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by wahern 1y ago
63.9% per https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers Which apparently was quite high. Only 3 presidential elections in the past 100 years exceeded 63%: 1960, 2020, and 2024.
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by wahern 2y ago
Western disbelief in the veracity of oral traditions isn't confined to cultures outside the West. It's as strongly antagonistic, if not more so, to Western traditions. If it's not written down, it didn't happen; and if i
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by wahern 2y ago
It absolutely becomes very inefficient, though the threshold data set size varies according to context. Most languages don't have lightweight coroutines as an alternative (but see Lua!), so the convenient alternatives have larger fixed
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by wahern 2y ago
The jackpot rolled over multiple times without a winner, except in this case many more rollovers than the average. As the article mentions, typically there were only "one or two million tickets [purchased] on each draw."
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by wahern 2y ago
> The author keeps calling it "pipelining", but I think the right term is "method chaining". [...] You get a similar effect with coroutines. The inventor of the shell pipeline, Douglas McIlroy, always understood the e
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by wahern 2y ago
Lottery payouts are structured to ensure the state always comes out ahead. The state takes its share off the top, presumably along with the vendor fees; the jackpot is what's left over. It's not stated plainly, but the article doe
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by wahern 2y ago
In all non-human species selfless cooperation falls off a cliff beyond siblings, and AFAIU this comports well with Game Theory-type models for understanding genetics. Popular examples of non-human cooperation, naked mole rates and bonobos,
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by wahern 2y ago
LTO can be parallelized, both implicitly from the Makefile, and also within the compiler. GCC's -flto itself takes an optional argument to control the number of parallel threads/jobs. See also the -flto-partition option for select
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by wahern 2y ago
> Hence why rust internally split one "semantic code unit" into multiple internal code units passed to LLM. And the same has happened in C and C++ land, albeit in the opposite direction, where multiple compilation units can be
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by wahern 2y ago
> The "codegen units" concept doesn't work for those languages. Sure it does. Or at least could, depending on what you mean by that term. See, e.g., GCC's -flto-partition option, which supports various partitioning st
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by wahern 2y ago
> Unikernels aren't meant to run as a bare metal OS on a standard computer like a PC. Originally this absolutely was one of the selling points. NetBSD's rumpkernel, for example, clearly was intended to support bare metal. In p
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by wahern 2y ago
> This is a major reason the X-Windows protocol is so big and complicated X was trying to, in a sense, remote hardware acceleration. Wayland doesn't bother at all, clients render their windows locally and share (or send) a pre-ren
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by wahern 2y ago
What's the relevance of Docker here? It's not mentioned in the article, and more generally I can't think of cases where Docker would help with backward compatibility, except perhaps making it easier to, e.g., handle old code
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by wahern 2y ago
I think Cosmopolitan support on OpenBSD is broken (since 7.5?). And IIRC it also conflicts with WINE on Linux without explicit binfmt support. It's amazing and laudable that Cosmopolitan managed to thread the needle the way that it did
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by wahern 2y ago
Depends on your definition of arena. They vary, but IME an arena usually implies you can free objects in ad hoc order back to the arena for reuse. In which case interim lifetimes get mixed. Stack allocator or bump allocator are better terms
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by wahern 2y ago
> Regulations require a bureaucracy in order to be effective. That's a very European point of view (though not uniquely European, it's also shared across many other cultures, e.g. in East Asia). The US has done pretty well with
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by wahern 2y ago
Technically the law is protecting the share holders. Legal scholars, regulators, and even judges have continually tried to push the fraud-on-the-market theory of insider trading, but IIRC it's been firmly rejected by SCOTUS multiple ti
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by wahern 2y ago
> There was life before plastic - it used wood, glass, metal, and natural fabric. Technically speaking, latex and even silk are plastics, as are traditional products made from plant oils, like linoleum. We've been relying on them fo
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by wahern 2y ago
> Otherwise they are basically the same thing. There's definitely more that differentiates threads from processes in the kernel. Process signals, for example, where the kernel walks the thread list for the process to choose which th
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by wahern 2y ago
There's a good episode of 99% Invisible that discusses Prop 65, including an interview with the original author of Prop 65, David Roe: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-... Yes, there are
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by wahern 2y ago
It feels more dangerous, but that sense of danger is what improves safety. It's when people, especially drivers, feel comfortable that accidents increase; they let their guard down. The US has dramatically higher rates of pedestrian
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by wahern 2y ago
> Is the situation really so dire? I for one don't think so. From my perspective, there's at least as much momentum in GCC as clang/LLVM, especially on the static analysis and diagnostics front over the past 5 or so years.
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by wahern 2y ago
Corporations are probably low down the list of drivers of cultural homogenization. Merely exporting (via social media, entertainment, cosmopolitan norms, etc) the Western conception of diversity as virtue, as well as the particular definiti
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by wahern 2y ago
> Fishing is less profitable for the whole UK than Warhammer. There are 3x as many fishermen in the UK than employees of Games Workshop, and much more again if you count the number of related fishery jobs. At the end of the day, politici
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by wahern 2y ago
> The foods sold in vending machines make sense though - everyone's already used to instant or canned soup, so throwing it into a vending machine and warming it up makes sense. The US used to have much more diverse vending machine o
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by wahern 2y ago
You can have arbitrary contractual arrangements (subject to local law), but the underlying property interests still matter, especially during disputes. I believe in the US a reverse mortgage typically means the mortgager (seller) retains le
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by wahern 2y ago
In 1930 about 1/4 of income was spent on food. In 1950 it dropped to 1/5. Today we're at less than 1/10. Sources: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013/august/price-infla... https:&#x
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by wahern 2y ago
I believe sugar is added to sliced bread primarily as a preservative and to retain moisture. When fresh I've never noticed much of a difference between "no sugar added" and comparable sliced bread with corn syrup or honey, bu
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by wahern 2y ago
Maybe the most recent "revolution", but like with reading or math the politics of school lunches has a long history, with periodic (decadal?) waves of concern and subsequent systematic changes going back to the 1930s, when natio
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by wahern 2y ago
The reason processes aren't enough for isolation is primarily because of the large (and growing) number of syscalls, especially for complicated, bleeding-edge subsystems, exposing significant kernel surface area that's susceptible

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