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by jasode 2y ago
>Why do professional software developers use Visual Studio in the first place? - to build C++/C# executables that are deployed to Windows computers. Examples are the millions of corporate desktops that already use Microsoft Offic
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EDIT reply to your EDIT: >I literally said it’s “a rewarding read.” At the risk of stating the obvious, you wrote that reply to gp ctenb's comment _after_ he already gave up on the article and not _before_ . You'd have to
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by jasode 2y ago
>You failed the marshmallow test [1]. There is a traditional, long-form article that presents a rewarding read. I didn't downvote but reading an unknown article with unknown or non-existent payoff is not the same premise as The
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>say a ubuntu desktop, a macbook air and a windows [...] -- but they all can read exFAT at decent performance. Fyi, it's somewhat common knowledge in tech circles that exFAT is an unreliable way of permanently sharing data between
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>If you strip away the artificially gate kept services like iMessage, why should anyone spend a lot more on an iPhone? I think your qualification of Apple-ecosystem-services is a big part. There are stories of statistics that say more
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by jasode 3y ago
>would be better for the community if it allowed repetition. Repetition isn't harmful, The "community" also includes the people who volunteer to answer the questions. The answerers don't want repetition. Jeff
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>So would be much more useful if there were some effective mechanism to get rid of or correct entries that were answered incorrectly in the first place or have become incorrect or no longer relevant with time. Sometimes, the community
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by jasode 3y ago
>At some point that “helpful” vibe changed. Stack Overflow ceased being a question and answer site, and begun calcifying into a documentation site. Questions are answered with “see this other answer”. >Maybe it’s the fate of all Q&
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From the main project page, it mentions it has typical alias support: >Email aliases, mailing lists, subaddressing and catch-all addresses support. Another feature that would be nice to have built-in is masked hide-my-email aliases
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>Credit score is highly overrated, no? Credit checks and score can also affect insurance rates. A bad score can also prevent job candidates from being hired for some jobs in some industries. >No one's buying houses, Even in
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>Another approach would be to apply tariffs to chips coming from adversary countries, But Taiwan isn't an adversary of the USA so why would tariffs be "another approach"?
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>I've seen nothing but Redis thrown to the wolves for daring to ask for money, Reducing it to purely "asking for money" is not what the criticism is about. The issue is the changing of licensing terms and not the mone
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>But how far does this go in explaining why merchants "choose" to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice, Some merchants
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>I’m not in OSS but I hire technical people remotely, [...] interviews on Zoom. Different situations with different incentives and psychology: - potential to receive money : job candidates are willing to get on Zoom calls or meet in
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>There are alternatives (e.g. Nebula) and a lot of creators like them and do post their content on them to get a higher revenue share. Yes but... (1) Nebula "success" is partially owed to Nebula creators building up audience
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by jasode 3y ago
A few notable projects where the canonical repo is still on SourceForge instead of moving to Github: - LAME mp3 : https://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/ - KeePass : https://sourceforge.net/projects
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by jasode 3y ago
>phone numbers. On the official Apple reset form, the "phone number" is one of the id options the hackers can use to MFA bomb the target: https://iforgot.apple.com/password/verify/appleid The gp pro
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>, but optimising 500MB to 300MB would be very impactful to installation rate. [...] It is a very significant portion of the population who are borderline out of storage all the time. I work quite closely to this sort of stuff on a regu
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by jasode 3y ago
>Rent a server on the cloud for about $10/mo if possible It can be cheaper to buy your own "mini" server (e.g. a small N100 ITX computer) to use on your home network. You'll get more RAM and more disk space (e.g. 1
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by jasode 3y ago
>While MSYS2 is based on parts of Cygwin, Yes, this fragment is what my reply was about. >it is not Cygwin (as opposed to how, say, Ubuntu is based on Debian). I agree and that was not what my reply was claiming. Instead, I inter
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>Cygwin The author uses MSYS2 which is based on Cygwin: https://www.google.com/search?q=msys2+based+on+cygwin EDIT add : >I wonder why that is not an option anymore. In the particular context of the blog, the au
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>The blog clearly works from the actual outcome lense. [...] The companies _could_ just not track. No, you've inadvertently stated a contradiction . Your use of the word _"could"_ is literally a hope/wish/
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>, Paul Graham came up with the thought, that the EU forces companies to have cookie banners. There is no law for cookie banners. [...] Companies could easily avoid any cookie banner. Just don’t track. KingOfCoders/amazingcto, of
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>Replace self-signed certs with a self-signed CA? [...], why not just use LE and get a real cert? I went back and forth between self-signed CA vs LetsEncrypt. I liked the self-signed CA root because you can create end-entity certifica
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>There is no reason to use HTTPS on your LAN. Save yourself the effort and just don't do it. SSL https is definitely a hassle which seems like overkill with private home networks but there can be reasons for it. For example, self-
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>A lookup table for what? If everyone is living on the same time, what exactly are you looking up? In the context of the webpage where that is quoted, it means looking up the typical activity for the time in that location. By avoid
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>Was the code in question included in stable releases? If not, I might agree that assigning CVEs are not helpful. F5 employee says code the was marked as "experimental" but the issue is that customers were running it in pr
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>The large "rewrite in language X" projects, [...] significant cost of time, effort and users. Well... if you're pre-qualifying the hypothetical rewrite with "large" , that already means we take as a given it
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>And that is why [...] C++20 modules are still full of warts, working on Visual C++ (kind of), and not really anywhere else, as ISO C++ has long stop being about standardizing stuff with actual field experience. Yes, but your complaint
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by jasode 3y ago
> but the actual output of the standard's committee is so far behind. That criticism misunderstands the actual way the C++ committee works. They're not a supreme legislative group that can dictate what a new C++ should be an

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