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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
I didn't mention IHttpClientFactory - just HttpClient. I will concede that ASP manages to be confusing quite often. As for the latter, guidelines are not requirements anymore than "RTFM" is; You can use HttpClient without rea
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
A lot of people online have convinced themselves that "tax deductible" means that the government would refund you that dollar amount. That's a "tax credit "... If forwarded donations were a tax credit, then yes, ro
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
The boilerplate of not having sane defaults. .NET is much simpler: using HttpClient client = new(); HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("https://..."); if (response.StatusCode is HttpStatus
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
Wine doesn't emulate the NT kernel; Just the NT and Win32 userspace APIs. For example, Wine provides a `kernel32.dll` that maps API calls into the appropriate Linux ones. Anything kernel level is operating "below" Wine.
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
Forwarded donations are not tax-deductible (in the US); That's a lie that's been spread around the internet. If you give a company money with the express purpose of them forwarding it to someone else (the company acts as a "c
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
> Donate to the Wine Development Fund by cash, cheque, or international money order in US dollars.
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
Content. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
I read OP as saying it is transformative, at least for them. Whether it's transformative for society is left to be decided.
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
When we stopped paying for things. Seriously. If you pay for software, you can modify it. If you pay Google, they’ll modify it for you. Yes, the EULA may prohibit modifications of local installations, but you’re not physically restricted fr
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
Because the government needs to know who you are to do anything involving you. Taxes, drivers' licenses, passports, courts, etc.
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by colejohnson66 7mo ago
It's my belief the Disney+ EULA claim was just the lawyers doing the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" shtick (no pun intended). They knew it was likely to not hold up, but tried it anyway because, if it did,
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I'm locking down updates until Nvidia's drivers and Windows gain back my trust(windowscentral.com)
4 points by colejohnson66 7mo ago|2 comments
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96.5% of confusables.txt from Unicode is not high-risk(paultendo.github.io)
2 points by colejohnson66 8mo ago|0 comments
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by colejohnson66 8mo ago
Not always. Sometimes it’s as simple as: settling is cheaper than proving you’re “clear” at trial.
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The Worst Programmer I Know(dannorth.net)
21 points by colejohnson66 8mo ago|2 comments
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by colejohnson66 9mo ago
Last comment was just over 5 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=soc
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by colejohnson66 9mo ago
Onion/Tor has horrendous latency and throughput. Latency is bearable, but dial-up speeds for downloading can drive one insane.
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The Cost of Software Libraries(posts.cgamedev.com)
4 points by colejohnson66 9mo ago|0 comments
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Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode(righto.com)
3 points by colejohnson66 10mo ago|0 comments
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What Do We Tell the Humans?(theaidigest.org)
3 points by colejohnson66 10mo ago|0 comments
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Apple hit with $115M fine for "burdensome" App Store privacy policy(arstechnica.com)
3 points by colejohnson66 10mo ago|1 comments
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by colejohnson66 10mo ago
Any press is good press, amirite?
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by colejohnson66 10mo ago
Somewhat. Stallman claims to have tried to make it modular,[0] but also that he wants to avoid "misuse of [the] front ends".[1] The idea is that you should link the front and back ends, to prevent out-of-process GPL runarounds.
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by colejohnson66 10mo ago
And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you. Unless you’re the only deli in town.
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by colejohnson66 10mo ago
Could try 1 per IPv4 address? There’s just barely enough!
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by colejohnson66 10mo ago
No he’s not. Disney still owns the trademark on the signature mouse. What’s in the public domain is Steamboat Willy.
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Windows 11 update names drop YYYY-MM(windowslatest.com)
7 points by colejohnson66 1y ago|0 comments
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by colejohnson66 1y ago
And for x86-64 Windows builds, you should be testing using an x86-64 Windows machine, not Rosetta 2
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by colejohnson66 1y ago
That’s what Guix did. All the way back to a 357 byte assembly code blob that turns a hex file into a binary file, and can “compile” itself.
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C Undefined Behavior(eskimo.com)
16 points by colejohnson66 1y ago|0 comments

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