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Your version of glibc is too old. Mint 19 is based off Ubuntu 18.04, which ships glibc 2.27, whereas this binary seems to require symbol versions first shipped in glibc 2.34. You'l…

The old Tappan Zee was basically a perfect encapsulation of "dumb midcentury infrastructure decisions." 1. Built to last only 50 years to save on materials (as the other commenter …

God yeah it's like a hypothetical version of the AirTrain that isn't a huge pain. Last time I flew out of JFK from Manhattan IIRC the easiest way was to do the E or LIRR from Penn …

Adding on to the other comment, multiprocessing is also kinda broken on Linux/Mac. 1. Because global objects are refcounted, CoW effectively isn't a thing on Linux. They did add a …

If you don't mind I'm super curious as to what approach you ended up taking. Did you use rules_foreign_cc to build the ninja files they generate? Or generating BUILD files directly…

This is a super common setup in my part of NYC (minus the elevator). It seems to work fairly well, especially since it makes it viable to have lots of buildings in a row with minim…

For anyone else who immediately thought, "I've gotta try that!" and hit compilation errors: there appears to be a more maintained fork at [0]. And if you're on a 64-bit system, you…

Not sure if you're aware, but ransomware insurance is already a significant industry, and the contracts usually stipulate that the client company undergoes some type of regular aud…

Yeah to be honest I think approvingly quoting the author of "The Fascist Manifesto" probably well exceeds the cutoff for "dogwhistle." At this point the only thing left is for a16z…

Mastodon link for those so inclined: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/111091979256440306

Reference counting is a type of GC [0]. Just not a very good one in many cases. I think it's a fair assumption to say that the author is aware of what Arcs are and how they work. I…

Mastodon for sure supports fetching individual posts over ActivityPub. For example: curl -L -H 'accept: application/activity+json' 'https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/1…

Ehh Indian Point (the NY plant) wasn't really a concern with regards to natural disasters. We get some occasional (very minor) earthquakes and a hurricane once in a decade or so, b…

The issue isn't the states though, it's the fact that it's still scheduled (and thus completely illegal) at the federal level. So those states that have legalized it are in a bit o…

std::expected and a monadic interface for std::optional are very welcome changes. I've ended up with funky utility types to accomplish much the same thing in a couple projects, so …

That case appears to be specific to Gemini Earn, a "staking" product where users would loan Gemini money and in exchange would get returns on that money through Gemini/Genesis's in…

Ehh it's getting into pedantic territory as to what counts as directed vs undirected, but people figured out pretty quick that if you have an animal with a desirable trait you can …

I can't speak to the other cities you listed, but living in New York I think the media narrative around Eric Adams's mayoral victory is... a bit overblown. It's true that he won 67…

Packages can do weird things like auto-loading into the interpreter (example: [0]). So in a scenario where a malicious package has ended up on your machine, you're a bit screwed wh…

In this case, it seems that GitHub was asked about it. From the thread linked in the article: > After a fruitful exchange with GitHub support staff, I was able to confirm the follo…

> Heat pumps can have back up electric heating elements to provide the heating in the extremes. You get a more resilient system than gas. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn'…

> NOT a colony.... we're a territory How did the US acquire said territory? And after they acquired it, what did they do to those who did not want their nation to be a "territory?"…

Notably many anti-statehood groups boycotted these plebiscites, and analysts noted that the questions were poorly structured. For example, the 2017 referendum had a result of 97% i…

Yeah, this is how it works. I don't know the technical details/internal terminology, but I've definitely had a few accounts I follow switch servers for various reasons. It was basi…