marcosdumay

> what do you do?

You get 7.12 from backports?

More like 20. If I remember it right, by 2007 the Debian community was angry discussing the installation team's decision to include non-free packages in the installation media, what ended the problem of needing a wired connection during the install.

An attacker doesn't need an internet connection if they are persistent enough...

> People (even the Rust fans) underestimate how many footguns are everywhere in C and C++.

The process of learning C++ (and to a much lesser extent, C) is almost exclusively one of learning about the footguns and how to avoid them. It's a life-long process, nobody ever finishes it.

It's understandable if you have the option to stop the other person and ask what random words mean.

It's not very understandable in asynchronous written form. But the Portuguese have much more trouble understanding Brazilians than the other way around.

To add a bit, the test is so tough that lawyers don't really compete against each other. From all the lawyers in the country wanting to have that position (that is the dream job), not enough of them get the minimum score to fill all positions.

Well, OCR is the name of an application, just like LLM. If you take the same neural net that runs on LLM and use it to parse the photo of a document, it's an OCR.

Yes, we should regulate marketing more...

But those are professionals, expected to have a high amount of training, and exactly on the profession that decides if things are ok or not. They should know better, and those are bad lawyers.

Every time somebody rewrote code in my company, my questions were more on the line of "why did you preserve all the known bugs and incoherences?"

The answer is always that the rewrite was bug-compatible on purpose, the bugs were to be fixed later on the more tractable system. Every time development was abandoned right away, because there was no gain in using the new system.

> thousand-fold productivity increase

The engineer still spent a week there.

Managing a vendor relationship is the act of distributing license usage through your people, reviewing contracts, having somebody that knows when and where you have to send money so that the software keeps working, and making sure you are not doing something against the contract.

With Microsoft that takes several people working full time. Corporations tend to not want more of those relationships to manage.

Pilots are nothing near powerful enough to seek any rent on that situation.

Instead, they are the weakest part on that market.

They fine tune for that, they don't ensure anything.

(Or at least they used to, I think they changed everything recently, but I've mostly stopped using them.)

"The floor also features the Hologram Theater, where Sam Walton himself shares his story"

I'm wondering if the show writer used it as a reference.

Hum... It can be your assumption, but most countries do not fulfill it.

Detention in particular is a violation of human rights, with an exception to strictly for the time it takes for the next flight to take off.

I guess when you have secret courts, it's something that starts to make sense.

I still can't understand how a government can work with some courts where everything is secret. That's something almost literally lifted out of The Process, but the Kafka book is an allegory for a kind of madness, not something that works.

A lot of them are Siemens and GE, but I haven't look recently on how the market is going.

Nobody is even trying to claim that.

There are many people complaining that the supreme court should have said which of his crimes this is about, but his allies are not even trying to defend him.

You can use your focus to verify it.

If you add enough batteries, nuclear comes back the original economics.

I'm not sure the "enough batteries" part is a good investment, and the original economics is already not competitive with renewables. But maybe after you add in long term storage and the possibility of black swan risks it can make sense to subsidize a bit of other kinds of power on some regions.

People were predicting that solar would eventually take over everything in the 19th century.

It got out of the spot for a few decades when everybody started to be on nuclear power, but by the 1980s it was obvious nuclear wouldn't get there.

> Is there an "Ormouz of solar" scenario?

Yes. At some point somebody will weaponize smart inverters.

It's avoidable if people suddenly decide to not act stupidly. I classify that as unlikely. It's also fixable, just like the oil Hormuz.

With about O(2^(n/log(n)) instead, I imagine those people are deeply interested on the impacts, but nobody will be losing their sleep.

The "nominal speed" of every 486 that it ran with the turbo off was 25MHz.

There were some programs made for that speed, but not nearly as many as when the problem happened for the first time on the 286. Most developers have learned timing practices at that point, and the APIs have improved a lot.

They choose the timing of each of those events with total freedom and independently.

It's probably because of bonds interest rates. And we will probably see more of those on the next few months.

That exists, yes.

Those, the "we must kill all the criminals!!", the actual nazis and all the other people that identify with the Bolsonaro family add up to about 15% of the country.

One.

From 2 courts with 5 judges each.

So... people react by voting on one of the leaders of the fucking Rio mob? (the "nice family you have, it would be a shame if something happened to them" kind of mob?)

Besides, Jair Bolsonaro won when Lula was still in jail.

Nobody wants to see them cut taxes from the rich or reduce employers rights. The popular "right" in Brazil wants taxes to be easier to pay, judges not to decide based on who is asking, and clear rules on what you can or can't do.

Also, nobody can beat Dilma on cutting taxes from the rich.