ago
If monkeys can't hold copyright, which is an actual case discussed above, then no, an LLM probably can't either. "Human" is required.
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by shakna 7mo ago
Its the source of the right. It is not the government that permits citizens to use deadly force in certain conditions. Its an "inalienable right". Something that the government is to ensure it doesn't infringe on, rather than
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by shakna 7mo ago
For those who might wonder how accurate this is, there is advice from the Federal Register to this effect. [0] Its quite comprehensive, and covers pretty much every question that might be asked about "What about...?" > In these
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by shakna 7mo ago
But the software already has multiple database systems built in. There's not exactly overhead to use what plumbing is already there, instead of writing to disk.
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by shakna 7mo ago
Tables by hand, I hate. But I don't quite agree with the first sentiment. For longform prose, it isn't that unusual for people to work with all editing marks visible. Writing novels, I absolutely write using monospace, because it
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by shakna 7mo ago
> The entire purpose of government is to have a monopoly on violence. ... Isn't that rather against the spirit of the US' constitution? I can see it being a thought with other nations, but not this particular one. > A well r
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by shakna 7mo ago
There's an email signup box on the right side on desktop, or bottom of the page on mobile. Maybe you somehow managed to hit it, or see it during some component update.
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by shakna 7mo ago
The two big ones for discussing Germanic languages and their inheritance would probably be: "From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic", Ringe. And the simpler "Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme&quo
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by shakna 7mo ago
n̥ is just the "not" prefix. The "ero" is the real root. The prefix applies to the root first, and then the other pieces have their meanings, usually. (Its a reconstructed language. There are both exceptions and things w
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by shakna 7mo ago
Mozilla tried to kill Thunderbird in 2020. They've been talking about not sponsoring it all since 2015. They might have the money, but they don't really seem to want anything to do with the project.
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The "Portable Raman" is an LED device.
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This is the 2013 paper [0], which won the SILS-SPECS PhD Award. [0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac302158b
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by shakna 7mo ago
The box size at IBM was larger before standardisation. DES is trivial to break, because of NSA involvement in weakening all the corners. [0] > In the development of the DES, NSA convinced IBM that a reduced key size was sufficient; Minit
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by shakna 7mo ago
> Actually this systems didn’t. In the early 80s most protocols were still ASCII based. DES was standardised in '77. In use, before that. SSL was not the first time the world adopted encrypted protocols. The NSA wouldn't have w
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by shakna 7mo ago
One of the other articles on HN's front page right now, is that Germany's implementation of eIDAS will require a Google or Apple account.

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