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by asveikau 8mo ago
I believe notepad was originally just a demo of the multi line edit control. Feature creep.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I thought that the VBscript engine, accessible from cscript.exe, also has a builtin JavaScript frontend. The idea being that both of these are a scripting language that can interact with COM objects. No idea if the various embeddings of VBS
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by asveikau 8mo ago
> Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do. I don't know what I did, but this has not been true of my account. A few years ago I did notice a sharp increase of AI slo
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by asveikau 8mo ago
This isn't black and white. Tons of people face little or no consequences for being idiots, but don't achieve the levels that Epstein did.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Maybe he considered himself beyond prosecution. So he didn't care that he arranged trafficking on Gmail under his real name. Additionally, if Gmail is a problem, Sergey Brin went to his events. In one document drop Joi Ito is asking hi
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Many people point to the bad spelling and grammar of these powerful, abusive people and they say wow, that's a flex. My own reaction is more like these people are stupid . It's not power that makes them write poorly. They're
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by asveikau 8mo ago
People see them on the screen so often they think they know them. I guess the term "parasocial relationship" has been common in the last few years to describe this. I guess for actors and other types of artist specifically, people
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by asveikau 8mo ago
> If [you] ... take pride in your secure code I don't object to most of what you're saying, but I take issue with this part. This happens to be an area where lapse or neglect can be taken as a moral failure. And here you are mo
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Nitpick, "Windows Native Development" also refers to the NT native subsystem, which would be basically coding against private APIs instead of Win32. From the title I thought that's what this was. Then I realized it was about
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Sorry, it's pretty clear that you like what ICE does and you're working backwards with what you think is a legal argument that justifies it. What ICE is reportedly doing has absolutely nothing in common with a lawful subpoena.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
This depends a lot on what manpage you're looking at. When I learned C more than 20 years ago, I found libc manpages a pretty good way to learn. For many functions in section 3, you can read the manpage and make an intelligent guess o
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by asveikau 8mo ago
That's not at all what I've been hearing from reports of people getting these. They find that they're not at all targeted. They frequently don't even know who the target is. The officers get asked for a warrant and th
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Dr. Oz is in the Epstein files. The email he wrote in October 2019 is especially odd. He reached out to FBI wanting information on interviews of victims. FBI blew him off. (EFTA00037405) Between the lines, this really reads to me like he wa
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Fisa doesn't have to be good for these phony sheet of paper warrants to be worse.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
> I don't think there is an expectation of privacy for things you literally post to the public, like social media Neither is there an expectation that automation would slurp it up and build a database on you and everyone else. Maybe
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I also personally think there are some private collections we should ban, or put in place limitations on how it can be used, in the interest of general privacy. That is trickier to decide on and surely there's room to debate.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
In some cases yes, especially when it comes to surveillance, the distinction doesn't feel like very much. When the government hires a contractor specifically because they break the spirit of the 4th amendment, it's hard to argue t
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I don't disagree with the sentiment. I feel like what we're seeing lately is that private companies are doing the thing that would violate the 4th amendment if government did it , then they sell to the government. The idea that i
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by asveikau 8mo ago
The difference is that a government can take personal liberty away from people in the most direct way. A private company can't decide to lock somebody away in prison or send them to death row. (Hopefully anyway.) So we put a higher sta
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by asveikau 9mo ago
> I don't really see any other solution, can you explain it? One reason a wealth tax is controversial and less precedented is that it taxes unrealized gains. Another alternative would be to raise taxes on high income rather than wea
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I feel like public discussion of this has been outgoing since around 12 years ago when Thomas Piketty's book came out.
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by asveikau 9mo ago
Yes, it would need support from lower level code. But then, so does C -- many things that an OS needs to do, such as installing interrupt handlers, changing the current page table pointer, jumping into a target process already in progress,
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by asveikau 9mo ago
Given that we are talking about JavaScript, I meant the former. The latter is pretty much the status quo in terms of the state of the art. Most kernels aren't built with automatic reference counting, reference counted objects are ple
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by asveikau 9mo ago
My source for that is I was on the Windows team at Microsoft from 2008-2011. I learned a bunch of this history from talking to coworkers who were there. I specifically recall people talking about c# in the kernel.
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I think she is a polarizing figure to some, but journalist Taylor Lorenz has been complaining about this sort of thing for a long time. She has been increasingly warning about a future in which we need to scan IDs for all of our online serv
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by asveikau 9mo ago
> I vaguely remember hearing about someone trying to use .Net in the Windows kernel. Microsoft did that, it was called Longhorn. That release cycle was long delayed and they abandoned most of its ambitious projects, especially C# in the
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by asveikau 9mo ago
> And, if so, does that mean that once the API has been bootstrapped, one could actually write an OS in js? I bet somebody has done that. https://www.google.com/search?q=os+kernel+in+javascript Seems like a small number
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by asveikau 9mo ago
You're doing politics right now in your attempt to shut down political discussion you don't like. It is supremely naive to think you can excise political discussion, and if you're wondering why people are so upset at techie
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I always thought it was ridiculous that HN had a "no politics" rule. It is arrogance to think you can segment "politics" and confine it and then be above it somehow by using this as an excuse to not have discussions that
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by asveikau 9mo ago
This community and others like it are so weird in that if they see something as stable as sudo but without recent commits, rather than conclude that it's solid and doesn't need further changes, they see it as some kind of a proble

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