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by arp242 1y ago
That works, but then you also can't access isAdmin from another package.
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by arp242 1y ago
And what I am saying is that this is far too focused on the how the displeasure with racist garbage is voiced instead of the racist garbage itself. You can't just ignore what was said and brush it off with "I'm not choosi
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by arp242 1y ago
> We don't care about the "side" I'm sorry, but what? A quick look at this person's profile has tons of flagged comments on every page. None of it is pretty. I see rants about pretty much every non-White Christia
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by arp242 1y ago
Some mobile devices (especially cheap Androids) often have device model numbers and build version in the User-Agent headers. A few examples from a quick look at my access log: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 15; zh-CN; V2301A Build&
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by arp242 1y ago
Millions of people use it. What's the latest usage number? 5% or something? There's 5 billion people on the internet. 5% of that is 250 million. Some companies would kill for user numbers like that. Hell, some would slaughter enti
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by arp242 1y ago
Because most of it is useful or even needed. There's perhaps one or two things that can be removed, but not that much. The rest is just measuring the differences between "doing stuff and seeing what happens". For example if I
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by arp242 1y ago
It still tries to put the terminal in raw mode or something. "cmd | less" doesn't work and requires "stty sane". I didn't investigate, but FYI.
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by arp242 1y ago
Alignment (and maybe bold text for some things) is all you need in >95% of cases, IMHO. One of the downsides of a lot of these tools is that's exactly what they don't do well: many things don't align or wrap nicely. For
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by arp242 1y ago
DelveDeep, DeepDelve, DataDelve, DelveData, DelveLight, FlashDelve, DelveFlash
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by arp242 1y ago
> Tokei _finishes_ before cloc can print its help text. cloc is a Perl script, so it has the interpreter startup time.
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by arp242 1y ago
The risks and downsides of exposing an image decoder to the entire web are very real, especially a relatively new/untested one written in a language like C++. There's been vulnerabilities in pretty much every other image decoder a
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by arp242 1y ago
Last I checked you couldn't even upload .webp images to GitHub or Telegram. Well, for GitHub you can cheat by renaming it to .png and GitHub's content detection will make it work regardless, but meh.
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by arp242 1y ago
There are different kinds of "controversial" and degrees of things. While you're correct that both Torvalds and de Raadt have a well-earned reputation for not always being the easiest person to get along with, most of their c
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by arp242 1y ago
On the topic that Nazis are bad and that the Holocaust happened? Yes. For all his whinging and whining about "muh dresden bombings", he conveniently seems to "forget" that all that stopped one of the worst genocides in h
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by arp242 1y ago
You just don't have the required font.
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm sorry, but this is just complete nonsense. You can't just paint with a mega-broad brush just because there's one (or a few) unpleasant people in some demographic. You can do that for any demographic: Canadians, Vietnamese
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by arp242 1y ago
Ah right, that roughly tracks. Just wasn't obvious where "August 1999" came from. Kind of amazing timeline in hindsight by the way; Linux was "only" 8 years old at that point.
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by arp242 1y ago
If you look at he numbers then the kernel was never all that swear-heavy. 68 instances of "fuck" at the peak in 2005, in how many million lines of code? And turns out 24 of those were in repeated instances of "IOC3 is fucking
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by arp242 1y ago
Why August 1999? Seems quite specific?
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by arp242 1y ago
Especially online it's just so easy to confuse or miscommunicate "fuck that :-)" and "fuck that grrr" I don't think swearing is necessarily negative though; it can often be fairly neutral, or funny/positiv
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by arp242 1y ago
Entire companies have been wrecked by "line must go up" thinking. I see no reason why it should preserve the planet when it can't even preserve its own livelihood. Never underestimate the complete destructive nihilism some ar
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by arp242 1y ago
They put him in a Mountain Dew ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51bomzSQ_s The Kowalskis sued to exclude Bob Ross from the company bearing his name in the final days of his life, when he was struggling with cancer. So l
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by arp242 1y ago
The emoji horse bolted long before Unicode. Everything from MSN Messenger to web forums had their own implementation of it. And that was a continuation of various ASCII emojis ranging from the simple :-) to the more complex ¯\_/(ツ)\_&#
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by arp242 1y ago
Using "unsubscribe" on real businesses is perfectly fine, even if they added you to their mailing list using some sort of dark pattern. It almost always works and rarely has negative effects. Using it on "enlarge your penis n
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by arp242 1y ago
I used to run a mailing list for my blog. I've gotten some pretty hostile responses to people who were adamant they never subscribed to my mailing list. I have no idea how this happened; I just coded a simple form with a basic Turing t
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm one of the people who flagged it because after clicking around, it's basically just a far-right white nationalist publication that's balls-deep in nonsense like "Biden stole the 2020 election" and "the 1964
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by arp242 1y ago
It is not my impression that the federal government is currently in the business of hiring "good guys".
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by arp242 1y ago
> such things happen regularly They do not. The type of foundational discovery that would be required is quite rare. It would equal to the discovery of germs, or DNA.
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by arp242 1y ago
> Second, I have to ask, why would someone think that regular expressions, a tool specifically designed to search strings, would be slower than any other tool? Of course it's going to be the fastest! (At least in a language like Py
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by arp242 1y ago
Any brand for any type of product has the occasional DOA; it's very hard to completely prevent. The question is: 1) does it occur very frequently, and 2) do they rectify the situation ASAP (that is what warranty is for)?

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