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Literally all of software is artificial? Being explicit and reasoned about how you choose to allow or deny a particular computation is, surely, at the heart of a lot of computer se…

I mean, says you? We live in a society and to some extent we decide what that means. I believe many countries outside the US have heavily subsidised loans or cost deferment mechani…

No piece of compute capacity (in the form of equipment) I have bought this year has been in any way cheaper than last year.

I believe there were even more substantial issues in some terminal emulators, where escape sequences could write to arbitrary files or even execute programs. I think it's still ver…

I had some serious struggles with the delinquent landlord and property owners, and the dangerously incompetent builders that plagued our building in Alameda for years. While they w…

You can absolutely start regulating behaviour after the fact. Australia famously bought a bunch of guns back from people who had previously legally bought and owned them, and melte…

Yeah, it really sucks when people have hobbies!

This is not an accurate assessment in the StarCraft II case. It was released in 2010, and LAN play was definitely still popular. I remember because I was part of a University club/…

One thing I internalised when speaking with a physiotherapist is that part of avoiding serious issues is making sure you don't stay in the _same_ position for too long. One good er…

It does actually wrap up well enough I reckon. It's not really a cliffhanger or whatever.

> I don't want to have to ask AI to rewrite my train handling config files just to get some little motor to spin. I reckon you could probably still figure out how to just edit the …

Yeah that's just flat out not correct. If you're writing through a file system or the buffer cache and you don't fsync, there is no guarantee your data will still be there after, s…

This is what I do! The API itself is not particularly amazing (the way it handles batch requests as a MIME multipart formatted POST body where each part is itself a HTTP request is…

> Car usage is going to 2-10x. What a bleak vision of the future.

Actually, you don't need to do anything of the sort! Nobody is owed an easy ride to other people's stuff. Plus, if the magic technology is indeed so incredible, why would we need t…

> No non-embedded libc will actually return NULL This is just a Linux ecosystem thing. Other full size operating systems do memory accounting differently, and are able to correctly…

I recently replaced my aging X1C7 with a T14s AMD and it has been quite nice!

As opposed to all the regular kinds of shitty behaviour landlords inflict on their tenants already? I feel like "because the money people will continue to misbehave" is absolutely …

FWIW, some of us still do this in C programs today. Having a relatively unique prefix for struct members makes it extremely easy to find uses of those members with relatively simpl…

If we assume this model is accurate, I sound to Americans like I'm South African!

I think basically everyone with ADHD discovers this eventually; e.g., > Sympathetic Procrastination Rotor: a technique for Time and Task Management. > To aid in the fight against p…

DNS & DHCP are generally short lived transactions that are very easy to restart and retry, so as long as it restarts very quickly that seems like a reasonable trade off in implemen…

How is firing a bunch of people because you made a machine that you believe can do their jobs not textbook corporate greed? It seems like the worst impulses of Taylorism made manif…

Where can I sign up for the post scarcity society? Asking for my artist friends.

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