ChrisSD

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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The problem is they could come back (depending on your region) and advertising settings are spread out so you may have to go through the settings disabling them all. Basically any option that's labelled as a "tip" or "su
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I agree with much of what you say but I wanted to clarify one point. > 3. I like UAC. The article claims that giving users a dialog box to permit admin access is good for malware, but the alternative is taking admin away from users altog
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
What's cool about this representation is just how compact you could make it. Forget a page, this could fit on a card in your pocket. EDIT: A very quick (and rough) example: https://i.postimg.cc/nLrStmBt/micro.png
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I would note that system calls only form an external API if the developer says they are an external API. Which it is for Linux but for other OSes the external API is a C library, kernel32, etc. But right and wrong aside, there's the pr
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Except that this write up says this was a deliberate design decision to trade space for speed. That's not something to be fixed, unless you convince Go to make different trade offs or to provide more optimization options.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
JSON was made to be "based on a subset" of Javascript. The only way to be compatible with JS while removing octals is to disallow leading zeroes entirely. Doing otherwise would lead to JSON and JS behaving differently with the sam
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
He was moved to a medical ward. He's not in solitary confinement. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/30/jasa-m30.html
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
> By what authority, or on what pretext, Assange is being tranquilised, and kept isolated, remains unknown I'm going to go out on a limb and say "ill health".
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The trouble is both processor instructions and compilers have been optimized for C (well C and FORTRAN). So no matter how good or bad C is, we're mostly "stuck" with its PDP-11 computing model unless someone does a lot more w
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
> any library that wants to be usable from different languages is still written in it. This part isn't quite true. All that's needed is to be able to define an exported function with a specific name and calling convention. Libr
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I've done something similar in Firefox with scratchpad. The main reason is simply convenience. I don't need to switch to a different workflow, I merely bring up scratchpad (I often already have a window open with some utility func
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I'd be very worried about someone that engages in that sort of controlling behaviour, whatever the state of the relationship may be.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I'd highly recommend searching for 4K77 if you haven't already. It's well worth seeing if you want to relive your memories.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Firstly the author isn't blaming readers, they're blaming Amazon. Secondly, if a typo is found in your work would you expect it to immediately be pulled from sale? What if there was no typo at all and the reader was mistaken? Is i
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I think the author is very explicit that they aren't blaming users: >It’s not your fault, Amazon doesn’t exactly advertise that if you make too many notes, the system informs the author they’re pulling the book. And: > That’s the
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
To be fair nobody* actually uses final ISO standards even if they refer to them. I think JPEG is an example of where the "draft" became the de facto official standard because that's what everybody used instead of paying for t
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
No need to guess about Firefox/Debian, the bug report is preserved here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006 As noted by steveklabnik, Debian already does ship Rust with their own patches with
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
This is a bit hyperbolic but there is an underlying issue here. The Rust project wants to keep control of the Rust name. They're more than happy for, e.g. Debian to fork it for inclusion into their repositories or for other forks to ex
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Rust has grappled with the issue of how far to push styling rules. E.g. from 2016: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1607#issuecomment-227... I think it's worth reading more of that thread for some
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Ah, $$$ it is!
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Yes sorry, that was a brain fart. I did indeed mean SP1. The Windows SDK version is 7.1 so I got muddled. Windows 7 (without SP1) is already unsupported.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Windows 7.1 extend support ends on January 14, 2020. So is your org planning a very fast rollout or is it paying $$$ for Extended Security Updates?
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Whitelisting or blacklisting UA strings is meaningless. Any actually malicious person is going to spoof that without even giving it much thought. It's only the honest people who are affected. Funnily enough Google itself used to advoca
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I don't see things in such absolutist terms as that. For everyday language, sure, I'm more than happy to go with the flow. For technical language we need a relatively stable, agreed upon terminology. Terms that flow and change too
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It's a shame that, in the minds of many, OOP has come to mean only: * chuck everything vaguely related in a class * share code by using inheritance IMHO, the way Java and C++ have been taught (in practice, if not by teachers) has done
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Huawei have long done good phones in the roughly £100 to £200 range. They tend to be arguably the best hardware for their price. But as mentioned, the software isn't perfect so you'll either need to put up with some annoyances or
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Warning: This being true, it can still be construed as "hacking" no matter how simple it is. Just because the barrier is easy to get over, it doesn't mean you're legally allowed to enter. This person asserted the spreads
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
In 2011 Tinley had refused to hand over the password to unlock the spreadsheet for editing when asked, claiming he was protecting his work product. > For years, the spreadsheet would glitch, Tinley would be hired to come in, would "
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It's worth mentioning the interesting failure of pysandbox: > I now think that putting a sandbox directly in Python cannot be secure. To build a secure sandbox, the whole Python process must be put in an external sandbox. https:&#x
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
That's not entirely true. Adding too much discomfort to users reduces security by encouraging people to workaround or otherwise undermine the system. Many of the best security practices ideally make doing the secure thing easy. When th

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