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by jrimbault 4y ago
My intuition tells me that nowadays, if you can embed an arbitrary program "keylogger" onto a computer, it should also log most user events, not just "keyboard events", including screenshots of areas around mouse clicks,
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by jrimbault 4y ago
But if there's a keylogger installed, why would the same keylogger not take regular screenshots ?
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I think it's a rhetoric device close the antimetabole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimetabole
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by jrimbault 4y ago
That's probably one of the quotes I was thinking of but couldn't think of.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
You can be optimist about your goals but pessimist about your means. There's probably any number of quotes from military strategists about that kind of thing.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
> The kernel has to stand alone Why ? (un-opionated "why") To reuse the migrant melting pot metaphor used at the end of the article, the "kernel has to stand alone" seems to mirror the states wanting a "strong bo
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by jrimbault 5y ago
It's actually english going through a heavy compressor, vowels extended, consonants hardened. https://youtu.be/93A1ryc-WW0?t=242
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Thanks :) that was why I asked here
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Is there something similar to F1 but with autonomous cars ? Just a race between autonomous cars, pitting teams of engineers directly against each other instead of via the human pilot. I guessed that would involve some pretty different desig
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by jrimbault 5y ago
title: Entitlement issues... [2009]
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by jrimbault 5y ago
FYI : wrong, so you can remove that "probably" from your mind. In France, developers are amongst the most well off salaried people. A junior developper would already be well above the median income and amongst the top 30% earners.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Solar noon is much harder to "remember" since it varies so much over the year (and over the yearS)
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by jrimbault 5y ago
It's a great article for "youngsters" with abolitionist ambitions relative to timezones (like I am/was)
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by jrimbault 5y ago
https://qntm.org/abolish
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Japanese animations studios seem equallly litigious.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Preamble : not saying you're wrong. The idea of fighting ("[being] in a constant battle with") the compiler seems weird to me, the compiler is my automated helper, the stricter it is, the better I work and I thank it for corr
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Just to add to this comment, sometimes (often) the Rust's documentation(s) will point out footguns in C which is a valuable resources in & of itself.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
From what I know, talent is usually cheap enough relative to the total cost of a game, it's the whole pipeline around integrating voice acting and motion capture into a game that's really expensive. In this[1] episode of that podc
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Especially in that real law is left for judges to interpret, and that's a deliberate feature to allow "wiggle" room.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
If you split your crate in small crates in a workspace you should see improvements in compile time.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
> very first amendment So, it's not , it's just the first change to an already existing document. The first article of your constitution describes the legislatives institutions. I (vaguely) know that, I'm not even A
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by jrimbault 5y ago
A cult of repeat group suicide sounds like something out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
FYI, if you're using Ublock Origin or something like it, you can block whole divs with it, wihtout another extension.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
That's just a half an hour walk. It happens to also be about the distance between my apt and my parent's apt. It's a distance I walk very often.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
I really like this tweet[1], which is bit cheeky, but gets also at the issue that everyone "basic" needs are actually different. [1]: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1367854800193413126
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by jrimbault 5y ago
I'm exactly of this opinion, it's better for us (programmers/admins/etc) to deal with some level of breakage now (gigantic as it may be), than for actual users to deal with breakage with their future dates.
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by jrimbault 5y ago
Composer (php) also uses the "project local" approach
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by jrimbault 5y ago
PS: the second line here, though true, is meant as a meta-joke contradicting the quoted commandment
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by jrimbault 5y ago
> Speak no useless words or words that move to laughter. I'm extremely biased coming from a family with a long tradition of atheism and even anticlerical "militantism".
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by jrimbault 5y ago
And on that topic, git branches are case sensitive but windows filesystem API isn't. Git branches are materialized on the filesystem as files and directories.

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