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by ashleyn 8y ago
Compared to Linux the amount of bloat shipping with Windows 10 is simply unreal. Open up Task Manager on a fresh install and the only two questions I can ask are "What the fuck do half of these services actually do ?" and "W
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Ironically, a big reason people buy new cars is because their old one failed emissions screening, and wasn't economical to repair.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
C at the very least teaches the difference between stack and heap memory, a crucial concept obscured by most higher-level languages.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Part of the reason it lay undetected was that he was using it primarily for child exploitation, and not for financial gain, which is typically how evidence of malware rapidly turns up.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
The thought of just spraying junk like that in space today is harrowing. The Iridium-Cosmos collision in 2009 still has left some 75% of its debris field in orbit.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
As another minority, it wasn't concerning to you that Eich actively lobbied against equal rights for a particular demographic? See, I'm tolerant of different viewpoints practiced consensually and privately; lobbying against thos
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Short term profits > long term profits in the minds of many managers.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Yes, it's only a matter of time until Chrome removes this flag, just like they removed developer support for disabling the autofill in web forms.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
The internet wasn't as big and software frequently shipped as a boxed product on a disk, cartridge, or CD-ROM. You had one shot to get it right without major bugs because fixing them required another run of physical media.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
The original iPad also had OS updates discontinued incredibly quickly.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
To be frank, that's because the Win 9x line was intentionally designed around the older, less-stable MS-DOS architecture. NT, which is what 2000 was based on, was around for seven years by that point and was remarkably stable. The big
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Gender dysphoria also isn't a clean distinction between "male" and "wanting to be female". The underlying phenomenon is observed to be rooted in sex-specific instincts and feelings inverse to what is normally found
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Rust came just in time. A low-level language like those of old, but without the undefined behaviour and terrible tooling.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Consenting adults' rights on anything shouldn't be a matter of debate. It's none of the debater's business.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
It also probably helped that the CA business wasn't Symantec's bread-and-butter.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
How else will advertisers know every permutation of a comment I went to type out?
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I didn't use adblock on my phone until recently because until Brave came out, it was such a pain in the ass (root, vpn, etc). But eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I got regular reminders of how badly ads have ruined the mode
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Nothing makes me want to sign up for your newsletter less than having it interrupt what I'm reading.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Look at the patterns in the body. A seasoned engineer can certainly make do with what he's got.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Every time I come across a mention of videotext I'm reminded that marketing-friendly industry buzzwords are nothing new. "Video" was the era's token tech buzzword. Videotape, videotext, Video Hits 1, "video dialtone
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by ashleyn 8y ago
123456 That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage!
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Children watching too much television was a hot topic at the time. I remember reading about a "psychic" working for the government who made predictions for 2015. Curiously grounded in his contemporary time, he predicted a backlash
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Not insurmountable I would gather. Probably just need microscale heat pipes. Then again, I dunno physics well enough to know this won't work.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
There was a great Calvin and Hobbes that went something like this. Calvin says he got done reading a sci-fi story where computers take over the world. Hobbes remarks it's pretty scary, then Calvin alarmingly changes the subject to note
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I was going to say, "Jesus Christ did one guy actually manage to write a fully standards-conformant C++ parser?"
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by ashleyn 8y ago
https://www.unseen64.net/2010/03/22/perfect-dark-beta-multip...
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Java ushered in with it, a sort of tunnel vision that class-based inheritance was _the_ fundamental theorem of business programming. When people see prototypal inheritance like in JS, they call it "quirky" or "poorly designed
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by ashleyn 8y ago
The rise of cheap internet is what ushered this away. Even the original GE devs saw it coming. Perfect Dark, the followup using the same team and engine, was originally slated to ship with a modem and RJ-11 jack in the cartridge.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Pretty obvious stuff we can agree on, like "hate is wrong" and "facts are indisputable."
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I mean, George Carlin said this best. Garbage in, garbage out. Maybe something else sucks around here...like the public. Before this decade, the Internet was by and large an aristocracy of liberal, competent tech workers discussing their ca

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