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I think everybody has a horror story about code depending on the empty string and NULL being the same, silly stuff like that can trip up migrations. The main reason I'd say is that there's no functional benefit to ripping out a da
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Since you're someone who welcomes splitting hairs: "meaning" and "origin" are different things.
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The one time security through obscurity would have helped them?
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Don't limit your thinking to taking photos - video also works fine. It's how The Mandalorian is produced. Instead of green screens, the actors are in front of floor-to-ceiling LED screens with live rendered CGI. In old movies, goi
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by bux93 1y ago
The alternative is seeing a news report that says "Sabotage by hostile nation and/or terrorists not ruled out!" - obviously the airline will do root-cause analysis and find out who screwed the pooch.
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See also https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-datab...
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by bux93 1y ago
The great achievement of OOP is that it inspires such passion. In essence OOP is just, "hey, if you have a struct and a bunch of operations that operate on that struct, let's put the name of the struct and a dot in front of the na
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by bux93 1y ago
Sounds like a job for a block chain!
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The problem highlighted here is that AI summaries misrepresent the original stories. This just opens a flood gate of slop that is 45% worse than the source, which wasn't stellar to begin with as you point out.
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Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
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Firing a company's boss and appointing a trustee is uncommon, but it happens. E.g. at IT service provider Centric, where the majority owner and CEO had a mental breakdown. Employees suffered from his delusions, but it also threatened t
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by bux93 1y ago
There are some databases with spending habits, so you can compare your spending to folks with similar households, and some prudent guidelines. But it's not rocket science and a bit silly. You don't really need to remind sneakerhea
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And this is only becoming worse in recent years. "Contact your administrator", "We are working on updates.." - I recently spent 10 minutes trying to find the actual location a powerpoint was saved to since every iteratio
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by bux93 1y ago
Styles are also b0rken in interesting ways. Have you ever tried to change the default style to justified, and headings to left-aligned? How does that work out for you in tables? Table styles in general lack all kinds of support. Auto-number
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by bux93 1y ago
I activated a Thai SIM (True) inside of Europe before traveling no problem, so it's not a technical limitation. I think brands like Saily that specifically target travelers are also activated beforehand, so when you arrive you immediat
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by bux93 1y ago
In 30 places, it's also very illegal to do business with vendors who ransom your data, if you're in finance, i.e. an entity covered by the Digital Operational Resilience Act; NIS2 (27 places) doesn't spell it out but also req
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by bux93 1y ago
It's the same reason police (in every country) are always asking for more powers, and then end up not using them effectively. It's a cycle where crime is not perfectly prevented/punished, politicians blame the police, police
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by bux93 1y ago
Egyptian inscriptions used alternate hieroglyphics to hide meaning. Substitution ciphers were known to the Romans. Those involve mathing, although only a bit of addition. The Vigenère cipher is only hundreds, rather than thousands of years
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by bux93 1y ago
This is essentially what you do as step 1 when color correcting in Davinci Resolve, but only for white (or, anything that's grayscale). Select a spot that's white/gray, click on the white balance picker, and the white balance
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It has to do with him driving the conversation to a specific point in the narrative; academics tend to meander and go off on tangents, but he invited three of them and the next topic is the point of expertise of the following person. You ca
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I mean, the thing is, the warranty starts automatically, there's no need to register or activate anything. As per EU consumer protection laws (the author lives in Spain). As for finding service manuals and user manuals - maybe what the
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by bux93 1y ago
It's not like this kind of thing doesn't happen in the professional world - in fact, quite the opposite. The incentives to cut corners in a company are if anything greater than in open source, with pressure from management to meet
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But then, he's purposely comparing it to the .com bubble - that bubble had some underlying merit. He could compare it to NFTs, the metaverse, the South Sea Company. It wouldn't make sense for him to say it's not a bubble when
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by bux93 1y ago
>For best results, it is recommended to use these fonts with the following color scheme (as used here on this web page): > Foreground: black (#000000) (Ink) > Background: white (#FFFFFF) (Paper) What about the alternating green bar
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At least this time it's not an entire Buddhist monk. https://web.archive.org/web/20241119222821/http://www.histor...
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And that report has this to say: "Our analysis reveals that GenAI-driven workforce reductions concentrate in functions historically treated as non-core business activities: customer support operations, administrative processing, and st
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It is.
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Those corporate taxes are only paid by small companies. The Netherland has a decades old strategy of being "business friendly" - if you're a huge corporate. This culminates in two things. One, The Netherlands has the most tax
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The regulatory requirement is there for a reason. Whenever you see a statement like that it means that the accountant they hired is covering their ass so they don't get sued if the company DOES go bankrupt. Even though the company is p
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Without open shell, you can fairly easily ignore the start menu by just starting to type after you press the win-button; it sanely defaults to search. Then you just set the main taskbar to align to the left and remove the search bar and wha

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