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by wahern 9mo ago
You mean, rewrite the prompt: "Please summarize the article again, but this time identify and explain any references to Geocities". P.S. I don't mean to assume the previous commenter used ML to summarize, but it just occurred
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by wahern 9mo ago
> Is it possible that zsh behavior changes when those are triggered? It doesn't look that way, at least looking at the option handling code in the read builtin (bin_read): https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/b
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by wahern 9mo ago
read -s in pdksh does nearly the opposite, saving the string to your history file! See https://man.openbsd.org/ksh#read pdksh is the system shell on OpenBSD, among others, and I just confirmed this is indeed what it does in
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by wahern 9mo ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Lang ( https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/index.html ), a (stack-based) scripting language implementing a terminal UI toolkit. Mutt can use use S-Lang instead of
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by wahern 9mo ago
> I do believe that the kids in the lower-rated schools must feel a positive effect, mingling with highly-motivated, better-educated kids. It may do away with the whole "study is uncool, real kids hate school" vibe that holds m
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by wahern 9mo ago
I'm surprised nobody has put together a cooperative threading C framework using the -fstack-usage ( https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Developer-Options.html#in... ) option supported by GCC and clang. With per-
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by wahern 10mo ago
> People frequently have choices between jobs that are easier or otherwise more pleasant and jobs that pay more. For example, long-haul truck drivers get paid significantly more than short-haul drivers, but they also sleep in their truck
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by wahern 10mo ago
> If anything, there’s plenty of literature showing that social programs and tax exemptions on the poor make underpaying them possible to begin with. That literature is playing fast & loose with terminology to justify a preexisting c
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by wahern 10mo ago
A little over 15 years ago you could index the web with a small cluster. I remember people doing doing it with Cassandra or Elasticsearch. I'm sure you'd need a much bigger cluster, but outside video and images I imagine it's
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by wahern 10mo ago
I've always thought static allocation was why we got overcommit[1] in Linux and its infamous OOM killer. In the 1990s big boy commercial databases assumed specialized admins, and one of their tasks was to figure out the value for the m
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by wahern 10mo ago
> Beyond being self-contradictory (CIA is passive but also they interfere on key issues) this is just false I said the CIA's intelligence network in China which was dismembered was passive, the same way China's network in the U
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by wahern 10mo ago
> SF even owns the hydro generator at O'Shaughnessy Dam. They own the dam, but the Federal government still owns Hetch Hetchy water and land. Permission to use Hetch Hetchy is governed by the Raker Act, which stipulates[1] that SF c
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by wahern 10mo ago
Any economist care to chime in? It's a common claim on HN that when a regulator caps profit margins, that incentivizes the entity to make-work to increase absolute revenue and thus profits. But capital markets, i.e. investors, only car
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by wahern 10mo ago
NPR News veered sharply left over the past ~10 years, even more so local affiliate programming like that put out by KQED. In the past year or two there's been a moderate course correction, but their reporting is still clearly stuck in
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by wahern 10mo ago
Lay members of these various churches certainly seem to believe there are huge theological differences, which they infer from the differences in day-to-day practices. But if you read the views of most of the high-level clergy and theologian
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by wahern 10mo ago
The motivation to invade Taiwan is rooted in the PRC's political and historical narrative about it's legitimacy and purpose, a narrative internalized by most Chinese, including especially the military. It's in a sense exist
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by wahern 10mo ago
I've been nerd sniped. Per Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Mountains > In the Paleogene and Neogene Periods (~66 million to ~1.8 million years ago), the mountain chains that today constitute the
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by wahern 10mo ago
> DNS is a complex topic. Much more complex than people admit it is, and that can definitely not be expressed fully with resolv.conf. I do agree that it is too late to get rid of it (and was not my concern actually), but it is too limite
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by wahern 10mo ago
> Circa 2010 when Xi came to power, the CPC also essentially destroyed the CIA's footprint in the country, something that was not widely reported in the West. And PRC has done very well since... The PRC was doing just as fine before
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by wahern 10mo ago
Is somebody fuzzing IPv6 autoconfiguration stacks? OpenBSD published an nd6 kernel fix earlier this month for an unrelated issue: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/011_n...
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by wahern 10mo ago
Sure, as long as the solution isn't to just bolt on another distinct DNS monolith. The root of the problem IMO is that no libc, AFAIK, exports an API for parsing, let alone composing or manipulating, resolv.conf formatted data. The sol
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by wahern 10mo ago
> But the simpler route is that there is no such thing as an “independent” agency. That’s a 20th century creation. Actually, there are at least three early examples of independent agencies, though note that until the modern administrativ
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by wahern 10mo ago
Not anymore. Modularization is somewhat tangential, but for awhile Stallman did actively oppose rearchitecting GCC to better support non-free plugins and front-ends. But Stallman lost that battle years ago. AFAIU, the current state of GCC i
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by wahern 10mo ago
There's nothing inherently slow about UFS2; the theoretical performance profile should be nearly identical to Ext4. For basic filesystem operations UFS2 and Ext4 will often be faster than more modern filesystems. OpenBSD's filesys
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by wahern 10mo ago
> It is truly an awful contract, with no benefit at all to the employer that I can see. The benefit is having an operating cafeteria (i.e. an amenity) for a guaranteed period with little or zero out-of-pocket expense other than providing
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by wahern 10mo ago
Coca-Cola is sort of like the Apple of cola in that they're the upmarket brand almost everywhere around the globe. Unless Coke has a sales, marketing, or branding angle (see, e.g., Disney deal mentioned elsethread), they won't dis
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by wahern 10mo ago
For convenience stores, particularly ones with few or no built-in wall coolers, the typical deal is the Coca-Cola or Pepsi distributor will provide and maintain a free-standing cooler, but it can only hold products from that distributor (of
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by wahern 11mo ago
> This is the kind of process that happens with any new technology. Hinton probably just didn't know because he's never worked outside of academia. Economists certainly know this, as would many historians.
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by wahern 11mo ago
You would need Chinese laws and regulations. This is one of the reasons why when building Belt & Road Initiative projects in SE Asia, Africa, etc, China demands exclusion from local regulations and insulation from local politics, at lea
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by wahern 11mo ago
Request smuggling is an issue when reverse proxying and multiplexing multiple front-end streams over a shared HTTP/1.1 connection on the backend. HTTP/2 on the front-end doesn't resolve that issue, though the exploit techniqu

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