Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2mo ago
This isn't universal. The New York Times Manual of Style, for instance, only permits using an en dash as a minus sign. Joining nouns like Sarbanes-Oxley and even number ranges use hyphens instead. The BBC News Style Guide and the Econo
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by Aloisius 3mo ago
Calling the American Revolution terrorism, in the modern sense, is a stretch. It was a war waged primarily between soldiers and materiel with the goal of ending the enemy's ability to wage war. Systematic use of terror as a policy to i
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by Aloisius 3mo ago
That seems easy enough to solve. Simply record the index and length in pi of the index and length in pi.
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by Aloisius 4mo ago
My eyes glaze over any time an article uses the term "heavy metals" unironically. This could be bad or it could not, but I simply can't take anything seriously that uses ambiguous terms so linked to woo.
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
Pretty sure I've seen exposure-adjusted incidence rates used in clinical trials. Miles is simply a proxy for exposure. Given risk here does vary by exposure time and trip length varies so much, it seems reasonable to use - at least in
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
That depends entirely on where you are. In India, for instance, dairy cattle are fed almost exclusively on crop residues and by-products. Crop residues being what's left over in the field after you harvest and by-products being what
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
Withdrawal of US troops from the region and acceptance of uranium enrichment appears nowhere in the other 10 points. There are permanent US bases in the region.
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency (via China's state news agency Xinhua[0]) claims the 10 points are: 1. U.S. commitment to ensure no further acts of aggression 2. Continued Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz 3. Acceptanc
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
To manipulate the price of oil.
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
> It’s a bizarre situation in that US elections have such a huge impact on a world that has no say No say (or at least, no influence) might be a bit strong given foreign election interference. I'm sure if Britain or France or whoe
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
I'd love for them to target their own code base considering we keep seeing security vulnerabilities in claude code. How likely is it that they're not using their latest and greatest for their own projects though? Perhaps their abi
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
Yes, you are correct. Bad editing on my part. It should be that if tcp_now gets stuck before (<) (2^32 - 30000) ms from boot, it would cause deadline timers for reaping TCP_WAIT would always be greater than tcp_now because it wouldn&#x27
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
Might want to update it if you used the blog post explanation because it's incorrect as justinfrankel noted below. From the post: tcp_now = 4,294,960,000 (frozen at pre-overflow value) The mistake in the blog post is timer
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
There does appear to be a bug, but it's not what the blog describes. If tcp_now stops updating at <= 2^32 - 30000 milliseconds, then TSTMP_GEQ(tcp_now, timer) will always fail since timer is tcp_now + 30000 which won't wrap. Th
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
It definitely exists, but it could be a completely unrelated issue. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250867747
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
Interesting. The article mentions complaints on the forums running Catalina, so that must be something else.
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
You want to drop the wc -l. Mac `grep -c` counts lines that match, so it always prints 1 line, so piping to wc -l will always return 1. Or just open up and do netstat -an |grep TCP_WAIT and just watch it. If any don't disappear after a
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by Aloisius 5mo ago
According to the post: $ netstat -an | grep -c TIME_WAIT If the count it returns keeps growing, you're seeing a slow leak. At some point, new connections will start failing. How soon depends entirely on how quickly your machine closes
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
This only works if the web page knows the random per-install id associated with an extension. That can only happen if the extension itself leaks it to the web page and if that happens, scanning isn't necessary since it already leaked w
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
The copyright office has indicated that AI generated elements lacking human contributions to the expression (rather than input) would still not be copyrightable even if some human authored elements are made to the expression as well. Seems
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
The award is damages which would be minimal in most cases.
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
Given trade secrets can't be enforced once they are made public and contracts don't bind anyone who hasn't signed them, it's not a great substitute for copyright. My guess is companies will simply pretend like generated
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
This article seems to imply that 800V DC is high-voltage DC, but that seems quite low.
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
> There is a long history of people arguing that intelligence is actually the ability to predict accurately. That page describes a few recent CS people in AI arguing intelligence is being able to predict accurately which is like carpen
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
The achievement is the speed the train can run at. Trains going over the old floating railway bridges that were part of the Milwaukee Road had to slow down dramatically to, iirc, 6 mph. Of course those were first built in the 19th century.
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by Aloisius 6mo ago
I'm not sure one needs to stretch the analogy this far. If someone from the UK calls me on the phone and I start reading them posts on 4chan, is the UK going to fine me too?
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by Aloisius 7mo ago
Large sections of streets I look at on Google street view are blurred now which has started to seriously limit it's use for me. Since anyone can request a building be blurred forever, I imagine it'll just get worse.
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by Aloisius 7mo ago
That's surprising low given 21% of the population are Israeli Arabs.
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by Aloisius 7mo ago
> When it imposes a new government on countries (like Iraq) it chooses a parliamentary system. I'd avoid reading too much into this. The US simply tries to avoid making too many major changes to the system of government and Iraq w
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by Aloisius 7mo ago
The fbi.gov example is more about whether INTERPOL or local police would care since it would hinder collaboration on international investigations. You are correct that if they only blocked it for consumers, it would be less of an issue, tho

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