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"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" The erasure of knowledge is a troubling occupation

It seems like a miscalculation on TSMC's part to expect to be treated the same in the world's largest economy as back at home. Another miscalculation: undervaluing the ability to s…

"actually it is better if women lead this study at this current time" This is such an indictment of our society. I still believe that the proper response to women's mistreatment in…

My understanding is that that's correct. I'm on fully upgraded stable (Debian 12) and my xz is 5.4.2 and liblzma as well.

Am I crazy thinking libraries shouldn't be able to provide _other libraries'_ symbols without the other libraries' "permission"? What am I missing?

Rust specifically chose a minimal standard library to not get stuck with the Python "dead batteries" problem. There's a strong culture as well of minimizing a project's dependencie…

If it were using Cargo as its build system, it might make such manipulations more obvious / understandable?

Is it time to deprecate the ability for code to implement linker symbols in other libraries? Shouldn't there be a strict namespace separation between binaries/libraries? liblzma be…