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by svieira 2y ago
It was not dyed - the fibers that are discolored are discolored only on one side.
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by svieira 2y ago
Not only a photographic negative, a photographic negative with proper depth that was painted on individual sides of the fibers of the shroud by something (likely heat). The fibers that are colored on this shroud are colored only on one side
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by svieira 2y ago
I'm a huge fan of Gatherers, lovely API!
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by svieira 2y ago
There are easy ways to do some subset of what LINQ does in Java (using annotation processors), in Go (using generators), in Python (using double-underscore methods to capture all the operations the expression is working with at runtime, see
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by svieira 2y ago
These days it would be var lowNums = Arrays.stream(numbers).filter(n -> n < 5).toList(); 2024's Java is also quite a bit better than 2013's Java. Which still isn't as nice as LINQ, but this way we've paint
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by svieira 2y ago
> AI as a tool is regulated just as a PC or calculator or PDR is regulated — the regulation is not the tool but the person using the tool. Another gem from the article that I wanted to surface. It's yet-another-take on the general
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by svieira 2y ago
With CGI the developer of the script could pretend that the-only-thing-which-existed was this request and do all kinds of things that would bring down a persistent process (leak memory, mutate globals, etc.) The problem was that spinning u
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by svieira 2y ago
It's quite buried amid a lot of extra paragraphs expositing about WASM and the future of serverless functions in general, but the article does contain this quote: > One of the many effect of how [WASM] modules are isolated is that
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by svieira 2y ago
Funnily enough, the scholastics thought of philosophy as the handmaid of theology. Ultimately, it's in the name (love-of-wisdom). You can learn wisdom from science, but that body of wisdom eventually becomes a philosophy. And the old
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by svieira 2y ago
To put it another way for those who don't web-dev much. Getting rid of cookies completely _requires_ that any authenticated experience becomes an SPA (e. g. only works with JavaScript enabled). The sole alternative available today is
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by svieira 2y ago
The difference is that you can spin up only so many OS threads and you can run several orders of magnitude more "green threads" / "tasks" like this that round-robin onto system threads that comprise your event loo
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by svieira 2y ago
> Ideally the patent system is not so complex that it itself requires as much or more study to be expert in than the actual subjects of the patents Unfortunately, "patent law" is a complex body of laws, legal decisions, and spe
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by svieira 2y ago
Looking at the article he's not implementing `Task` with `Thread` - he's round-robinning processing `Task`s through simple `ThreadPool`. So instead of a single `Thread` making continuous progress on the work in the event loop he
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by svieira 2y ago
Virtual threads only became stable in Java 21, unfortunately ( https://openjdk.org/jeps/444 ). If the issue is "I'm bound to Java 8" proposing running a research build of Java 11 in production is going to
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by svieira 2y ago
I can recommend a lovely short video in French documenting the work that I recently watched: Meet the team still cleaning up after World War I | Zone Rouge ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB-Ncob1gDk )
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by svieira 2y ago
E_PROGRAMMER_WAS_INSUFFICIENTLY_POLITE? With a corresponding E_PROGRAMMER_WAS_EXCEEDINGLY_POLITE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL for those who don't know.
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A Beginner's Guide to the True Order of SQL Operations(blog.jooq.org)
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by svieira 2y ago
I am not sure I am following - you don't know if there is anything that is really true, but you presume there isn't and that model of "the only truth is the absence of truth" is useful to you because it allows you to .
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by svieira 2y ago
> You're implying that there is an absolute Truth and that people only need to do [what?] to check if something is True. But that's not True. We only have models of how reality works, and every model is wrong - but some are use
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by svieira 2y ago
> The issue isn't so much that there isn't proof, it's that proof existing would be counter to everything we know about how the universe works. I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. It doesn't sound
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by svieira 2y ago
> There is nothing I have ever seen, or that science has ever collected data on, to indicate that such a thing is plausible. Given that this is an estimate could you estimate what kind of thing you would have to see or what shape of data
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by svieira 2y ago
If God was real, wouldn't you? If God is real and you're wrong about that (or if you don't yet know the real God) would you want the computer to agree with your misconception or would you want it to know the truth? Cut out &
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by svieira 2y ago
My suspicion is that these banking apps are running root detection code that look for the presence of certain other apps that signal "rootedness". The stated reason is always "we don't want malware being able to steal yo
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by svieira 2y ago
I give you this: Yesterday, I delivered a long-asked for feature - optimistic updates for a UI screen after a button click on Screen #1. It took only one day because the server-side logic is entirely under engineering control and the only
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by svieira 2y ago
I think there is a bit left out - I expect that the cookie was restricted in some other way. Either the logged in experience was on a different sub-domain (e. g. `app.breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org`) or the cookie was restricted to a
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by svieira 2y ago
It happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_abortion#United_Kingdom > On June 21, 2019, the UK Court of Protection ordered a disabled woman to have an abortion against her will.[18] The woman had a moderate moo
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by svieira 2y ago
Every time I see one of these stories I'm reminded that the Nazis started by exterminating the unfit [1] - the mentally unstable, the elderly, etc. Only once they had that program well in hand did the Nazis move on to removing others
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by svieira 2y ago
Some act that is recognized as bad by society does not stop happening - it simply ensures that members of that society are aware of the badness of the act. This has a deterrent effect because people do not choose a bad act for its own sake
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by svieira 2y ago
Azure Standard has an incredibly polished experience for shopping. It's not _perfect_ (if you know where to put your hands you can find a place that isn't perfectly sanded) but the sheer level of smoothness across the transac
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by svieira 2y ago
> "What are people for?" is a question that cannot be answered by intelligence no matter how great It absolutely can be answered, but only the the intender. Who is and who was and who is to come. Or, if you side with the &quot

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