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by wahern 2y ago
MLK was able to actually organize large, potent, real-life networks of people from all walks of life, a plurality of whom actually took on substantial physical, legal, social, and monetary risks. People today have been convinced that acti
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by wahern 2y ago
Fox News is by a huge margin the most popular news outlet. Throw in the New York Post (huge presence on the internet) and the WSJ, and conservative media is the mainstream media at this point. They also shilled for Trump relentlessly, wit
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by wahern 2y ago
Related Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil The question is a central one in Western philosophy and religion. Less so in some other traditions. But it predates Christianity.
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by wahern 2y ago
In theory you would have independent, private organizations which people trusted to inspect manufacturing facilities and review products. In the U.S., those types of organizations existed before modern Federal regulations. For example, Unit
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by wahern 2y ago
They could just choose blanket primaries, like California has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary After the blanket primary, the final election is between the top-two, regardless of their party a
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by wahern 2y ago
I live in SF. We just had an accident the other day that indisputably can be pinned on jaywalking--late at night, cross where there was an actual fence, and the car hadn't been speeding. In fact, the limit is 25 there. Jaywalking fig
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by wahern 2y ago
New York City is actually one of the few US jurisdictions that DO NOT permit right turns on red as a default rule.
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by wahern 2y ago
And yet jaywalking accounts for the majority of pedestrian deaths, despite being a fraction of the number of crossings. Believe it or not, most drivers do look out for pedestrians. Some better than others, but another set of eyeballs is i
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by wahern 2y ago
Anglo-Saxon in the sense of the article is principally referring to a political and cultural tradition that can be traced back to a certain place and time, the original dynamics of which continue to reverberate and resonate. Its association
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by wahern 2y ago
Can someone explain the logic behind the spin-off? In particular, 1) why an independent fab wouldn't end up exactly like GlobalFoundariess--i.e. no longer a contender in the leading-edge fab space; and 2) how Intel, a company that domi
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by wahern 2y ago
If you felt satisfied with your productivity, why would you seek help? So there's definitely a selection bias there. Likewise for those whose "locus of control"[1] is biased toward external factors--i.e. you ascribe lack of s
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by wahern 2y ago
When I think of a DSL, I think of a language with specialized syntax , grammar , or constructs suited to the problem domain. Think SQL, AWK, or regular expressions. This is just a LISP variant with a typical host-side API for registeri
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by wahern 2y ago
And one of the unique things the CHERI-based architecture permits is a single, flat, shared address space: > CHERIoT was designed to provide both spatial and temporal safety, both enforced efficiently in the hardware. As such, we can r
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by wahern 2y ago
His reviews of those old MRE cigarettes are amazing. He makes it seem like he's smoking pure ecstasy (figuratively, actually, w'ever). I've never smoked but watching those segments I'm jonesing hard to smoke one of those
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by wahern 2y ago
The main thread is special because that's how the runtime works on Unix. In particular, when "main" exits, the process exits. This is required by the C standard. It's also fundamentally built into how Unix processes work
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by wahern 2y ago
Per the article, Singapore has already approved projects to import electricity from Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
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by wahern 2y ago
MIPS64 is still very much alive: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/er-4 "EdgeOS" is based on Linux, and people run vanilla Linux distributions on those boxes, as well as OpenBSD and NetBSD. I wond
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by wahern 2y ago
> If I can only make 10% profit (or whatever the law is), what is my incentive to keep healthcare costs down? The ONLY way I can grow my income if it healthcare costs go up. You're missing the step where you also have to increase pr
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by wahern 2y ago
$749 million is revenue. Revenue less expenses (i.e. profit) was $57 million, which admittedly is a decent 7.5%. But as a nonprofit there are no shareholders or partners to siphon off that profit. The common argument is that management siph
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by wahern 2y ago
> what the hell are frontend devs thinking!? Multiple MB's in JS for a news website. Hundreds of KB's for HTML. It's totally unreasonable They're thinking, "adding [some fraction of existing total payload] for su
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by wahern 2y ago
I don't have my copy of K&R handy, but this distinction has existed since the initial codification. From C89: 3.1.2.5 Types [...] A computation involving unsigned operands can never overflow, because a result that cannot be
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by wahern 2y ago
> These are all things that have to be dynamically resolved at runtime with zero copies in every context the memory might be touched. Fairly standard high-performance database stuff. The intrinsic ambiguity about the contents of a memory
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by wahern 2y ago
OpenBSD dropped nullfs a long time ago. See https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20050527155028 But it looks like DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD have retained it.
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by wahern 2y ago
Just curious, why would symlinks not work here? That's traditionally how this sort of thing was done, even on Linux. Is it a chroot issue? Interestingly, OpenBSD services seem to be moving away from chroot now that it has unveil. (Not
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by wahern 2y ago
I mean... so I just noticed the "US Total Interest Paid" clock. That takes about 45 seconds to tick over $1 million, so $7 billion covers ~1% of the interest payments in a year. That seems like a sizable contribution for a single
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by wahern 2y ago
It takes about 30 seconds for the US National Debt clock ( https://www.usdebtclock.org/ ) to tick off $1 million, so almost 2.5 days to tick off $7 billion. I'd say $7 billion covers much more than 3 seconds of interest.
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by wahern 2y ago
inetd could pass the listening socket to the process. That was the `wait|nowait` field in /etc/inetd.conf. The typical config for TCP used with services like finger was `nowait`, which meant inetd would listen on a socket and spaw
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by wahern 2y ago
inetd, the "super server" from 4.3BSD, supported this in addition to handling the listening socket. For reasons I don't fully understand, inetd fell out of favor despite having been installed and running by default on pretty
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by wahern 2y ago
The C standard (see C23 5.2.1p3) requires the values of '0' through '9' to be contiguous, so it doesn't matter if you only care about round-tripping. '7' - '0' == 7 no matter the character set. T
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by wahern 2y ago
SunOS had /dev/poll, which the kqueue paper cited as prior art. https://web.archive.org/web/20000823103627/http://docs.sun.c... via citation 4 in https://people.freebsd.org/~jle

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