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Asking OP how many times their house got destroyed for your personal curiosity is, I would think, rather tactless.

Only if they touch the same data. If they are touching disjoint sets of data then there is no overhead to be paid by non-SERIALIZABLE transactions.

How do you know how much memory you need to allocate when you need to do the work in the first place to determine it? Maybe if snprintf was resumable by supplying a larger buffer while it was doing its work, but this seems like a lot of complexity.

If you have PreCheck, this app has literally nothing to do whether or not the TSA will give you a pat down or not. And I don't know about you, but TSA is pretty careful about not "groping your junk" and will always be clear what they intend to do and use the back of their hands specifically to avoid any kind of impropriety. Cut down on the hyperbole about "sexual abuse" because you're trivializing what sexual abuse actually is.

It absolutely is speculation if you haven't done the legwork and just want to throw out quick and easy takes like this.

I don't see anything about using an X.509 certificate for logging in, just for a client authenticating the remote server. And, even then, TLS has support for mutual authentication so someone with a cheap DigiCert certificate logging into your server is not really a problem if you could configure mTLS on the server side to accept only certificates in a certain chain.

Speculating like this with no evidence just to peacock to everyone that you're privacy conscious is not actually helpful for anyone.

If LLMs could hallucinate Zuck executing someone they would be infinitely funnier.

If you're not familiar with Steve Yegge, this is his classic rant style. It might not be your cup of tea, but it's definitely more substantial than "AI generated blogspam", and I think you should point out where exactly you think the hallucinations are for everyone if you think it is.

I think unfortunately in almost all cases the spirit of the law is more important than the word of the law, and most courts frown upon this kind of chicanery. I think this encourages her to "well, actually" people more, which nobody likes being on the receiving end of :-)

Do you actually want them to store everywhere you've ever been on their servers because they would be using their storage instead? Because I don't, and I don't care to guess what the actual reason might be, because I'm just glad they don't want to do it anymore because it's better for everyone – removing remote storage removes a whole host of privacy issues.

Store location history remotely: this is just a scheme to invade privacy and hoover up user data.

Store location history locally: this is just a scheme to cut down on storage costs.

There's no winning here, is there? Personally, I'm a fan of Google never giving the option to store location history remotely and this is a step in the right direction.

You can always twist anything into enough knots to construe it as "blatant lies and propaganda" – clearly you've already made up your mind – so this is not an exercise worth doing for anyone.

I think you should spell out your implication.

  One Black employee, cited in the report, said that “her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun.” Another Black employee said that a co-worker “broadly described Black employees as less capable” during a recruiting meeting. The company told employees that the story painted "an inaccurate picture.”

I don't think CspChan_closed is a super useful operation if using it is always prone to TOCTTOU issues – maybe as an optimization hint but that's about it. In Go, the receive operation indicating the channel is closed is atomic with receiving a value, so it's not possible to have a TOCTTOU problem there.

I'm not a huge fan of government overreach either. Children should have refused to work if child labor was truly bad, and the free market would have eventually pushed child labor out, giving way to better, more ethical labor practices.

while (!CspChan_closed(chan)) { ... } seems like a concurrency footgun – what's stopping the channel from being closed in between the check for it being closed and the operation on the channel?

I thought this was a joke, but it really exists! https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#ocr

There is no "no politics" rule. There is only a discouragement about posting uninteresting politics.

It's all trade offs, right? Introducing a new component to your stack isn't free, it's paid for by more operational complexity. Maybe it's worth it, maybe it's not, but there is a calculation that needs to be made that's not just "NIH syndrome".

I don't know why we shouldn't strive to have computers to reproduce language precisely, since computers are how we communicate most of the time and how the majority of content ends up being preserved. After all, maybe we shouldn't bother with spelling in English either, since everyone can safely approximate the meaning anyway!

For that example, in Chinese 机 is an alternative orthography of 几 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%BA#Etymology_2) as in e.g. 茶几 – it's not perfect, but language is messy and I don't think Unicode did the worst job of a messy situation.

I don't think Han unification is as evil as people make it out to be: the characters that got unified do share the same semantic meaning across languages, whereas Latin vs Cyrillic there is no semantic equivalence since letters are purely orthographic glyphs. The thing that sucks is that there's no real inline way (variation selectors, kind of) to select the language for the CJK glyph.

The issue is that the language is not accurately represented – imagine in English instead of the Latin letter "a" you see the Greek letter "α". It's still legible but it's not unreasonable to ask for an accurate depiction of a language.

вє¢αυѕє ιт ƒєєℓѕ ℓιкє яєα∂ιηg єηgℓιѕн тєχт тнαт ℓσσкѕ ℓιкє тнιѕ! It might still be legible, but in some contexts (e.g. official) it's reasonable to want your language to be accurately represented.

Not to mention sometimes you also get kana displaying in a Japanese font and kanji displaying in a stylistically different Chinese font and it looks awful.

Well, call me an orange cat because I have no idea what this is about!

We could sure save a lot of money on treating physical substance addiction if we just simply beat the shit out of people instead!

The material problem is that their lives are often so miserable that feeling good from doing drugs even under threat of incarceration overrides most punishments you could dish out.

If you're trying to save your tax dollars, you should really be in favor of letting people shoot up on the BART! After all, doing nothing costs nothing!