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by wahern 4d ago
That's true for states like California and perhaps the US generally, but in states like Texas industry uses half of all energy. ( https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66224 ) Likewise for South Korea and
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by wahern 5d ago
See my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668714
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by wahern 5d ago
As a summary of American criminal jurisprudence I'm willing to stand by what I said. But I'll admit some caveats: 1) Traffic-related laws straddle the boundary between civil/regulatory law and criminal law. Someone losing the
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by wahern 5d ago
A strict liability crime is something of an oxymoron. Crimes always require intent, the mens rea element. The question is intent for what. If somebody drugged you without your knowledge and you were charged with a DUI, you would have a defe
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by wahern 6d ago
Don't forget GCJ. It wasn't removed from GCC until about 2016, a nearly 20-year long run, though interest had waned many years prior. I don't remember if GCJ supported loading and running code dynamically with a built-in JIT
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by wahern 6d ago
The manufacturers of a self-driving car can be held and are held liable today, same as if the brakes were defective (strict product liability) or improperly marketed (negligence). That doesn't mean the driver might not also be liable.
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by wahern 6d ago
The manufacturer would still be liable, same as if the brakes malfunctioned.
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by wahern 7d ago
Not sure if you meant to imply it, but you don't need to remove driver liability to incentivize the inebriated to use autonomous mode. That's a calculation even someone who's blackout drunk can easily make. Removing liability
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by wahern 7d ago
Also anyone handling cash is supposed to wash their hands before handling food, unless perhaps they're using tongs or something. Ideally an establishment dedicates one person to the register, but with the cost of labor that can be ex
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by wahern 9d ago
The writers of the US constitution were well aware of how to enumerate positive rights, as they were common in the state constitutions, as well in many European countries' declarations of rights in restraint of monarchs. Many of them r
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by wahern 11d ago
I assumed it's a figure of speech, but, yeah, the borrow checker only enforces function-local invariants, with no interprocedural analysis or memorization. Parameter aliasing is just a logical deduction from assuming local invariants a
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by wahern 11d ago
Setting aside textual analysis and how commas are used in the constitution, the point is that people claim not just that slavery is allowed, but that mandatory penal labor is slavery, and implicitly the same slavery that was ostensibly abol
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by wahern 12d ago
It's called penal labor, and it was and remains widespread around the world. (And, yes, Brazilian law requires mandatory labor for all prisoners.) It wasn't until the middle to late 20th century that countries began to reform pena
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by wahern 13d ago
One of the primary reasons for removing cars from Market Street was keeping buses and street cars moving. There was a huge citywide program to make buses faster, and many routes converge on Market St and travel some portion of it. The routi
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by wahern 15d ago
Your ID and PII was likely already on the black market, the only question is accessibility and price. You can't exactly advertise on Reddit or sell to every two-bit identity thief and not expect heat.
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by wahern 15d ago
> Nothing about preadv lets you indicate you only want to read what's already in the page cache. preadv2 + RWF_NOWAIT
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by wahern 16d ago
I once had a statistics professor (teaching a programming class using, IIRC, SAS) in college who worked as a data analyst in the federal government, possibly the Labor Department. Part of his job was working with polling and form data. Afte
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by wahern 19d ago
As others have alluded, __builtin_memcpy doesn't resolve to a runtime implementation. GCC and clang treat functions like memcpy specially. Because they're defined by the standard and are reserved names, compilers can assume the ex
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by wahern 19d ago
Few people routinely mentally visualize with the same breadth and vividness as dreaming, unless perhaps they have poor dream recall or don't dream very vividly. It's probably more rare than aphantasia. On the flip side, this means
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by wahern 19d ago
There absolutely is such a thing as epigenetic inheritance. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting Epigenetics is a pretty broad term. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of environmentally-induced
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by wahern 20d ago
I sympathize with the reaction to the hyperbole, but it's not a binary thing. Better to think in terms of marginal increases in occurrence rate, or in a single case marginal increase in progression of an impending event (glaciers were
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by wahern 21d ago
> "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stali
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by wahern 21d ago
Yep. All modern Intel and AMD architectures, save maybe some Atom variants, effectively JIT compile the incoming instructions. It's part of the reason the faster-than-static Java/JVM promises never came to fruition. The goal posts
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by wahern 21d ago
> I haven't bought bagged lettuce in months in response to this outbreak. 1) Why? The source was quickly identified, and it's trivial to avoid the tainted supplier. 2) Why only now? Bagged leafy greens are notorious for outbrea
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by wahern 23d ago
Mint stimulates release of bile, which can help digestion, especially of fats. I have gallstones and unfortunately recently learned first hand how powerful the effect is after eating a couple of leaves (two kinds, but I forget which) from a
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by wahern 23d ago
If they lived longer they might develop complex social structures, and then we might be in trouble.
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by wahern 26d ago
It's not really comparable. When activists voluntarily face, and especially when they are in fact, subject to substantial hardship and punishment is when you start changing hearts and minds. Otherwise it's either ignored or genera
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by wahern 26d ago
It would make it easier to, as a matter of policy, to stick to components from teams like boost or Apache or Google, i.e. groups with known reputations, reputations for having long-term, active involvement and maintenance than crates put ou
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by wahern 26d ago
The XDG Portal framework is obscenely complex (PipeWire, D-BUS over separate channels, etc), still requires each individual compositor and other components to specifically implement various aspects for things like screen sharing, and there&
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by wahern 27d ago
Theoretically, in the US dashcam, CCTV, and similar automated recordings are not copyrightable. In the US you can only copyright creative expression. However, the question hasn't been answered in court, yet, AFAIU. That doesn't st

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