JesseWright

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by JesseWright 5y ago
> Not really sure what you are trying to achieve here than to push your own personal viewpoints on things that you don't like? I mean, I could say something like "I'm always kind of surprised by people who want to move to
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by JesseWright 8y ago
While some people might post such comments for the sake of "intelligence signaling", the GP seemed to not know what "CTF" meant. I think he offered a fair and simple criticism, and I found your comment needlessly harsh a
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by JesseWright 8y ago
The issue was that the author uses unsafe code unsafely and often for questionable performance or ergonomics gains that didn't actually need unsafe anyway. Fortunately, he cleaned up pretty much all of it, as I understand it, with the
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by JesseWright 8y ago
I use Privacy.com but haven't had to cancel. You don't pay for the service, as they make their money in adding as a credit-card company and charging merchants fees (or something to that effect). The trade-off is that I had to give
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by JesseWright 8y ago
I fully agree, but I think it's good to have options on how to approach the issue. Generally, I've referred to OSDev when I need more real-world information on how things tend to work in practice and resources like Phil's whe
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by JesseWright 8y ago
I've followed Phil's site on making an operating system. Ever since having worked on PintOS in college, operating systems and their internals have fascinated me. I've tried learning more about writing operating systems via re
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by JesseWright 8y ago
AMP pages take forever to load for me with Firefox and uBlock Origin. When I open a news story from Google's recommendations, which always open to AMP pages, it pretty much always takes about 15 to 30 to show anything on screen. I inst
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by JesseWright 8y ago
A program would need the appropriate level of access (which isn't actually that high a bar), but at the end of the day the fact of the matter remains: other processes can potentially access private keys that would otherwise remain pass
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by JesseWright 8y ago
I have never heard of an ambulance ride costing anywhere _near_ $10K-$20K. The average, out-of-pocket price of an ambulance ride is much closer to $1000 - and often less. New York's 2012 fee schedule offers a good example: https:&#x2F
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by JesseWright 8y ago
FWIW, I read through your entire comment a few times and did not understand that it was about having a surplus of workers for entry-level or low-pay, low-skill jobs. I see that you briefly mentioned it at the beginning, but it didn't
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by JesseWright 8y ago
I definitely second ACR. I use it and have it set up to record literally every phone call I make or receive. (You might need to be mindful of espionage laws depending on where you live, as some states/countries might require consent fr
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by JesseWright 8y ago
A few years ago, about when I was a sophomore in college, I started wearing glasses with lenses that filter blue light (BluTech lenses in my case). My optometrist recommended them at the time and said they were great for people who sit at c
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by JesseWright 9y ago
I actually appreciate that Apple stipulated "apps must make the source code... editable by the user". I personally think this helps with the educational spin to this currently, as it assures users are able to see source code but a