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9y ago
What do you use LinkedIn for?
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9y ago
Nytimes has nowhere near the influence facebook does, and it’s way less unhealthy of a behavior as one of myriad similar sources. They average out to being harder to manipulate than facebook is. Or at the very least, more expensive.
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9y ago
You know if you stopped smoking in your early twenties they’re not likely to affect you when 63. So this is more like smoking crack in your twenties.
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9y ago
Well to be fair “GB” could refer to either prefix.
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9y ago
At some point, a kilobyte was 1024 bytes. Now, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, and 1024 bytes is a kibibyte. I mean, it does make sense. But it just sounds off to me.
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9y ago
That’s actually true of angular 2 as well, so the quote is just false. Angular 2’s dysfunction has little to do with dogfooding.
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9y ago
I mean, software companies will spin ads any way they can to get engineers interested. That’s their prerogative. It doesn’t mean any of it is true—the world is 100% worse off due to ads, and no amount of smooth scrolling animations is going
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9y ago
TIL they just completely redefined a kilobyte a while ago.
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9y ago
The nature of the relationship is unknown. Even if Kaspersky is bought by Putin in some way, it’s not clear what the terms and expectations are. It does seem unlikely that the commercial offering is straight up spyware for putin—why would a
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9y ago
This is true. But i’m ok with stupidity hurting individuals—at least in terms of compromise—i’m less ok with default settings being potentially insecure one day.
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9y ago
I mean, I’d rather just not have internet connected devices at all. But the internet is a commons, and people who don’t patch ruin it for everyone. But, there’s a difference between auto update by default and forced updates. And there’s, ag
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9y ago
Do for their own good? I see this as for the collective good, as most of the people hurt by unpatched software are NOT microsoft but people, small businesses, and the victims of the resulting botnets. Obviously if you know what this is you