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by tremon 5mo ago
It doesn't matter what Walmart's prices would be -- because there'd be nine alternatives offering their products at different price points. Also, you seem to be implying that suppliers are inhuman and deserve to be squeezed (
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by tremon 5mo ago
LLMs can not point you to sites, only in a general direction. That is because complete URLs do not exist as single tokens in any of the large models. It can synthesize a plausible-looking url, and if you're lucky that URL might even
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by tremon 5mo ago
> But ultimately that strategy is good for the consumer right? No. It may be good for the consumer right now, but not ultimately (and on top of that, I would argue that reducing everyone to a consumer is already the wrong framing -- you
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by tremon 5mo ago
Paul Graham is saying you should not call people you are in a discussion with names Only if you don't care to read past bullet point 1. If you had cared enough to read at least one paragraph further, you would have found: > DH1. A
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by tremon 5mo ago
> I'm confused, does Tesla have the right to dump water or not? I would assume that this is exactly what a permit is for? If you have a permit to dump wastewater into a river, you are not allowed to dump your wastewater wherever in
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by tremon 5mo ago
> according to UN Very bold to use the UN as a source to defend US' actions. The same UN that Pedophile Trump denounced as a "feckless institution"?
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by tremon 5mo ago
Or might have their own opinion about certain orders.
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by tremon 5mo ago
> How would you know unless you inspect them? By making the seller lose their license if they sell cars that are not roadworthy? Why should the risk and liability be on the buyer?
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by tremon 5mo ago
Haven't you heard? Psychopath, like Pedophile, is a mere epithet these days, to indicate a person's favoured status with the in-crowd. In contrast to the equally meaningless epithet "woke".
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by tremon 5mo ago
> Reproducible builds protect against all attacks. Generic statements like this are always false. As a simple rebuttal, reproducible builds do not protect against source-level attacks such as intentional backdoors or disabled/obfusc
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by tremon 5mo ago
You could already do that since Debian cryptographically signs all its package indexes, and the indexes contain the hash of all packages. The additional guarantee that reproducible builds bring is that you can re-build the packages in your
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by tremon 5mo ago
If a competitor can prove that their packages are bit-for-bit identical to what a big organization is shipping, that allows the competitor to benefit from the security assurances of the big org. This is great for software freedom, not so gr
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by tremon 5mo ago
It is not possible to "enforce" a "value system". True. I think that organized religion wants to say a few words here.
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by tremon 5mo ago
smart people are born into dumb families pretty regularly Are you implying widespread infidelity here, or are you making the case that something besides "nature" may be determining intelligence?
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by tremon 5mo ago
because intelligence is mostly genetically-determined None of the points of Idiocracy depend on whether intelligence is by nature or by nurture. The premise of the movie stays exactly the same if you replace those two minutes of backstory
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by tremon 5mo ago
That depends on your definition of high-availability. If high availability includes distributed writers, (global) sequences are not the best solution because generating unique sequence values requires synchronisation between all writers. In
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by tremon 5mo ago
That's the same thing that people say about MS Office: nobody uses more than 15% of its feature set, but everyone uses a different 15%. "Linux" having these modules is what keeps it relevant and prevalent in different fields
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by tremon 5mo ago
But 12 bits is not "billions of identifiers" -- it's 4096. Once you exhaust that counter in the same millisecond, you are still relying on a gamble that your random source will not generate the exact same bit sequence for the
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by tremon 5mo ago
Are you offering an easy fix for that "Linux" line on your SBOM?
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by tremon 5mo ago
Not forever, backports were introduced with Sarge IIRC. And typically versions only appears in backports that are also in testing/unstable, e.g. Linux 6.19 is currently in trixie-backports but the non-LTS kernels between 6.12 and 6.18
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by tremon 5mo ago
It is, just like a calculator is a small computer. It's not a personal computing device though, in the sense that the user can't develop and deploy their own software/tools on it.
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by tremon 5mo ago
Of course they could. The products could be impounded at customs.
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by tremon 5mo ago
This is simply Cloudflare seeing the possibility of an infinite stream of income... these APIs are cheap to execute for them but are always tied to billing.
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by tremon 5mo ago
Indeed. We address them as Siri, Alexa or Google.
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by tremon 5mo ago
Even Microsoft doesn't install a spellcheck dictionary unprompted; that happens when a user/admin goes into the app configuration and changes the language support options.
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by tremon 5mo ago
How do you propose to implement that "drop everything except what you need" policy? Do your containers come with a detailed list of which OS services and syscalls are required? I think your idea has the same issue as what held bac
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by tremon 5mo ago
> I want the syntax and grammar (and illusion?) of one continuous thread of execution Then you shouldn't be using a low-level systems language? You can simply choose a higher-level abstraction language that better matches your progr
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by tremon 5mo ago
The regulation already mandates an OS upgrade period, but the period depends on how long the manufacturer keeps selling the model: software updates must be provided for five years from the day when the manufacturer stops selling the product
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by tremon 6mo ago
I don't see much difference between a program littering in ~/.app versus littering in ~/.config/app, ~/.local/share/app , ~/.local/state/app and ~/.cache/app
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by tremon 6mo ago
To whom do sovereign countries need to prove their value?

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