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by geofft 4y ago
I was about to post roughly this comment, but then I remembered reading https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine a while ago: > many asso⁣ci⁣a⁣tions with harm are con⁣founded by past or present to⁣bacco use [...] but when pure ni
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by geofft 4y ago
I believe NixOS does not (there's a "nixos-rebuild switch" command that sounds vaguely like it requires a reboot, and NixOS does aim for declarative confgs, but it knows how to restart services etc. without rebooting your who
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by geofft 4y ago
The link seems to be down, but this is the speech itself: https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm
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by geofft 4y ago
This is an excellent point from the comments, from one of the signatories: > If you as a public university had no power against racism beyond the nobility of your intentions, your mission statement wouldn't matter a damn anyway. Th
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by geofft 4y ago
This is not pointlessly-spent energy! It is part of the job of software engineering, in much the same way as fixing compiler errors and debugging is part of the job of software engineering. Your work isn't done just because you have a
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by geofft 4y ago
Yeah, but I think the term "self-host" is a little bit conditioned on the HTTP model itself. If we had some sort of Usenet-style distributed infrastructure, you could imagine two ways of publishing content, either running a static
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by geofft 4y ago
My personal website is a publicly-accessible static site. Blocking people from it is not meaningful. It might be meaningful under the model of direct HTTP, where you could be DoSing me or trying to exploit my web server. But if you don&#x27
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by geofft 4y ago
Honestly, I think if the GDPR had been around before HTTP, we would have seen HTTP as the unreasonable part in this system. You don't have to make a direct TCP/IP connection for two people to communicate. We had systems like Usene
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by geofft 4y ago
From GDPR article 2: > 2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: > (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity My sense (I am neither a lawyer nor European so this i
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by geofft 4y ago
https://github.com/twosigma/libvirtcpuid works around this. (But in practice, we mostly rely on the fact that if you are in Google Cloud and specify a minimum CPU version, Google masks CPUID in that VM to exactly match
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by geofft 4y ago
In general "factual information" is not a defense to a whole bunch of things that society generally recognizes as not protected by free speech (the broad concept, not solely the legal right). I cannot claim to be lawyer and provid
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by geofft 4y ago
Then how do you decide what is (or should be) a right and what is not? Suppose someone claims a right to gay marriage, or a right to employ only people of their race, or a right to bear arms - how does society (the citizenry, the legislatur
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by geofft 4y ago
No, but he happened to be wrong for it. The NSPA's goal was never to actually hold a march. They never did hold a march in Skokie, after that defense. Their goal was to harass Jewish communities through the process of applying for the
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by geofft 4y ago
"Moon" is the name of the person who spoke the thing above that is being discussed in this thread. Advising underage people through a wiki on how to make hormones at home is neither sexual assault nor grooming as the term is conve
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by geofft 4y ago
Stars don't represent anything real. You don't star a project when you clone it, when you grab a packaged version from a package repository or the home page, when you use it as a transitive dependency, when you scale it out succes
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by geofft 4y ago
I very much agree with you that the lack of supply is a major problem, but the article is making a case here that what the algorithm is doing is tantamount to price-fixing / collusion. Even in markets where supply is much easier to com
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by geofft 4y ago
Absolutely agree, but how do you do that in practice? Do you self-host your services on some Linux distro? How many FAANG employees have upload access to that distro or maintain its infrastructure? (Or maybe you audited everything yourself
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by geofft 4y ago
It protects the user's privacy against attackers other than Google. To be fair, this is an entirely reasonable threat model for a lot of people. For instance, if you're a reporter in an authoritarian country, Google is almost cert
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by geofft 4y ago
Not that I disagree with you about whether the average person realizes it, but it's not just a risk because Google has JavaScript trackers on your porn site. Google could just make a deal with the porn site to access their server log
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by geofft 4y ago
For Slack in particular, the deal is that new signins return a token that starts with "xoxc", not a token that starts with "xoxs", and that token requires corresponding cookies in order to be accepted. If you're gra
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by geofft 4y ago
One might hope, but they didn't. How do you tell in Java if stderr is a TTY, and if so, what its width is? How do you do an NSS passwd lookup (as in getpwnam("pjmlp") in C etc.)? (To be fair, these could be defended, very sli
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by geofft 4y ago
Well, kind of. Docker is a product, with official support for Linux containers on Mac (and Windows containers on Windows!). Docker for Mac comes with a Linux VM as a feature of the product; you don't need to install it yourself insid
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by geofft 4y ago
2016, and https://langui.sh/2015/07/24/osx-clang-include-lib-search-pa... (linked from the GitHub thread) seems to explain it better - if I understand right: - Apple, in 2015, deprecated the version of OpenSS
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by geofft 4y ago
" individuals from diverse backgrounds and groups historically underrepresented in the research community " according to https://science.osti.gov/grants/Applicant-and-Awardee-Resour... , so potentially any of
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by geofft 4y ago
I'm not sure I see how that's connected to the article or the linked DOE policy - can you expand on what gets you that feeling? It seems to be saying the precise opposite of that, in my reading.
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by geofft 4y ago
I'm not sure this is relevant to the article. It's saying that grant proposals must include plans to promote diversity, not that grant proposals must come from people of any particular race/gender/sexuality.
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by geofft 4y ago
The words you're saying are correct in isolation, but in context of the thing you're replying to, 1) At issue here is not (just) the portion of the history in the changes under review, but the choice of where that history starts.
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by geofft 4y ago
https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr... is basically trying to upstream grsec's good ideas in upstream-friendly ways. (Oddly, grsec itself has expressed opposition to Rust in the kerne
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by geofft 4y ago
The blog post makes it clear that there's an intended single correct answer to this question, "No, a person who does this specific thing does not exist." It doesn't give room for "Yes, and I think they're right
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by geofft 4y ago
I asked two questions the last time I interviewed which are wholly unrelated to anything on this list, and they found me a place I was happy enough with that I haven't looked again in 5+ years. To engineers - how do you feel about mana

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