justabystander

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by justabystander 10y ago
> All of those frameworks are threaded/synchronous "Threaded" and "synchronous" are orthogonal concepts that don't deserve being lumped together with a slash. They can have significantly different effects on
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by justabystander 11y ago
So, let's pull the sections from your own quote that you missed. > But how, exactly, does “hegemonic masculinity” accurately sum up a scene explicitly identifying as beta male Here she says that they're explicitly identifying
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by justabystander 11y ago
> only article ... whose author actually understands enough about the discussed subcultures I was thinking that at first, too, until I noticed that the author completely missed the fact that calling someone a "beta" male is not
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by justabystander 11y ago
There are music performance licenses for venues, such as restaurants and bars. People will come up to you and threaten to sue if you don't pay for a blanket license. And they will do this even if you insist on playing completely origin
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by justabystander 11y ago
The most recent version of WebKit does not automatically mean that it's a scheduled build directly based off of their development branch. I agree that's the most reasonable way to do it, and it's what it implies. And it'
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by justabystander 11y ago
You realize that although WebKit supports 98%, Safari itself as of version 9 supports 53%. As is noted in your own link to the compatibility table. So, yes, keeping pace is a problem for Apple, since the other browsers are significantly ahe
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by justabystander 11y ago
What code is "safe" isn't necessarily something that's set in stone. Exploits could easily deliver code that looks safe but causes problems. And each new version could introduce a new exploit. And then there's the u
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by justabystander 11y ago
I'm going to start with a rant and then give you the solution you're asking for. Think of it as an advertisement for privacy. CTRL-F for "Here's a solution" if you need to, but you should read the rest. All advertis
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by justabystander 11y ago
> My naive view of global politics is as naive as your moral standard towards poor NK's children. The problem is that you're asking us to kill people in order to "save" people. You're asking us to choose who live
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by justabystander 11y ago
> All other parties involved (US,China,Japan,South Korea, Russia) are all to be blamed for suffering of 25 millions of people living in an artificial skansen of communism. > US and SK should have invaded and liberated the NK long time
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by justabystander 11y ago
> Marissa Mayer ... has a “three-year strategic plan” ... that entails building and improving the services people use on their mobile phones every day, such as search. It's a good thing they killed their own search engine and tossed
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by justabystander 11y ago
Correct! It's also notable that his claims just barely stay out of legally actionable material by his insistence on differentiating email from EMAIL (in all caps), and his insistence that EMAIL is an "electronic version of an inte
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by justabystander 11y ago
> Imagine if the government said "hey, that money in your bank account, we can just automatically take our taxes from it, because we're not really taking it from you, we're just taking it from the bank." That's e
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by justabystander 11y ago
Many states require them to be lit for identification purposes. And there's a lot of malicious fundraising that occurs around these laws.
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by justabystander 11y ago
Games are great and everything, but I'm still hoping for Visual Studio support. Ever since MS switched to a WPF-style UI (2010 and newer), it's been unusable. Here's the status for VS 2015 as of 1.7.49: https://app
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by justabystander 11y ago
> > Employees will attempt to steal IP and copy the business. > This sounds a lot like the unfounded "don't tell anyone your idea, it might be stolen!" fear in Silicon Valley. If you are relying on security through o
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by justabystander 11y ago
Support for some of the more common JDBC drivers would be nice, like SQLite, MS SQL and (shudder) Oracle. I know Korma supports all of these ( http://www.sqlkorma.com/docs#db ), and it seems like you use that.
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by justabystander 11y ago
Both of you quoted lethal statistics, which are hardly representative of the majority of domestic violence. In fact, a lot of these studies conflict in data. For example, this study from 2007 suggest that 24% of relationships include some f
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by justabystander 11y ago
Their "subscription" model was basically a year of small issue maintenance and 1-2 major versions. They spent more effort expanding into new markets than they did maintaining and improving existing tools. I don't really antic
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by justabystander 11y ago
Any progress on getting OSS drivers for the PowerVR prodcut family? Security demands I keep an updated system, but that's not really practical with closed-source drivers.
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by justabystander 11y ago
I detailed a bit more in my other rant, but if you want to stay or get what you're owed, you're going to have to risk the conflict. The only way to not have conflict about this is to leave and say nothing. If you think he won&#x27
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by justabystander 11y ago
> I see most people saying "quit!", but really that is not fair to the business or the other people who are there. This kind of behavior gives technical people a bad name, and perpetuates the myth that we are social hermits who
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by justabystander 11y ago
I'm going to be a bit blunt here, as I think you've been avoiding seeing some things because you don't want to rock the boat. And also don't want to think that you've been played for four years. Replace the token [e
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by justabystander 11y ago
It's kind of a hyperbole, granted, but most of our assumptions about disk access being faster rely on only one piece of software accessing that disk. With modern multi-core processors, pre-fetching and caching both at the application a
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by justabystander 11y ago
> looks an awful lot like bad-mouthed rumours Really? So if we look at the Git repo commit history, we'll see the transition commit on April 1st ( https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/commit/bc4b7fc4e
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by justabystander 11y ago
No, it wasn't about removing contributors. It was about developer attribution - directly importing changes from others so they looked like his own commits. Inflating his personal contributions in a very un-Github style. https:/&#
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by justabystander 11y ago
> but chrisaljoudi just continued development and made some changes Yeah, there's more to it than that. Gorhill started it as a free and non-profit solution to help. He gave a lot of the credit to people maintaining the block lists.
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by justabystander 11y ago
> I personally don't believe that you should equate the use and analysis of such tracking data as evil in every instance, because it's not. We know it's not evil - it's just business. However, plenty of businesses are
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by justabystander 11y ago
> I'm not sure why Apple should be singled out for addressing this. You're correct in that it's not an Apple-only security issue. I'm not sure if the person you're replying to meant to imply that. However, Apple
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by justabystander 11y ago
A lot of this is the result of historical policies and culture. It doesn't necessarily excuse poor behavior, but there's enough of that to go around on all sides that we eventually learn not to point fingers. It is culturally expe

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