tremon

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by tremon 4mo ago
> you can't argue against the improvement in time complexity No, there's absolutely valid arguments to be had over asymptotic complexity when the you know the relevant bounds of the dataset.
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by tremon 4mo ago
Trump has already tried to use the US' nuclear arsenal, which (according to accounts) caused the Chief of Staff to evict him from the situation room. I don't think nuking US soil (however dirty it already is) will tip the scales i
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by tremon 4mo ago
You can forget about going to a concert [..] or catching an early flight without one Those are really bad examples. Quite a lot of venues are easier to reach by public transport than by car, e.g. Carré, Luxor, Tivoli, Diligentia, Vera; ev
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by tremon 4mo ago
> This is still compatible with a C string Strictly speaking, it's not alignment compatible from CString to BSTR unless you declare all strings to be at most 255 characters or the cpu architecture doesn't require aligned access
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by tremon 4mo ago
> rogue banana drivers are not the ones most likely to be killed in a traffic stop ...until the bananas go brown, of course.
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by tremon 4mo ago
It's address (de)obfuscation via javascript, meant to prevent harvesting of spam targets via simple scraping. The HTML plain-text reads what I wrote, there's a javascript hook to replace the placeholders with actual e-mail address
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by tremon 4mo ago
lol, that's what I'd call a dense piece of text: (header) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (end article)
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by tremon 4mo ago
That's a very particular way to frame the few vs the many. If a single macOS user works on ten different projects, should all ten projects add that line, or may things be better off taken out of each project's hands and on that si
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by tremon 4mo ago
Waste management has always been a purely political problem, since breeder reactor designs have existed as long as enriched uranium fission reactors. Most of the waste of breeder reactors is radioactively inert; the problem is that mining u
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by tremon 4mo ago
Ah, it's yet another "let's paper over this firmware bug because the manufacturer can't be arsed to properly support their own product" I see.
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by tremon 4mo ago
> to me as an outsider the important part is a treatment that works, not why it works Are you a mouse, perhaps? We have a plethora of treatments for mice suffering from human-induced Alzheimer's. None of those treatments have ever b
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by tremon 4mo ago
You don't even need a complex query; even the simplest of insert statements can cause cascade side effects if you have temporal tables or materialized views (or, Codd forbid, ON INSERT triggers).
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by tremon 4mo ago
> In the US, the freedom is explicitly for the people, not Federal nor State government. I don't see how anyone can make this claim in 2026 and not expect to be laughed out of the room? In practice, freedom is for sale; it's no
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by tremon 4mo ago
That "worst case scenario" (RCP85) was projecting a 5°C increase by 2100; the current trajectory still puts us at a 3.5°C increase by 2100, whoop-dee-doo. The "avoid climate change scenario" (< 1.5°C by 2100) is also
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by tremon 4mo ago
That's true, but now you have moved the goalposts. The original claim upthread was "it takes just as much work to delete a row as it takes to insert a row", not "it's hard to predict the performance of a delete with
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by tremon 4mo ago
But in that case, you need to compare like-for-like with the situation where you need to insert all the prerequisite rows too. You can't just compare a delete cascade with a single insert where all the foreign keys are already satisfie
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by tremon 4mo ago
For every cell mechanism that's being abused by cancer to fuel its growth, there are other cells in the body for which that mechanism is crucial for their correct functioning. Wholesale editing every cell in the body mostly guarantee
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by tremon 4mo ago
The primary European failure here has been to allow the hollowing out of the EU tech space. There have been plenty of web tech players in the EU; the US policy over the last 30 years has been to absorb them into US companies or buy them off
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by tremon 4mo ago
archive.ph works fine for me. Resolves to 168.222.241.49 archive.ph 2a09:b280:fe00:5a:d197:eab6:9aa0:f22 archive.ph
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by tremon 4mo ago
> “We welcome that the Zurich Commercial Court confirmed our right to publish a counterstatement” Well that certainly is one way to spin having 22 of your 23 counterstatement requests dismissed by the court.
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by tremon 4mo ago
Indeed. One is expected in a healthy democracy, the other is essential for a totalitarian state.
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by tremon 4mo ago
> YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling That's fully on Google. I use plenty of other streaming sites where Firefox handles full-screen video just fine. Coming from the web search company that penalizes t
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by tremon 4mo ago
Probably referring to the content platform: https://nebula.tv/
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by tremon 4mo ago
> Freedom of DNS choice has nothing to do with DoH The attack vector that DoH offers is that data exfiltration companies will start shipping their own DNS resolver in javascript to work around DNS-based filtering. They can't do this
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by tremon 4mo ago
If setting warehouses on fire can be called terrorism today, then the Boston Tea Party was equally an act of terrorism then.
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by tremon 4mo ago
You are basically admitting that the US is already past the point of no return on the road to full-blown oppression: too many government workers not accountable to the people.
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by tremon 4mo ago
> I don’t know that regular political violence is positively correlated with worker protections In fact, it's quite easy to find examples of political violence being used to reduce worker protections: https://en.wikipedia
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by tremon 4mo ago
The FUD is claiming that those banners are mandated by the EU, rather than malicious compliance from the industry.
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by tremon 4mo ago
Possibly, depending on how they're activated. If the layer is only activated while another key is pressed, that's not stateful (i.e. no different from yet another Fn key). I'd say that layer toggles and one-shot key modifiers
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by tremon 4mo ago
That claim is easily disproven: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fi...

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