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by wahern 2y ago
> It is a matter of public record that parts of US intelligence (not CIA) had been tracking COVID in China since at least November of 2019. What's public record is that ABC News reported[1] that two anonymous officials claimed there
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by wahern 2y ago
1) The middle tiers aren't publicly traded companies, often single-member LLCs or small partnerships used as vehicles for funding just a handful of projects. In general, they're not easy to scrutinize. 2) I think most of the accou
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by wahern 2y ago
Yep. GetEnvironmentStrings and FreeEnvironmentStrings are probably even more noteworthy as they seem to substitute for an exposed environ array, though they push more effort to the application.
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by wahern 2y ago
libc does do locking, but it's insufficient. The semantics of getenv/setenv/putenv just aren't safe for multi-threaded mutation, period, because the addresses are exposed. It's not really even a C language issue; we
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by wahern 2y ago
That's not possible because jaywalking has a maximum penalty, and the judge can't exceed that maximum penalty. A proper analogy would be something like two crimes, A and B, both with the same statutorily defined maximum penalty--l
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by wahern 2y ago
And what dictator is going to implement this perfect solution? Here's how things have manifestly played out over the past 150 years: procedural rules are strengthened because citizens are afraid of unjust prosecution. Some high profi
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by wahern 2y ago
This cuts both ways as judges often adjust their sentencing downward based on mitigating evidence. For both aggravating and mitigating circumstances evidence does need to be submitted, and there are standards of proof to be applied. It&#x27
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by wahern 2y ago
I don't think these hypotheses are in tension. The notion that some scholars, like Plato, distrusted writing based on epistemological theories--the nature of truth and knowing--is well attested. The paper you linked is a sociological d
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by wahern 2y ago
timegm was finally standardized by C23, and POSIX-2024 mentions it in the FUTURE DIRECTIONS section of mktime. I don't know precisely what happened with POSIX. I think timegm got lost in the shuffle and by the time Austin Group atten
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by wahern 2y ago
Red hair appears to have originated in Central Asia. Blue eyes and blonde hair likewise also originated in Central Asia or the Middle East (but not necessarily the same places). All of these phenotypes used to be more widespread in Eurasia
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by wahern 2y ago
Basically dead. The main motivation would be to make it easier to use variably modified types in function parameters, where the (length) identifier is declared after the variably modified type, as in > void foo(int a[m][m], int m)
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by wahern 2y ago
Was there ever any sustained science that claimed smoking was harmless? AFAIU, smoking was considered by the general population as not good for you health since at least the early 20th century, and before then as at least a vice (as was caf
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by wahern 2y ago
There's growing evidence, especially in the past few years with better studies, that suggests HPV is a significant driver, if not the most significant driver, of the increase in colorectal cancer among younger adults. I suspect it&#x27
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by wahern 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar
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by wahern 2y ago
What inherent TOCTOU vulnerability exists with process groups? Process groups are the way to shoot down a collection of processes atomically in Unix. getpgrp returns the current processes' process group, and killpg(pgrp) sends a sign
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by wahern 2y ago
> Maybe in some way one could argue that social media gives some sort of connection were you get some feelings from what others are doing/showing. I mean, technologically it's quite a leap That technology exists; it's call
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by wahern 2y ago
I believe what you're describing is "orans": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orans
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by wahern 2y ago
AFAICT, automatic emergency braking has only been required for all new vehicles in Europe as of 2024, although 2022 for new car models. In the U.S. 90% of new vehicles already include this feature, though it won't be legally mandatory
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by wahern 2y ago
> Like I might want to see foo's stdout on the terminal, but pipe stderr (and only stderr) to grep, perhaps so I only see some specific error messages that I care about You mean this: `foo 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3` The ab
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by wahern 2y ago
Tilde expansion is part of shell word expansion: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V... Tilde expansion is the first operation in word expansion: > The expansions that are performe
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by wahern 2y ago
I took cruise at least a dozen times, back when they were giving free rides from downtown SF late at night, originally advertised as a promotion for restaurant and hospitality workers going home. (I was just hacking late into the night ;) I
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by wahern 2y ago
IMO, they're both right, but for anon291's reasons. tsimionescu's perception of The Pantheon is reflective of a shared cultural consciousness, albeit one that's cosmopolitan and intellectual. He and anon291 (maybe) see d
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by wahern 2y ago
AFAIU, the semantics of SO_REUSEPORT for TCP were consistent across the BSDs, at least since the time the Google folks started exploring this area. For TCP the behavior was effectively a LIFO/stack-like queue for listening sockets; inc
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by wahern 2y ago
I just think the current emphasis on inequality of outcomes and headline numbers like income share leads us down the wrong path. Those are effects, not causes or even the effects that directly drive discontent; yet by emphasizing those aspe
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by wahern 2y ago
People prefer jobs, not handouts, but handouts is what your scenario implies--wealth distribution from the rich to the workers. This is where the academy has led liberal/left parties astray. Yes, inequality is at the root of discontent
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by wahern 2y ago
It's not entirely anecdotal. There's research that shows meditation can hasten the progression of mental illnesses like suicidal depression and schizophrenia. For example, suicide rates spike among neophyte practitioners of medita
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by wahern 2y ago
From a security perspective, and as a programmer, I've never liked ZIP files precisely because there are two mechanisms to identify the contents, the per-file header and the central directory. When you're defining a format, prot
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by wahern 2y ago
For OpenSSH configuration the first directive controls, not the last. So if you want to set an option make sure your include filename comes lexically earlier , not later. This is why the Include directive is at the top of distro-installe
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by wahern 2y ago
Devicetree has been the bane of end-users since forever, yet I gather kernel developers and non-x86 system vendors still love it. OTOH, I get ACPI is hopelessly complex from an implementer's perspective, partly because of all the littl
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by wahern 2y ago
FWIW, the 7th Amendment doesn't speak directly to individual rights of the person: "In Suits at common law... the right of trial by jury shall be preserved". It's a right of parties in a court case, which even in the 18t

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