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by wahern 2y ago
Please DO NOT mix string interpolation and command execution, especially when a command is processed through the shell. Whatever your language, use a list-based or array-based execution API that passes arguments straight through to execv(
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Have we underestimated the total number of people on Earth?(newscientist.com)
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by wahern 2y ago
> 47% is still substantially lower than housing owned by the rich. Yes, which is 80+%. Though it's only slightly less than the homeownership rates for the middle quintiles. > They probably “own” their house through big mortgages,
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by wahern 2y ago
> I doubt the lower class is collectively storing much wealth in housing Doesn't directly answer your point regarding wealth, but FWIW 47% of people in the bottom quintile own their home. https://www.minneapolisfed.org&#x
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by wahern 2y ago
Yes, the proposal is tailored so that other than simple syntax support no new semantics need to be implemented within GCC to support defer, though clang will need to finally add support for nested functions--in spirit if not the literal GCC
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by wahern 2y ago
The Philistines settled circa 12-13th century BC. Leviticus in its current form dates to circa 6th century BC. And while the origins of the taboo (as well as Leviticus) goes back further than the 6th century, as the article suggests the tab
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by wahern 2y ago
> Contrary to what one might expect, for all of these personality effects the sex differences tend to be larger-- not smaller-- in more individualistic, gender-egalitarian countries. I can't find the link but several years ago there
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Ask HN: Circa 1998 AI Storyteller Article
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by wahern 2y ago
Fat distribution, including subcutaneous vs visceral, has very clear racial/ethnic genetic associations, not to mention sex. East Asian and especially South Asian groups skew much more toward visceral fat, while European and especially
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by wahern 2y ago
That undersells it. The data on hybrid drivetrains is pretty clear--it's definitely more reliable. Even mechanics will tell you that; certainly mine did, and he's not a masochist. Start+stop is hell on mechanical drivetrains. It&#
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by wahern 2y ago
This was the GM Volt, predecessor to the Bolt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt GM ceased production in 2019. The answer to your question can probably be found there, but IIRC [from GM's perspective] t
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by wahern 2y ago
The point of pinsyscall is that they have to jump to the single entry point for that syscall, rather than any of the ~200+ syscall instructions littering the address space. ALSR makes finding an entry point difficult, but that's easi
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by wahern 2y ago
> teachers are overworked to squeeze out performance for the 90%, and cases like hers are the ones that fall through the cracks. Hartford public schools spends about ~30% of its budget on the ~15% of special education students; basicall
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by wahern 2y ago
Was it hypocritical of Ukraine to permit transit of Russian gas while they were engaged in unadulterated warfare? If yes, then we have fundamentally different ideas about how to analyze morality in a situation like this. If no, then you&#x2
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by wahern 2y ago
That's down from 112bn in 2019[1]. That's a huge drop in just a couple of years. Other than optics, I don't see the relevance to simplistic nominal comparisons with Ukraine aid. [1] 68bn in 2020 and 123bn 2021, but 2019 is
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by wahern 2y ago
Such a curious dance. About 5 years ago the headline was, "President Donald Trump has signed a law that will impose sanctions on any firm that helps Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, finish [Nord Stream 2]." https:&
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by wahern 2y ago
That may have been part of it, but over hiring during the pandemic plus the disappearance of cheap money with increased interest rates had at least as much to do with it.
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by wahern 2y ago
Relatedly, people who rely too much on GPS for navigation (i.e. online automated route planning), especially real-time, turn-by-turn instruction, seem to have poor spatial awareness, at least at the local geographic level. I doubt the loss
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by wahern 2y ago
It's not something insurers, healthcare professionals, or most anyone else is keen to advertise. It's even difficult to Google as most of the immediate results will be for mental health crisis resources. But AFAIU as suicide came
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by wahern 2y ago
In the US life insurance is required to cover suicide, though an initial exclusion period of up to 2 years (depending on state) is permitted.
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by wahern 2y ago
It's easier to understand the evidence when you appreciate that most early Christians for the first few centuries were semitic peoples (Jews, Syrians), Greeks, Copts and Berbers in the Levant and North Africa. Even the church in Rome u
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by wahern 2y ago
> People can ‘git clone’ my code, and there’s a web-based browsing interface (the basic gitweb) for looking around without having to clone it at all. I host my own public Git repositories, but statically--read-only, no HTML views. I don&
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by wahern 2y ago
> This is false. The EU has put up more money than the US but they have not _donated_ more money than the US. That's not quite right, either. A large portion if not a majority of the financial aid from the US is--and tacitly require
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by wahern 2y ago
> You can't therapy your way out of epigenetic changes. Isn't that exactly what the study purports to show? Why would psychological trauma (i.e. negative nurturing) effect epigenetics but not psychological healing (i.e. positiv
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by wahern 2y ago
> Not sure why everybody reports the average everywhere. Because that's the modern definition of life expectancy: the average (mean). Probably because the primary driver behind the production of actuarial tables has always been for
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by wahern 2y ago
> What wasm brings to the table is that the core tech focuses on one problem: abstract sandboxed computation. The main advantage it brings is that it _doesn't_ carry all the baggage of a full fledged runtime environment with lots of
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by wahern 2y ago
> Other transport layer protocol rollouts have been stymied by ossification such as MPTCP AFAIU, Apple has flexed their muscle to improve MPTCP support on networks. I've never seen numbers, though, regarding success and usage rates.
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by wahern 2y ago
> This is a nice example of one way to implement DSLs in a language that doesn't support them well. It's not a coincidence that Lua supports such syntax for such use cases.
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by wahern 2y ago
Based on https://www.etymonline.com/word/restaurateur and https://parisfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-were-very... is seems the choice of wording was one part legal hack and one part m
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by wahern 2y ago
> It goes against the foundation of not only US law, but couple of hundred years of international democratic tradition in which allegiance is not to a person, but to the nation itself. The United States had a spoils system of government

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