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> but your phone number isn't visible to anyone you chat with. That's irrelevant - the phone number is known to Signal and can be request by law enforcement. And, since it's been made pretty much impossible to buy a SIM in
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That's the IT sec version of placing your CV on their server to apply :) That being said, a company which is that lax with reported vulnerabilities is not likely to handle "fun" well and even if what you are doing is legal, b
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2y ago
For those not well versed in the Stack Exchange network, what's the difference between Math Stack Exchange and Math Overflow?
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> It should be something that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket, instead of letting the OS choose a default. If the intention is mostly to fix applications with bad `write`-behavior, this would make setting TC
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2y ago
> Fast food is not great just because it's popular. It's not good for you, as a consumer. As a company, it's a trillion dollar market, nurturing some of the largest companies in the world.
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2y ago
This is mostly malicious compliance - the law does not require these annoying popups, but the websites want them to a) make you dislike the law that prevents them from freely collecting your data and b) wearing you down, so you just accept
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> While you can forge a newspaper page, it is more complicated than tweaking some HTML. With how many people are skilled in Photoshop compared to web development, forging a scan of a page is probably easier for a lot of people.
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> and "child drowning videos" is a very risky google. A bit less risky than throwing your own kid into water (and publicly telling the story), no?
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> because you're never getting that time back again. Which can also as easily be used as an argument to actually spend that money and enjoy it. In the end, it's important that the money is well spent: If you enjoy that 10$ coff
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2y ago
> Is an extra $4,400/yr in their budget a big deal to the people in question? Well, since you saved it by excluding a lot of pleasurable spending, you can't really count it as "fun" money and therefore it's not t
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2y ago
Take this scenario: Rectangle *r = new Rectangle(); r->draw(); // calls Rectangle::draw(GREEN) Shape *s = *r; s->draw(): // calls Rectangle::draw(RED) Intuitively, you would not expect that a function
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2y ago
> It was difficult enough with other people spaghetti code, but being able to generate vast amounts of hard to decipher spaghetti code it only going to make this horrible I've seen some legacy code and the kind of spaghetti humans a
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2y ago
> ELI5, what would prevent a hundred 1060-level cards from being used together? In this case, you'd only have a single PCIe (v3!) lane per card, making the interconnect speed horribly slow. You'd also need to invest in thousand
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2y ago
They must be, because otherwise you'd never be allowed to split or combine to create the final list.
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So, if I understand this right, the buddy pass would have let him take an empty seat anyway. So wouldn't this make it quite obvious that there are no empty seats? Points for creativity, sure, but it seems like he should have foreseen t
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2y ago
It's mentioned that the agent thought this to be a glitch and let the actual person board anyway.
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But a 27" screen does not really cut it in a large or even medium living room. Moving closer is not that easy if you also want to have a couch. Even if you cut down on your viewing amenities, watching something with more than two peopl
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2y ago
Given his position, is revealing his identity really that great of a move for an uneventful retirement? The reduction in personal security (given that many people might want revenge on him or extract information) seems like a bad trade.
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3y ago
> Do you know how large the biggest hard disks or SSDs are nowadays? [...] no single disk will have 281 Terabytes of space. And that is what you need: Since SQLite files are single, continuous files on your file system, they have to be s
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3y ago
You can still find the source everywhere, if you look for it. Having a fine-looking page distribute vulnerable source code is a much bigger threat.
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> Because I definitely never see LSD listed in the category of "doping" substances. Are illegal substances usually listed there? I'd assume they'd only list otherwise legal substances.
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3y ago
> So if you get rewarded for failing to replicate a result, all the fraudsters will do that. If you get funded only when you actually replicate the result, the fraudsters will pretend to replicate the result. So reward either? This seems
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3y ago
John Barnett appears to be the recently deceased Boeing whistleblower, in case anyone else wonders.
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> But yeah, when people tell others to slow down, take their time, there is no rush ... um, no. I my mind, you should read this from a "work smart, not hard" angle; it's not advice to waste your time. Instead, do things ri
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It's nearly an obligatory comment, but it's quite sad that Mozilla doesn't seem too interested in continuing servo development. On the other hand, this way you can make sure that the donation goes towards the thing that matte
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> "X Æ A-Xii" is just a joke... To be fair, this kid will be in social circles where being maximally exotic is highly valued. It will probably never see a normal school from the inside. Don't get me wrong, I don't par
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3y ago
Sure. Maybe they moved away. Phone numbers and addresses do change. Maybe they are not close friends, but friends nevertheless.
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In Germany, you usually start school at 6 years old, with 4 years of primary. After that, you have three options: - Hauptschule, which takes 5 years and only gives a basic degree (sufficient for working in the trades) - Realschule, which ta
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> Even in Germany, a software dev with a burn rate of 10k a year must be seriously in profit each month. That comes down to ~840€ per month. Unless you live deep in the countryside, life is not going to be much cheaper as a non-nomad.
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> If Musk was a visionary he would have built trains, not cars Cars are not going anywhere and train lines are incredibly hard to build [1]. You have to work with the world you have, not with a perfect green field dream. [1] You need mas
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