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by skissane 1y ago
> The Neutrino 6.4 version, which was made accessible as "openQNX" to the public From memory: the source was made freely available to anyone who wanted to download it, but not under an open source license, under an individual n
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by skissane 1y ago
I think it makes sense that although this is a widespread problem in South Korea, some places have it worse than others; you obviously worked at a place where the problem was more moderate. And I went there over a decade ago, and maybe even
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by skissane 1y ago
I spent a week of my life at a major insurance company in Seoul once, and the military style security, the obsession with corporate espionage, when all they were working on was an internal corporate portal for an insurance company… The deve
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by skissane 1y ago
I think the point is... even if you can't get everyone to adopt your backdoored technology, you are much better off if 30% of the market adopts it than if >1%... Intelligence is a numbers game, they never get everything, but if your
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by skissane 1y ago
I think the distinction is whether they express their views in project settings or in unrelated settings. If they express them in project settings, then I can’t see how that could possibly be on-topic, which makes it disruptive behaviour. B
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by skissane 1y ago
If a community wants to exclude many millions-even billions-of people around the world, including the population supermajority of dozens of countries, and all those who seriously believe in the traditional teachings of any one of several ma
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by skissane 1y ago
So, if a person is a traditionalist/conservative Orthodox Jew, who holds traditional “non-affirming” views on LGBT issues-do those views count as “eliminationist rhetoric”? If a project decides it won’t welcome people who believe what
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by skissane 1y ago
I don’t want anyone “eliminated”… the problem is what does “eliminated” mean? If it means “rounding up people and shooting them” then of course I oppose that. But what about the conservative Jew/Christian/Muslim who believes that
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by skissane 1y ago
Likely more than 50% of the world's population agrees with viewpoints that some would label "trans-eliminationist rhetoric". So if you are saying anyone who ever expresses such viewpoints–even in forums completely unrelated t
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by skissane 1y ago
The US mixes up fixed line numbers with mobile numbers, so you can’t tell them apart based just on the number. In Australia, mobile services are a separate area code-so a mobile number tells you that it is a mobile number, but nothing else-
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by skissane 1y ago
I wonder how they detect you are in the EEA? What if you are not in the EEA, but connect to an EEA-based VPN? If you enrol while you are in EEA but then travel out of it, does the device remain enrolled?
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by skissane 1y ago
Yes, but in my past experience, one often wants to be edit those files to make them more generic… Valgrind struggles to distinguish which parts of the call stack are essential to a “known leak” versus which are coincidental. I have never tr
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by skissane 1y ago
Not about the Middle East specifically-but I think one advantage more traditional societies can potentially have compared to the secular Western mainstream, is clearer social roles and more explicit social scripts-now, that’s not necessaril
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From Burwood to Bulgaria: How $1 Australian home designs are taking on the world(smh.com.au)
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by skissane 1y ago
> I'm happy to see such results be "properly" recognized. The DSM is imo helpful only as a baseline, especially in contexts where without it, doctors might have (significant) personal bias. And... this might ruffle some fe
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by skissane 1y ago
Another paper I like which reaches similar conclusions, but with a rather different methodology - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6880188/ - looking at the biological validity of the ASD-vs-ADHD-vs-OCD di
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by skissane 1y ago
You could have a “nanokernel” which owns the ring buffers and the other kernels act as its clients… or for a “primary kernel” which owns the ring buffers and exposes an API the other kernels could call. If different devices have different r
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by skissane 1y ago
IBM mainframes and Power servers have “partitions” (LPARs). My understanding of how they work, is they actually are software-based virtualisation, but the hypervisor is in the system firmware, not the OS. And some of the firmware is loaded
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by skissane 1y ago
Maybe the best solution is to adopt a parliamentary system of government? With the executive formally subordinated to the legislature, it can’t spend money against the legislative majority’s wishes, because if it upsets the legislature, the
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by skissane 1y ago
Research suggests there is a big difference between how children experience divorce between high-functioning and low-functioning families - children from high-functioning families often experience parental divorce as traumatic, children fro
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by skissane 1y ago
> Pretty sure GNU coreutils really does intentionally deviate from POSIX compliance in a handful of places, otherwise POSIXLY_CORRECT wouldn't exist. To get UNIX certification, you can just patch it to make POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 the def
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by skissane 1y ago
> It's not just about going through a song-and-dance. It's about making an OS that has different behavior - often very tiny differences, but differences that would make the distro worse for most users. Is this actually true? Ca
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by skissane 1y ago
> In some ways, Apple's adherence to UNIX specifications probably makes macOS less useful for you. For example, I wish that grep on macOS was closer to GNU grep. When I look up commands online, I often find answers based on the GNU
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by skissane 1y ago
I think for the US, they should ensure tzdata contains at least one city for every state. That’s what they do for Australia. Now, it so happens their current rules-only add city if in recent decades it had distinct time zone rules-happen to
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by skissane 1y ago
> Let PDT be PDT(-8) and PST be PST(-7) The problem is both the US and Australia have “EST/EDT” - the Australian version sometimes has an A stuck on the front to disambiguate it from the US timezone, but that isn’t always done (espe
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by skissane 1y ago
> I have not heard of a city moving between continents however. Continents are conventional are there are multiple competing conventions. The same place absolutely can and will move continents if you decide to swap out one of those conve
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by skissane 1y ago
Maybe panpsychism is true and the machine actually does have a soul, because all machines have souls, even your lawnmower. But possibly the soul of a machine running a frontier AI is a bit closer to a human soul than your lawnmower’s soul i
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by skissane 1y ago
> and will shortly have in Texas. Democrats have been dreaming of “turning Texas blue” for years now, but I’m sceptical that will ever happen. The GOP-and Trump in particular-has been making big inroads with Hispanic Texans. The idea tha
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by skissane 1y ago
A lot of people in the US seem to view deporting illegal immigrants as some far-right move bordering on fascism Meanwhile, in Australia, it is a bipartisan policy. Read this article about what the centre-left Albanese government just did:
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by skissane 1y ago
My wife had no idea who he was when I said his name… but when she saw a photo, she remembered him from videos which appeared on her Facebook feed in which he argues about abortion and transgender issues. She is Facebook friends with a lot o

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