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Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:13AM (#24478349)
Even before cameras, you could go in with a pre-filled ballot and go out with a blank one. All someone needed to verify paid votes was one ballot per polling station (or 2 if voters get 2 ballots).
Normally it's 250 deaths > 65 years per week, which would make it 36 per day

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/influenza/FluNews18-19#mortalit...

Re:Ethernet will never work (1974) on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:11AM (#22534191)
All I want to know is, was Dave Boggs Bob's boss's boss?
Re:Modern garbage collection: Part 2 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:29PM (#21798362)
> It's an order of magnitude lower latency than current default collector

Believe it or not, the current default GC is G1GC, which has a target (and quite common) pause of 300ms by default.

> Go introduced a new GC a while back with dramatically lower latency numbers

Or maybe just like Azul's numbers from 2005?

http://big-elephants.com/2018-09/unexpected-gc-pauses/

https://www.usenix.net/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-c...

> Shenandoah, that requires patching the JVM

The page you linked to says "How do you get Shenandoah? This garbage collector has officially become part of JDK only since version 12 and is available in AdoptOpenJDK 12 builds."

> and introduces memory overhead to every object for a forwarding pointer.

The first version did, Shenandoah 2.0 does not

https://shipilev.net/talks/jugbb-Sep2019-shenandoah.pdf

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:17PM (#20628526)
Nope, they said "We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again."
Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:52AM (#13892968)
Nope, it's about the dictionary admins noticing cheaters during last year's exam and deciding to do something about it -- without any coordination with the exam organizers.
Re:Icdiff: side-by-side command line diffs on Monday December 08, 2014 @07:58AM (#8716179)
I've been using `dwdiff -c`, which admittedly doesn't do side-by-side: http://linux.die.net/man/1/dwdiff