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The TV's license agreement attempts to shift the burden onto the TV's owner. Taken at face value, it's the owner who is guilty of recording people without their consent.

From TFA:

> Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack [...] is widely regarded as a threat specific to compilers. We show that it is not

And yet, from Reflections On Trusting Trust:

> In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode.

The paper is certainly a nice worked-out example of the attack, which is worthwhile, but it's not novel.

I think when I hear the terms, a "dashpot" is a specific mechanism and a "snubber" is its purpose. You can use dashpots for other purposes, and you can build snubbers out of things other than dashpots.

Nothing requires the wormhole "surface" to be a sphere, just like nothing requires the wormhole in the 2D analogy to be a circular hole. If you make it a sphere with one flat side, travelers won't have to traverse curved space (with the attendant weird tidal/gravitational effects).

Futel runs a handful of non-pay payphones in and around NW Oregon, some urban and some rural. There are other regional organizations doing similar things.

I think you're getting the Declaration and the Constitution a little mixed up. Also conflating "free speech" with "the first amendment", but everyone does that so they can motte-and-bailey.

But nuclear fission was discovered by scientists working in Nazi Germany (except Meitner who had fled to Sweden by then).

I guess this is from the Bush-era usage of "regime"? It doesn't normally have a negative implication.

I've seen "possible tsunami" pre-warnings, and a sea level gauge at/near Lembar showing sea level oscillations - so I would recommend keeping a close watch on some information source that's better than HN comment threads, yes.

Then reject them for being incomprehensible?

Look, if you don't think code review is worthwhile, don't do it. Just give everybody unfettered permission to merge. But don't pretend to do review if you're not trying to maintain some standard of quality.

News is really poorly written these days. I don't blame people for not wanting to slog through a poorly organized, superficial rehash of a press release for the half chance of finding some relevant information. It's not just that incentives are misaligned, it's also that they don't hire or train people to write or find details.

Ooh, and it could shift seasonally so that summer temperatures and winter temperatures can both be in the convenient range. And every locality could shift a different amount and at different times of year according to their local climate.

Next, we can look into reforming those pesky mass and volume units…

Isn't it, though? A GW generated one way displaces a GW generated another way. As long as we are building and operating coal-fired power plants — which we are — it is reasonable to consider displacing those plants with fission plants. I'm not aware of any system in which coal is better than nuclear.

Of course, yes, wind and solar are great. But despite the amazing growth in those sources, we're still burning a huge amount of coal and oil.

I sometimes enjoy reading through my spam folder. I get a lot of docusign phishing (despite not being an important executive). I also get a lot of "docusing" phishing, which gives me a chuckle. Is it bardic spam?

Environmental disasters that will likely outlast human civilization? Coal does that in normal operation.

Uh, that's not how global warming works, you know.

My interpretation of TwiztidK's comment is that they could save the cost of that .5–2 MW power draw by switching to a battery chemistry with looser temperature requirements.

Civilizational collapse?

Yeah, that's an interesting question. I would expect the two to look the same once converted to SSA.

You can ask the compiler to dump its intermediate representations, so it might not be too hard to answer the question.

*foo++ (and --) is an extremely common C idiom. I'd argue it's clearer than the separated version.

From the links in the article, it looks like this DC runs giant heat exchangers to dump the heat to air.

> Windows uses Philips head screws, Linux uses hex screws, and MacOS requires Torx — but a hammer works the same way with all screws. That’s Electron.

Heh.

> a vehicle with no communication, sensor, or surveillance systems

Do we know that? The website seems silent on the topic, unless I've missed something.

I'm not sure "Chesterton's Fence" is an applicable fable/analogy when the fence has a big sign on it explaining exactly why it's there, and if you stop to look at it for a minute someone will come along and explain in great detail, answer all of your questions, and provide copious citations to the last several hundred years of public health and virology.

"Good natured but highly irreverent" is pretty much The Register's house style.

Hire Mark Watney to grow some potatoes?

There's a certain amount of censorship of classified information published by (ex-)military, and that kind of thing, but it can be and is challenged in court.

Purely obscene material is also not protected by the 1st, but since the 1970s, the bar for that has been placed very, very high.

The closest I can think of offhand is that for about a year during the pandemic, Twitter suppressed gratuitous COVID misinformation posts, at the request of the government.

Is Mein Kampf banned? It's currently in print and available from your friendly bookseller, in multiple editions spanning a couple translations and the original German. Of the two public library systems that cover my area, one has it (12 holds on 4 copies) and the other doesn't but does have other books by Hitler. I expect it's assigned reading in poli-sci classes.

Looking at the front page right now, only about 8 out of 30 are about AI.

Tokenmax while you tokemax.