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by lmz 1y ago
Low fee international transfers are not ubiquitous unless you're talking about SEPA.
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by lmz 1y ago
That's what you get for the low cost of entry. When most customers are self-signup (and probably low margin) there's no individual responsible for them. Good in that you never have to speak to a salesperson, bad in that there will
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by lmz 1y ago
It's hard to say on one hand "I use mmap because I don't want fancy APis for every read" and on the other "I want to do something useful on page fault" because you don't want to make every memory read a po
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by lmz 1y ago
The tests include tests for the safety of the people hit by the car vs just for people inside the car.
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by lmz 1y ago
Much higher standards than European ones? Because the cars do sell there as well.
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by lmz 1y ago
Obviously a man nailed to a cross is also pretty violent.
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by lmz 1y ago
I recall using Eclipse 2.x in the mid 2000s and it was good, although not fast.
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by lmz 1y ago
Excel even has a LAMBDA function now: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/lambda-function-b...
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by lmz 1y ago
Is Thunderbird really that different bloat-wise? It also has a full browser engine inside of it.
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by lmz 1y ago
Isn't that only a problem if it advertised pro features there without mentioning the fact that they're paid? If it didn't then you could just be happy with the free features, no?
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by lmz 1y ago
Try reading what postgres calls a "cluster" (of databases, not of servers): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.htm...
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by lmz 1y ago
There's stored value and then there's "account based ticketing" where your card is just an ID and the final amount will be debited daily.
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by lmz 1y ago
Any country that could get away with it? "Your money or your life" isn't exactly a novel threat.
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by lmz 1y ago
Social network balkanization through mutually incompatible legal requirements. I like it.
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by lmz 1y ago
> If you have admin on windows you can flash the bios on regular motherboards with firmware that refuses to change. The vendors even sell this as downgrade prevention!
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by lmz 1y ago
Because it can be more secure and everyone has one. And it can be made quite hard to tamper with, unlike your average desktop. Consider that apps are sandboxed by default, and hardware secure element key storage should be available. Of co
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by lmz 1y ago
Agreed. If I have a TV network and think these anti-government hosts on my network are bad for business, that is also freedom of speech.
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by lmz 1y ago
Maybe he should keep his data with his government then.
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by lmz 1y ago
Mobile toolchains have always been awful. Symbian's or BlackBerry's weren't any better.
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by lmz 1y ago
The security issues with Java applets usually led to local unsandboxed code execution. It's a lot harder to do that with JS because just running Java and confusing the security manager gets you full Java library access, vs JS with no b
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by lmz 1y ago
Alcohol duties are still a thing in some countries.
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by lmz 1y ago
It's not the language it's the library that's not designed to isolate untrusted code from the start. Much harder to exit the sandbox if your only I/O mechanism is the DOM, alert() and prompt().
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by lmz 1y ago
They could frame the in-app content in ads. They wouldn't be able to do that using iframes on the web. (I guess in theory if they ... exploit Chrome then they could put ads there too).
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by lmz 1y ago
Offset alone is not enough because different TZ names also point to different DST schedules (current and historic) and past changes. You can look at the tz data files to see what that looks like.
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by lmz 1y ago
Log4j is one of the possible backends for commons logging (and was basically the reason for it - choosing between log4j and the built-in java logging). I think you mean SLF4J?
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by lmz 1y ago
Telling someone their family is going to get it if they keep doing what they do is quite some distance away from... straight up bombing them.
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by lmz 1y ago
(The Windows Phone problem)
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by lmz 1y ago
Using this sort of logic Windows would be mandatory and paid for by the government on all your 90s, 2000s laptops.
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by lmz 1y ago
Sometimes Visa also knows what you buy: https://www.marqeta.com/blog/data-details-what-is-level-1-2-...
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by lmz 1y ago
Merkle trees don't prohibit release / patch-only branches. Or multiple heads in general.

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