CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
Wow, who'd have thought? Career change, here I come!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
It's enough to make you start wondering: What isn't a byte code VM?!? Seems freaking everything is. And is that a good thing? (My tentative answer: No, it isn't.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> they're not really that different in age Yes they are. Both of them. From me. :p
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Op-ed are usually filler nonsense written by journalists 1) Citation needed. 2) This one sure wasn't. People who actually bothered to read TFA might have noticed: > Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling autho
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> These reporters know The article is an opinion piece by an external contributor; the author is not a reporter. From the end of TFA: > Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He was founder and CEO of machine
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> he's not going to be "powerful" He's rich, and apparently going to get richer + Money is power = He's powerful, and apparently going to get more powerful. > and you shouldn't be afraid either. No point
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Once the Wheel of Time grows past a certain point... Oh, wait, you weren't talking about Robert Jordan's fantasy series. My bad. Yet another proof I'm old, yet another acronym to re-learn to keep up with the times... S
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Elsewhere [0] I have called this concept "post-literacy," and this theme pervades much of Stephenson's work - highly technologically advanced societies outfitted with molecular assemblers and metaverses, populated by ill
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Mostly in all of Sweden, all of Finland, probably still quite a lot in Denmark, but perhaps not so many in Norway any more (since they are rapidly electrifying[1] the entire national car fleet). ___ [1]: Ironically, the heavy state subsidie
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> somebody on the internet was wrong and needed to be corrected https://xkcd.com/386/
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> For starter, it is much less annoying from a security/notification standpoint, you can tell it to fuck off and let you do your things if you know what you are doing. In many corporate environments you can't.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> And btw Git might have been built by Torvalds but GitHub is owned by Microsoft :) Yeah. That's why you should use one, but not the other.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The bash in MinGW-64, or whatever it's called that comes with git for Windows. Which doesn't come with vim, IIRC, so that can't have been what you're talking about, right?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
OK, Pablo.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> do you have a more promising historical comment to offer? perhaps something where people complimented your contribution as being informative? > have you ever made a worthwhile comment on hn? I might answer that. If I thought you w
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Donald J. Trump.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> These engineers aren’t incentivized to create lock-in. Ever heard of something called “money”? > I think it’s more likely that sometimes for a feature to play well with other existing parts of the Windows ecosystem, compromises are
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I am so sorry I saw this comment too late to downvote it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> What [the full time design team] do is to move [the menu items] around every few months Poor fuckers probably don't even know that there is a standard -- CUA -- for what order those are supposed to be in: File, Edit, View ... To
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Aha, you too have a OnePlus? :-) AFAICR, it took me much longer than a week.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The average user is no longer a tech illiterate person. On the contrary, I think the average user is nowadays a much more tech illiterate person than they used to be.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Which makes RAM-eaters pretty much malware, doesn't it? And, as the GP says, the biggest RAM-eaters on most corporate Windows installs are... Microsoft corporate software, like Teams. So I find it pretty hard to take whatever Microsoft
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> MS is saying they wanted to do the exact same thing, but EU has mandated the access in order to allow multiple products to become rootkits. No. The EU only mandated that Microsoft give other vendors the same access they themselves use
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Entirely due to that faulty third-party component being able to run without limitations in the kernel, because Microsoft didn't want to build an API with those limitations.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
If they panic the kernel, they're presumably software that triggers those bugs in the kernel’s eBPF implementation mentioned in the comment you replied to?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Just Devils advocate, but, But misguided, as usual when someone defends Microsoft. > If MS is really not allowed to protect their kernel, that part of whatever EU understanding they have should probably be revisited They are allow
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Cloudstrike was not in Microsoft's code; Yes of course it was; it ran in kernel space. Microsoft let it in, ao it was in there. > so yell at Cloudstrike Sure. And Microsoft.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This means they cannot restrict access to the underlying kernel. No it doesn't. It just means they should restrict their own products from doing so, too.
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Why Two Monitors Are Better Than One Ultrawide(howtogeek.com)
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