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by xorcist 1y ago
It sounds like you completely agree with the comment you replied to?
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by xorcist 1y ago
How does it work in practice? Do you have to scan an item when you put it in or take it of the fridge? Because in practice, fridges look nothing like in the commercials. Very few people would put a whole apple and a carton of milk on a shel
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by xorcist 1y ago
I may an idiot and haven't been in the market for new appliances for a while, but between an ice maker and a door alarm, how could you possibly require Internet acccess? Does it offer an app on your phone to operate the ice maker when
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by xorcist 1y ago
That's not so. In a democratic state of law, the police can not unilaterally decide to seize you servers, and the politicians cannot tell the police to do so. Separation of powers is a thing.
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by xorcist 1y ago
"Open to competition" != "Privatised"
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by xorcist 1y ago
A database is never hard to install , but it can be tricky to operate . You have to at least have at least a slight idea about the specifics, from different types of vacuum to how it behaves in low memory conditions. The idea that docker
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by xorcist 1y ago
> Maybe Altman will serve that taste savant role Was it the eyeball scanners that gave you this idea?
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by xorcist 1y ago
Did you mean before the PR? Why would anyone have a review system if you change the code after review? Hopefully the commits are already squashed and rebased before review to value reviewers' time.
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by xorcist 1y ago
That's a bit overblown. Almost all banking apps work fine. You might be one of the unlucky few of course, but there's no need to scare others from running free software.
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by xorcist 1y ago
They are just careful not to say whose security. It's not a lie if it is to secure their cashflow.
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by xorcist 1y ago
You will probably run some kind of community Android distribution on that phone, like Lineage or Graphene, and those will likely not include this limitation. The world will be worse off, but you and I will be unaffected. Worst case is that
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by xorcist 1y ago
Then any replacement project should start with implementing a better test suite in order to know what you're doing. That has been the case with many other utilities such as ntp. And it should most certainly not be possible to declare o
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by xorcist 1y ago
But that's hardly relevant to coreutils, is it? Do these utilities even manage memory? These are command line utilities meant to be a human porcelain for libc. And last I checked, libc was C. Ideally these should be developed in tandem
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by xorcist 1y ago
From a causal glance, isn't your code limited by the amount of available memory? Which could be totally useful in itself, but not even close to what "sort" is doing. Did you run sort with a buffer size larger than the data? Y
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by xorcist 1y ago
> I don't really feel this is any worse than downloading a binary from a distro archive Please don't say that. It denigrates the work of all the packagers that actually keep our supply chains clean. At least in the major distri
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by xorcist 1y ago
An import tax works just like any other tax. You decide a law that "import of fresh fruit from Mexico is as of (date) subject to a 10% tax" together with details about exactly what fruit is considered fresh, how to calculate the t
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by xorcist 1y ago
How many developer accounts can you register, once Google starts requiring enough personal information including callback to phone numbers? Because the banhammer is coming down, sooner or later.
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by xorcist 1y ago
Hopefully one of those volunteers is yourself. You do not have to watch every district, every election, every time. But given that enough people do it, at least once, at least in their own district, then it is easy to see why the system as
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by xorcist 1y ago
Having elections is in no way enough to have a democracy. You also need a functioning justice system and free media. What you describe is not part of the election system but of the justice system. If the police does not uphold the laws that
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by xorcist 1y ago
The obvious problem with smartphone voting is that it's hard to combine with voter secrecy. An abusive spouse or someone bribing the voter could demand to see what vote was cast. And if anyone can make up a reason to doubt the outcome
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by xorcist 1y ago
If you can independently verify the election result, then it does not matter if any of the counts were made using proprietary software. If you can not independently verify election results, what good does published source code do? Electio
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by xorcist 1y ago
After having this discussion in so many professional settings, I'm starting to think that this is just something that divides people. Maybe our brains are wired differently. What's important for me is that the call graph is simple
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by xorcist 1y ago
> Having Russia or Israel expressing support doesn't help, Please. At least get the facts right. It was not just Russia and Israel. It was also Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Gabon and Rwanda.
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by xorcist 1y ago
It's also true that "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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by xorcist 1y ago
FWIW, NetApps were generally pretty solid, and they should have no problem keeping in sync across datacenters. You pay handsomely for the privilege though. Failover, latency, and so on are something you need to think about independently of
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by xorcist 1y ago
There have been plenty of suggested online voting schemes over the past several decades, yet the prevailing theme is that the ones that actually see practical use don't even try to solve the problem. The reason why we have public ele
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by xorcist 1y ago
More or less exactly so. There is another downside to it: When money is just a piece of plastic which you touch the cash register with and get what you want, how to you learn to appreciate money? Coins and paper money is also excellent for
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by xorcist 1y ago
Of course a network can be offline. I believe that is what you describe, a network with no routes is not connected to anything else, and certainly not to the Internet? It is common to keep admin and backup functions on separate network inte
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by xorcist 1y ago
The answer is more often than not alternative c) all of the above. Development may be a random walk, but there are plenty of people with interest in a certain outcome, and when they get the opportunity they will take it and try escalate the
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by xorcist 1y ago
So bascially you log in to the login server, which passes a token to the vote counting server that the vote is valid but with no identifying information? And there is some way to verify that these two entities do not cooperate? How do you o

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