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by wahern 1y ago
That only begs the question of how to verify what content is AI-free. Was this comment generated by a human? IIRC, one of the big AI startups (OpenAI?) used HN as a proving ground--a sort of Turning Test platform--for years.
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by wahern 1y ago
> a bunch of capability breakthroughs from (well-curated) AI generations has definitively disproven it. How much work is "well-curated" doing in that statement?
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by wahern 1y ago
Conversely, as many on HN would attest, plenty of novel and inevitable ideas never saw traction and disappeared to history for being too early to market. Being too early is often worse than being too late. At least with software you can poc
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by wahern 1y ago
The Inca had wheels, they just didn't use them for much. There are Incan toys with wheels, for example. AFAIU the consensus opinion is that carting wheels never took hold in pre-Columbian America because of a lack of draft animals. The
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by wahern 1y ago
More often poor people moved near industry because the land was much cheaper on account of it being less desirable. There are some high-profile modern examples where industry moved into existing communities, but that's historically aty
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by wahern 1y ago
The portable API is getentropy, which glibc provides as a simple wrapper around getrandom. getentropy was added to POSIX, and is also available on most modern unix systems, including FreeBSD, Illumos, NetBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, and Solaris. ar
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by wahern 1y ago
The OOM error is the back pressure. This is why some engineers working on highly concurrent frameworks insist on pervasive OOM recovery. I haven't done any Java in years, but I always thought OOM errors were recoverable in the JVM. O
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by wahern 1y ago
I only recently learned what this is actually referring to, after scouring archive.org for Spanish, French, and German language versions of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. Twain is being perfectly literal, though these days we'd narro
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by wahern 1y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding why you juxtaposed your statement about repurposing nuclear weapons and the quote, but isn't the quote suggesting that nuclear weapons are those ultimate warriors that will bring an end to bloodshed? I
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by wahern 1y ago
The wildfire hazards aren't equivalent, nor the political pressures regarding those hazards. But it seems Pacific Power isn't too far behind: https://oregoncub.org/news/blog/pacific-power-asks-for-21.6-..
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by wahern 1y ago
The jump in PG&E prices over the past 10 years is mostly to cover the cost of wildfire mitigation. LA, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, and the Imperial Valley have their own local utilities that charge customers 1/2 to 1/4 of what PG&
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by wahern 1y ago
Presumably the conflict between an ostensibly scientific, materialist, atheistic reality of modernity and the non-empirical, spiritual, theistic reality of their faith. Though I think it's implicit in the criticism of religious believe
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by wahern 1y ago
That's the pre-Renaissance, theological idea of angels. I would presume the OP probably knows that given their esoteric reference to Ophanim (TIL! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanim ), but also understands that
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by wahern 1y ago
> Come back and reign for a thousand years, but not touch private contact law and definitively let you keep and enjoy the fruits of the money you bet on him. Modern Evangelical Christian movements have from the beginning incorporated (cl
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by wahern 1y ago
Democratic in the modern sense. The past millennia of English history could be understood as a slow progression of the devolution of power. The actual politics were pretty messy, but the evolution in legal and political theory was more stea
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by wahern 1y ago
The Linux kernel doesn't actually support path names longer than 4095 (4096 with NUL). See fs/namei.c:getname_flags, which is used early in every syscall that takes a file path. That function will attempt to copy the path into ker
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by wahern 1y ago
AMD also segments, even with respect to ECC. Not all Ryzen CPUs support ECC, officially or unofficially. IME, it's easier to find or build a low-power, ECC-supporting server system based on Intel than AMD, though that says more about I
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by wahern 1y ago
> Once there is ANY value exchanged There's always value exchanged--"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product".[1] For ads we've established the fiction that everybody knowingly understands and a
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by wahern 1y ago
See https://lwn.net/Articles/1009548/ and references therein. Large folio support is a capability required for a Linux filesystem to fully support large block sizes--block sizes larger than the usual page size, wh
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by wahern 1y ago
> Sysadmin: I really dont care what you do Dropping ICMP breaks path MTU discovery (PMTU). It's the biggest reason why sites break when accessed (or served) over VPNs. This is often mitigated on the server, or in NAT-ing routers, by
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by wahern 1y ago
It's a consequence of the peculiarity of C type semantics, which disallows implicit conversions of pointer-to-pointer to pointer-to-pointer-to-const. C23 6.5.16.1 EXAMPLE 3 explains why: const char **cpp; char *p; const char c =
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by wahern 1y ago
OpenBSD added strtonum to <stdlib.h>. It's quite opinionated, but fits the usage patterns OpenBSD developers prefer. > 50 lines long, of which most is error handling That's a little exaggerated considering the example is
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by wahern 1y ago
Both clang and GCC support multi-core LTO, as does Rust. However, you have to partition the code, so the more cores you use the less benefit to LTO. Rust partitions by crate by default, but it can increase parallelism by partitioning each c
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by wahern 1y ago
Hyperinflation in Germany was deliberate. And Germany didn't just decide on its own to return to the gold standard. European countries drifted away from gold during WWI, and then they all slowly returned to it in the early 1920s. In th
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by wahern 1y ago
The likely example on most people's minds in the most recent news cycle would be the Chicago Sun-Times: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-rea... The article it published was a
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by wahern 1y ago
> Turns out that it's easier to emulate a CPU than syscalls I don't think WSL2 supports CPU emulation. It might not even support (or at least rely on) driver emulation, though Hyper-V itself does.
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by wahern 1y ago
Genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus is apparently actually growing in Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_tree#Acce... Still ongoing as of 2024: https://www.futuragene.com/releas
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by wahern 1y ago
I think pressure treated implies chemical impregnation--the pressure is used to diffuse the preservative through the wood.
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by wahern 1y ago
But Social Security solvency isn't the only thing that needs to be addressed. Medicare, for example. Considering that the population has decided it doesn't want any more significant immigration, ensuring the median age (along with
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by wahern 1y ago
It will have depleted it's reserves in approximately 10 years. Expenditures exceed revenue, but only by about 15-20% by then. So either there's going to be a cut in benefits and/or the retirement age will be bumped up, just l

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