Kwpolska

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by Kwpolska 2y ago
If a user wants to build a hardened copy, they are free to do that. Distros should provide a version with standard features that are expected by end users.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Upstream developers don’t have the time and bandwidth to set up packaging for all distros and versions. Improving defaults may be fine according to some. Removing major features advertised by the software due to political reasons is not fin
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Doing it in response to a single user’s bug report from 2020 that does not provide any rationale other than “network access bad” constitutes randomly messing with packages.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This isn’t the project maintainer we’re talking about, it’s the Debian package maintainer. Their job is building a working .deb with working software, not randomly messing with it. Users have the right to demand their packages to be trustwo
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Hex strings may require more storage, but they remove the need to convert back and forth and make it easier to manually query the database when debugging. The best type is your database's uuid type if it has one.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> your database is spending all it's time shuffling everything around to insert your new rows in the middle of everything Is it? The order of data on disk tends to be the insertion order. What might get shuffled around is the index
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Wayland might be the future (though I'm personally a bit skeptical). It is already the default on many distros. At the same time, X11 is very unlikely to just stop working or disappear, since there's really no good reason to kill
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Last year, when I was administering a test, I said that they were allowed to use any IDE they wanted, but they could not use any AI assistance. I am pretty convinced one student just copypasted my test questions into ChatGPT or BingAI
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
So many strawmen. Following a recipe, even with the ingredients coming from a meal kit, is still cooking. If you’re behind the wheel, you’re driving, no matter who owns the car or if you can perform any maintenance. A C developer working in
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
What does it do better? Extract money out of idiots' wallets.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
A launcher is just an app with some magic bits set. The Rabbit is just one large Android app.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I have a lot of feeds in my reader, but I don't add feeds without first seeing the content on the Web. This gimmick is nothing special to me. For someone who doesn't use feeds, I doubt they would start doing so for a mystery meat
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It absolutely does. I can't share a link to a post, so spreading the word about the blog's existence is pretty hard.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
For entry-level jobs, some knowledge is better than zero knowledge.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Then look for jobs that use those technologies! There are very few jobs for niche technologies, you might end up not finding any you like or where you would be accepted. If you want a job, you must sometimes pick something that is less
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
If Spring is popular, and you want a Java job, you should learn Spring. Not knowing Spring puts you at a disadvantage compared to other candidates. I wouldn't waste time learning Scala or Haskell, those aren't very popular in the
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Pixel phones are not Nexus phones, they aren't just running stock Android — they have custom features to convince users to buy them.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Google Play also has a spam prevention fee. It’s a one-time fee of $25. After one year of no bans, how likely are you to be a spam account?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> $99/year is a mode of spam prevention dev account creation Why is it a yearly fee if it's supposed to prevent spam accounts?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> access to training materials The materials that are freely available to anyone on the Internet? Besides, if you develop for alternative stores, you still need to pay the $99/year fee. > the push notification system How much doe
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
C#'s user base was historically tied to Windows, and there are many C# GUI frameworks for Windows.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Full story: https://scribe.rip/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2...
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Emulators are completely legal. Downloading ROMs of retail games might not be.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
I would say they're the same system, differing by some #ifdef's.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
ChatGPT will confidently fabricate data out of thin air, it is less likely to admit it does not know something or is not sure. And that’s the primary problem with it: the statement is believable, but incorrect.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
It might be able to produce true data about very famous individuals, and it might refuse to provide information about unknown individuals. But if you ask about a YouTuber, or a smaller star/celebrity, it is more likely to produce a fal
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Sounds like a security nightmare. Does `bun foobar` translate to `bunx bun-foobar` as well?
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Those are the three arguments I find the least believable. Other arguments are also questionable in 2024. 2G networks are not really usable for Internet consumption. Outages or failures happen, but they can happen for a HTML-only page. Page
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
LLMs string together words using probability and randomness. This makes their output sound extremely confident and believable, but it may often be bullshit. This is not comparable to thought as seen in humans and other animals.
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by Kwpolska 3y ago
Cloudflare may be MITM, but with the consent of the website owner. If they break JS (which I doubt they would), the website owner would certainly notice. Police states and "internet security" mal^H^H^Hsoftware may MITM stuff. If y

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