CWuestefeld

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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I'm wondering why the guy at Microsoft in charge of Windows is still employed. Over the weekend my installation of Playnite (a catalog/launcher for my games) was broken by the update, until I moved its data off of OneDrive[1]. And
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
Devs download python packages, rust crates, ruby gems, npm packages, all of them run code. You allow developers to download and run arbitrary packages? Where I came from, that went out years ago. We keep "shrinkwrap" servers pro
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
> Trusting this folder means code within it may be executed automatically. But as you point out elsewhere, what constitutes code is very context dependent. And the user isn't necessarily going to be sufficiently expert on how Code i
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
This demonstrates the actual real-world problem, though. You're saying "this is a complex problem so I'm going to punt and depend on the user to resolve it". But in real life, the user doesn't even know as much as y
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I suspect that you're relying too heavily on the user here. Even for myself, a very experienced developer, I don't have a flash of insight over what my risk exposure might be for what I'm opening at this moment. I don't
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
Who gets to decide where to draw the line?
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
Thanks!
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I strongly disagree. Have you used Lightroom in the last, say, two years? They've had a revolutionary upgrade in their masking tools. ML models power automated, smart mask creation. For example, on a landscape photo I can get, with jus
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I strongly disagree, but de gustibus non disputandum
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
That's true. I wasn't clear - I was thinking mainly of the Office products: Word, Excel, etc. They've got a whole different Save As dialog that go out of their way to funnel you into OneDrive. So it's interrupting my flo
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
Gaming is a smaller thing for me than the Adobe creative apps, especially Lightroom. Granted, I could get that on Macintosh. But while their fans like to claim that Apple's engineering is all about usability, that hasn't been true
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I agree here, but... If I don't want something synced to Onedrive then I usually save it in my downloads folder or another separate folder My complaint is that MS has intentionally made it SO DIFFICULT to do that. There's a sign
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
My experience is exactly the same. I use OneDrive for easy replication of lots of stuff between my own devices, and to transfer files to friends. I've never had a lost-data problem. On the other hand, UX for doing that sharing is clunk
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I don't want to defend Trump - starting a war is about the most serious thing a country can do, and doing it unilaterally is terrible. Trump should be condemned for this. But most of those doing the condemning were also supportive of P
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
I only had limited exposure to Delphi, but from what I experienced, it's big thumbs-up. But if you liked that, consider that C# was in many ways a spiritual successor to Delphi, and MS still supports native GUI development with it.
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
I was once interviewed by the FBI due to a buddy applying for security clearance. One thing they asked was, "have you every known XXX to drink excessively", to which I replied "we were fraternity brothers together, so while w
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
The most common skeptic position that I've seen (which admittedly isn't all of them) is that the shots should be banned altogether until they can be proven 100% safe for everyone. That's not what I've seen. I live in v
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
Yeah, your equality really is just jealousy. It's your feeling that the situation is unfair. But there's no principle of nature that says that things must be fair. For me, if I can improve the lot of everyone by at least X%, but d
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
These people are exempt from laws, they and their presecessors made Well, that's the problem, right there. We shouldn't be thinking about making new laws that they also won't subject themselves to. We should be thinking abo
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
I'm not particularly concerned about unfair gains made possible by insider knowledge. The economy is large enough, and the set of lawmakers (not to mention leadership-level lawmakers!) small enough, that that the overall effect on anyt
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
You ignored the first paragraph in my reply, where I pointed out that the first, and most horrifying, vignette in the article wasn't even related to the actual topic. Leading with that little story is artificially creating a degree of
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by CWuestefeld 10mo ago
When full disclosure of the truth means that people will panic and cause bigger harms, you have to take the good of society into consideration. OK, so at least we're being honest now and not pretending it's a democracy anymore.
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
I don't even know how to understand the latter part of your reply. I don't understand how you can argue that we should FULLY (and I take that word from you) shut out those who appear to be cranks because, through some magic, their
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
I'm not saying I agree with them. I'm saying that they're not the ones committing the original sin, and that I can empathize - I understand why they feel betrayed.
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
At no point did "democracy" or its principles come into this discussion. Yes, it did. Just a few minutes ago when I pointed it out. Or are you the only one who's allowed to identify what principles are implicateed in the co
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
What is the correct order of operations there? I'm treating both representations of division as equivalent, so just running the whole thing from left to right. But there's no reason that because both operators indicate division, t
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
Yeah, I agree that sucks. If you go back to my first reply in the thread, I said: Unfortunately, the insurance policy against that trap - that annoying people will keep asking "why?" - itself has a steep price, sometimes almost t
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
Whatever else I might be arguing about here, let me first express how much I HATE those headlines and video titles with "destroys", "obliterates", etc. I'd much rather see something about "coming to a common un
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
What I hear when people make these excuses is that democracy is just for when it's convenient. For important matters, a technocratic oligarchy should rule. To me, the liberal enlightenment ideals in our Constitution and Bill of Rights
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by CWuestefeld 11mo ago
What would you have had Faucci do during #1 & #2? I'd have him not lie. At a minimum, if he thought that the truth would drive counterproductive behavior, he should have at least kept his mouth shut. But as a public servant, on

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