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by ajarmst 9y ago
Thanks!
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Yes, and I use it quite a lot. My local library system, however, has a huge collection of CD audiobooks, many of which aren't available (at least in Canada) on Overdrive or Hoopla. I run my script in a window when I'm working on o
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I'm the kind of nerd who greatly prefers writing automation code to doing anything remotely repetitive. (I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the autom
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I consult the relevant XKCD to decide: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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It's hardly odd for a computer security company to seek government contracts. The released emails don't seem point to anything nefarious (unless merely working with the FSB is considered nefarious). The remainder is a lot of &quo
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It's not really too late for git, if there is sufficient energy around rolling back the change. The relatively standard process for API changes of (1) adding a new command that does the same thing for a major version, (2) adding a dep
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"It's like Unix!" people say. "rm doesn't warn you, either!" Reminds me of one of my common complaints about that response. The difference is that 'rm' doesn't do anything but remove stuff---i
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Probably his best defence is the fact that it's really unlikely that the attackers would ever swear a complaint or testify. Kind of a "robbing drug dealers problem". I'd be more worried about being targeted by a massive
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by ajarmst 9y ago
That's a good point, although I think the innocuosness of the action would be at least a mitigating factor. I wouldn't expect MS to take any blame, but the "damage" being due to faults in the OS or browser would also be
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This is more that the thief is parked at your front door permanently trying to pick the lock, so you replace the valuables he's looking for with big chunks of lead.
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Reminds me a bit of Upside-Down-Ternet: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
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Upside-Down-Ternet(ex-parrot.com)
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He's got a pretty good defence in that all he's really doing is filtering requests and serving up a really large file to some of them. No active agency, and no executable code. If merely loading a large file crashes a computer, t
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Even so, their self-congratulatory attitude that refunding a customer because they were unable to deliver the service purchase is somehow them offering "goodwill" shows an astounding level of cynical arrogance.
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If the child is 2 or more years old, the FAA doesn't merely recommend that they have a seat, it requires it.
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I thought it was the EPA, not the FDA, that regulated pesticides in the US. I have no recollection of reports of either the FDA malfeasance you claim nor of any reports of widespread re-import of domestic bee colonies. In fact, I had thou
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Did anyone ever assert that neonicotinoids were harmless to bees? I thought the questions were about whether the harm was sustainable at an effective level of use, whether (and how quickly) bee populations (and which species) could adapt to
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There's probably a tighter labour market for physicians, yet no one claims we should de-regulate their standards of professional practice. And, while morality and competency may not be correlated, ethics and quality certainly are. Co
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"Ethics" when taught as part of a professional education usually relates to professional ethics as encoded by codes of practice. While certainly related to morality, legality, religious ethos, humanism, etc. professional ethics sh
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I see your point, but I think that complexity is key (and I think that definition 3 is far too over-broad, unless you require minimal complexity of the mechanism or pay close attention to the plurality of "controls"). The problem
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That's a good point. I was being overly pedantic.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "Solves Zooko's Triangle", as the Triangle is an assertion of a problem (trilemma) that can't be solved. If you mean "refutes", I disagree. Besides the problem with names, b
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I dislike the use of the "robot" for anything that doesn't have autonomous movement (those were "RC Wars", not "Robot Wars"---although I, for one, would have delighted, at a safe distance, in someone strap
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Nooooooo! Now we have to listen to the "what is an OS?" semantic flamewar!
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I kind of find Linus refreshing, although I'm not sure that would survive working directly with him. I think you're begging the question though: surely compatibility/ABI stability/performance trumps extreme security (fo
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That's fair. To be honest, if I lived in a country where police officers had a habit of being filmed murdering law-abiding citizens with impunity, cleaning up IP law wouldn't be real high on my to do list. I think we'll need
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The use of meaningful labels and "with" to prefix them may be good practice, but that's barely related to what Knuth meant by "Literate Programming".
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Well, stdout can be redirected in any sane environment, so that's not much pf a disadvantage. However, thanks for making the point that what they're describing (good variable naming practices, and the use of 'with' to pr
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They probably feel entitled to that US copyright because the entire US system of laws around intellectual property have been manipulated to be strictly of benefit to large corporations and is thus only accidentally of benefit to others (suc
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Given the name, I would expect this to be related to or built on Lua. That doesn't appear to be the case. Is this echo accidental? "Traditional software development is broken by design" is a pretty strong claim, but the onl

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