CrendKing

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by CrendKing 4y ago
Think this in a jokingly way: since only smart and dedicated people can master Rust, software written by these people must be good most of the time. Just like how literate people in ancient societies are mostly elite class. You don't e
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by CrendKing 4y ago
No one stops you from using VSCodium. But associating a software with spyware (a black/white action) should not but tied to how much telemetry (a spectrum) they collect. It's about what type of data they collect and what they do w
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by CrendKing 4y ago
That's wrong. They key element of "spyware" is that it monitors and reports outside of it's own realm, and cause damage with the data. Like a keylogger logs keys even it's not the active program. What VSCode does is
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by CrendKing 4y ago
It's much easier to support only a handful of apps on an old SDK than millions. Those a few probably only utilize 30% APIs the SDK exposes, meaning you can safely assume the rest 70% can be removed from maintenance list. They can also
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by CrendKing 4y ago
> He wouldn't have admitted it on his deathbed because he had a living daughter that would have to suffer for his deeds after he was gone. Except if the circumstance is private between him and his daughter, he could tell her and let
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by CrendKing 4y ago
Imagine this tool could reverse engineer minified Javascript code. Depending on the result, it has potential to defeat minification as whole.
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by CrendKing 4y ago
If there are already std functions "safe" for integral comparison, why not replace the < and > operators impl with those? Is it because it violates existing specs? If so, shouldn't the specs be considered bad and get re
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by CrendKing 4y ago
How would delegating any important job of a state (e.g. takes care of looking good) to a group of people you can't replace any good? Sure, there's always good kings and queens scattered in the history to be good or even great pers
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by CrendKing 4y ago
With how US govt uses tax (instead of other adhoc channels) to interact with citizens, let's be honest, reducing the size of the tax code is the least likely event to happen. It would require a complete change of paradigm in how the go
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by CrendKing 4y ago
So much BS in these lines. For whatever record IRS already has on me, there is nothing my version of the filing can change. It's not like I can arbitrarily remove an 0 from my AGI and "challenge" IRS to accept my version. The
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by CrendKing 4y ago
Human vision is way more information heavy than human hearing. Just how our species is physically. When the Realtek chips become good enough for audio consumers in 00s, the market for dedicated sound cards no longer exist there. Of course,
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by CrendKing 4y ago
In that case, shouldn't we never give vaccine to people with poor immunity system or with immunocompromised condition, and rather just let them be or even die? If this is true (even though difficult to actually implement in the society
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by CrendKing 4y ago
The fact that you may know that make_appender definition being bad does not mean every C++ user knows as well. It's also impossible for you to know ALL the possible bad, UB leading C++ code out there. I think the point the author tries
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by CrendKing 4y ago
Whichever monitor's position is set to (0, 0) is the primary monitor. The following code assumes you have two monitors, and swaps the primary. Of course, to be more robust, you should not hard code the indices but do checking on the in
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by CrendKing 4y ago
I thought ChangeDisplaySettingsEx and EnumDisplaySettings are superseded by SetDisplayConfig and QueryDisplayConfig, respectively? https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs/blob/st... calls ChangeD
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by CrendKing 4y ago
> I'm either overpaying The company is aiming to have many users that everyone is overpaying with their $10, so that they make money, thanks to the reduced marginal cost. And the company hopes that the $10 is low enough that enough
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by CrendKing 4y ago
Interesting. Imagine every single person in US register themselves in USPS, getting a "Post number". I'll be PN 1374582347. And I will only tell people "my mailing address is PN 1374582347. And like you said, I can chang
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by CrendKing 4y ago
One thing I want to tell you is that, if you don't like what you do every day for decades, the extra money you make by taking that job won't make you happy. I have friend who took EE and CS major in college, got job in SV, making
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by CrendKing 4y ago
You know how to build a static site generator in one line? Put your 100 lines in a crate, pub the `generate` function and call that in the main of your demo.
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by CrendKing 4y ago
> If nobody uses the standardized form The problem is, the one tax code is made for the whole country to use. If there is one person who needs the full form to correctly report his tax situation, the tax code has to be that complicated.
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by CrendKing 5y ago
Your use cases are valid and should be respected and supported. What I was saying is, there are other people who prefer keyboard for efficiency, and they don't need keypad. Make it optional and hideable so that all users are happy. It&
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by CrendKing 5y ago
The one thing I don't get about all those calculator applications is the existence of the keypad. Like, the users already have the keypad right in front them called keyboard (the names literally share the "key" part). Why wou
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by CrendKing 5y ago
Can you set up your router or PiHole to block the tracking domains? There has to be list of those.
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by CrendKing 5y ago
> when you need to read some very old Japanese site where their encoding is pretty non standard, you are screwed If you need to read them frequently, yes. Otherwise, if this is just one-off, maybe user can download the page source, extra
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by CrendKing 5y ago
Could you help me understand, that if you are this considerate and comprehensive about your risk factors and prepared at all sorts of possibilities, why still use a password manager solution that can "go bankrupt overnight and take my
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by CrendKing 5y ago
Probably explained in the very first sentence of the post: "I have a vehement dislike for misleading advertising." Human somethings do things driven by their emotion, even if the thing is not the most logical or profitable decisio
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by CrendKing 5y ago
I just tried generating 5 numbers without problem. It seems you can generate as many as you want. You can set expiration time and daily spending limit for the numbers. Also optionally assign a name for each number. Note that I have two Citi
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by CrendKing 5y ago
About 6-8 years ago, all major credit card companies in US has the virtual CC service: BoA, Citi, Chase, you name it. Passing one period, they all started to shut down the service, saving Citi. I don't know why Citi still has this serv
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by CrendKing 5y ago
Reminds me how Mozilla removes various things from Firefox such as [Compact density]( https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-redesign-will-see-compact... ) because their telemetry tells them nobody uses them. And oh boy the
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by CrendKing 5y ago
> It's also 3rd party apps (some closed source) and not official ones which is its own problem (-> trust) Isn't the self-host server (Vaultwarden) also 3rd party?

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