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by throwawaycert 7y ago
In the 60s/70s, an EE/CS guy named Leon Chua did some clever math that suggested we could build transistor-like devices that had a non-linear relationship between charge and flux and called it a memristor. He didn't build one
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
Obligatory reminder that "memristor" is mostly a marketing hype word at this point. No clear example of the original memristor hypothesis has ever been crafted, and there is wide disagreement on what should or shouldn't be ca
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
Oh, that's right, it's because iOS normally doesn't allow dynamic code modification in memory. That's not an iOS specific thing at all, Apple is just one of the few companies willing to make that nod to security.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
The only JIT “restriction” is App Store policy. No downloaded code is allowed unless it’s JavaScript (and runs, as it happens, on one of the JITs iOS has built in). This is policy, not technical limits. You can even install a Python environ
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
> Who wouldn't push this button? My father's entire family, who have literally said that being homeless should be a capital crime because it proves how useless you are. Yes, bad people do exist. Why is this still a surprise t
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
So you think, in defense of free speech, Google shouldn't be allowed to talk about what it found in Apple's products.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
iOS allows JITs. This is exactly what I'm talking about. You're using bad or outdated second or third-hand info with no regard for the game of telephone involved in getting it to you, nor the anti-Apple zealots obfuscating the tru
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
I didn't even know there was a three app limit on it. Most people don't use very many apps. But yes, quite a lot of us routinely sideload apps on non-jailbroken iOS devices.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
They already require periodic resigning of self-signed side-loaded apps on iOS, it doesn't stop even relatively casual users. (That's actually the funniest part about all this, now that I think about it. While everyone is wailing
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
Any ability to execute arbitrary code is the ability to bypass the MAS. What's more, it's nice and efficient - iOS apps in development are compiled right to x86 machine code for the "simulator" that is little more than a
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
The scenario you propose would eliminate the ability to develop apps for iOS. Are you suggesting Apple is actively trying to kill the iOS app store?
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
I have a question. If these painful, legalistic processes of local government didn't exist, do you think your bad neighbors would just stop bothering you, or do you think maybe they'd just shoot you to get rid of the problem? All
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
The practical effect of what you suggest is that I have to suffer from overtaxed infrastructure because individuals around me made poor judgements. Which is exactly why these rules exist. The planning process is how society manages its
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
They didn't know they went too far at the time, and it didn't become obvious for years. But they knew they were getting close at least, and stopped. We'd be worse off if they hadn't denied subsequent projects.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
The mere existence of a house on the other side of even a fairly big town can affect the fire safety of your house, because it affects the likelihood that emergency responders in the area will be overloaded by an excessive number of fires o
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
I am living through the effects of allowing excessively fast growth right now. For most of this year and possibly into the next, my driveway is almost unusable while the road is ripped up and utilities completely overhauled because there wa
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
This isn't the sort of thing you talk to "city officicals" about. There is almost certainly a political entity in your city/county made up of appointed or elected citizens called something like a planning commission.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
None of these things are actually true. Zoning laws are defaults. By default, you have to provide a certain amount of parking, or are only allowed to put up one additional unit, without additional planning authority . That's an import
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
The point is more to not try timing the market. There are all sorts of things one could reasonably say about what would be right or wrong for these unstable areas, but fundamentally the most long term good would be if they could engage in s
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
Those numbers you found are only for liner shipping, not all shipping.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
Yes. It’s not splitting hairs, it’s looking at the root of the problem: Americans live inefficiently and in our bubble it seems “normal” because we have normalized severe deviance from good social, economic, and environmental practices and
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
There is still a serious linguistic disconnect here. You’re talking about what are essentially suburbs. Big cities are mostly apartments and condos. This is true throughout the developed world including in the US, but for some reason in the
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
Yes but that happens over tens, hundreds, thousands, millions of years. It may be practical one day to stay ahead of it.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
So are a lot of other people. We are in yet another AI bubble. It is far, FAR from the first, and will not be the last. Thiel is just yet again trying to paint the ordinary, boring daily activities of his ideological opponents as somehow ba
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
More than a quarter of Google's traffic today is IPv6. So apparently ISP's representing a quarter of their traffic don't consider the marketing oxymoron that is "carrier grade nat" an adequate substitute for IPv6.
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by throwawaycert 7y ago
NRT is also used to treat people suffering (and I do mean suffering, it's a horrid burden) from ulcerative colitis. Maybe don't spend too much energy shitting on one of the only forms of relief available to them?
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by throwawaycert 8y ago
While in a de jure sense this is true, de facto the FAA effectively does have oversight over many (maybe most) commercial aircraft all over the world. Small countries in particular do not have the resources necessary to exercise meani
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by throwawaycert 8y ago
Let's Encrypt specifically does not rate limit renewals. See the renewal exemption in the 6th paragraph of [0]. A "renewal" is any certificate that would count as a duplicate – that is, using the same set of names as another