PeterWhittaker

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by PeterWhittaker 6d ago
> That turd just ain't right Best thing on the Internet this week. Thank you.
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by PeterWhittaker 7d ago
I really do hate to pile on with negative comments, but there are several at best misunderstandings and at worst errors in this: 1. TFA argues that malloc is for dynamic memory allocation and that arrays are for fixed counts. Sort of. In mo
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by PeterWhittaker 10d ago
The asynchronous behaviour raises interesting questions as to whether or not this is a bug or working as intended, and whether or not the io_uring API should offer controls to allow the calling application to decide. With synchronous intra-
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by PeterWhittaker 16d ago
But rivers have been mathematical for only something less than ~60 years, no? Mandelbrot's paper on the length of the coastline of Albion was in the mid 60s or so, and the math that made rivers mathematical (fractals, chaos theory) cam
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by PeterWhittaker 17d ago
The question of code ownership highlighted in some of the comments herein (e.g., "when you build software, you own it... "No, I specifically don’t. My company owns it...") takes me back to a paper I read years ago on password
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by PeterWhittaker 1mo ago
Your last paragraph is pretty much what I said. The sun being white is a recent development in human knowledge, and our recent and very good theory was only confirmed empirically very recently indeed.
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by PeterWhittaker 1mo ago
Sure, the sun is white, more or less (cf comments re human perception and what "white" really means). But when did humans first perceive the sun as white? We can only reliably say "sometime on or after 12 April 1961", th
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by PeterWhittaker 1mo ago
That's why I love my induction range: all the benefits of gas (near instant heat control and response, even cooking, etc.), none of the asthma or benzene!
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by PeterWhittaker 3mo ago
TFA mentions s/Philosopher/Sorcerer/ in HP, which I confess to having confused me greatly (are Americans THAT ignorant that they are unaware of the concept?) and pleased me, since the Canadian publishing house stuck with en-G
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by PeterWhittaker 3mo ago
I'm largely unfamiliar with his work, but in reading the article and viewing a few works online, I was struck strongly by the resemblances between his work and that of Alex Colville, 17 years his senior. To say that Hockney "resto
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
In these days of concerns over digital sovereignty, I cannot help but wonder if they would be best served by moving to a privacy-protective European state, e.g., Germany or Switzerland (not EU but tends to align with EU regs, e.g., GDPR) an
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
They don't discuss a "why", so much as present data on the "how" and "when". If this work is valid and reliable, then it will be up to later research to propose and test hypotheses as the why. In a nutshel
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
> Is this positivism? My understanding of positivism is, in a nutshell, that its goal is to reduce everything to physics, including social, inter-personal interactions. My read of the article is that Rovelli is focused on the intra-perso
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
Because it leads us down seemingly useful paths that are in fact dead wrong. There is only physics, but at some levels it more convenient to ignore the physics (what is happening in the body) and to describe our experience. Rovelli is a red
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
Not at all. As the fourth paragraph from the end states, we experience qualia. Rovelli is simply saying that qualia are simply physical processes described from a salient perspective, that is, at a level more abstract than the eletrochemica
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
Not at all sure why this is downvoted, since this is essentially a five-word tl;dr of the article.
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
Ah, our geography. I live in Arnprior, about half an hour west of Ottawa (technically, my house is a couple of clicks from the Ottawa border, but we don't really start counting until the burbs). Anyway. I live closer to James Bay than
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
I may be wrong, but on a correctly-configured system, one would have to have root access to act nefariously. Since this is intended to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities that enable privilege escalation, it feels like a net win.
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by PeterWhittaker 4mo ago
Clever! I know some will say it's like closing the barn door after the horse left, but having this in place to mitigate future vulnerabilities will be handy.
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
All organizations above a certain size have a Sarah. This I've learned first and second hand over decades (the second hand was a spouse whose job at one point was finding, interviewing, and collecting the knowledge of her's org&#x
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
I love that! I am inspired to create Terry, Tizzie, Topé, Bubba, and Roxy (the three Ts are in my office right now), the last two are no longer with us but for the hole in my heart. I have no idea what these projects would be, but based on
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
I guess I am showing my age, but no, the Internet was never "a place", for me and my ilk. The Internet was just another network, albeit one that worked more reliably (most of the time) and with less configuration effort (most of t
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
Congrats on the work, but have you considered another name? Naming is hard and always will be: When I first scanned the headline, my initial thought was "that's an interesting area for the Rocky Linux team to explore". After
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
One quibble with the article: the notion that CRLs have to be large. When I was with Entrust our first releases targeted early Windows versions with limited memory, back when most Internet connections and even local networks were slow. To e
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
> there is no other way to resist US military power I'm struggling with how to articulate the idea that seems to be in so many Canadian heads, regardless of their military experience. Assume the worst case, that the US invades Canad
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
I've been doing this almost 40 years and have never had to pay for either. Now, if you don't find gcc and neither of vi (and later vim) or emacs usable, well, let's not go there. And the tools, they just keep getting better.
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
Thank you for forcing me to clean my keyboard. </s> :->
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
Site renders great for me, iOS Safari with blockers; text selection works fine. Yeah, I know, karma hit coming, but the other comments are so counter to my experience (I quite like the page and content) that I could not not comment.
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
What if they are? Why should people attempting to browse securely be punished?
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by PeterWhittaker 5mo ago
Looks pretty good, but would love to know this compares to bottom (btm), featurewise. Thanks!

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