delta_p_delta_x

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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
You only need (5) (see the AWCCWINUI3APP thing there?). There is also a group policy equivalent to this: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Device Installation\Device Installation Restrictions Prevent installation
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> All the major tools for advanced work are Linux-based No, they aren't. Linux hasn't yet got anything remotely close to PDB symbol servers and WinDbg's record-replay debugging. perf is... an attempt. Source: worked on Win
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
*.cpl, *.msc, etc are Windows sysadmins' (and developers') bread and butter; Microsoft will never get rid of them. I am betting (maybe hoping...?) that Windows 12 will undo the changes in Windows 8, 10, and 11 as bad experiments a
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Use autounattend.xml[1] to pre-configure an image before installation. This is what corporate sysadmins have done in the past three decades to administer Windows NT fleets. Use PowerShell and various admin modules to configure an online ins
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> Why do we even have that lever For plug-and-play devices with multiple configuration knobs. It is nice to be able to click through a printer wizard to configure how one wants to print their documents. Likewise with an audio interface:
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> Linux won't ever do this BS. Arch Linux's AUR was recently hit by an actual malware supply-chain attack[1], which I would claim is arguably worse than adware. NPM is regularly in the news for supply-chain attacks. And then
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Edited with another method.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
Workaround: gpedit.msc Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata Set to enabled OK On home editions sa
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
> In some ways, the schwa sound in English the worst as there is no symbol which is committed even partially towards it. > English imports spellings from other cultures and adds its own layer of pronunciations. Other languages probabl
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
I wouldn't say 'neither', because by your own example, 'a' in English can represent ⟨ə⟩. That every other vowel letter also can is English's low level of phoneticism with respect to the script it uses. Many o
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
It's pretty funny reading comments on social media by north Indians whenever something on Sanskrit is posted. 'It's Ram, not Rama, it's yog, not yoga'... And they have no idea what schwa deletion is.
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
I have a better solution: address the root cause of unsafe semantics by not using raw indexed for-loops, unless one absolutely needs an index, in which case one should generate it with std::views::enumerate. To reverse it, use std::views::e
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
This is called automatic type inference, and it is a big feature of functional programming languages, many of which are very strongly typed. Also, for the record, C++ gained type inference about a decade and a half ago. In C++ one can dec
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by delta_p_delta_x 3mo ago
That is what the parent author means. Static vs dynamic typing is along the dimension of when the type is checked, and strong vs weak typing is a matter of how strongly bound names adhere to types. JS, for instance, is super weak here,
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Brussels effect, please do your magic; thanks.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Some context conveniently left out of here, the Reddit post, and the Twitter cross-post: > Scattered Spider has been involved in hacks resulting in more than $100m (£75m) in ransom payments, according to the DoJ. > The charges come af
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Not to mention the fact that English basically everywhere else but the US is essentially en-GB with a few choice changes and anachronisms. Consider en-IN, en-IE, en-SG, en-MY, en-AU, en-NZ, etc.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> Linux based mobile OS So, Android?
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
What you didn't have was a computerised database which could spam everyone on that list in milliseconds, or profile everyone's character, purchase history, medical history, and more. We used to do a lot of worse stuff too, like ea
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> Leaking PII should be very, very expensive It should be criminal to leak PII, and company leadership should face imprisonment.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> all the stupid hardware config apps Similar pet peeve, and I think the solution to this is the platform setting, adopting, and enforcing conventions. Something like what has happened with notebook trackpads[1] about a decade ago, and m
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> Migrate Windows to the Linux kernel and get Linux compartibility out of the box If I had a quid for every time I saw this comment on HN or Reddit I would probably be as wealthy as Gates himself. It is always an instant downvote for me,
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> It should be installable, just via a package management system I disagree. .NET is fundamental to the Windows platform. It's like having a Python runtime installed by default in some Linux distros, which makes sense for that distr
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
> no .NET Not quite sure about this. .NET is a superb platform, easy to write reasonably good code, huge standard library, well-maintained, many languages supporting a wide variety of paradigms (C#, VB, F#, PowerShell, C++). .NET is one
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
I don't understand the surprise in this article. This particular story is absolutely nothing new—the Germans and Japanese did it first to the US car market, which is inefficient, stuck in a bygone era, and propped up by government prot
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Military-technological industrial complex. Has always been a thing. Nascent WW2 computers were used for artillery, rocket, and bomb guiding.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Indeed. I mention this in light of the high-profile supply-chain attacks recently across diverse platforms (Arch AUR, Shai-Hulud, etc). Any online tool that purports to modify an entire install medium should be heavily and continually scrut
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
I did. You said: > to get a NEW ISO which you then install This is not good.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
To anyone reading this: please don't use ISOs downloaded from not-official sources. Use an autounattend.xml, the mass graves, and a WinGet JSON to customise an online image. [1]: https://schneegans.de/windows/unatt
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by delta_p_delta_x 4mo ago
Cue Jeremy Clarkson's 'Oh no! Anyway...' GIF.

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