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Can they sue, and if they do are they likely to win? My laymans gut feeling is they will lose because the constitution says nothing about the government being required to provide press access to facilities. However, if they allow access to one organization but not another seems there could be an argument that they're policing speech? Would be great to hear a more informed take.
Re:How to Check for Overlapping Intervals on Saturday October 11, 2025 @02:33PM (#45551479)
Overlapping intervals were a question back in 2023 so yeah, it's useful
Doing this today I'd just have a std::function parameter and have callers pass in a lambda. I may use a third party std::function that doesn't have the weird copy semantics though
Re:Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:54PM (#45457026)
Having spent a lot of time in Japan, construction there was a way to provide money to poor regions. You build some big project and pay people good wages and encourage growth of local industry. Not saying it's good or bad but the economics may be secondary to these goals
Re:Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:33PM (#45433732)
I'm pretty ignorant here, but as I understand it

* The design time on a new plane is going to be tens of years

* Boeing is already losing customers to Airbus as a result of the max disaster, doors blowing off, etc.

* The major thing keeping Boeing in business is long delivery time orders of their older planes, and those are drying up

Given these things can this help them in time?

Because it's relevant to many on this site, most bay area cities are users
> the sad reality is that the majority of the criminals are not amenable to rehabilitation

What evidence do you have for this?

Re:Rail travel is booming in America on Sunday September 21, 2025 @06:18PM (#45327187)
I agree standard bikes are a poor fit for luggage. There are cargo (e)bikes that can comfortably hold large bags (e.g. https://larryvsharry.com/products/ebullitt). They may make sense at major rail stations, but the logistics of keeping them in stock at the station would be hard, and of course this doesn't solve the infrastructure or physical disabilities/age problem.
Re:Things managers do that leaders never would on Saturday September 20, 2025 @01:17AM (#45310606)
Is this corporate Goofus and Gallant?
Re:FakeIt: C++ Mocking Made Easy on Sunday September 14, 2025 @09:02PM (#45244991)
Seems very inspired by gmock. Wondering if there's a comparison somewhere?
Re:GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:52PM (#45146453)
Even baseless accusations like this are likely to lead to capitulation by companies out of fear of reprisal from the rest of the trump administration. We can look forward to explicitly allowlisted winred advertising from here on out I'm sure.
My belief is that modules were designed for big tech companies that do massive builds parallelized across thousands of machines. Such an environment makes the complexity bearable and you get massive speedups from cached build artifacts. I think smaller companies and hobbyists kinda got screwed.
Thanks for taking the time to round up these posts for me!
Re:Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why on Sunday August 31, 2025 @06:26AM (#45082051)
Because a malicious ssg could expose private files (private keys etc) at a hidden url only the attacker knows to scan for, drop malware that grants them non-static file access, or really anything that other compromised binaries can do.
I guess the driver was the one that runs on Mac that they were able to refer to? Not sure you have any links to blog posts about this process it sounds so cool
Didn't all the asahi Linux Mac m1 drivers essentially get reverse engineered with little to no support from apple and no public docs? If I'm remembering correctly then I guess it's possible with enough effort and reverse engineering skills
* The vast majority aren't compiled into any given kernel

* Those that are are only loaded when needed

It's not that bad

Look forward to the supreme Court ruling that the FCC is illegal and actually owes carriers money for some reason
Re:Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs on Monday August 18, 2025 @02:47AM (#44938042)
Currently it looks like this:

    map<term_id, 
      map<pair<document_id, positions_idx>>
      inverted_index;
list<positions> positions;

Think you also meant to remove the pair in map<pair>?

Re:"Email is Easy" email address quiz on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:33PM (#44934234)
Love it. Minor but question 8 should maybe be 'trailing' instead of 'tailing'?
Re:A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:36PM (#44891369)
I mean it's the law in California that job postings must include salary ranges since 2023, so it's more than 'boy sure would be nice if I knew the pay range before applying': https://www.cda.org/newsroom/employment-practices/pay-scale-...
Re:Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020) on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:50PM (#44890827)
I used to see the Rockabilly dancers all around Yayogi Park in Shibuya (1). These guys would hang out in the park on the weekend with pompadours and jean/leather jackets and do goofy dances. It was sick. Something about Japanese culture encourages dedication to your hobbies, and people get super involved in them.

1) https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/tokyo-rockabi...

Re:UK government advises deleting emails to save water on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:25AM (#44877521)
Storage on spinning disks does. Storage on ssds does as well but should be much less. Cold backups don't. Now, the idea that people can just delete their cat pictures to meaningful impact cooling in the dcs is just garbage, particularly now when most of the energy used in the dcs goes to gpus
Re:Google paid a $250K reward for a bug on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:39AM (#44861657)
I feel like it's the opposite. In a huge project there's bound to be many weird interactions between components, and it's about picking the important/security relevant ones and finding edge cases. In this case the focus was on the interaction between the renderer process and the broker. That forms a security boundary so it makes sense to focus your efforts there - google will pay for such exploits since they can in theory, when combined with other exploits in the renderer process, lead directly to exploits that can be triggered just by opening a web page. So, yes, chrome is a huge project but the list of security-relevant locations to probe actually isn't actually all that long. That's not to diminish the researchers work, it still takes an insane amount of skill to find these issues.
Re:OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second on Saturday August 09, 2025 @12:12PM (#44847695)
Since the limit you ran into was number of open files could you just raise that limit? I get blocking the spammy traffic but theoretically could you have handled more if that limit was upped?
Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video on Friday August 01, 2025 @05:21PM (#44762642)
Best of luck to all employees. I almost accepted an offer there but decided to go elsewhere. The remote work was very appealing.
Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:12AM (#44753854)
Chandler I would love to be involved in Carbon development to shape its development to be usable at my company or alternatively to use it in my own projects. What is the best way to stay involved in Carbon development? Just the discord?
Re:Linux Performance Analysis in 60 seconds (2015) on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @01:41PM (#44726224)
Almost all of these have been replaced for me with below: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/09/21/below-t...

It is excellent and contains most things you could need. Downside is that it isn't yet a standard tool so you need to get it installed across your fleet

Re:Tao on "blue team" vs. "red team" LLMs on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:17PM (#44712989)
An old coworker used to call these types of tests change detector tests. They are excellent at telling you whether some behavior changed, but horrible at telling you whether that behavior change is meaningful or not.

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