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541.
by cout 5y ago
Perhaps they hoped to gain information about the attackers though paying or negotiating. In that case.
542.
by cout 5y ago
At first I thought you were kidding, but I looked it up and it is true: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54591761
543.
by cout 5y ago
How typical is it for an apology/statement of this nature after an event makes the news? Is there any precedent?
544.
by cout 5y ago
If amazon is so bad (and my experience agrees that it is), why hasn't anyone stepped up to offer a viable alternative? The closest competitor I know of is walmart, but given the items they carry in their stores, it's hard to conv
545.
by cout 5y ago
Some of my favorite tools are from harbor freight. As an example, the 1/4" ratchet with composite handle is such a pleasure to use compared to any other ratchet I've owned. I thought it was a gimmick, but I gave it a shot
546.
by cout 5y ago
But you couldn't write to CD-ROM, so they weren't a full replacement. What killed the 2.88 MB disk IMO was Iomega's Zip disk. By the time I was in high school, they were commonplace and moving to replace the floppy disk for
547.
by cout 5y ago
I once heard someone tell me that good OOP ends up looking very functional. I've taken that to heart, and I believe the code I write is better as a result. I do use the `class` keyword in my js, but I'm also on a team of C++&#x2F
548.
by cout 5y ago
Adequate, meaning good enough, but with room for improvement?
549.
by cout 5y ago
Market makers, which are required to maintain a quote, have been known to put in a bid at $1, knowing it will never actually execute. Until the price drops below a dollar, which it turns out does occasionally happen. Oops.
550.
by cout 5y ago
I'm trying to remember how we used to store it -- decimalization was 20 years ago this year! I think we had a discriminant for the denominator, so it wasn't a rational type, but we could also easily represent both fractional and d
551.
by cout 5y ago
At a previous job (over a decade ago), I worked on software that stored prices in centipennies. I'm pretty sure it's no longer in production. At least, I hope it isn't. But these things sometimes surprise me. A few years a
552.
by cout 5y ago
I would love to see a language with exactly what you described, but with dictionaries instead of lists as the fundamental data structure.
553.
by cout 5y ago
IME the problem with inheritance in C++ is that it is so easy programmers reach for it instinctively, even when another tool might be a better choice in the long term. I definitely use inheritance in my c++ code, but as I've grown (an
554.
by cout 5y ago
That's also been my experience. I've also seen programmers use composition and delegation solely to avoid inheritance (in a language that makes it natural), and the result is often less maintainable than a design that just uses i
555.
by cout 5y ago
Reference counting and a last resort GC? If you had asked me which language that describes, I would have said python. I had no idea it owed that design to simula.
556.
by cout 5y ago
Am I crazy or does this sound a lot like the promises made about Java 25 years ago? What's different this time that's going to make bytecode web assembly succeed where Java didn't? (Speaking of Java, I just realized that the
557.
by cout 6y ago
As a user, why would I want to switch to Wayland in the first place? Years ago I remember dreading firing up XFree86 on a machine with only 4MB, opting to use svgalib apps instead. But I've been using XFree86/Xorg for two decades
558.
by cout 6y ago
Or perhaps it will make things worse, because mutually assured destruction is no longer as significant a threat.
559.
by cout 6y ago
I think you meant Europa? It's amusing to read though with Europe listed as an exotic space destination.
560.
by cout 6y ago
I thought the fun of owning transformers was figuring out how to make them transform, then figuring out how to make them transform in ways that weren't intended. I guess that's still possible, but probably beyond the ability of a
561.
by cout 6y ago
It wasn't very sophisticated when I used it 12 years ago, but it was "good enough". I know work has been done since then on the register allocator. No idea what the current state is.
562.
by cout 6y ago
I'm not sure how one could get much simpler than libjit. The first time I read the documentation I had a working jit for a toy language five minutes later, and less than a week after that I was jit-compiling Ruby code (not the full la
563.
by cout 6y ago
I wonder how many pieces of computing technology used today were put together in a single evening by a team of motivated developers. Rubygems, for example, was written in a couple of hours at the back of a hotel bar, then demoed (complete
564.
by cout 6y ago
> It would be hard to argue, that systemd-resolved is worse/more-limited/more error prone/buggy than dnsmasq. I'll take up that argument. On Ubuntu 14.04 (and I think also 16.04), systemd-resolved used to crash on my
565.
by cout 6y ago
There are more than two options. Some other options include building defenses against such weapons or actively working to subvert the other side's building process.
566.
by cout 6y ago
I was taught early on to "question everything", so it comes naturally. But it's really really tiring to do, when everything is at least a little bit wrong (and the things that are not obviously wrong are often the most insid
567.
by cout 6y ago
This is a great thing to do. I've found some old chat logs from 20 years ago, and I don't want to be the person who said some of those things. Why didn't I realize at the time that what I said was wrong to say? Life in an
568.
by cout 6y ago
That puts a completely different spin on MAGA than I've heard anyone talk about...
569.
by cout 6y ago
Huh. I would have picked Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, and Don Herbert. I guess I should start a rival Facebook group.
570.
by cout 6y ago
> I would use this but never knew this could be changed. Same here, but since it affects both the toolbar and the tab bar, I'm inclined to keep the density set to Normal except on small screens.

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