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by wahern 8mo ago
WorldWideWeb didn't originally support inline images, and while using a graphical toolkit rendered pages more like Lynx, albeit with the ability to vary fonts. Lynx wasn't the first WWW browser, but came along shortly after, a yea
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Most states already have affordable tuition for in-state residents. California is middle of the pack, and CSU tuition is less than $10k/year. (Nationwide, public in-state 4-year tuition ranges from ~$5k/yr to ~$15k/yr.) For m
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I certainly didn't assign moral fault to anyone or any group. Indeed, framing it as a moral problem is, IMO, one of the problems here. A country isn't run like a business; similarly, collective morality doesn't look anything
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> they point out that the majority of the 80 million people living on America were killed on the first 100 years of colonization. they do talk impartially as it being one of the biggest holocaust known to the humanity. i don't agree
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> IMF keeps the global south in debt entrapment with structural adjustment programs designed to prevent development. etc. etc. we never really left them alone Countries invite IMF assistance. If they wanted to be left alone, all they h
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There's no operating rail between LA and Phoenix, freight or passenger. Union Pacific rerouted freight away from Phoenix decades ago, Amtrak followed suit, and the previously used rail line that connected LA and Phoenix is out of servi
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by wahern 8mo ago
> I hate that the executive and judicial branches have to do so much work that should be done by Congress. In recent years the Supreme Court has turned against the use of regulatory agency rule making authority to stretch the meaning of
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by wahern 8mo ago
In Federal courts mandatory minimum sentences were judged to be unconstitutional, as the ability to individualize sentencing was considered a prerogative intrinsic to the role of [Federal] judges. Though, a judge cannot impose a sentence gr
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by wahern 8mo ago
There are multiple species of African elephants, and the North African elephant may yet turn out to be related if not identical to one of the others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_elephant#Taxonom... The
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Most systems meaning Linux and macOS. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD use nvi, and BusyBox (Alpine Linux core userland) uses tiny vi.c.
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Has any generative AI been demonstrated to exhibit the generalized intelligence (e.g. achieving in a non-simulated environment complex tasks or simple tasks in novel environments) of a vertebrate, or even a higher-order non-vertebrate? Seri
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> I really wish someone on the C language/compiler/linker level took a real look at the problem and actually tried to solve it in a way that isn't a pain to deal with for people that integrate with the code. It exists as &
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by wahern 8mo ago
> they will combine a world model with the word model. This takes "world model" far too literally. Audio-visual generative AI models that create non-textual "spaces" are not world models in the sense the previous post
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What I had specifically in mind definitely wasn't using OCaml or Menhir, but that's a very useful resource, as is the associated paper, "A simple, possibly correct LR parser for C11", https://jhjourdan.mketjh.
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Lexical parsing C is simple, except that typedef's technically make it non-context-free. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexer_hack When handwriting a parser, it's no big deal, but it's often a stumbli
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by wahern 8mo ago
Yes, this can be avoided. All the standard advice and examples are tailored toward avoiding IP packet fragmentation entirely even when the tunnel transport can encapsulate and transmit packets larger than the underlying path MTU. Mostly thi
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by wahern 8mo ago
GINA prohibits genetic discrimination in pricing common health care insurance, but not for products like life insurance, disability insurance, or even long-term care insurance. Some states have statutes that address the latter types of insu
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by wahern 8mo ago
It should be much easier than that. You should should be able to serially test if each edit decodes to a sane PDF structure, reducing the cost similar to how you can crack passwords when the server doesn't use a constant-time memcmp. A
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by wahern 8mo ago
> but It doesn't necessarily help when performing single arithmetic operations on larger types. For the curious, AFAIU the problem is the dependency chains. For example, for simple bignum addition you can't just naively perform
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He's not wrong in his conclusion, just not accurate in why. If countries start moving away from depending on the trade imbalance with the US, the demand for USD will dry up. And they are trying to move away from it because of politics,
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I think you're confusing fair with efficient. IIRC, consumption taxes are more efficient in that, ceteris paribus, they result in the least economic distortion in terms of global wealth and productivity compared to alternatives like in
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> Homosexuality in various animals, including humans. Individually, not great for your genes' survival. Alot of theories, mostly the less rigorous ones, rely on group selection. But the strongest ones rely on classic genetic selecti
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As of 2023 municipalities and counties can no longer mandate bicycle registration. (See https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-veh/division-16... as amended by sec. 7 at https://leginfo.legis
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Automatically changing behavior by testing if the output sink is a TTY is traditionally considered an anti-pattern by those with enough time and hair loss spent at the terminal. It's one of those things where there are definitely occas
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by wahern 9mo ago
Indeed. Another reason to use the system's macros rather than hardcoding integer literals--the numbers can change between releases. Though that doesn't guarantee the syscall works the same way between releases wrt parameters and r
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by wahern 9mo ago
All true, but note that BSD introduced, and both Linux/glibc and Linux/musl support, a syscall(2) wrapper routine that takes a syscall number, a list of arguments (usually as long's), and performs the syscall magic. The sysca
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by wahern 9mo ago
The core primitives written in assembly operate on fixed sized blocks of data; no allocations, no indexing arrays based on raw user controlled inputs, etc. Moreover, the nature of the algorithms--at least the parts written in assembly, e.g.
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The steelman argument for Farenheit as it is, not necessarily the motivations behind it, has been fleshed out here: http://lethalletham.com/posts/fahrenheit.html TL;DR: "The remarkable result here is that 0℉ is ne
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There's some pretty compelling evidence that Ray's inception of the idea may have come from hearing about a bounty on MLK's head. See https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/martin-luther-ki
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PipeNet is also the name of the scheme independently invented by Wei Dai contemporaneously with USNRL's Onion Routing: http://www.weidai.com/pipenet.txt Onion Routing is what Tor is based on. I'm not sure if the o

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