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by marshray 3y ago
> It is absolutely infuriating as a programmer to call a function and not know if it can throw and, if it can, not know what it can throw. It’s a disaster. Every nontrivial function can fail (in C even a unary operation on an int), it&#x
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by marshray 3y ago
'Enshittification' is a term that describes a very specific process seen in online services. It should not be applied to every ordinary "big company does not prioritize product quality" situation.
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by marshray 3y ago
Most of his specific complaints are not about "creeping featurism" though. Just plain old software quality, like bugs in core functionality and sluggishness.
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by marshray 3y ago
Some US employers no longer conduct interviews at all for some positions.
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by marshray 3y ago
So how would you say it instead?
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by marshray 3y ago
Here you go, here's one plain vanilla dictionary definition, absent context. Now would you like to discuss which "substances produced by chemical processes" are likely to be the most impactful upon the environment, or would y
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by marshray 3y ago
Is Bose–Einstein condensate a chemical? How about Neutronium? See how that works? Real productive mode of conversation, huh.
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by marshray 3y ago
Obviously it's broad and there will be many exceptions. The exceptions are often the interesting part of the discussion. Words have different meanings in different contexts. Pretending that "chemicals" can only ever be used t
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by marshray 3y ago
"Another benefit is that it requires unique methodology for OpenBSD, which requirements investment." Secure in the absence of an attacker? This part: xx: b8 05 00 00 00 mov $0x5,%eax xx: 0f 05
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by marshray 3y ago
Weird license ends any interest from me.
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by marshray 3y ago
Jesus this is a stupid argument. "Don’t dump chemicals in water or on land" is a perfectly logical and defensible statement.
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by marshray 3y ago
> Will we have to segregate all our trash and pay for our community to have a hazmat disposal truck come around along with the regular trash truck? We could pose all of your same questions about, say, asbestos. The superficial answer: Ye
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by marshray 3y ago
That sounds like a good system.
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by marshray 3y ago
A modern chip has one of the longest supply chains of any manufactured goods in the world. Even the biggest chip companies get the wafers made in one place, and then send them somewhere else for packaging and bonding. It's really hard
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by marshray 3y ago
Yes, that's the same museum as the site with the article. If you ever find yourself in Oregon, it's a wonderful place to visit if you like electronics, manufacturing history, etc.
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by marshray 3y ago
I worked on analog monitors (and a few TVs). The problem wasn't (usually) that they couldn't be repaired. The problem was that new electronics were so cheap that it wasn't economical to repair them.
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by marshray 3y ago
That they bite, a very few of them are significantly venomous, and no matter how easy their webs are to find, they don't make good snacks.
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by marshray 3y ago
This is not a justification for using a broken function. Truncating a fixed number of bits does not make a good secure function less secure, other than the implications that the shorter length has on brute-force and collision strength. In s
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by marshray 3y ago
> Md5 is just as fine as any other generic hash function if its being used as a non-unique key MD5 brings the feature that you'll forever be explaining why you chose a function that had already been broken for 30 years when other op
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by marshray 3y ago
So then how did the US trick Putin into invading Ukraine? That's the simple question that nobody who espouses this silly set of beliefs can ever answer.
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by marshray 3y ago
"Virtualization-Based Security: Enabled by Default" https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/virtualization/virtua...
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by marshray 3y ago
They would still need the private key to a https cert that your browser considers valid.
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by marshray 3y ago
Does this imply the existence of field lines which are not loops? (in 3-D)
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by marshray 3y ago
While you're here... where's the scrollbar? I'm on desktop (Edge) and don't see a scrollbar. Very distracting.
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by marshray 3y ago
Can it be done remotely? :-)
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by marshray 3y ago
Leaving aside all the incredibly vague* and broad restrictions supposedly placed upon its use by the license, it's so strange to me that anybody is referring to a 10 GiB binary blob as "open source". Am I the only one? It&#x2
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by marshray 3y ago
That's as fast or faster than most people can type.
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by marshray 3y ago
Looks like 32 GiB of DDR4 RAM is only $60 on the US retail site I checked, if you go with a platform that supports it.
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by marshray 3y ago
When the solution requires arithmetic, one trick is to simply ask GPT to write a Python program to compute the answer. There's your 'add'.
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by marshray 3y ago
I remember having one of those, I think we got it from a garage sale. I don't remember playing with it as much as the "NNN-in-One Experimenter Kit" versions. It may have been broken, incomplete, or simply beyond my level.

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