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by trasz 4y ago
So it turns out the ban on Huawei was not (just) because American companies lost competition on equal terms; it was Huawei’s unwillingness to “cooperate”, ie install backdoors for US agencies.
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by trasz 4y ago
Russian nazi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashism
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by trasz 4y ago
They can either pursue EUV or try to invent something else altogether, and I wouldn’t be surprised they end up with the latter, leapfrogging over EUV.
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by trasz 4y ago
Nice, clean, humane kill, no collateral damage. Ukrainians fighting Rashist terrorists do it better than CIA, even without drones.
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by trasz 4y ago
Which brings the question: where could be the sweet spot regarding the grid size, ie best bang for buck when there is a set per-cell price, or some other soft size limit?
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by trasz 4y ago
Apart from assuming that superintelligence would require some new technological means, or talking about it in future tense - this is just Pascal’s Wager in disguise. Also, if your ideology assumes some thoughts are dangerous and must not be
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by trasz 4y ago
This is hugely architecture-dependent. In CheriBSD for example - and probably also FreeBSD in general - the compiler doesn’t assume that, and that’s one of the features that make CHERI process colocation possible.
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by trasz 4y ago
"All lives matter" was invented by alt-right as a propaganda tool. BLM has incomparably deeper meaning.
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by trasz 4y ago
Isn't it the whole point of being sensible to "miss out" on certain life experiences?
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by trasz 4y ago
I think X was kind of like this, yeah - in the eighties and early nineties; it's got its own chapter in the Unix Haters Handbook. There's been an incredible amount of work done to fix/work around its problems, and some of th
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by trasz 4y ago
>And Google is far from the only party that wants, uses and will benefit from HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. So would it happen if Google wasn't involved?
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by trasz 4y ago
I don't mean understanding the database format; I'm talking about understanding the security model.
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by trasz 4y ago
This goes both ways - things written “to scale” often, or usually, do worse in more typical, smaller scenarios, because of all the bloat that’s irrelevant to 98% of use cases. That’s one of the fundamental problems in todays Open Source wor
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by trasz 4y ago
>countries don't think! People think “People don’t think, their neurons think”
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by trasz 4y ago
Again, couple of months ago one could say the same about Ukraine and Russia. Then Rashists spectacularly lost the entire western front.
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by trasz 4y ago
It was, but I'm not sure if it originated in DVCS: doesn't Perforce work the same way?
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by trasz 4y ago
FWIW, one of the things that's been happening in FreeBSD for the past couple of years is linuxkpi; essentially implementation of various APIs that a Linux kernel would provide, implemented as wrappers around FreeBSD's native kerne
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by trasz 4y ago
I've only now noticed your response, sorry. Lots of good points, some maybe less good, but I'd like to answer those two: >I have been a life long critic of the US system, of the neo-liberal corpocracy. Okay, we're similar
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by trasz 4y ago
I'd say the exact opposite: Russian invasion proved that even a small country can successfully defend, and the consequences for the attacker might be lethal. And it would be even worse for a country that depends on export to the West,
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by trasz 4y ago
Not to mention the usual problems with Phoronix benchmarks: it doesn't say how many benchmark runs were done, where are the error bars, was the software actually compiled properly etc. Phoronix folks don't understand what they ar
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by trasz 4y ago
It worked faster. It's a common misconception among newbies that "Linux has NUMA" automatically means it will use NUMA properly in a given workload. What it actually means is you _should_ be able to use existing functionali
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by trasz 4y ago
It's called humanism, and it's been there for some three centuries now.
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by trasz 4y ago
>It would be interesting to define why is this particular subject so special. Christianity, Catholicism in particular - perversion of human sexuality is one of its pillars. You can see this in their fight against reproductive rights and
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by trasz 4y ago
>How is joint military exercises with Russia not hostility to the west? Fun fact: the number of American components in Russian weapons is order of magnitude higher than the number of Chinese components: https://static.rusi.org
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by trasz 4y ago
I wonder if you could do that with a simple LED to indicate the secure mode?
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by trasz 4y ago
People slaughtered in Ukraine by Russian nazis aren't "proxies", they are civilians. To a Russian this distinction might be hard to understand, but civilised countries generally try to fight armies instead of levelling citie
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by trasz 4y ago
USA does the same but more, and I don't see calls to contain them.
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by trasz 4y ago
History shows that in many cases the community would blame the victim instead.
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by trasz 4y ago
Again, this was always the case. It’s just that most of us never noticed it, because the opposing views were hard to find.
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by trasz 4y ago
The "social and religious ways" usually made the problem worse; that's why got rid of them. And it's not just about raping children in industrial quantities and an occasional murder; even in this case "Ciavarella w

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