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sour-taste··on New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
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.
sour-taste··on How to check for overlapping intervals
Overlapping intervals were a question back in 2023 so yeah, it's useful
sour-taste··on Callbacks in C++ using template functors (1994)
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
sour-taste··on Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground
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
sour-taste··on Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
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?

sour-taste··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
Because it's relevant to many on this site, most bay area cities are users
sour-taste··on In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs
> the sad reality is that the majority of the criminals are not amenable to rehabilitation

What evidence do you have for this?

sour-taste··on Rail travel is booming in America
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.
sour-taste··on Things managers do that leaders never would
Is this corporate Goofus and Gallant?
sour-taste··on FakeIt: C++ Mocking Made Easy
Seems very inspired by gmock. Wondering if there's a comparison somewhere?
sour-taste··on GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
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.
sour-taste··on What to do with C++ modules?
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.
sour-taste··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
Thanks for taking the time to round up these posts for me!
sour-taste··on Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)
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.
sour-taste··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
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
sour-taste··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
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
sour-taste··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
* The vast majority aren't compiled into any given kernel

* Those that are are only loaded when needed

It's not that bad

sour-taste··on T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree
Look forward to the supreme Court ruling that the FCC is illegal and actually owes carriers money for some reason
sour-taste··on Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs
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>?

sour-taste··on "Email is Easy" email address quiz
Love it. Minor but question 8 should maybe be 'trailing' instead of 'tailing'?
sour-taste··on A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it
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-...
sour-taste··on Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020)
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...

sour-taste··on UK government advises deleting emails to save water
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
sour-taste··on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
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.
sour-taste··on OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
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?
sour-taste··on Atlassian terminates 150 staff
Best of luck to all employees. I almost accepted an offer there but decided to go elsewhere. The remote work was very appealing.
sour-taste··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
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?
sour-taste··on Linux Performance Analysis (2015)
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

sour-taste··on Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs
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.
sour-taste··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
The workers did, the people with money welcomed him with open arms hoping for less regulation and big contracts. Look in the row behind trump during his inauguration if you need proof.
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