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by wahern 1y ago
> It's weird that there's such a good museum so far from everything, including from the most-traveled highway through-routes for the state. It was built near the most-traveled highway through-route in Kansas, considering it w
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by wahern 1y ago
It would be nice if someday we got per-thread signal handlers to complement per-thread signal masking and per-thread alternate signal stacks.
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by wahern 1y ago
If the close routine on an event source, or the low-level (e.g. epoll) registration, deregistration, and dequeueing logic doesn't know how to keep polling and liveness state consistent between userspace and the kernel, they've got
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by wahern 1y ago
FWIW, this project made its first release in 2018. =) It's been posted to HN several times, though under its previous project URL, https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug (see https://news.ycombinator.co
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by wahern 1y ago
Memory encryption doesn't usually protect against these kinds of side channels. You're not reading memory directly, but inferring it based on discernible behavior of the privileged code. Inasmuch as SEV and TME-MK are marketed as
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by wahern 1y ago
> This works. But both gcc and clang warn about the enum being anonymous... even though that's exactly what I wanted to do. And this cannot be silenced with #pragma since it's a macro, so the warning occurs at the location wher
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by wahern 1y ago
Moreover, I think Venus has lost most of its hydrogen to space, so you can't even make water anymore. Hydrogen escapes the atmosphere relatively easily for Earth- and Venus-sized planets[1], and the vaporization of all the water and su
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by wahern 1y ago
I've done this for awhile now, but only a couple years ago learned about the traditional practice of Common Placing, of which this is arguably a modern version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book Also,
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by wahern 1y ago
> weaken the dollar and lower US borrowing costs I found this confusing as weakening the dollar and lowering borrowing costs would seem to be at odds. Apparently the "deal" involves central banks which hold US Treasuries swappi
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by wahern 1y ago
This 2003 paper by the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation, "The Filioque: A Church Dividing Issue?: An Agreed Statement", goes into much greater detail and nuance about the filioque and how it differs (if at
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by wahern 1y ago
Since this is a thread about the new pope, note that Catholic doctrine interprets that passage to mean you can only divorce if the original marriage was invalid. The Greek word, porneia, has more literal or abstract interpretations dependin
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by wahern 1y ago
I wouldn't presume Prevost is more doctrinally conservative than Francis, just because Francis wasn't as liberal as popularly claimed. Rather, American conservative bishops attempted to paint Francis as doctrinally liberal as part
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by wahern 1y ago
Dealing with integer overflow is much more burdensome than dealing with allocation failure, IME. Relatively speaking, allocation failure is closer to file descriptor limits in terms of how it effects code structure. But then I mostly use C
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by wahern 1y ago
A few Orthodox churches select their patriarch by random selection, except it's from a handful of candidates selected by other means. The Oriental Coptic Orthodox Church ultimately chooses their patriarch using a blindfolded child who
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by wahern 1y ago
According to the NYT[1], between 1950 and 2018 95% of published English-language fiction authors were white. That Top 100 Novel list contains at least 3 black authors, Ellison, Wright, and Baldwin. Considering that the percentage of black a
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by wahern 1y ago
Rail freight's share of shipping has been on a steep decline for decades in Europe: > Freight rail’s modal share has been in decline across Europe, both in terms of market share and the profitability of major operators. In France fo
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by wahern 1y ago
They can all be changed, but then the capital costs for rail infrastructure would balloon and diminish the 3-5x cost advantage rail has over trucking. The modern rail business is structured (physically and, especially, financially) to squee
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by wahern 1y ago
The flip side of that is that every time a new AI approach becomes popular even more people proclaim "this is what thinking is", believing that the new technology reflects the underlying process of human intelligence. This phenome
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by wahern 1y ago
I can't find the sources I had from last time I looked into it, but here's are some that corroborate: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/programs-surveys/a... https://compassc
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by wahern 1y ago
Process matters, everything else is to a first approximation merely platitudes. What's the difference between faceless bureaucrats making these decisions vs the president? It's the difference between rule of law vs dictatorship. F
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by wahern 1y ago
> The real problem is that household income stopped outpacing home prices in the 1970s. On a price per square foot basis, home prices have been remarkably stable since 1960s. The share of income spent on housing has also remained remarka
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by wahern 1y ago
WWI started in countries (Balkans) with the least economic interdependence, then pulled in more Western European countries through defense alliances. While technically someone could have put the brakes on, it was an autopilot sort of thing.
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by wahern 1y ago
I also double-checked the glibc and musl code to make sure I wasn't misremembering, and ended up learning about IFUNC.[1] Previously I had avoided going down the rabbit hole to understand what glibc's libc_ifunc was doing. I don&#
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by wahern 1y ago
> vDSO layer that intercepts some system call wrappers for more efficient access. Technically the vDSO library doesn't intercept. libc chooses to use either the vDSO or the syscall. This can happen either in the wrapper itself, or t
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by wahern 1y ago
> * Lying about the efficacy of masks: Again, not sure what lie you're referring to. Masking was a rational response to an unknown virus. Since covid is a highly contagious respiratory disease, too much masking is certainly better t
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by wahern 1y ago
Tesla builds Model 3s and Ys in their Shanghai factory using almost entirely domestically sourced components, and even exports a fair number from there. But perhaps the trade war will reduce demand.
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by wahern 1y ago
That's one take. A counter argument is that utilitarian calculus is highly subjective, individually and socio-culturally, resulting in movements like Social Darwinism, Eugenics movement, etc. And someone like Musk might even argue the
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by wahern 1y ago
> I hope internet archive have back up of this Even if they had backups[1], that doesn't necessarily mean they'll remain publicly accessible. I learned that the hard way many years ago when my first university Unix account web
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by wahern 1y ago
In Kantian ethics stealing a loaf of bread is wrong even if done by or for a starving person. In utilitarian ethics stealing bread in that context would be justified. The "civilizational suicide by empathy" narrative is rooted in
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by wahern 1y ago
C never had {} until C23. In C {0} was the only way to explicitly zero-initialize a structure in a generic manner. It works because in C initializer lists are applied to members as-if nested structures are flattened out lexically. However,

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