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by throwaway09223 3y ago
But there is no rigamarole. The article is just super confused. Atomicity is orthogonal to durability. rename() is atomic and always has been atomic. It is atomic without guaranteeing durability. In fact, to guarantee durability after renam
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
This article is just plain wrong. The author doesn't seem to understand how filesystems work - specifically the difference between writing data and renaming directory entries. LWN should either issue a correction or take it down. First
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
They do, actually, according to this methodology. It's a broken methodology. The study asks only about the previous day's diet. Assume a population where everyone has the same diet of a milkshake randomly about once a week. If you
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Any of the thousands of contributors to the Linux kernel can make this claim. Linus doesn't have any special authority here.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
It certainly is the behavior you're seeing, in part because Safari is the only web browser on iphones. Firefox on iphone is just webkit. It is not actually Firefox. Chrome on iphone is just webkit. It is not actually Chrome.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Yes, like I said if you give it the results, eg "That code resulted in this error. What's wrong?" it will more often than not correct its mistake. Hooking it up to automatically run the code in question and examine the output
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
You have to put it in context: How good is the human alternative? I have interviewed hundreds of engineers across the entire skill spectrum. I think GPT4 right now is about on-par with a mid level developer. It makes a lot of mistakes, espe
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
There is nothing about Genshin Impact that is related to Zelda in terms of technology. The style is similar but style similarities isn't addressable through patents. BOTW/TOTK have excellent implementation and aesthetics but there
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
No, it isn't indicative at all. The vast majority of immigration occurs without incident and there is no compelling evidence that this will change in the future.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Well, this is certainly not a strong position to argue from.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
No, it's not important. It's just wrong, as clearly illustrated by the article we're all discussing. Microsoft applied for, and obtained, a trademark for "x". Companies do this all the time. Companies also trademark
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
"A lot of people will die as places become uninhabitable for a very very long time" Places will become uninhabitable, but what's the argument for "a lot of people will die?" These are gradual changes we're talk
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Well, a second is more specifically defined as: "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom taken as an average o
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
We don't have to change any vocabulary. Noon and midnight happen at different times in different places and that would be fine. We know it's fine, because that's how it currently is in China. Most servers run on UTC under the
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Why shouldn't we have one timezone? Why not have one worldwide timezone? The sun rises and sets at different times according to both latitude and longitude. Timezones only handle longitudinal daylight adjustments. We already deal wit
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Why have time zones at all, and not simply recognize that day and night occur at different times in different places? This part wasn't a conscious decision, because the reference frame of time and orbital mechanics were discovered long
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
" Monkeys aren't algorithms nor computers, so that doesn't seem very relevant." Works produced by monkeys, like works produced by computers, cannot be copywriten. They are functionally identical in this regard. That is w
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Not really. The "special" quality attached to humans is only in creating copyright -- it has nothing to do with fair use arguments around derivative works. "Machines and algorithms are not legally recognized as being able to
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
We're not in the wrong here. Judges produce absurd findings with regularity -- this case is newsworthy because the finding is surprising and controversial. If you paw around a bit in law you'll find judges sometimes going out of
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
If people commonly sent a "yes" to acknowledge receipt of a message, then of course I would. The problem here is that a thumbs up emoji doesn't mean yes. It can also mean "got it." When people send me huge documents
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
For everyone blaming modern tech: The only time police have ever come to my house from a 911 call was back in the 90s. Some combination of a noisy phone line and a broken 900MHz cordless phone managed to call 911 and they followed up. They
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
"Why not talk about more concrete reasons that controlled burns are good without appealing to it being opposite of racists? " This article is weird because forest management became an extremely partisan issue recently. Do you reme
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
I have a related story: Around the year 2000 I was working operations in the NOC for WebTV (then owned by Microsoft). For those who don't know, WebTV was a little set-top box with a modem which would dial up on demand and provide a ver
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Regarding #1, #2 and #3: Most people no longer own their shares directly. Most online self-clearing brokerages are "nominee" accounts where shares are held in the brokerages' name rather than the end customer's name. Own
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
> How does that even work? Look up "stop and identify." You don't have to present any kind of documents if you're a citizen. You do have to identify yourself, and yes it's vaguely defined. Generally this means na
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
We're not discussing ports, we're discussing so-called "interior checkpoints." The comment you're responding to said: "Odd because I have been detained at CBP checkpoints inside the US" You cannot stop a p
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Resident status can't be determined until after detaining someone. Your comment is self-contradictory.
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Nope, and I notice it on my computer monitor as well so I'm sure this isn't the case. > "There's really no reason to watch 1080p instead of 4K. Your eyes aren't somehow low resolution with 1080p closer to that re
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
I wonder if this is it. I definitely notice artifacts more in higher resolution. Low resolution video doesn't bother me at all. I can happily watch 480p. But the weird compression artifacts following moving objects absolutely frustrate
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by throwaway09223 3y ago
Google is a pretty big fish themselves. What usually happens is the large corporation lays out a case like "yt-dlp is responsible for billions in damages" and they press the DOJ to investigate and prosecute.

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