torstenvl

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by torstenvl 3y ago
The connection between platforms' algorithmic recommendations leading you to the worst and most vile of the Internet due to engagement... doesn't have any connection to liability for what platforms host? If Social Media Co. were l
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by torstenvl 3y ago
I'm sure that has nothing to do with one of them sending anyone who disagrees to rot in an Arctic prison.
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by torstenvl 3y ago
The existence of more than one article based on a talk does not by itself suggest that they are dependencies of one another; nor does it excuse rambling. The title of the OP is "Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Okay. So what is the thesis of this article and where is it discussed?
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by torstenvl 3y ago
I read the article, and I didn't see this point made. Mostly it was a very long description of the history of Unix, with a tangent about microkernels. Your headings are What is 'Unix' anyway? Generations and the gaps between
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Web services are a great example. Explain to me why it's preferable to give a constant 500 and lock me out of my account, rather than having a fucked up background image scaling or whatever else your web service would be doing with ari
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Nobody is talking about exceptions. We're talking about intentionally invoking undefined behavior. You don't use trap representations to handle potential overflows. You check for possible overflow prior to the operation, and then
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by torstenvl 3y ago
We're only up 24% from 2019 instead of 27% Somehow I don't feel that's cause for self-congratulation.
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XFCE 4.20 Aiming for Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility(phoronix.com)
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Yes, the base system is a cohesive whole, not a set of packages. You don't update the kernel separately from, say, the core user land, the way you'd update linux-kernel and binutils as separate packages on a linux distribution. BS
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by torstenvl 3y ago
I like the idea of atomic base systems; it's very BSD-like. I may have to give this a try.
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Harassment was not at issue. The jury found malice because they had to if they wanted to impose any damages at all. For a public figure—such as a public employee in the news—the "actual malice" standard applies in defamation cas
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Well. All animal studies on captivity show negative health effects. All human studies show that stress has negative health effects, and that exercise and time spent outdoors have positive health effects. To the extent that being sedentary a
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Not being allowed to see a doctor to manage chronic health issues. Not being allowed to go to the gym. Not being allowed to go outside. Not being allowed to see family. Not being allowed to see family when they're dying . Being cooped
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by torstenvl 3y ago
It is not possible for a trap representation to be made valid. A trap representation is one where getting it or setting it, other than as a raw byte, is undefined behavior. Section 6.2.6.1, paragraph 5, of C99, C11, C17, and—with a termin
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by torstenvl 3y ago
No. What? No. A trap is by definition undefined behavior. "Certain object representations need not represent a value of the object type. If the stored value of an object has such a representation and is read by an lvalue expression tha
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by torstenvl 3y ago
There are almost no circumstances where a crash in production code is preferable. Can you imagine working on a complicated Excel document when you run into a 2038 bug and you lose all your work instead of just having one of your future date
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Wait so we're going to give up -fwrapv (a UB mitigation) for the explicit purpose of introducing more undefined behavior? I don't see any way this change wouldn't lead to an enormous number of bugs, all for the (dubious)
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by torstenvl 3y ago
I don't know about in the world , but there are approximately 325.4 million people in the U.S. with an active cell phone. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/how-many-america... Of those, approximately 30
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Yes. They do.
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by torstenvl 3y ago
The only people who don't use smartphones and don't have an iPad or similar tablet and don't have a recent computer... probably don't benefit enough from 2FA to justify the risk of account lockout. In my social circl
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Far far more people have a biometric reader or smart token than have a cell phone. Smart phones are obviously phones and have biometrics. What you're left with is comparing the number of people with non-smart phones (~31 million in t
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by torstenvl 3y ago
Not that hard to compete against. Just stop being assholes. If Netflix didn't raise their prices at more than double the inflation rate, and didn't crack down on password sharing, and didn't deactivate devices of deployed mil
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by torstenvl 3y ago
You could also have a periodic forgiveness of de minimus amounts. The Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system charges 10¢ per page. Every month, balances under $10.00 (edit: apparently it's $30.00 per quarter) are forg
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by torstenvl 3y ago
How is it not? It'll cut down on spam and other antisocial behavior (e.g., unsolicited intimate images).
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by torstenvl 3y ago
The original title on HN said that there was a bug that applied on five days out of the year. I contend it applies more often than that.
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by torstenvl 3y ago
In non-leap years, there are potential invalid target months when the current date is January 29th, January 30th, January 31st, March 29th, March 30th, March 31st, April 29th, April 30th, May 29th, May 30th, May 31st, June 29th, June 30th,
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by torstenvl 3y ago
The bug occurs when using setMonth() to a month value containing fewer days than the current date. There is no limitation in setMonth() such that you can only set the month to "the month after." I'm sorry, but I think you mis
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by torstenvl 3y ago
How is 3+3+2+3+2+3+3+2+3+2+3 equal to 5? The bug exists every time today's date is greater than the lowest total number of days in a month (28). So it's a bug for 3 days in January, (sometimes 1 day in February,) 3 days in March,
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by torstenvl 3y ago
It isn't voluntary. 13 U.S.C. § 221

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