NovemberWhiskey

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by NovemberWhiskey 2mo ago
Even for drones that are reusable: if there’s a substantial performance advantage to using a primary cell then you might just want to do that if you’re relatively price insensitive and have good logistics (say, the US Army). Or if you need
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by NovemberWhiskey 4mo ago
The real problem is that sticking an idempotency key onto an operation doesn’t make it idempotent. It may improve efficiency where a protocol doesn’t assure exactly-once delivery of messages, but it cannot help you with problems other than
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by NovemberWhiskey 6mo ago
The real world is full of relationships that may or may not exist. What’s the referent of “my spouse” if I’m unmarried? Is your point here that every pointer type for which this can be the case should include an explicitly typed null value?
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by NovemberWhiskey 8mo ago
I mean, the fundamental premise of formal methods is that assurance of correctness is achieved through unambiguous specification/modeling and mathematical proof. The extent to which you're dependent on dynamic testing of actual co
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by NovemberWhiskey 8mo ago
Things can only be used securely if they have properties that can be reasoned about and relied upon. This is why we don't usually have critical processes that depend on "human always does the right thing" (c.f. maker/che
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by NovemberWhiskey 8mo ago
"Soft" realtime just means that you have a time-utility function that doesn't step-change to zero at an a priori deadline. Virtually everything in the real world is at least a soft realtime system. I don't disagree wit
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by NovemberWhiskey 8mo ago
I am not sure that static analysis is ever going to give answers to those questions. I think the best you can hope to do is surface knowledge about the tacit assumptions about dependencies in order to explore their behaviors through simulat
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by NovemberWhiskey 8mo ago
Outside of a very narrow range of safety- or otherwise ultra-critical systems, no-one is designing for actual guarantees of performance attributes like throughput or latency. The compromises involved in guarantees are just too high in terms
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by NovemberWhiskey 9mo ago
When I saw the title here, my first thought was “wow, these RISC-V ISA extensions are getting out of hand”
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
Could you tell me why you think that? In NYC, prior to Uber entering the market, taxi medallions changed hands for up to $1mm. Prices were fixed by the TLC. If these are no strong indications of a cartel, I don’t know what is.
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
Last time I checked, neither Uber nor Lyft were profitable (at all!) before the 2023-2024 time period.
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
So - putting aside the other waffle and snide remarks - you’re agreeing with me that, in NYC at least, taxis were operated as a cartel?
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
Classic indications of a cartel (in the economic sense) are deliberate limitations of supply and fixing of prices through collusion. I don’t know about other cities, but NYC absolutely had a taxi cartel.
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
Isn’t this what Car2X was supposed to do?
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
Meet the QWAC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_website_authentica...
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
So, in your mind, when the Federal Reserve prints a dollar bill - what's happening in accounting terms? I don't think your understanding of the way this works is consistent with the concept of money supply.
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
You have a very strange idea of how government works. You don’t get a veto on all speech from anyone who receives funds from the public purse, and it’s not a First Amendment issue that you don’t. That’s such an incredibly odd premise; where
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by NovemberWhiskey 1y ago
That’s a very odd perspective. Could you explain how government research funding constitutes forced speech? If an individual who receives a government tax credit (say EITC) speaks out contrary to your politics, is the government allowed to
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Kafka for small message volumes is one of those distinct resume-padding architectural vibes.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Lithium-ion is an umbrella term that properly includes common cell chemistries like lithium iron phosphate (LFP), lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) and lithium nickel cobalt aluminium oxide (NCA). It doesn't make sense to com
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
I think this depends very much on how you use the tools. My experience with email is that people have subject lines, email explicitly identifies to and cc recipients; email is threaded; email often has quotes/excerpting/highlighti
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
That's transparently obvious if you read the press release: Trump analogizes his own personal treatment by the Justice Department with that of Ulbricht c.f. "weaponization of the justice system".
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Bernie Ebbers and Jeff Skilling both got more than 20 years for Enron. The CEO and co-owner of NCFE got 30 years and 25 years respectively for their role in a securities and wire fraud relating to that business.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
On the contrary, his not guilty plea, his ongoing insistence on his innocence, and libertarian true-believer tendencies etc. suggest the opposite.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
So all the people who got convicted for selling firearms on Silk Road, how'd that happen then?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Pray tell, what is the difference between operating an electronic market where people can buy drugs and operating a physical one (say, a street corner) where people can do the same?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
We punish people all the time for non-violent, white-collar crime; often very severely. Bernie Madoff got sent to prison for 150 years and died there and, as far as I know, he never solicited a murder for hire.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
But you eat vegetables?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> A Mac mini is still significantly bigger than a Raspberry Pi 5 Sure, but there’s a lot more in it; like a power supply.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the general difference between Hollywood and Savoy style Lindy-Hop You might be assuming too much, says the guy who read that article without any idea at all what it was

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