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by RaleyField 8y ago
One of better videos of this type. Anyone know what's the music from background? Hair raising.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
People that use Linux and people who frequent Linux related websites don't necessarily have a lot in common. I use Ubuntu daily, couldn't care less for what some zealots have to say on Reddit. I use it because it's the least
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by RaleyField 8y ago
That is utterly irrelevant. You can't trust company that showed malicious intent or wanton disregard to not screw with other products.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
The greed and irresponsibility is boundless. They could set aside 10 billion and have excellent security. 1 billion could have bought thousand phds digging through their processors and I bet they could dig out boneheaded flaws like Spectre.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Neither does Intel's advisory (which is something we have come to expect from Intel - complete nonchalant disregard for details/quality/security/customers). They could specify whether I'm good with AMT turned off or
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Google Superfish. Seriously.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
False equivalency.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> unnecessarily down on npm What if, perhaps, they are deservedly [1][2]. [1] https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150515011238/https
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> (!) They changed the name to Modern UI, some reported [1] because it clashed with their German partner Metro AG. In any case Modern UI started with Zune and you could get for the time nifty looking media player for it on XP [2]. You ca
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Subpixel antialiasing is obnoxious to implement. I imagine 10 engineers that worked out antialiasing at Apple are handsomely compensated for their suffering. I hook my mac to a cheap ultrawide. Will Apple give me 1k eur to get a new mo
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by RaleyField 8y ago
There's newer version[1]. [1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q-c7UAyrUlM-eZyTo1pd...
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by RaleyField 8y ago
And the author pinky swears he won't reach into the cookie jar again.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Do you mean "often short for China the country"? No. You will see people aren't bothered by Taiwan or other far eastern countries, perhaps there's a reason. > pretty weird Maybe English is a weird language. I&#x2
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by RaleyField 8y ago
In contexts like this Chinese is often short for Chinese communist. But if that was elaborated then you would accuse people of McCarthyism and being overly hysterical about communism.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> you only get to know You know wikipedia exists. Or people like me who will harp on on how privacy standards that are somehow acceptable now would be something inconceivable in 90's.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Yea, but this emboldens them because they can now point to EU and say that this is what normal countries do, long arm[0] people around. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-arm_jurisdiction
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> exercise their rights These aren't their natural right. Some laws are just bad independent of whether most people support or agreed to them. This is most obvious in dictatorships, but dysfunction strikes all systems.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Can't wait for future nightmare letters coming from Saudi Arabia when they find moral indecency on my web site or China finding imperialist propaganda that needs addressing. This will be used as a precedent for every other control frea
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> don’t store a single thing more than needed Easier said than done and is harder than what sanctimonious pricks that designed this law probably had in mind. Everyone with presence on Apple's platforms fears them like the wrath of G
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> We are not 20 years ago We both know that, but if you tried to say that people's needs have radically changed in that time then I fail to see how. > can be useful to a lot of people It sounds to me more like an excuse product m
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> well it's a map app. 20 years ago when the world ran on paper maps people didn't need to communicate their location to map makers via phone, so why would they have that need now?
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> so why not Sorry but this is fucked up. Why not not. Yesterday's discussion on overheads of GDPR rattled me into mild headache and today you prove why exactly GDPR came to be. It's none of <oversea corporation XYZ>&#x27
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Could there be a less powerful subset of C You probably meant minimal superset of C (as C doesn't have nontrivial or similarly performant memory-safe subset). And probably, although its niche would be smaller. Either you have comp
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> it's not too hard to be "memory safe" in modern c++. I'm not entirely convinced that is the case, but surely you will agree that it's much easier to audit Rust for memory-safety than C++.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> bigger mental burden on the programmer Only sometimes. For complex enough problems I think mental burden of writing and maintaining software in less complex language will become more burdensome than the intrinsic burden that comes with
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> It's also very simple to delete Microsoft placed it into my library and you can't remove it unless you first install it and then uninstall it and I don't want to install it so I'm stuck with it. It's egregiousl
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Make WPF-like replacement that works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and their browsers and we will all switch. You are demanding that we all become mega crops with N teams duplicating the same code in with native frameworks and that
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> 3 Blue 1 Brown Their refresher series on linear algebra is seriously amazing as is other content. :)
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Hint: it is a response to an industry which failed to regulate itself. Hint: maybe stop being condescending. Also, I'm from EU and I'm split on GDPR. On one side I acknowledge its benefits and where it's coming from (the
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Thanks for replying, this explains things. I guess I extrapolated from my needs too much, I didn't consider users who do daily 10+ GB compressed backups. I still wonder if there's an ethical dilemma that lies underneath this - is

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