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by wahern 2y ago
The Guardian stole the sensational headline but then buried the context. Here's the full context from the original Reuters article[1]: > Argentina's poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data
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by wahern 2y ago
It's a stretch to argue that Go's concurrency model is pi calculus. Go supports lexical closures, and even the initial body of a goroutine can close over variables in the parent scope. Go's concurrency model is fundamentally
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by wahern 2y ago
Your argument is post hoc ergo propter hoc. But as with car import tariffs and quotas, nobody doubts that removing all import obstacles would lead to the offshoring of most remaining car manufacturing. What economists argue that the Jones A
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by wahern 2y ago
I think you misunderstood the insinuation.[1] I believe they're suggesting that otherwise legitimate vulnerability concerns are discounted in favor of a laissez faire market policy unless and until the concerns are framed by a xenophob
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by wahern 2y ago
He created his own peer reviewed academic journal and founded a corporation to publish it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Systems_(journal) That's a little different than just putting stuff online.
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by wahern 2y ago
TIL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-walk-away-54-bln-ac...
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by wahern 2y ago
I don't mean to be cynical, but manifestly this isn't necessary. It's why widespread power outages remain a thing even in rich, highly industrialized countries. American Gulf Coast utilities don't spend astronomical sums
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by wahern 2y ago
Ferrocene doesn't involve formal proofs. ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 are primarily process-focused standards for project management, quality control, integration, testing, and code review. To the extent there's automated code analysis
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by wahern 2y ago
On the other hand, kale is goitrogenic. With two little kids I like to make sure they get a good mix of vegetables which aren't all from the cabbage family. I'm lucky living in California; my local Safeway has all kinds of fresh v
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by wahern 2y ago
The nice thing about OpenBSD is that HTTP, SMTP, DNS, and many other common services are bundled into and developed with the OS. Every 6 months a new release comes out, and each release comes with an upgrade FAQ with step-by-step instructio
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by wahern 2y ago
AFAIU, current mature gene drive solutions depend on sexual reproduction. Protozoa usually reproduce asexually, and Plasmodium falciparum in particular is haploid--only one set of chromosomes--during the part of its lifecycle in humans wher
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by wahern 2y ago
It means to refrain from exacting, which is one of the Merriam-Webster dictionary definitions. Here's the usage in context: > [...] The court shall remit statutory damages in any case where an infringer believed and had reasonable g
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by wahern 2y ago
> I'm sure they'll be able to raise the money needed to pay off this lawsuit. 1) The relevant statute actually remits statutory damages for libraries.[1] Though this exception went untested because... 2) The parties negotiated
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by wahern 2y ago
> undermine the authority of the dominant imperialist hierarchy. Ah, yes, the ever-present institutional forces conspiring to oppress the agency of independent, freedom-loving, free-thinking people. I wonder where the oppression-focused,
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by wahern 2y ago
The West African example (upthread) of positive interpretations of hallucination was of Ghanian Christians. See section 4, paragraph 2 at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12158 What's distinct
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by wahern 2y ago
In the 80s there was RPC/XDR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_RPC , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Data_Representation ), which was used pretty heavily in the Unix world. On most Unix
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by wahern 2y ago
The perspective is significantly different when you're both the user and network admin. From your vantage point, you're picking the lesser of two evils.[1] But there's a third option that keeps you in even greater control, ye
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by wahern 2y ago
STARTTLS command buffer smuggling was already a known issue long before 2014. In particular, the deluge of CVEs for MTAs started in early 2011, and it was obvious from the nature of the issue that it wasn't limited to SMTP, but rather
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by wahern 2y ago
Has anybody used Wirehair in a project? https://github.com/catid/wirehair I'm curious if it's well-defined enough to base a standard around--informally if not formally--for building a large file archiving&#x2
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by wahern 2y ago
Without a doubt there's been tremendous inflation for the cost of stations, even ignoring the marginal cost of in-fill stations in dense urban areas. Planners and especially politicians demand ever fancier and larger stations. That jus
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by wahern 2y ago
One of Musk's original points was that cost of tunneling isn't linear with diameter--double the size more than quadruples the price, or something like that. But then the insistence on using electric cars seems... counter productiv
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by wahern 2y ago
Bernstein is savvy enough that I suspect he anticipated how the term "safe" would be interpreted by different groups. That is, he expected and perhaps even intended the subsequent cargo culting.
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by wahern 2y ago
Compound literals are especially pernicious[1] because GCC and (I think) clang support them in C++ mode, but they have expression lifetime like C++ temporary objects, not block lifetime as in C. That's a guaranteed recipe for dangling
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by wahern 2y ago
The reason the current macro is so complex is because it supports mixed types while avoiding (failing on) integer promotion bugs. A version supporting arguments of all the same type would be just as trivial as in C++ (albeit relying on GC
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by wahern 2y ago
The specific macro discussed in the article is using various GCC builtins to safely support mixed integer types; i.e. failing on unsafe type promotions or coercion, but otherwise working automagically. C++ std:min, by contrast, requires all
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by wahern 2y ago
> As I explained, you are describing processes, in the Linux parlance, with a shared mapping. I'm not describing processes because I'm not describing anything that currently exists, at least not in Linux or any other popular OS
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by wahern 2y ago
Taiwan did have secret nuclear weapons program in the 70s or 80s, with cover from their nascent nuclear power facilities. When the US caught wind they forced Taiwan to shut the program down. I'm not sure if China knew about it at the t
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by wahern 2y ago
Some people always stay behind. You see the same patterns when you read about accounts of the Holocaust, Cambodian genocide, Rwandan genocide; unfathomable numbers of people stay put. Sometimes people have a good excuse, e.g. elderly or sic
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by wahern 2y ago
Fair point, but OTOH the 787 was financially engineered to put Boeing on the other side of fixed price contracting. If you're on the purchasing side of fixed price you can tell yourself you don't need experienced engineers, simila
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by wahern 2y ago
> To have a different sub-tree, you must have a different root. However, you can share sub-trees amongst different trees. That's what I meant by each thread having their own map (i.e. root), and within each map they have a shared br

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