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by wahern 4mo ago
I don't know what to tell you. You clearly haven't studied International Affairs, or at least read the scholarly literature. Even some cursory research through Wikipedia citations will bring this up. But in any case, here are some
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Are you retconning Hiroshima and Nagasaki as usage of tactical nukes? And when they were not only used against an adversary without nukes, but at a time when the US was the only nuclear state, so that escalation was impossible? The nomina
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by wahern 4mo ago
"There's no such thing as a tactical nuke" is a common refrain among scholars, albeit skewed toward those not at military war colleges. The argument is that strategic use of a tactical nuclear weapon leads down the exact sa
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by wahern 4mo ago
> People living near data centers have gotten wise to the fact that local people pay most of the externalities of data centers and AI, but the benefits mostly go elsewhere. That's true of just about every industrial, commercial, civ
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by wahern 4mo ago
AFAIU, the people suing have no privity; they're just a neighbor and don't have any right to enforce the covenant. (If the covenant had granted them an interest, they could have.) Presumably the original property owner who granted
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by wahern 4mo ago
> That reason seemed to boil down to: "If it was good for a Sun/3 in 1986, then it must also be good for a Linux box in 1996." It was a dumb reason. ext2 disk corruption, especially on power failure or a crash, was a commo
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Real-world usage certainly remains poor. Using pointers to VM types remains annoying, and I wish the committee would settle on a solution to the ordering of VM parameters. But, yeah, the VM types are solid in GCC and clang and should be use
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The president has a large degree of control over the agencies and their output, so in practice agency delegation granted presidents immense power. This power went largely unexercised due to norms. But that has been slowly changing, and unde
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Alpine is a very popular platform for both compiling and hosting Go applications--especially static, no n-CGO binaries--given it's minimal footprint. A common issue people have with Alpine is musl libc's DNS resolver, which can be
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by wahern 4mo ago
Just to be clear, I often think we would have been better off with Ritchie's proposal, assuming it would have seen at least as much adoption in implementations and usage as variably modified types, which sadly remained poor for many ye
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WG14 adopted variably modified types, a kind of dependent type. From a security standpoint it offers all the same qualities. It also in principle was easier to integrate from a backwards compatibility standpoint, with the exception of struc
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by wahern 4mo ago
GCC/libstdc++ just changed the ABI for std::variant: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html#libstdcxx
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I think both AMD and Intel employ and/or fund GCC and LLVM developers to add support for each new architecture. Compiler and product release schedules are independent so the target and tuning support in the latest compiler release may
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by wahern 4mo ago
It's actually a pretty common thing: https://www.propublica.org/article/conservation-easements-th... It even sprouted a cottage industry of REITs selling investors a product built around it, syndicated conservatio
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Seems Brazil lost its early lead after cloning Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(film)
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> Would you called majority Japanese now a colonizers since the originally come from Korea/China and before them they were people there? Depending on context, yes, especially considering that (AFAIU) there still exist identifiable (
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By the time the Europeans arrived Singapore had long since declined: > However, by the time the Portuguese arrived in the early 16th century, Singapura had already become "great ruins" according to Alfonso de Albuquerque. http
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by wahern 4mo ago
eBPF has opened the door to such bloatware on Linux. Previously there was no easy, stable way for enterprise bloatware vendors to maintain complex file and subsystem filter and analytic modules. Now that market is exploding because of eBPF,
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Providing insurance was one reason for the emergence and popularity of friendly societies, fraternal organizations, and trade unions in the 19th century. But out of that emerged the modern insurance industry, so you can now just buy those p
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For some definitions of tiny. Their current monthly wafer production is about 1/2 that of Samsung, SK Hynix, or Micron. They're rapidly expanding, but so are the others, so they're unlikely to catch up anytime soon, but that
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by wahern 4mo ago
Sure, but in terms of expenditure and especially time (and time is a huge expense because of the cost of raising and securing financing) that work doesn't make up the bulk of the cost. There's nothing wrong with impact statements
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First of all I disagree that it's difficult to get injunctions to stop an activity that was illegal from the start. In fact, sometimes environmental reviews can backfire because they typically require affirmation by the government, whi
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And? The primary goal should be to catch and stop pollution, not make manufacturers spend years promising not to do something they're not allowed to do. If someone wants to build a factory that can't operate without illegal emissi
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Am I missing something? https://techwireasia.com/2026/04/chinese-memory-chips-ymtc-c... https://wccftech.com/another-chinese-dram-maker-breaks-into-...
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Several Chinese manufacturers are doing just that, and have already expanded production: https://techwireasia.com/2026/04/chinese-memory-chips-ymtc-c... But because of tech trade barriers their primary focus is o
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Nominal global financial wealth is about $350 trillion. If you include real estate global nominal wealth is about $600 trillion. A good portion of that[1] is what alot of people might call fake money--valuation inflation, etc. And global w
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NtCreateUserProcess supports copy-on-write fork semantics without overcommit. See https://github.com/huntandhackett/process-cloning#cloning-fo... And there's a wrapper, RtlCloneUserProcess, that is called using th
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> does fork–exec copy all the process's memory and then immediately throw it away, or what No, you just account for it (commit the charge) in the bookkeeping. If a 1GB process forks, you decrement the amount of free memory by 1GB
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> I don't think the old adage that salmon will only return to their original spawning grounds is the whole story. Some percentage will just enter a different stream. Straying could be a genetic strategy, imperfect behavior, accident
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That's how the oldest European universities worked originally, the students hired the teachers. I don't remember how long that system lasted or exactly why it ended, but the history might be instructive.

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