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by wiml 3y ago
Because, despite containing some amount of generated autoconf code, they are still source tarballs. You want to be able to run the tests after compiling the code on the destination machine.
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by wiml 3y ago
On the other hand, it also means that your distro can supply a microarchitecture-specific libc and every program automatically gets the memcpy improvements. (Well, except for the golang/rust people.) Wasn't this the point of Gento
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by wiml 3y ago
Hardware gets backdoored too, remember Crypto AG?
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by wiml 3y ago
> libsystemd links to liblzma for other features not related to notifications Which is pretty emblematic of systemd's primary architectural fault!
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by wiml 3y ago
People can use encryption all they want. They just have to do it in some part of the spectrum that wasn't explicitly set aside for more "open" kinds of communication. Use the ISM bands, or get a license for commercial spectru
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by wiml 3y ago
Ah, I thought this was going to be Karl Schrœder's Permanence , in which (unless I'm confusing it with a different book) a background point is that consciousness is only really useful in some niches, and most spacefaring species
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by wiml 3y ago
There are specific horn signals (one prolonged, or seven-short-one-prolonged, are what I'd guess would be appropriate here), and COLREGS do explicitly say that you can use whatever you need to get attention in an emergency as long as i
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by wiml 3y ago
My understanding is that they simply use a tug when they're maneuvering by the dock. That's what a lot of tugs do all day.
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by wiml 3y ago
I've had that experience too. I assume they use your card details to find your internal customer identifier or something and then discard the card details.
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by wiml 3y ago
There's also the generic currency symbol, ¤, which I think is on some keyboard layouts pre-Euro.
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by wiml 3y ago
This only applies if you have to make a hire/skip decision immediately after each interview and can't go back later. (The formulation I usually see is a princess choosing a suitor — for pride/face reasons, she can't pass
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by wiml 3y ago
A question for people who know more topology(?) than I do: what determines this? Is it possible to construct a surface that requires an arbitrary number of dimensions for its embedding?
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by wiml 3y ago
In addition to the other reasons - if someone is going to be qualified to fly the plane as backup, they need regular hours of practice. They could get that in a simulator perhaps, or flying practice flights, or ... by flying the actual plan
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by wiml 3y ago
I also recommend that book for anyone interested in the subject! GP neglects to mention that it might also be necessary to bury the decapitated, garlic-stuffed, staked corpse at a crossroads.
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by wiml 3y ago
Five-ten years ago there was a thing for LED eyelashes - glued to your upper eyelid, super-fine wire running to a battery by your ear. I'm not sure how they worked electrically, but the fancier ones appeared to have individually addres
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by wiml 3y ago
Wonder if we could build them on purpose, instead. Cover each pedestrian lane with a stoa/arcade kind of thing, just made out of more permanent and nicer looking materials.
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by wiml 3y ago
The quarks that make up a proton (or neutron, etc) have charges that are multiples of 1/3 the electron charge. So in one sense that is the real unit charge. But because as far as we know quarks can never exist in isolation we can only
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by wiml 3y ago
Do they solve it or do they exacerbate it? Would those men be less angry or better adjusted if they had more authentic contact with human society?
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by wiml 3y ago
My city (Seattle) allows up to three fowl or certain kinds of livestock even in the fairly dense residential areas (the law is left over from many years ago, but backyard hens have become kinda fashionable in recent decades). But you can&#x
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by wiml 3y ago
No, I was taught this at least twice before social media became a thing.
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by wiml 3y ago
Juniper is the company that had so many different backdoors in their software they were interfering with each other but it wasn't clear who was stepping on whom, right?
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by wiml 3y ago
The Android app OsmAnd has a layer to display Wikipedia entries. I like the idea but like a few other people have commented here, some places there can be a lot of clutter from articles I'm not actually interested in. Maybe there could
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by wiml 3y ago
The old Bussard ramjet concept was to capture these high velocity protons (with some kind of magnetic field), cause them to fuse, and use the fusion energy for propulsion. There are a few engineering difficulties with the idea but it makes
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by wiml 3y ago
I used to go to a lot of author talks/readings, and was always fascinated by how different different writers' techniques are. Some know the ending when they start, some are surprised by what comes out, or even feel like it's
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by wiml 3y ago
My understanding is that all the well known mammalian prion diseases are the same prion protein. The disease it causes has a variety of names in different contexts: CWD, vCJD, kuru, mad cow. There are some other suspected prions in fungi, a
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by wiml 3y ago
Rent is probably the main reason I have written checks in the last 20 years. Most places, I have the option of using a outsourced service with a terrible website and "convenience" fees, or I can simply hand my landlord a check for
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by wiml 3y ago
I thought Zelle was just a friendly frontend to ACH?
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by wiml 3y ago
Tubs usually aren't too narrow. Tubs are usually too short.
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by wiml 3y ago
Yes, if you look at a simple projector you can see it: there's a little half-loop of film before and after the shutter/lens assembly and you can see it vibrate as it buffers between the intermittent motion at the shutter and the s
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by wiml 3y ago
I've been meaning to give Coalton a try: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/ (found via a previous HN post)

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