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by gary_0 3y ago
Memory safety in C++ would be easy if everyone everywhere used std::vector.at(), avoided all manual memory management, only used safe libraries, and enabled the tooling that fails builds if any C-isms (like implicit casts) are used. That&#x
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by gary_0 3y ago
I think as long as you're not setting out to start a tech company with thousands of employees, or branch out into a sector with the word "cloud" in it, you'll be fine. Only unreasonably big ambitions cost billions. A pro
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by gary_0 3y ago
> I don't know if Bryan has an MBA An MBA from the Sun Microsystems School of Hard Knocks, maybe. Otherwise I don't think so.
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by gary_0 3y ago
This works for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20240215162623/https://www.newsc...
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by gary_0 3y ago
Thanks, that's the one! I was actually just trying to find it. Heh, I forgot about the anime catgirl part.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Something I've been waiting to see from language package managers is more attention paid to security. I believe both cargo and pip packages can run arbitrary code as the local user the instant they are installed, and malicious packages
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by gary_0 3y ago
Before they switched to pro-evil, Google used to ban you from their index if you did that (show them one thing, and human visitors something else).
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by gary_0 3y ago
If I wanted to I could get used to reading Lisp. I could also get used to reading Klingon. But I never had to get used to reading Python.
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by gary_0 3y ago
s/photoshop/airbrush I vaguely recall seeing some fairly convincing B&W Soviet-era photos (I think they had Stalin in them) where people were removed and other people moved around to fill the gap. And document forgery for the
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by gary_0 3y ago
Does it allow sandboxing, or is Lua still the only good option for that? There are so many cases where you'd rather not give extension scripts unlimited access to the OS and file system, you'd think this option would be more commo
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by gary_0 3y ago
The details of the error weren't the point of my example. And being that terse sounds like you're barking orders at the user. Once again, shortness is fine for programmer communication, but personally for an end user just going ab
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by gary_0 3y ago
It depends on the message, but a "Sorry" can set the right tone so a user doesn't feel "yelled at". Omitting the pleasantry might make things seem too terse. Sorry, your e-mail failed to send. Your e-mail failed to
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by gary_0 3y ago
I really wish it didn't need to be asked. Be polite, professional, respectful, succinct, and for the love of god don't try to be cute. Is that so hard?
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by gary_0 3y ago
> admitting that something is complicated is different from saying it is not the case. I agree. I do think "too many people take convenient science metaphors as literal" is a valid concern, especially when it comes to pedagogy,
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by gary_0 3y ago
I think this is the result you'd get if Oxide Computer went through IBM's digestive tract.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Beyond that, if "free speech" trumps proof of harm or criminal intent, then all forms of fraud would be legal. Fortunately, the legal system is not that stupid.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Virtually every country on Earth has laws that apply when you make false accusations that cause real-world harm, and there is a long history of such trials in the US, so I fail to see how this has "big stakes for free speech".
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by gary_0 3y ago
Well, technically they're using it as an analogy to make accusations of gross scientific misconduct, but same diff. If an Alex Jones-style criminal is sending their mob after you, you have a much bigger problem than someone just disagr
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by gary_0 3y ago
I wonder if anyone would take me seriously if I suggested WASM as a configuration language. When run, the WASM would be given imports that provide a small API for manipulating the config DOM, and importing and executing further WASM files.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Curiosity as a safeguard is an interesting thought. An AI might be disinclined to kill all humans for whatever reason if it considers the result boring. On the other hand, maybe it would also want to force humans to be more interesting fo
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by gary_0 3y ago
I would have said to just use dot-org once upon at time, but then this happened: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-... In the meantime, at least thepiratebay.org is still up... and n
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by gary_0 3y ago
I do that as well, but nothing gets through anyways because I'm not running Wordpress or a version of Apache from 2012. I also have nginx set up to reject connections without the expected 'Host' header, and that quickly bounc
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by gary_0 3y ago
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by gary_0 3y ago
I don't think there's that kind of singleminded focus in other entertainment industries, is there? Only a few movies or streaming shows are that pigeon-holed; usually the broader the demographics, the better. I would say comic boo
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by gary_0 3y ago
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by gary_0 3y ago
It's kind of weird how much of the gaming industry still caters to the teenage boy demographic.
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by gary_0 3y ago
If I told a lady I had a fondleslab in my pocket, that would earn me a slap.
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by gary_0 3y ago
What's a "fondleslab"?

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