TheCoelacanth

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by TheCoelacanth 6d ago
Railways have always been prone to failure, even in back when rail was the hot new technology transforming the economy and minting fortunes.
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by TheCoelacanth 6d ago
A lot of that isn't the drivers; it's the roads being designed for speed and traffic volume ahead of safety.
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by TheCoelacanth 6d ago
That's extreme and unusual prosecutorial overreach to the point that it's making national news. It's also unlikely that she will be convicted since VA passed a law in 2023 that makes it explicit that parents are allowed to le
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by TheCoelacanth 7d ago
I'm pretty sure they didn't think the reaction would be perpetual; just long-lasting enough to wipe out life on Earth.
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by TheCoelacanth 22d ago
Forgot to add salt? Does that actually happen? A chef forgetting to add salt sounds like a photographer forgetting to use a camera.
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by TheCoelacanth 24d ago
The goal isn't to cause real damage. It's to be a persistent thorn in their side and make the cameras more trouble than they're worth. There are a lot more of us than them. If 1% of Americans cover up 1 camera every six month
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by TheCoelacanth 24d ago
I don't think prosecutors generally are very motivated to pursue tiny misdemeanor fines unless they have slam dunk evidence. As far as I can tell, the most likely charges for the garbage bag strategy where I'm located would be a m
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by TheCoelacanth 24d ago
In general, there is not. For the border search exemption to allow a warrantless search of a citizen, the only legitimate grounds are preventing countraband from entering the country.
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by TheCoelacanth 24d ago
The border search exemption can't be used for general purpose law enforcement; only for determining if the person should be allowed to enter the country (inapplicable to citizens) and for preventing countraband from entering the countr
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by TheCoelacanth 26d ago
If the police have to send someone around uncovering cameras every few days, then that does send a political message.
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by TheCoelacanth 26d ago
> While the Supreme Court has long recognized a border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, it applies to only two interests: promoting the duty regime and preventing contraband from entering the country; and e
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by TheCoelacanth 27d ago
The GPL requires use of a medium customarily used for software interchange; not a medium that used to be customarily used for software interchange. It's not customary to mail software on disks anymore so it doesn't fulfill the GPL
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by TheCoelacanth 27d ago
GPL requires that source code be in the preferred form for making modifications. If you use source control for your own modifications, then that's obviously the preferred form and you must distribute the source in that form.
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by TheCoelacanth 27d ago
Arguably, they aren't even distributing the source code at all anymore. The GPL defines "source code" as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". I would be willing to bet any amount of money
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I'm not really sold on the idea of private prisons in general, but if we're going to have them it should at least be the prisoner's choice. Unaccountable private prisons that are also a government enforced monopoly is just th
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Billionaires with a b. The difference between a million and a billion is a billion. Tax all of them. No one has ever earned a billion dollars.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
That sounds dystopian as fuck.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I'm not saying it's not hard; I'm saying it's not a competitive moat. There are hundreds if not thousands of companies that successfully run streaming services and I doubt that any of them are more worried about the tech
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
They need to read some Clausewitz even more badly. No matter how powerful your military is, you can't win a war unless you have a political objective that is possible to achieve via the war.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Browsers would work as a separate business if we stopped the anti-competitive practice of giving them away for free as a way to prevent competition in your other lines of business.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Not sell it. Split it into a separate business. Every share of Google turns into one share of Google and one share of Chrome.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Yeah, they should be forced to split Chrome into a separate business and stay out of the browser business permanently. Anything short of that either won't help or will further strengthen their monopoly.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I don't think software in general is flat, but video streaming is a mature technology and it's pretty easy to get good enough video streaming that customers don't care about it as a differentiating factor. If 8k TVs or VR sud
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates (checks notes) trading of commodities futures. It's a pretty wild interpretation to claim that the Knicks winning is a commodity.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I don't see the relevance. If they don't want to follow New York law, they should move somewhere else.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Citizens can theoretically use long-distance microphones too. The criteria is whether they commonly do, not whether it's possible.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I'm not disagreeing that there are cases where it makes sense to implement a b-tree; I don't think there are any cases where it makes sense to implement a b-tree (in production) as a person who needs beginner-level advice about co
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Kobo is already by far the best e-reader brand and things like this just cement it further. It is the only mainstream e-reader I'm aware of where you can simply change a single line of configuration and make it sync with your own serve
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
That seems like a pretty niche problem. There are already numerous high quality browsers, databases, llm inference engines and 3d game engines and only a tiny portion of devs are working on that type of thing. The vast majority of applicati
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
The only context where the overhead of a virtual function call matters is in tight inner loops. That's by far the easiest place to apply the "write something simple and readable and then measure and see if you need to change it&qu

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