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by wahern 1mo ago
> I haven't bought bagged lettuce in months in response to this outbreak. 1) Why? The source was quickly identified, and it's trivial to avoid the tainted supplier. 2) Why only now? Bagged leafy greens are notorious for outbrea
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by wahern 1mo ago
Mint stimulates release of bile, which can help digestion, especially of fats. I have gallstones and unfortunately recently learned first hand how powerful the effect is after eating a couple of leaves (two kinds, but I forget which) from a
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by wahern 1mo ago
If they lived longer they might develop complex social structures, and then we might be in trouble.
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by wahern 2mo ago
It's not really comparable. When activists voluntarily face, and especially when they are in fact, subject to substantial hardship and punishment is when you start changing hearts and minds. Otherwise it's either ignored or genera
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by wahern 2mo ago
It would make it easier to, as a matter of policy, to stick to components from teams like boost or Apache or Google, i.e. groups with known reputations, reputations for having long-term, active involvement and maintenance than crates put ou
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by wahern 2mo ago
The XDG Portal framework is obscenely complex (PipeWire, D-BUS over separate channels, etc), still requires each individual compositor and other components to specifically implement various aspects for things like screen sharing, and there&
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by wahern 2mo ago
Theoretically, in the US dashcam, CCTV, and similar automated recordings are not copyrightable. In the US you can only copyright creative expression. However, the question hasn't been answered in court, yet, AFAIU. That doesn't st
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by wahern 2mo ago
Some US states still have private criminal prosecutions. > Second, this Article demonstrates that the government monopoly on prosecution is an ideology rather than a rule. As it turns out, the government has never had total control over
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by wahern 2mo ago
> It forces some kind of modularity. Wayland is the complete opposite of modular; that's why the compositor has to handle everything. The claimed problem with X11 was it was too modular, easy for different clients to control various
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by wahern 2mo ago
They were there, complaining. You just don't remember them because it's easier for the meaning of a word to shift, or at least take on additional contextual meaning, than it is to get people to use a new word once it's reache
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by wahern 2mo ago
Wayland was simpler because it was just a compositor. It meant people interested in graphics acceleration could focus on just that, iterating faster without the friction of the rest of the stack. But now that the Wayland ecosystem has to re
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by wahern 2mo ago
Namespacing. Mandatory namespacing. It's an essential prerequisite for any kind of reputation building and managememt, before you even get into the gritty technical or security details. And it has to be mandatory. Top-level package nam
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by wahern 2mo ago
> One major issue is that the ACA put in a loss ratio of 80%. Which isn't a terrible thing in principle, it forces insurance companies to spend money on treatment. The problem is it also means that the profit of insurance companies
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by wahern 2mo ago
Doesn't Windows, like macOS, automatically expand swap? You can't run out of memory nearly as quickly as you can on Linux. And at least on Windows I always figured this is why it felt so sluggish under load--it ends up paging alot
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by wahern 2mo ago
> I don't think there's much in common with BRICS as it was in the early 2000s when the acronym surfaced Excepting India, one thing Russia, China, and South Africa all have in common is they're falling into a relationship
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by wahern 2mo ago
Iran isn't an invasion. It's just lobbing some missiles hoping they'll cry uncle, which has worked approximately never. It says nothing about the ability of Iran to resist an invasion. Russia has 3x the population of Ukraine.
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by wahern 2mo ago
You'd have to go back nearly 2000 years, at the very least, to find a time when civilizations weren't living under the tyranny of time keeping devices. Here's a poem from 195AD Rome satirizing the tyranny of the sun dial: ht
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by wahern 2mo ago
It's one of the more truthy backronyms. There was an actual ax man with an ax whose job was to cut a rope to let loose the control rods, and they did use the (existing, apt) word, scram, for the emergency procedure: https:/&#x2F
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by wahern 2mo ago
Yeah. I first learned about France's ongoing imperialist ambitions in Africa reading the famous book on the Rwandan genocide, and ever since then French military involvement in seemingly random places in Africa stands out. I don't
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by wahern 2mo ago
The 2011 NATO intervention in Libya was part of a century long power struggle between France and Italy over influence of Libya. Italy had a good relationship with Gaddafi, to the detriment of French influence. Europeans and the US understoo
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by wahern 2mo ago
The claims of harassment came from him, and began long before this became sensationalized. Certainly the claimed harassment before the public scrutiny is highly suspect, and in some cases already shown to be utter fabrications, such as the
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by wahern 2mo ago
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6207/beyond-black-rese... > It turns out that crows lack UV-reflective patches, and that the sexes really do look the same, plumage-wise. However, the research in Yorz
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by wahern 2mo ago
Just because a bit of C code compiles without diagnostics as C++ does not mean the code is safe. C++ does not have compound literals, but the syntax for a compound literal is accepted in several C++ compilers, including GCC and clang. Howe
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by wahern 2mo ago
The UK does have the Principle of Legality, which is a way for courts to strike down an application of primary legislation by requiring a clear statement to abrogate common law and constitutional norms: https://ukconstitutionalla
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by wahern 2mo ago
I agree parallel construction doesn't seem to be ordinary practice. But AFAIU the term originates from post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance--both mass and targeted--where information was often systematically "leaked" t
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by wahern 2mo ago
> This is an idea that is so doomed that anyone trying to rescue it, didn't really understand the problem with intmax_t. The C committee doesn't want to rescue intmax_t. If they had a time machine most members would prevent it
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by wahern 2mo ago
Presumably they meant staring at a screen for hours on end while talking through a headset.
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by wahern 2mo ago
I don't think Casa applies here. A nationwide injunction is not the same thing as a universal injunction. A universal injunction benefits non-parties to a case. But if an injunction, especially a TRO, requires nationwide effect to prot
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by wahern 2mo ago
> A key security assumption behind Classic McEliece, a public-key encryption system considered to resist quantum computers, has been undermined Classic McEliece was explicitly designed not to rely on distinguishing resistance for securit
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by wahern 2mo ago
A formal technical specification (TS) extension is already being drafted: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3582.pdf That's a step up from the usual proposals. I'm not sure

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