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by kmoser 1y ago
Serious question: do people who work with these config files frequently, or on large such files, use simple text editors, or are there "smart" editors that do things like prevent you from making typos or inserting the wrong data t
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by kmoser 1y ago
I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's highly improbable to ever come close to fruition, since if you want to be completely accurate in your computations, you'd have to model the physical effects of every s
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by kmoser 1y ago
Easy, just run your favorite Windows or Mac VM on any of that hardware and the corresponding PDFgear binary will work out of the box.
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by kmoser 1y ago
> The ecosystem would be greatly improved if someone made a great (probably rust based) in-memory low level pdf reading and writing data structure. > Not sure what would economically cause this to happen, but it would be great. Writin
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A Turing machine operates serially on a fixed set of instructions. A human brain operates in parallel on inputs that are constantly changing. The underlying mechanism is completely different. The human brain is far, far more than a mere com
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by kmoser 1y ago
In the sense that it can perform computations, yes. But the underlying mechanisms are vastly different from a modern digital computer, making them extremely different devices that are alike in only a vague sense.
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> Professor Searle concluded that psychological states could never be attributed to computer programs, and that it was wrong to compare the brain to hardware or the mind to software. Gotta agree here. The brain is a chemical computer wit
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by kmoser 1y ago
How does this differ from declare(strict_types=1); ?
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Prodigy (the online service). I'm not saying I wish it was still alive, but it contained some amazing technology for the time (mid- to late 1980s), much of which is now present in web tech: - Client software that ran a VM which receive
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by kmoser 1y ago
Same reason people buy most things these days: convenience. Do you own a cell phone? It can be remotely updated (and even shut down by malicious actors), yet most people own one and don't think twice about it.
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by kmoser 1y ago
If you interpret "up to" to mean "no more than," then "up to four weeks before the end of the term" could be interpreted as any time between September 12, 2026 (four weeks before the October 10, 2026 end of the
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by kmoser 1y ago
> Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate your requested date, as termination is only possible up to four weeks before the end of the term. The phrase "up to four weeks before the end of the term" is misleading and can be reasonab
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I have no doubt I'm in the minority. My preference is basically the more words on a line the better, to reduce as much as possible a) my eyes jumping to the beginning of the next line, and b) having to scroll the page and have my eyes
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by kmoser 1y ago
Considering many people in general, and tech people in particular, admit to being socially awkward and having difficulty connecting with other humans, why is a guide to suggested socially acceptable behavior a bad thing?
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You're free to change the wording of the messages, as the author made clear when they wrote "tune that to how you interacted with them."
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I tend to not resize the browser ever, except when developing/testing sites to make sure they render properly on different screens sizes. I use a 27" monitor and I like reading full-width. As I said in my original comment, I find
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by kmoser 1y ago
Permanently stopping those proposals wouldn't necessarily eliminate illegal, back-door mass government surveillance, nor would it eliminate private sector mass surveillance (think social media) which then gets accessed by the governmen
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by kmoser 1y ago
It has nothing to do with entitlement. If you choose an arbitrary width based on usability studies, you may make a large percentage of users happy, but if you let users set the width by resizing their browser, you make 100% of users happy.
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by kmoser 1y ago
An Easter egg containing a funny animation can be used to distract from the malformed image that serves as a back door that exploits a bug in the image renderer.
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It's not unreasonable to think that Easter eggs might be written to contain back doors. Certainly any large software project that has workflow gaps where unvetted code can be introduced is a recipe for disaster.
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by kmoser 1y ago
Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't care about the occasional admin who manages to uninstall Windows in favor of Linux. Since Windows is the default OS on most machines, Microsoft is already making it up in volume.
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by kmoser 1y ago
> To make the website more readable, we’ll limit the content width Please don't do this. Despite what usability studies say, I prefer wide content over scrolling every few seconds and having to make my eyes follow the moving text. I
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by kmoser 1y ago
Even if the author is literally throwing away seasonal items, the environmental trade-off is that they probably purchase far fewer items than the average person.
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by kmoser 1y ago
Even OTP is not secure if others have access to it.
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by kmoser 1y ago
> was it AI generated? You're absolutely right! But seriously, if you don't know that it's incorrect information, it does make a difference. Knowing it was produced by AI at least gives you foreknowledge that it may incl
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by kmoser 1y ago
I would avoid that phrase since people may take it to mean you're admitting to being bad at thinking and therefore not a very useful employee. Instead, I'd spin it to say you need more time to investigate thoroughly to give them a
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Zero effects on jobs overall, i.e. for every person displaced by AI, another has been hired? Or zero effects on any individual person's job, i.e. not one single person has lost their job due to their boss wanting to replace them with A
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by kmoser 1y ago
Not sure you need psychology to figure it out: the notes may contain passwords to your accounts, confessions, and other things you're not comfortable sharing when you're alive.
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by kmoser 1y ago
Just checked out NYC and saw that most of the venues have abysmal ratings (e.g. 3.02/10). Am I reading the numbers wrong?
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Your docs are great! How did you create them? Did you use external tools to generate them?

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