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by wahern 3mo ago
They claimed and showed QUIC slightly-to-moderately reduced latency, particularly for mobile. This benefits Google by loading pages with third-party content, i.e. ads, faster. But QUIC significantly increases CPU utilization on servers, at
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by wahern 3mo ago
AMD Versal XQR chips are RAD tolerant, at least according to the marketing material. See https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/vers... and https://www.amd.com/content/da
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I don't think it's comprehensible at the individual level, but at population scales even the worst leaders tend to maintain a sizeable level of support. Trump and Chavez have alot in common[1], and nearly half of Venezuelans still
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If you're worried about infringement, register your work with the US copyright office. You can only get monetary and statutory damages if the work was registered before infringement, otherwise you can only get an injunction. But you ca
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Elections are audited as a matter of course. In California every election is audited after the fact, in addition to observers (including from the different parties) wherever voting, tabulating, and auditing occurs. Here's the bill of r
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The parent comment seemed to insinuate that if the risk of injury from taller front-ends was substantially greater, it would be noticeably apparent in insurance premiums. But because of policy limits, that's not necessarily the case, a
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> astronomical insurance payouts for accidental child death. There's no such thing. Standard automobile insurance policies cap injury liability in the low 5 figures. If you cause an accident and someone is seriously injured, there&#
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The first birth is invariably the most difficult (longer, more painful), and the most difficult to recover from regardless of epidural. You can't at all compare the experience of a second birth without an epidural to the first birth wi
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Conservatives in multiple states looked under every rock to find voter fraud in the 2020 election and largely came up empty handed. In Arizona they even forced a quasi-legal audit with their own citizens brigade, spending weeks pouring thro
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by wahern 4mo ago
Florida was using a punch-card system, thus the infamous hanging chads. Fill-in-the-bubble scantron systems are much faster and less error prone; not as fast as purely electronic voting, but you get a reliable paper trail that is more trans
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by wahern 4mo ago
They do watch for the en pointe, which is beautiful precisely because it's not something we expect bodies to be able to do. And the pain and injury risk also, I think, adds to the effect. I don't think it's all that different
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by wahern 4mo ago
I can't watch ballet. I actually, not figuratively, cringe when they do en pointe. It's like watching somebody cut themselves or even be in situations where they might, like an amateur youtube cook chopping unsafely; just physical
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by wahern 4mo ago
The GCC documentation example for computed goto uses an indexing table, but you can of course use computed goto addresses directly. The problem is smuggling the label addresses outside the function so you don't need the enum/index
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by wahern 4mo ago
FWIW, I got the 80F figure from the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Classification
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by wahern 4mo ago
It seems below about ~80F you lose consciousness. This kid was nearly half that. Moreover, there have been other similar cases: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32482520/
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by wahern 4mo ago
Homeless are the most visible, but perhaps not the biggest issue. See, e.g., the problem with public toilets: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/1248664709/-public-good-why-i... > JOHN COCHRANE: I think t
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by wahern 4mo ago
Tell that to the many prisoners who participated in and benefited from HIV and hepatitis vaccine trials. What a travesty it would have been if there were a blanket ban on prisoner research. Research on prisoners is subject to stricter stand
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by wahern 4mo ago
Copyright violation is not per se a crime. I think a colorable defense of fair use, even if it would fail in a civil trial, would negate the mens rea element. I can't easily find caselaw or articles regarding this, though, as most crim
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by wahern 4mo ago
> It is important to note that usually, something like 98% of noise complaints come from 1-2 individuals, even in areas with thousands of residents. Research paper for anyone interested: https://www.mercatus.org/research&
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by wahern 4mo ago
> Can you do that with a dynamic array? Yes. #include <stdio.h> #if __has_include(<stdcountof.h>) #include <stdcountof.h> #else #define countof(a) (sizeof (a) / sizeof *(a)) #endif void foo(
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by wahern 4mo ago
Caching is always optional. If you want sophisticated control over caching, or just no caching at all, you can do recursive lookups directly. Some existing DNS libraries can do recursive lookups directly, including libunbound. Ideally you w
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by wahern 4mo ago
Most memory bugs in Chromium are in V8, either entirely in the JIT or at the boundary with C++. Rust wouldn't help here because the borrow checker can't see through these boundaries, and it's precisely this opacity where the
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The Church of the East split in the early 5th century, followed later that century by the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Altogether they may have been larger than the Roman (Latin and Greek/Byzantine) Church. Armenia became a Christian st
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The notion that life is favored because it accelerates global evolution toward increased entropy predates, I think, Prigogine. But it doesn't resolve the question of whether life, especially intelligent life, actually exists elsewher
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by wahern 4mo ago
Rents reset to market for new tenants. While it's true some well-off people hang onto apartments while living elsewhere, this is really rare. Turn over is usually quite high. Rent control mostly effects small multi-tenant buildings and
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by wahern 4mo ago
Yes. Most recently, "No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious. Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning", https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-ar
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by wahern 4mo ago
I don't know if it's still the case in the UK, but in the common law and still in the US this why all substantive evidence, with very rare exception (e.g. dying statements), is witness testimony given on the stand. It may seem abs
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If the feedback or involvement is substantive it used to be common to mention this, even if just in a prologue, epilogue, or footnote. You still see this is some academic writing and some journalism, where authors mention with whom they con
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The right answer conflicts with people's cynical views about other people. The dissonance is incredible, and it's one of those areas where even the most analytically intelligent people are just as susceptible. To step back and see
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> I just love this whole "forbidden knowledge" schtick the AI safety dweebs have stuck up their butt. It's just the latest incarnation of a timeless debate. In the 1970s and 1980s it was about the Anarchists's Cookboo

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