vaurora

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by vaurora 2y ago
I'm married to a lawyer, so I asked him to look into this and he wrote a blog post: https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/10/09/data-23-and-me/ Most relevant bit: "The law requires medical laboratories
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by vaurora 12y ago
Trying to figure out how to apply Charles' Rules of Argument to the situation, I realized I wrote an entire article on this topic (and linked to it from the OP): http://lwn.net/Articles/351422/ Short version:
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by vaurora 12y ago
It was safe to rename() a file and expect the data it contained after crash to either be (1) the data before the rename(), (2) the data after the rename(). What changing the ext4 default logging mode to "data=writeback" did is a
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by vaurora 12y ago
Will you volunteer to filter my social media and email for rape threats, and compensate me for the lifetime earnings loss that is the result of naming someone who controls whether my code gets merged or whether I get invited to the top Linu
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by vaurora 12y ago
OP here. To all the people flustered that I'm calling "listening politely" and "respecting people" feminist acts, I'll point out that, at the time, the only place you could reasonably expect that behavior in th
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by vaurora 12y ago
There was already code written to zero out the BSS shared across all the bootloaders for PowerPC, the call to it had just gotten lost when our enthusiastic fellow kernel dev rewrote bootloaders for platforms they couldn't test. I assum
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by vaurora 13y ago
This study is so flawed as to be scientifically worthless. The experimenter who was interacting with the babies and measuring the time they spent staring at faces knew the gender of each baby - in other words, it wasn't double blind. T
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by vaurora 15y ago
Er, while trying to research Jessamyn, I think you instead tracked down the leader of the Dreamwidth project, Denise Paolucci. Yes, she updates the Dreamwidth documentation, among other things...
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by vaurora 15y ago
If you've ever been annoyed by a sexist comment on Hacker News, you should donate to the Ada Initiative. We're working hard to change the culture and attitudes in open source and free/open culture.
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Donate to support women in open tech/culture, get Ada Lovelace pendant(supportada.org)
12 points by vaurora 15y ago|2 comments
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by vaurora 16y ago
Have you met any of the "core regulars" in the Linux community? The short answer is that the people who do these things include both regulars and newbies. I have personally been groped or fondled by two "core regulars."
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by vaurora 16y ago
An upper bound of N - 1, where N = number of all women in tech. Work hard on that and you should be able to get it down to at least N - 1000 or so.