howdydoo

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by howdydoo 5y ago
Very nice, a man of culture
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm about to build a PC and you just saved me from having to buy a second usb stick just for booting an OS installer
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by howdydoo 5y ago
>I asked my pediatrician for blood lead test and they wouldn't do it as they said it's unnecessary Ask to get that refusal in writing. I bet they'll change their mind.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Am I out of touch? No, it's the linux maintainers who are wrong.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
>Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years? Yes. Source: https://nnethercote.github.io/2021/11/12/the-rust-compiler-h... In my experience, compile times are more a function of p
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by howdydoo 5y ago
If Bitcoin SV is the real bitcoin, why is he so interested in suing people for access to "fake" bitcoin core? /s >Ultimately they'll likely have to deanonymize to prevent Wright from seizing Bitcoin.org. I didn't
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Manually updated status pages are an anti-pattern to begin with. At that point, why not just call it a blog?
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I've used Windows since 3.1, but I think this new direction is the beginning of the end for Windows. Combining an OS that relies heavily on remote services, with engineers that don't understand security, is a recipe for disaster.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
If you needed 0.5% of the world's economy to run a node, nobody in the world could afford it. The amount needs to be a lot lower. Let's make things more concrete and say we have two actors: (1) the NSA, and (2) Cryptopunk Joe. Let
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I was about to disagree, but I just re-read Cloudflare's language, and you're right. Cloudflare forbids performing any tests or analyses, whether or not you publish the results. Even running something like `curl http://
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by howdydoo 5y ago
It's more of a risk/reward thing. Any code on a networked computer has non-zero risk. And what's the reward... an engineer had fun at work today? That's not a very compelling argument in a business context. I say this as
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by howdydoo 5y ago
rsync was invented 25 years ago, why would anyone use Dropbox?
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by howdydoo 5y ago
>this information simply doesn't propagate upstream to the GUI Windows has done this since at least XP for various combinations of USB 1.1 vs 2.0.[1][2] I don't know whether the same is true for USB 3 though. [1]: https:/
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I'll add to the chorus. Something like this happened to me recently. I bought a heating element for my dishwasher on eBay. I received a non-genuine part, took photos, and requested a return. Next thing I know my 15-year-old account is
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by howdydoo 5y ago
How is that better than "follow traffic laws, otherwise you lose your license"?
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by howdydoo 5y ago
>how hard would it be for AWS to implement a similar system? I don't want to be that guy who yells out from my armchair to say something is easy. But........ quota management at its core is incrementing a number, then reading the
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by howdydoo 5y ago
From what I've seen of Edge, it should be the project managers working vewy hawd to fix things, not the developers.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
The 160 character limit is an ancient relic of 2008 (unlike Chrome)
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Slowly and steadily.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
"This shouldn't have happened," says user of the only language where this regularly happens. https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I bet Patrick will never have to deal with his Coinbase support tickets going unanswered for months. It was nice of Brian to take time out of his day to come here and defend his buddy, but I wish he'd invest some of that $xB into build
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Ungoogled Chromium isn't new. It predates Brave by years. And Brave is funded by advertising, just like Google. (In theory, at least, if the company becomes self-sustaining.) I'm not sure why we needed to add cryptocurrency to tha
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by howdydoo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q2B
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Are these the big/little cores I've been hearing so much about?
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by howdydoo 5y ago
What's so special about the moon? I say no life should be considered intelligent until they can swim down the Marianas Trench and carve their initials in the wall.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I always thought of the last panel as an initially silly-sounding answer that could still be considered correct in some unexpected way. In this case it fits, because if you compile with `-Os`, xlatb is probably the ideal output. I doubt llv
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by howdydoo 5y ago
There is more than one American and they don't all think the same way.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
We need a programming language that doesn't have syntax
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I'll go ahead and answer "performance". People are switching to these faster tools because speeding up the edit-compile-run cycle speeds up their work. Yes, it's theoretically possible to write fast tools in JS, but some
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by howdydoo 5y ago
I didn't listen to the podcast, but let me play devil's advocate for a second. For most people, tweets are fire and forget, and they can't remember everything they've ever posted. If a lawyer hands me a binder with 38 pa

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