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by skissane 1y ago
Yes, which is exactly what I already said in the comment you were responding to: “although both are understood as referring to the country”
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by skissane 1y ago
> Also also: America is the United States of America in the English-speaking world. As an Australian English speaker, I will normally call it “the US”-the only time I ever call it “America” is when speaking to our 7 year old, because I k
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by skissane 1y ago
I find I’m most likely to use an LLM to generate code in certain specific scenarios: (i) times I’m suffering from “writer’s block” or “having trouble getting started”; (ii) a language or framework I don’t normally use; (iii) feeling tired&#
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by skissane 1y ago
The problem with blocking names of politicians: the list of “notable politicians” is not only highly country-specific, it is also constantly changing-someone who is a near nobody today in a few more years could be a major world leader (witn
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by skissane 1y ago
A PhD by publication sounds very similar to a higher doctorate (DSc, DLitt, etc). Substantive (as opposed to honoris causa ) higher doctorates are awarded based on publication record only. To be eligible for a substantive higher doctorate,
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by skissane 1y ago
I think the issue with any new physical filesystem, is even if it becomes mature, fully upstream as part of the mainline Linux kernel, and supported out-of-the-box by all the major distributions - still a lot of people are just never going
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by skissane 1y ago
> OpenZFS contains enough code not authored by Sun/Oracle that relicensing it now is effectively impossible. I don't think so. Suppose Oracle did agree to put their code under GPLv2/CDDL dual licensing. Then, I'm sure
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by skissane 1y ago
Given the context is an OS kernel, even if I hadn't heard of "bcachefs" before (which I have), parsing it as "bcache-fs" seems obvious. By contrast, I don't know what "BCA Chefs" is supposed to be. &q
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by skissane 1y ago
I don’t think FUSE is deliberately a “second class citizen”, it is simply that doing a filesystem in user space has a performance cost compared to doing it in the kernel-and that is a very tricky problem to solve. Even microkernels have thi
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by skissane 1y ago
> The problem with terms like "arsehole" that is that they conflate a bunch of different issues. Agree, plus I’d add: if we are going to criticise other people’s communication style/abilities or attitude, then using a vagu
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by skissane 1y ago
It would be interesting to study coronial findings/records - I don’t have the time (or even expertise) to do so properly - to understand to what extent recent fatal incidents have been due to being so unprepared (or unlucky) that they
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by skissane 1y ago
In a truly life-threatening situation, the emergency authorities can send help by air If they don’t and someone dies as a result, they are going to have an awful lot of explaining to do at the coronial inquiry, it isn’t going to end well fo
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by skissane 1y ago
If your employer doesn’t supply one for that sort of work, they need to be reported to the OH&S authorities. That said, you can always bring your own. If it were my kid in that scenario I’d buy one for them. Another factor: currently sa
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by skissane 1y ago
Keep in mind that tragedy happened all the way back in 1986. Anyone doing the same kind of work today (bore maintenance in extremely remote Australian desert) likely has a Personal Locator Beacon-which can be used to transmit your location
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by skissane 1y ago
If we are talking about Daeseong-dong, Wikipedia says “Only individuals who lived in the village before the Korean War, or are descendants of those who did, are allowed to move to the village” So the market of potential buyers is quite limi
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by skissane 1y ago
> all running on an IBM3084Q with Phoenix as the OS Digressing, but I wonder if any copies of Phoenix/MVS survive, and if so, whether it could be made to run under Hercules
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by skissane 1y ago
> If not, why Canada refuse to join USA as a 51st state? Trump’s idea of Canada as a US state is constitutionally ludicrous, because it ignores the fact that Canada is already a federation of provinces - which are essentially equivalent
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by skissane 1y ago
> “Common among their culture” is a quick way of determining whether lots of other people are able to hold this belief and function fine. But some people’s functioning is impaired by beliefs common to their culture, whereas other people
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by skissane 1y ago
> but homosexuality does seem to be an important special case given that it typically means lack of descendants For much of human history, that has been false. In many societies, there has been strong pressure to (heterosexually) marry,
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by skissane 1y ago
> When that fixed belief is not common among their culture, it becomes a bizarre fixed belief. > When, as a result of their obsession with those bizarre fixed beliefs, they are unable to function (hygiene, nutrition, finances, care of
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by skissane 1y ago
Well, not just drugs-children are more likely to experience hallucinations even without drugs. I still have vivid memories of experiencing what (in hindsight) I realise were hypnopompic hallucinations, around the age of 6 or 7. I wasn’t tak
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by skissane 1y ago
> Nanometer-scale nodes wear out much more quickly. Modern GPUs have a rated lifespan in the 3-7 year range, depending on usage. I recently bought a new MacBook, my previous one having lasted me for over 10 years. The big thing that push
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by skissane 1y ago
> Yes, I hold the "America is not a nation-state" perspective. I generally like the analysis by Bret Devereaux on this topic ( https://acoup.blog/2021/07/02/collections-my-country-isnt-a- ...), but
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by skissane 1y ago
Israel really is unique among Western nations. Can you point to a Western nation where there is a constitutional distinction between "citizens" and "the nation for whom the state exists", such that you can belong to the
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by skissane 1y ago
> I’m asking this unironically, but I guess I thought e.g. Ireland was pretty homogenous In the 2022 census, only 76.5% of people in Ireland were ethnically Irish. Over 20% of the population are foreign-born, with the most common countri
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by skissane 1y ago
> If you read your own link, note how Israel has a near-total blockade and maintains military control For most of the period since 2005, it has been a joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade, not an exclusively Israeli one. That has recently cha
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by skissane 1y ago
No, the Berne convention doesn’t work that way. It requires you to extend copyright protection to the works of the nationals of the other parties on the same terms as you offer it to the works of your own nationals; but if a certain categor
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by skissane 1y ago
Right, but it isn’t legally enough for there to be creativity in the supervision of the mechanical process - that creativity has to take the form of creative elements which survive in some identifiable form in the end product. The technical
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by skissane 1y ago
Contracts require agreement (a “meeting of the minds”)… if X makes a contract with Google, that contract between Google and X can’t create a contract between Google and Y without Y’s agreement. Of course, Google’s lawyers will do all they c
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by skissane 1y ago
I thought I read something by them explicitly addressing the question but I can’t find it now. However, read page 22 of https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... - it is their settled positio

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