gjsman-1000

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1981.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
The author seems to be under the misimpression that CreateFile() is only used whenever the user opens a file. "I opened a file in Photoshop, that called CreateFile() once, right?" Heck no.
1982.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
It feels almost like Hollywood is trying very hard to make Timothee Chalomet's career take off and it just... I don't know, I might be out of touch, but it just isn't? I recently saw the Wonka trailer that he stars in, and I
1983.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Well, that's just fantastic for the SEC in their newly-launched battle against Coinbase. Good luck with that, Gensler.
1984.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
I'm tired of hearing the term "xenophobia" used to describe this; because it makes it an all-or-nothing. Most people aren't like that. Most people are OK with immigrants; the disagreement comes in for how many we should
1985.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
I read this article and had disbelief that anyone could be so emotionally unstable as to think the federal government should get involved to save a baby hawk from an Eagle.
1986.
Apple Releases Revised Security Updates to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability(macrumors.com)
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1987.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
In that case, though it would be very extreme, the studios could theoretically announce that there are enough writers in the world that the WGA is no longer necessary - they'll just hire writers from Britain, France, Germany, wherever.
1988.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
... but imagine that Disney, Warner Bros, literally ever major studio did that all at once. The WGA would have to blacklist them all - which would almost be certain implosion.
1989.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Right. But take, for example, Warner Bros. Discovery. $40 billion in revenue yearly, $50+ billion in debt needing servicing, annual gross profit $13 billion, Market cap $32 billion. They aren't exactly the world's healthiest compa
1990.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
It's cold but... what strike doesn't work this way? This is the definition of a strike - you are holding out until the other party is suffering more losses than they can reasonably sustain compared to the costs of giving in; in or
1991.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
"It hasn't happened yet, therefore it can't happen." Well, yes, we are always at that risk... but even basic numbers are getting much worse. Depending on who you ask, about 37% of Americans (give-or-take) cannot withstan
1992.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Well... here's the dumb thing. The DASH-like manner (or, "rolling cipher" as they like to call it) has currently held up as being an effective protection measure. It comes up all the time when RIAA in particular sues YouTube
1993.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
For some reason, outside of video, HDMI knows how to shoot themselves in the foot almost as well as the USB-IF. HDMI CEC? Has anyone actually got that working correctly? Anyone remember Ethernet over HDMI? Apparently that was a thing. (Not
1994.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> I'm annoyed nvidia for putting the current generation of HDMI on their recent GPUs, but leaving them with an outdated version of DisplayPort. That was due to unfortunate timing where HDMI had the specifications ready before Displa
1995.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> consider for a moment that you might be the one who’s starting to fall too far off on the right end Putting off the New York Times specifically for a moment, this is a "no true scotsman" fallacy. Example: "The New York T
1996.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
This is the same guy who claimed that you should "never, ever, use DuckDuckGo" which was quickly flagged to oblivion for being absurd. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31237822
1997.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
I apologize. I was under the misimpression (though I should have clarified) that it required a specialized license just to deliver medicine to, say, a retirement home from a pharmacy in some states; which appears to be incorrect.
1998.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> And in those cases it can lead to an increase in temperature, arcing and possibly fire. Prove that. There is no evidence for that if they are used within spec - and if there was, UL and CSA would immediately pull their listings. There
1999.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
I'm not for unbridled capitalism, but if you have ever tried to start a business in even a slightly regulated field (medical, construction, chimney cleaning, a restaurant, general contracting, just being a handyman), the amount of regu
2000.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
You answered the wrong question. I said to ask a historian regarding the unfounded assertion that "Religion has less to do with the underlying morality of the scripture and more to do with what religious leaders of the time say it is,
2001.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> What followed the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars was one of the most peaceful 99 years on the European continent since Pax Romana. Yeah... on the continent. They were merciless to indigenous populations across the globe during t
2002.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> We now live in the most peaceful time in human history. I would say we live in the most widespread Uneasy Peace in human history. And unlike religious peace which had occasional conflicts, a break in the peace now would mean annihilati
2003.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Mandatory reminder that many of the "but the Crusades" arguments are also misleading. Sure, ~1.0-1.7 million people died in the Crusades according to modern scholarship. However, the Crusades were an extremely diverse set of confl
2004.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
That’s not the situation here. This is about whether I can record my romantic partner when I am in a private conversation with her, not in public, without her consent. Or, your boss, without him suing you for recording a private comment abo
2005.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
These are the states generally requiring the consent of all parties: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington. 15
2006.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
That already exists - it’s called a video camera on almost every public area. Recording in public areas, unless the owner prohibits it, is almost always legal. This primarily concerned individuals. Two people couldn’t meet and secretly reco
2007.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
> Does not being able to use violence any time you choose have a chilling effect on using it when it is legally justified? Actually, sometimes, yes; from both homeowners and occasionally Police, despite their reputation, with sometimes d
2008.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Banning recording private conversations without consent by one of the conversation members was always weird to me because of the “chilling effect” it has in people’s minds about recording perfectly legal things, or potential criminal behavi
2009.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
It was so small that a solo developer reimplemented the entire kernel. https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher... https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere&#x2
2010.
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
It's not for industry, but I keep mentioning it because it's so surprising and little known: The Nintendo Switch uses a home-grown microkernel. It's not UNIX-compatible, fits into ~30K lines of code IIRC, and everything from

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