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eviks
10mo ago
> Then any solutions is broken in this way. Nope, you're just doing the same thing - purposefully ignoring the issue to make your non-solution comparable... > Even my bluetooth speaker comes with a manual. ... in this case - the
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10mo ago
> It is, but do they even know about the problems? No, that's what I said - they may lack knowledge.
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10mo ago
What's the reward for trivializing real issues and coming up with broken "solutions"? > It's very easy to type `apropos ffmpeg` No it's not. First, that's not a Windows command, so right off the bat you'
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10mo ago
the flow that doesn't require you to open a different tab or cancel a command to `man` your way through dozens of poorly searchable pages of documentation, but allows you to continue translating what you want in your mind into the inte
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10mo ago
> It is in the interest of CFs customers to be as accessible as possible, after all. But since in reality there is friction, there is no magic mechanism to make those interest force CF to implement a better system as, for example, the cu
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10mo ago
Yeah, no, that's a pale imitation that only addresses the one specific example given. But, like, how would you even know what target formats are supported? Break the flow and look it up or simply read the drop-down list? The free type-
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10mo ago
That's the problem ideally solved by typed data, i.e., some UI where instead of trying to memorize whether it's thumb/s/nails you can read the closed list of alternatives, read contextual help and pick one
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eviks
10mo ago
The "provided" isn't provided, of course, especially the learning part, that's not what you'd turn to AI for vs more reliable tutoring alternatives
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10mo ago
> Only if your invocation of pip manages to avoid an Internet request. Yes it does, by definition, the topic of discussion is the impact of unused code paths? How is http cache relevant here? That's a used path!
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10mo ago
> binaries have to get loaded into memory. Unless memory mapped by the OS with no impact on runtime for unused parts? > imports related to Requests are deferred Exactly, so again have no impact?
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10mo ago
> Every code path you don’t have is a code path you don’t wait for. No, every code path you don't execute is that. Like > No .egg support. How does that explain anything if the egg format is obsolete and not used? Similar with sp
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10mo ago
If you understand neither the content not the context, you have nothing to base the look assessment on
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10mo ago
The issue here is not tracking, but developing. Like, how do you explain the fact that whole classes of software have gotten worse on those "key metrics"? (and that includes web-selling webpages)
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10mo ago
> Why should I trust that your CVE even exists at all - let alone is indeed "critical" and worth ruining Christmas over? No reason, of course, the was no Christmas involved: > Report submitted via Huntr – December 4th, 2025
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10mo ago
Security research often looks dramatic from the outside. In reality, it is usually the mundane work of asking AI to make up dramatic stories
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10mo ago
> first things I calibrate away How? Do you expect every user to have an easier access to color calibration hardware devices to fix this issue compared to a software fix they could find after some googling??? > auto-dimming feature wh
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10mo ago
Indeed, the seductive nature of bad tools lying close to your hand - no need to lift your butt to get them!
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10mo ago
It's also not hard to fix in software, just like the original poster has done, without any ugly patches that can slide off leaving sticky residue
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10mo ago
They aren't, otherwise you wouldn't have to pick the lightest of them and pick only 1
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10mo ago
> Did I do anything productive or meaningful with it? Absolutely not. > I could finally watch 480 YouTube videos instead of 360 What’s meaningless about this big upgrade in quality? So with that and the misconceptions like "You c
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10mo ago
Write better notes, you've missed all the more important reasons!
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10mo ago
> Because none of this involves a focussed reading That's not a pro, thats an incorrect rejection of the pro of the alternative. The thing is is that it does not preclude focused reading, I don't understand why you make up th
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10mo ago
> Hunting for a job is a full-time occupation. Doing so while maintaining high performance at a demanding job like YouTube is a recipe for cognitive fracture. You don't need to maintain it that high, just enough not to get fired wit
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10mo ago
Not really, you can't. For example, you might have a service that lies dormant using 0.1mb of memory and then does some scanning/maintenance once a week and uses 50% CPU for 5 minues with 100m memory. Also, checking those dozens o
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10mo ago
Is there any info on the impact of such tools, like do they have any specific performance improvements (startup time, memory use)? How much Gb of bloat is actually removed?
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10mo ago
Now that you've shifted the goalposts back closer to the original discussion, what's your point? Yes, you can leak the "nonexisting" file in multiple ways, including the printed one, and yes, "accidents" happen
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10mo ago
> The web has supported these basic functions for over a decade. Surely in the year 2025, I thought, HTML5 is a good choice for these simple needs. > What really happened was, I hit over 50 surprising problems related to gaps in web s
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10mo ago
you can get Vivaldi outside the UK, the issue is the web engine, is it different in the UK?
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10mo ago
> someone understanding the limits of the people they delegate to, and putting in a process so that delegation to even a very dumb person still has successful Oh, man, is he the only smart person in the whole department of >100k emplo
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10mo ago
But that's a destructive operation! I mean, sure, you can make the whole paragraph/page blank, but presumably the goal is to share the report removing only the necessary minimum?
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