gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
This is the approach that I'm taking: If it's easier to explain in words, I have AI do it. If I can't explain how to do it, I do it myself.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Another comment in this thread points out that the people having trouble are the ones that previously used to copy & paste stack overflow without understanding it.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Feels like spending more money on environmentally-friendly technology.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
If you push red, you will survive. If you push blue, you might die. Just push red.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
If it's not gambling, it'll be something else: video games, alcohol, drugs, religion, work... Anyone can turn anything into a vice to the detriment of their family. Don't blame the vice, blame the person.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Wow, I'm shocked at the negative attitudes in this thread. Porn and gambling are legit businesses, even if you don't like it. (And some people used to argue that part of the rise of the PC was because some people bought it as a &q
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
I read this article as a joke; IE, how to NOT behave.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
That was exactly my experience with the free trial. I figure if I'm going to have to pay thousands of dollars to still have to pay full attention when I drive, I might as well keep the money and drive the car. FWIW: My 2026 Huyndai&#x2
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
No one's saying to do nothing. When you debate like that, (specifically twisting words like you did,) you leave yourself open to be a victim of power-hungry people, and trade one problem for another potentially worse problem.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
So what happens when they are put into a bucket of water? Answered my question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldmXuV3cLI
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
No, it shows that people on Hacker News understand two important things: 1: Unintended consequences 2: That power-hungry people latch on to issues like this to further political agendas that have severe negative consequences; mostly by usin
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
On Apollo 13, after the accident, the margins for propellent were so low that the astronauts had to drink very little. Nasa was afraid that venting the pee would set their trajectory off course. One of the astronauts got an infection from d
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
The first thing you can do is improve your "first impression" in your docs. None of the references to other pages are clickable hyperlinks; which markdown supports without much effort. (Pretty much got me to give up reading becaus
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
That API has quite a few heuristics that protect the user: (At least on the Chromium browsers that I've tested it with) 1: It fails silently if the user hasn't interacted with the page. (IE, the user needs to "do something&qu
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
It seems like a lot of the APIs that make a website act like an application need to be disabled by default; and some kind of friction needs to exist to enable them. Edit: I'm not sure what kind of friction is needed, either an expensiv
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Seems like it makes more sense to keep "Windows" security and bugfix only, and to do new feature development, such as AI, in a newer OS.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
I don't "get" this: I switch between Mac and Windows a lot. If you prefer the way Windows works, just use Windows! Both platforms have their merits.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
I need to side with GMail: Over the last year or so, email has turned into a cesspool. No one even reads it anymore. Every week someone who I've never heard of adds me to some pointless email list that I never wanted and will never rea
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Regarding tradeoffs: I've been working with C# for most of my career, almost 25 years, since .Net 1.0. One of the huge things that I love about Rust is the lack of a runtime framework. I don't need to figure out how to bundle &#
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Which we detected and blocked, due to phantom deletions. (I explain the .net bug higher in this thread.)
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Wider keyboards (with the space for arrow keys and number keys to the right) put extra strain on your right shoulder when you use the mouse in your right hand. I've been using a narrow keyboard and ergonomic mouse for 2 weeks, and my s
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
We had to add logic to block network and USB drives. (They were an ever-present source of customer issues.) The root cause of the problem is that in .net, there is a bug with File.Exists. If there is a filesystem / network error, inste
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Yes, because these are not network drives, but instead a drive on your local filesystem, there's no perfect way to lock files the way a network drive can.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
The way I used to explain it: Imagine that you are on a plane, (and don't have an internet connection). You edit a file. At the same time, I edit that file. What should we do? We can't possibly know every file format out there, an
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
I was lead on Syncplicity's desktop client. File synchronization has a myriad of corner cases that are difficult and non-intuitive to think through; and non-programmers often thoroughly underestimate just how difficult these are to ant
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
I once filed a support ticket against one of those emails because I couldn't figure out what they were telling us to do. Even MS's staff couldn't figure out what resources the "Action Required" email had to do with.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Honestly, I really want to know what the German options are and the autistic options are.
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
It only works if there's buy-in from enough Republicans. Specifically, this needs a 2/3rds majority of the senate; or 20 Republicans and all Democrats, and all independents to approve. Most of these are political stunts from pol
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Like I said, I'm already using a separate number pad on the left. It's easier to adapt to than than putting the mouse in my left hand!
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by gwbas1c 6mo ago
Related: Anyone know where to get that kind of keyboard in the photo? Specifically, where the number pad and arrow keys are on the left? I've been looking and looking, but the best I can find is using a narrow keyboard with a separate

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