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by wang_li 4y ago
> How can they help you? How can anyone help you? They literally can, but are choosing not to. If there is concern about stolen devices, then there could be a way for victims of theft to submit such information to apple and then when som
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by wang_li 4y ago
Oracle's SPARC servers are still manufactured and sold.
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by wang_li 4y ago
The High-Vis vest effect.
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by wang_li 4y ago
They still happen. The official raspberry pi 7” lcd panel has non-square pixels. As do a number of third party small lcd panels commonly used with SBCs.
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by wang_li 4y ago
The risks are the same whether you keep running with a failed disk vs. rebooting/booting with a failed disk. Also, given a system in which the OS is not running and requires booting, how exactly are you going to resync a replacement dr
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by wang_li 4y ago
This article among many others that can be found online: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/08/sweden-wins-country-that... Data comes from: https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676
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by wang_li 4y ago
Stringent lock downs are not the only solution. Sweden had an extremely light touch with very few restrictions, were heavily shit on for their “mishandling” of Covid, but as of now they have the lowest cumulative excess deaths percentage of
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by wang_li 4y ago
People who read your comment should think on manliness and then see how you're portraying it and then consider what you say accordingly.
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by wang_li 4y ago
>None of these facts about the actual distribution of wealth and income is captured by looking at a median income and making up a fiction about what an imaginary American can afford. Funny you would end by writing of making up a fiction
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by wang_li 4y ago
A. The economy is not zero sum. Lebron James making lots of money doesn't take anything away from you. B. Median: the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. I
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by wang_li 4y ago
>A more productive approach would be to publicly fund authors but according to Americans that's filthy communism. That's how you get books written by authors who are good at filling out government forms, not books written by go
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by wang_li 4y ago
Median household income in the US in 2022 is $78,000. The average American has adequate income and can't justify pirating movies, books, music, porn, etc. on the basis of poverty.
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by wang_li 4y ago
In the mists of history S. Wozniak wrote the SWEET-16 interpreter for the 6502. A VM with 29 instructions implemented in 300 bytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
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by wang_li 4y ago
If the person above did their math correctly, a black hole and a star orbiting each other a 1.39 AU would be a problem for planets. Injecting a black hole like that into our solar system would be real trouble for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
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by wang_li 4y ago
>What does arranging the contact have to do with it? The government has long identified speech it disagrees with and I'm really hard pressed to believe you think this is something the government can't do? It shows collusion. Th
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by wang_li 4y ago
>There is no law that gives the government power to restrain speech. All government actors are subject to the constitution and criminal and civil statutes. If they violate them, they can be charged even in the absence of a statute that s
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by wang_li 4y ago
It's not just a suggestion. During the pandemic multiple government agencies worked with social media services to remove content that was not in line with official statements and ban people who made such posts/comments. Psaki actu
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by wang_li 4y ago
It's already the law, it would just be better if the higher penalties applied to all civil rights violations and not just those that involve physical assault. The problem is that the DOJ is heavily politicized and won't proceed wi
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by wang_li 4y ago
The first amendment has been around for more than 200 years and SCOTUS rulings for as long. At this point any government actor, or private sector entity working in conjunction with the government, should be facing years in prison and brutal
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by wang_li 4y ago
The kernel devs went out of their way to label a whole bunch of kernel functions as GPL only. It's not about mainlining third party kernel modules, it's about not letting non-GPLed modules use certain functions in the kernel. This
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by wang_li 4y ago
That's plainly not true as there are plenty of intra-kernel interfaces that are tagged as GPL only and if your kernel module isn't GPL you can't use said interfaces. For example, they added the GPL tag to the floating point c
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by wang_li 4y ago
While it may be a true statistic, it seems to dramatically miss the boat. Time spent with a newborn, with an infant, with a four year old, with a ten year old, with a sixteen year old, with a twenty year old are not the same. You can have m
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by wang_li 4y ago
> The important part is to keep track of what's happening with your own connection to others, not what other peers are doing. 99%+ of the time any pair of peers has unidirectional traffic. The situation where two clients will have i
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by wang_li 4y ago
If I was in a situation where I had to have a code of conduct for the people involved, it would have to be: 1. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 2. Don't be a dick.
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by wang_li 4y ago
You’re not the only person who thinks this. It’s just a tool, people who think police shouldn’t properly use a useful tool are morons.
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by wang_li 4y ago
Or we can cancel all their easements, remove their right to run fiber and copper over public lands, and not renew their radio spectrum leases. These networks exist because the public gave them privileges in order to build the networks. With
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by wang_li 4y ago
Your argument was lost a hundred years ago or more. There are many regulations on businesses. On their speech, on their pricing, on the products, on hiring practices. The list is quite large. AT&T can't restrict who can use their n
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by wang_li 4y ago
Digital technology is not even a top ten most impactful invention. Ahead of it we’ve got the germ theory of disease, the haber-Bosch process, use of fossil fuels, the internal combustion engine, analog electronics, anesthetics, antibiotics,
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by wang_li 4y ago
>What makes Quake so portable? There's like 10 glue functions you have to write to do things like initialize your platform, get input, begin the sound loop, call the main loop, and then something to switch buffers to the display. It
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by wang_li 4y ago
> "Compliance is hard" is not an excuse accepted anywhere. Happens in government without any repercussions all the time. Washington state took ten years after being ordered by the state Supreme Court to fully fund education to

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