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by buckminster 6y ago
We're all being forced into a medical experiment against our will. Might as well be a useful one.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Where I live Waze ensures that quiet parallel roads are a thing of the past.
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by buckminster 6y ago
This. Twenty years ago, if you reported a bug to MS and they agreed it was a bug and they agreed to fix it then you might actually have working code in three years time when the next version of Windows was released. Five years after that
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by buckminster 6y ago
If all of their "forever" music dated back to middle school you might have a point but they say the list has grown over time.
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by buckminster 6y ago
The "professional experts" are not interested in usability. They care only about sales and/or engagement. You can see this in every consumer product, not just software.
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by buckminster 6y ago
Yet weirdly, even with its "oversized" elements a typical Windows XP dialog still managed to present far more information on the screen than the corresponding Windows 10 dialog. Almost like the removal of scrollbars had nothing to
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by buckminster 6y ago
You're probably right, but consider the other side. If you remove the FAANGs from consideration (a heavy weight on the non-remote side of the scales) then the remote work premium would look even better.
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by buckminster 6y ago
There has been no suggestion that this debt will be cancelled. If a family can barely make ends meet in normal times, how will they pay back several months' rent arrears? And what will happen when they don't?
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by buckminster 6y ago
There is a difference though. Some people really can taste wine blind and tell you, for example, what grape was used and where it was grown. A relative of mine with this skill used to win wine tasting competitions. But nobody can disting
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by buckminster 6y ago
This has been done. Spoiler: the virus is not from the lab. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
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by buckminster 6y ago
I think they mean UI stability, not reliability.
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by buckminster 6y ago
It's not just the logon screen. In many apps if you type CTRL+O followed by a file name to bring up the File Open dialog and populate the name field then the application frequently loses the first few characters of the file name. Or
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by buckminster 6y ago
Exactly the same problem occurs with legislation. For years this was solved by third-parties publishing enormous annotated legal references. Nowadays the government (in the UK anyway) publishes legislation online incorporating all the edi
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by buckminster 6y ago
So the bonus has been returned?
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by buckminster 6y ago
My website runs contemporary Debian on a 128MB VM. You don't need special measures to run in 256MB.
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by buckminster 6y ago
That's good news. Last time I looked, more than a decade ago admittedly, that bug was WONTFIX. In fact I was so surprised I just wrote a test program. They have fixed it! It was the dumbest bug I ever saw in Windows. It was special cas
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by buckminster 6y ago
Plain text version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=828565428
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by buckminster 6y ago
What you need is some guy to make a few half-assed changes to spellings that don't actually come anywhere close to fixing the problem, but are just enough to create incompatibility with other users of the language. :)
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by buckminster 6y ago
N is a variable. It might be INT_MAX so the compiler cannot optimise the loop for any value of N. Unless you make this UB.
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by buckminster 7y ago
>> [...] whether it is a problem with their tool or a problem with their setup, to the point that they can deploy a new version of their software on the spot just for you. > I'm not impressed. This is a kludge. So how woul
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by buckminster 7y ago
How much do you want it? https://www.redcarpethomecinema.com/
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by buckminster 7y ago
Paragraphs quoted like this are unreadable. Please don't.
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by buckminster 7y ago
Cheers. I'm currently putting extra oil down the sides just before baking. This works pretty well but creates a loaf that's somewhat greasy to the touch. It tastes OK though.
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by buckminster 7y ago
What sort of container are you using for the rise/bake? I use a similar low-effort recipe for focaccia but I find it tends to stick to the tin.
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by buckminster 7y ago
As the article notes, the UK's tornadoes are generally weak. It's national news if a single house loses a roof. We don't get massive twisters marching through towns cutting a swathe of destruction.
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by buckminster 7y ago
> The TV receives broadcast media - it doesn't send anything out. Old school CRT TVs and monitors most definitely rebroadcast what they are displaying [1]. Modern TVs still do, but not at the same power levels. I would guess that
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by buckminster 7y ago
It's a good overview of the Dutch response. I found it interesting. Most such articles aren't written in English so this is far more accessible. If you didn't want us reading it you should have used Dutch :-)
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by buckminster 7y ago
I agree that a dumb signature validation will have TOCTOU problems but the solution is better validation, not to abandon signatures.
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by buckminster 7y ago
It is effectively a kidnapping. The kidnapper gets a ransom. Otherwise known as a reward for “information leading to the return” of the stolen painting.
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by buckminster 7y ago
This was a problem when recordable CDs were first available. The retail CD writers had really small buffers, and a contemporary PC could barely supply data fast enough. If you touched the mouse while recording the CD instantly turned into a

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