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by wahern 27d ago
Some US states still have private criminal prosecutions. > Second, this Article demonstrates that the government monopoly on prosecution is an ideology rather than a rule. As it turns out, the government has never had total control over
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by wahern 27d ago
> It forces some kind of modularity. Wayland is the complete opposite of modular; that's why the compositor has to handle everything. The claimed problem with X11 was it was too modular, easy for different clients to control various
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by wahern 27d ago
They were there, complaining. You just don't remember them because it's easier for the meaning of a word to shift, or at least take on additional contextual meaning, than it is to get people to use a new word once it's reache
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by wahern 27d ago
Wayland was simpler because it was just a compositor. It meant people interested in graphics acceleration could focus on just that, iterating faster without the friction of the rest of the stack. But now that the Wayland ecosystem has to re
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by wahern 27d ago
Namespacing. Mandatory namespacing. It's an essential prerequisite for any kind of reputation building and managememt, before you even get into the gritty technical or security details. And it has to be mandatory. Top-level package nam
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by wahern 29d ago
> One major issue is that the ACA put in a loss ratio of 80%. Which isn't a terrible thing in principle, it forces insurance companies to spend money on treatment. The problem is it also means that the profit of insurance companies
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by wahern 29d ago
Doesn't Windows, like macOS, automatically expand swap? You can't run out of memory nearly as quickly as you can on Linux. And at least on Windows I always figured this is why it felt so sluggish under load--it ends up paging alot
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by wahern 1mo ago
> I don't think there's much in common with BRICS as it was in the early 2000s when the acronym surfaced Excepting India, one thing Russia, China, and South Africa all have in common is they're falling into a relationship
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by wahern 1mo ago
Iran isn't an invasion. It's just lobbing some missiles hoping they'll cry uncle, which has worked approximately never. It says nothing about the ability of Iran to resist an invasion. Russia has 3x the population of Ukraine.
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by wahern 1mo ago
You'd have to go back nearly 2000 years, at the very least, to find a time when civilizations weren't living under the tyranny of time keeping devices. Here's a poem from 195AD Rome satirizing the tyranny of the sun dial: ht
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by wahern 1mo ago
It's one of the more truthy backronyms. There was an actual ax man with an ax whose job was to cut a rope to let loose the control rods, and they did use the (existing, apt) word, scram, for the emergency procedure: https:/&#x2F
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by wahern 1mo ago
Yeah. I first learned about France's ongoing imperialist ambitions in Africa reading the famous book on the Rwandan genocide, and ever since then French military involvement in seemingly random places in Africa stands out. I don't
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by wahern 1mo ago
The 2011 NATO intervention in Libya was part of a century long power struggle between France and Italy over influence of Libya. Italy had a good relationship with Gaddafi, to the detriment of French influence. Europeans and the US understoo
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by wahern 1mo ago
The claims of harassment came from him, and began long before this became sensationalized. Certainly the claimed harassment before the public scrutiny is highly suspect, and in some cases already shown to be utter fabrications, such as the
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by wahern 1mo ago
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6207/beyond-black-rese... > It turns out that crows lack UV-reflective patches, and that the sexes really do look the same, plumage-wise. However, the research in Yorz
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by wahern 1mo ago
Just because a bit of C code compiles without diagnostics as C++ does not mean the code is safe. C++ does not have compound literals, but the syntax for a compound literal is accepted in several C++ compilers, including GCC and clang. Howe
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by wahern 1mo ago
The UK does have the Principle of Legality, which is a way for courts to strike down an application of primary legislation by requiring a clear statement to abrogate common law and constitutional norms: https://ukconstitutionalla
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by wahern 1mo ago
I agree parallel construction doesn't seem to be ordinary practice. But AFAIU the term originates from post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance--both mass and targeted--where information was often systematically "leaked" t
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by wahern 1mo ago
> This is an idea that is so doomed that anyone trying to rescue it, didn't really understand the problem with intmax_t. The C committee doesn't want to rescue intmax_t. If they had a time machine most members would prevent it
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by wahern 1mo ago
Presumably they meant staring at a screen for hours on end while talking through a headset.
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by wahern 1mo ago
I don't think Casa applies here. A nationwide injunction is not the same thing as a universal injunction. A universal injunction benefits non-parties to a case. But if an injunction, especially a TRO, requires nationwide effect to prot
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by wahern 1mo ago
> A key security assumption behind Classic McEliece, a public-key encryption system considered to resist quantum computers, has been undermined Classic McEliece was explicitly designed not to rely on distinguishing resistance for securit
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by wahern 1mo ago
A formal technical specification (TS) extension is already being drafted: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3582.pdf That's a step up from the usual proposals. I'm not sure
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by wahern 1mo ago
Chiropratic can help with pain, but not for the claimed reasons. Studies show it's as efficacious as massage therapy. I believe the same is true of cupping. Insurers increasingly cover these sorts of therapies, and primary's incre
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by wahern 1mo ago
> Arguably the ability of people to see how the wealthiest people are living is going to create exactly that sense. Nobody is seeing how the wealthy live. They're seeing caricatures of how people imagine the wealthy live, or sometim
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by wahern 1mo ago
Superheating, too, and that's something that can happen in a microwave, occasionally causing severe burns when superheated water flash boils. AFAIU, it's the same phenomenon--lack of nucleation sites to kick-off the phase transiti
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by wahern 1mo ago
The metro is pure brutalist, through-and-through, and it's utterly amazing. But you're inhabiting the space; there's little-to-no contrast with foreign elements; and the nature of the structure means everything about brutalis
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by wahern 1mo ago
It's a totally different perspective and experience when inside the metro. I really dislike brutalist architecture, but in the DC metro station you're not just looking at it, you're inhabiting it. And the architecture isn&#x2
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by wahern 1mo ago
> The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up[1], Esquire, February 1936 [1] https:/&#x
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by wahern 1mo ago
Amazon had approximately zero net profits for 20 years or so. It was a meme not too long ago--how much longer will investors keep pouring money into Amazon before either they stop or Amazon starts reaping a bounty they had been sowing for d

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