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Or similarly having a gasoline engine without an alternator and making the observation that there's an absurdity there in that you're generating large amounts of energy, yet aren't…

> reasoning ability should enable them to handle numbers of arbitrary size, just as it enables humans to do so, given some pencil and paper. Or given a calculator. Which it's runni…

> If plastic is burried it's not doing much more than it was when it was oil. Unless it's sequestering something inside. Like water. It terrifies me to think about how much water i…

Unfortunately you are doing the very thing that you accuse Musk of doing. L5 autonomy is not formalized (nor do I think it is able to be formalized) to the extent that would permit…

For me, it's more what's philosophically right about an innocent person enduring suffering or punishment through no fault of their own. To me, that appears to be a great (maybe eve…

I suppose that's a practical argument for it. Philosophically it still doesn't seem right, though.

Why?

Some of us, governments included, believe that the presumption of innocence is a fundamental right. "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Perso…

> I think it can be claimed that it limits the rate of spread, not total spread/infections. Sure. We're probably all getting this thing at some point. But, that's why I said "until…

I actually support masks in schools. There's solid scientific evidence backing it as a mechanism to help limit the spread of COVID. Until all ages are able to be vaccinated, it see…

It's a sophist play on emotions. I don't think there's actual malice behind it, though. More that people struggle to assert themselves and provide direct, well-reasoned arguments. …

> the worst the world becomes as a result I believe the world becomes even worse when people are unable to speak candidly, frankly, and in their own way. Being able to extract and …

The United States of America is preserved today - intact - specifically because Lincoln valued coexisting with the confederates above almost all else. He made clear even in his fir…

For C99, don't forget // C++ style comments!

Applies to RHEL, CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 packages. The actual bug report is here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977

That's called a false dichotomy.

What's the alternative? Wallow in ignorance some more? I prefer to know what's actually going on.

What's your point? That increases the risk through increased exposure.

> The reality is your attention had a cost, and the price of quality tap water is less than that cost. For some people, maybe. This seems like a mildly sociopathic way to look at i…

I've already experienced advertisements on gasoline pumps. I would concede that it is not exactly the same thing - gas pumps are worse, because you're already paying for a product.…

> 1. printf may malloc so don't use it in an out of memory situation. Though I think this problem is vanishingly unlikely these days. You can avoid this by doing something like: se…

> Traditional Unix implementation of ps and similar tools work by directly reading the appropriate data structures from kernel (through /dev/kmem or something to that effect). This…

There isn't one, because it's wrong. Source: run strace on almost any useful Linux command (e.g. ls, sort, which, ...), you'll see it makes calls to both brk() and mmap().

I'm not sure I really agree with the analogy, but there are other approaches that don't involve assaulting my senses. For instance, they could just flat out charge money for it. On…