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by cillian64 11y ago
The really big thing for me is persistence. If you want your client to stay online when you are not, things get very painful. Bouncers are a pain to setup, command-line IRC clients are awful, and I've seen countless people horribly co
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by cillian64 11y ago
> it's not unheard of to value an S&P index fund at 10% over that period! It's also not unheard of for shares to double in value over a short period, but you don't know in advance which ones. Quite simply, you are very
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by cillian64 11y ago
This would be true if the ads came from something carrier-installed, but this ad was pushed by HTC Sense. This is HTC's fault, not the carriers.
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by cillian64 11y ago
If you make my huge NumPy arrays immutable, I will be very unhappy (unless I am significantly misunderstanding how this everything-is-immutable strategy works). There might be a lot to be said for rust-style immutable-by-default.
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by cillian64 11y ago
Urgh, I made the mistake of trying out the Classics Online HD.LL mentioned in the article. I had to make an account before I could actually find out the payment/subscription details, and only after getting that far did I discover that
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by cillian64 11y ago
Can you confirm whether this is specific to videos or whether it includes images? I just received a rather generic and very unexpected MMS from a friend and wonder if there's a worm on the loose already.
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by cillian64 11y ago
As I understand it this will log all passwords anyone enters -- even correct ones. This seems like a terrible idea, or at the very least should be used only after careful consideration. Even logging incorrect passwords is a bad idea, du
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by cillian64 11y ago
Is there anything suggesting it's SourceForge itself doing this and not just (an improbably widespread, admittedly) set of account breaches? It makes sense -- acquire accounts, enable ads, profit.
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by cillian64 11y ago
I can't replicate your "Android UI failed" problem on a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1
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by cillian64 12y ago
I just confirmed this works on my BT landline, albeit with a 60 second timeout. I can't believe I never knew this was a thing
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by cillian64 12y ago
It's hardly the only area where a paid-for experience includes obviously unwanted advertising. Further, I don't see that consumers have much choice if they don't want to reinstall a fresh OS -- every major brand of PC I know