ilammy

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by ilammy 2y ago
Don’t put your words in their mouth. Giving government money doesn’t really change the way government operates. The government has the budget for the year and that’s the spending for the year. If government needs something done, an item get
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by ilammy 2y ago
Not just more than one employer, but some healthy number of available options. You thought A is great but you think you can find better so you go to B. They turned out worse, you then tried C and those weren't great either. But now A w
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by ilammy 2y ago
I'm sure the horrible lock screen UX is simply a dark pattern to nudge users towards Face ID.
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by ilammy 2y ago
Yes, breakpoints will still work. Debuggers generally use POKETEXT to write breakpoints, which ignores any write protection on pages. mseal does not affect this use case.
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by ilammy 3y ago
It's more about the slippery slope of security vs convenience. I do git rebase -i often. Do I want to touch my yubikey exactly 37 times for the 37 commits amended, or do I want to touch it once and just trust the software for the next
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by ilammy 3y ago
I tend to agree with the argument Linus put forward a long time ago, saying that there is little reason to sign commits instead of tags in git. * Commit references the tree. If you sign the entire commit object – which is what you want, not
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by ilammy 3y ago
> Besides what does it even mean? That one side believes they can win. It’s a bit tautological. In order for you to prevail you must be stronger than your opponent in one or more critical areas. If you think you can win then you believ
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by ilammy 3y ago
Usually people don't care what the bank does because they consent to the government making them whole in case the bank fails to return the deposit.
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by ilammy 3y ago
> there needs to be a short-term solution What is the long-term one then? Keep importing people and hope for the best?
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by ilammy 3y ago
The idea is to disincentivize hoarding cash and promote active usage of money in the economy, because governments believe that having useful markets is better than not having them. Regardless of the current living standards and your wages.
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by ilammy 3y ago
You will be kindly asked to log in with Google everywhere, for your convenience and security.
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by ilammy 3y ago
Next you’re going to tell me LiveLeak logo does not appear on the premises shortly before an accident?
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by ilammy 3y ago
As many as necessary and then some. No such thing as too few cat pictures! I use AI to generate the pictures when natural supply is scarce. Cache them locally, address by host key hash. Use the hash as seed for bonus points.
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by ilammy 3y ago
I have literally patched OpenSSH to show me cat pictures instead of the usual randomart.
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by ilammy 3y ago
It’s not necessarily a copyright violation if the license permits copying. Under a permissive license, you are expressly permitted to copy the code and distribute copies provided you comply with whatever conditions the license mandates, wit
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by ilammy 3y ago
Explains it rather well: older people dismiss their symptoms as “not real illness” because that’s what society taught them when they were kids.
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by ilammy 3y ago
> You now if these financial markets just evaporated, who would care really, except a few aristocrats? Everybody, because retirement is tied to financial markets. We can’t possibly not pay out 401k’s, right? Isn’t that a neat trick to
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by ilammy 4y ago
The goal of WW2 appeasement was not avoiding war but gaining enough time to prepare for the inevitable. It worked well enough for Britain.
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by ilammy 4y ago
How about monthly statements? Purchase history? Stats, analytics, budgeting? In a mobile app? Without you personally or the merchants you buy stuff from having to do anything for that?
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by ilammy 4y ago
How about removing ability of private banks and payment systems to unilaterally decide without a court order who you can or cannot transfer money to? How about giving that power to a random government official instead? And paving a way to n
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by ilammy 4y ago
Open-source developers are not supposed to customize their applications for distributions. Leave that to distro's maintainers, they know more about that. Closed source? Your users are paying you for the headache of making your software
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by ilammy 4y ago
Yes, and then 2014 happened and Russia withdrew from the agreement entirely, since they didn’t really need it anymore.
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by ilammy 4y ago
They had it on a lease from Ukraine until 2017. Renegotiation of the lease barely passed Ukraine's parliament back in 2010.
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by ilammy 4y ago
What stops the inspector from turning a blind eye to app-based tickets? If you want a true technological dystopia solution then the train car should be engineered in a way that nobody gets in or out of the car without a valid ticket. Like,
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by ilammy 4y ago
Rust defaults loosely follow platform’s libc defaults for improved interoperation. On major platforms the default stack size is 2 megabytes of mapped address space. You can ask for less, but it gotta be explicit for every spawned thread. Th
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by ilammy 4y ago
There is also a story that US cannot change the design of their $1 bill because of Big Vending.
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by ilammy 4y ago
> they have to store some of it somewhere. This is one of the uses of currencies Currency is for current things. You don’t store wealth in currency. Even in poor countries wealthy people store wealth in assets, be it real estate, busin
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by ilammy 4y ago
Then they’re going to advertise rental prices for off-season, when nobody actually needs the machines. During the harvest week The Market will demand that rent quadruples. And of course you better pay a reservation in year’s advance, to avo
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by ilammy 4y ago
Quite a lot of countries have a fast-track for restoring citizenship if you had one. Not on the “when you feel like it” basis, but often without onerous requirements of foreigner naturalization.
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by ilammy 4y ago
Arguably, US Navy power projection services are provided worldwide.

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