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by wahern 7mo ago
Sadly, the environmental lobby in California would never allow a substantial amount of land to be fully returned to the tribes. From the article, > Access and collaborative agreements — and sometimes even land return agreements — come wi
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That linked opinion overstates the case. In the real-world, two different programs performing any non-trivial but functionally identical task will look substantially dissimilar in their source code, and that dissimilarity will carry over to
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Not hypersonic, but there are upstart defense companies building and selling these types of low-cost weapons. See, e.g., Anduril's $200,000 Barracuda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda-M Big firms like Lockh
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That scandal exacerbated the problem, but there would still be a severe shortage had it never happened. The core issues, pay and grueling hours, predate that scandal by decades.
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> ..Uh... From my understanding, a court declaring a statute unconstitutional basically makes the statute in question retroactively never a law. It's not that simple. Even decisions on constitutionality do not always have retroactiv
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> So, foreign-made consumer routers can still be sold, but they are going to look at them with a fine-tooth comb, and they are going to use FCC approval as leverage to try to increase domestic manufacturing. You're assuming a non-pa
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> DESPITE natural cycles and successful efforts to reduce it (aerosol ban). Aerosols have on balance negative radiative forcing, so the increased warming is partly because of reductions in anthropogenic aerosol emissions. This effect w
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> White medical trainees, reflecting the general population, can have false beliefs about biologic differences between Black and White patients (eg, “Black patients feel less pain”), and this racial bias leads to inaccurate pain diagnose
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by wahern 7mo ago
It's even more confusing than described. C23 6.7.3.1p7 says, > Each of the comma-separated multisets designates the same type, except that for bit-fields, it is implementation-defined whether the specifier `int` designates the same
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> but remember there was a period of time where many seemingly forgot about their addictive properties. There was also quite alot of talk about how doctors, by being reticent to prescribe opioids, were inhumanely forcing patients to live
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Or just assert the UID and GID of /tmp/.snap before using. Of course, you'd want to open(2) /tmp/.snap and use fstat(2) on a descriptor (not just pass the path, /tmp/.snap, to stat(2)), then use mkdirat, o
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There are different types of coroutines. The C++ type are sometimes called "stackless coroutines". With stackless coroutines you can't yield from a nested function call. Stackless coroutines are basically generators where you
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There is when you take $12 million from investors: > A total of 161 investors had given Thompson $12.7m (£9.4m) to find the ship on the understanding that they would see returns on their investment. Both the criminal and civil contempt a
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> The distinction of stack vs heap objects is an old distinction that is deeply encoded in the semantics of C. It's not obvious that's the right choice. Nothing about C requires a contiguous stack, and there are perfectly stand
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Nobody should be using an API like time(2) or clock_gettime(2)+CLOCK_REALTIME to measure event durations with sub-second precision or accuracy, especially when controlling mechanical equipment. And I'd be absolutely surprised if anyb
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Chile. At least starting from the second decade onward Chilean growth significantly outpaced South America generally. Taiwan. South Korea. Many others. Generally, right-wing governments almost by definition tend to be more free market orien
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This reads like word games. The article basically argues for optimizing the calling discipline on a per-function basis, using the function body to guide the optimization. That's not a calling convention and definitely not a standard AB
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I don't think there've been many court cases exploring the meaning of "[to] fix the Standard of Weights and Measures", and probably none as it regards time. And in the modern era the Commerce Power would probably be suff
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> I remain unclear what authority the federal government has over such a matter It's actually an enumerated power under Article I, Section 8, Clause 5: > [The Congress shall have Power...] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereo
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GCC supports specifying endianness of structs and unions: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-15.2.0/gcc/Common-Type-At... I'm not sure how useful it is, though it was only added 10 years ago with GCC 6.1
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> But it turns out that files commonly do fit in memory The difference between slurping a file into malloc'd memory and just mmap'ing it is that the latter doesn't use up anonymous memory. Under memory pressure, the mmap&#
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I'm not sure about the most recent successful charge, but this is one of the charges used against James Comey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_James_Comey Here's a 2018 article listing some pro
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> Honestly, I wish I could ask the person who designed it, why they made such decisions. https://web.archive.org/web/20250115051355/https://www.bell-... https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~d
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In the case where you're using the top of the stack as a, well, stack, I don't see the problem. It would only work if you're not interleaving processing of dynamically-sized objects and function codegen works out. It's
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Recent article on the younger Bundy, "Ammon Bundy Is All Alone. The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02&#x2F
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I find it easier to understand in terms of the Unix syscall API. `2>&1` literally translates as `dup2(1, 2)`, and indeed that's exactly how it works. In the classic unix shells that's all that happens; in more modern shells
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Several years ago I put up an XMPP server (Prosody) to chat with some friends in a private group, and it's still going strong. Years ago we used to have a mailing-list to keep in touch, but that eventually went quiet. I had run an XMPP
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Confession was originally often made in public. Confessional secrecy is more about making it easier for people to freely confess their sins, free of the fear of retribution or shame, very much like why we have doctor-patient confidentiality
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Relatedly, a survey of array nomenclature was performed for the ISO C committee when choosing the name of the new countof operator: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3469.htm It was
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WorldWideWeb could display images, but originally only in a separate window when you clicked on them, similar to the way audio, PDFs, and other multimedia worked (and sometimes still work). The wording of one of the people involved seems to

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