Viewing profile — overthrow

Police often manipulate or coerce people into making false confessions. 29% of DNA exonerations in the US involved a false confession. https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations…

Nor does the Rust compiler. Rust's build system, Cargo, does however. And many C build systems do as well, e.g. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/using-dependencies...

It is true. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40794287/cannot-write-to... https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_5be...

> I think the only law required here is "do something useful for real people" It did something useful for the Venezuelans. But you don't care about that because, why? Because you m…

This message is devoid of evidence lol Look how hard some governments have tried to stop this movement, and none have succeeded. That's real life evidence that they simply aren't c…

> They're not using it, at all. This is obviously false. Just look at the transaction rates on the publicly available ledger. And: Moneygram has all but publicly admitted that cryp…

Petro is an attempt at embrace-extend-extinguish. If that "Reception" section is to be believed, nobody is using it willingly. Do you have evidence to the contrary? Look under "Nic…

> I think if people have working mobile phones then they're able to be sent electronic cash without a p2p system. Indeed, more easily than having a VPN and relevant skills to recei…

> Venezuela already has extensive digital payment systems Sure, but those systems had been sabotaged by a politican/dictator named Nicolás Maduro who rejected the results of an ele…

GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo... gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also …

Maybe instead of saying what people should and shouldn't be doing, you should ask yourself why they're using it anyway despite the obvious downsides. Lightning fees are less than $…

You're right, this is a job for the government... but the government isn't solving the problem. "Let's just" have the government do their job. Call me when that happens. While we s…

The fun part about such bombastic claims is they can be disproven with just one counterexample. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-government-enlists-usdc-f... > US Government Enli…

Under-banked does not mean they have no money. They obviously have some money or they would starve. Many live paycheck-to-paycheck and give 3% of their wages to a check cashing ser…

If there's a difference I'm open to someone citing a source quantifying it, but I won't quite be convinced by unsourced blanket generalizations that go against common wisdom

The majority of CVEs are due to memory exploits. For C/C++ code that holds true across companies and OSs Microsoft says 70% https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-al…

I'd live like this if I could. I did it for a good 5 years, and then my hands just stopped working. I tried coding by voice for a while, that lasted for a year, then I lost my voic…

We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.

WebGPU is a low-level interface close to the hardware. If you don't care about having control over those details, it's not the right API to use. You'd have better luck with either …

I'd argue we passed that point once civil forfeiture became common. Your property can already be seized even without a debt that needs settling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil…

Windows has an analogue to futexes called WaitOnAddress.[1] Zig's stdlib claims SRW locks are faster than a futex-based implementation.[2] But the futex-based implementation a few …

I think egui is complete enough to use in real apps. Layout can be a bit weird, but I haven't found anything that's impossible. I might even prefer it for cross-platform apps since…

For a cheaper setup, I have a right-handed vertical mouse (Amazon $20 special) to the right of my keyboard, and a second left-handed mouse on the left, and I switch between them th…

At least WASM is first-party code written by the browser developers. I'll take that any day over a pile of third-party plugins.