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by munchler 5y ago
Thank you for the explanation. That makes sense.
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by munchler 5y ago
That’s where I stopped reading as well. There wasn’t even an attempt to explain what the batch file does.
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by munchler 5y ago
That scenario only works out in your favor if you prefer severe injury or death over disclosing the secret.
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by munchler 5y ago
Why would you hold CNN responsible for "fooling humans" regarding Jan. 6?
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by munchler 5y ago
C# is fine for what it is, but F# really is the shining star of .NET.
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by munchler 5y ago
Most informed citizens don't have the time or expertise to consume primary sources directly. It's extremely useful to have a trusted news source do this for us, and then present their findings in an easily understood article.
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by munchler 5y ago
I can't find anything about this from an actual news site. Hopefully, they'll pick it up soon if it's for real.
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by munchler 5y ago
Based on other people in the field whose responses were quoted at the end of the article, I suspect this phenomenon may still be occurring. Specifically: "David Pincus, a psychologist at Chapman University who specializes in the applic
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by munchler 5y ago
As a big BSG fan, I have to disagree with the last part of your comment. The reboot’s GGI Cylons were much more menacing than the original’s actors clunking around in robot suits. (But it was still awesome to see the occasional old-school C
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by munchler 5y ago
> Monday is anchored to 0, Tuesday to 1, Wednesday to 2, etc. Sunday is actually the first day of the week (i.e. column index = 0) in almost every calendar I've used. Perhaps this varies by culture/locale?
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by munchler 5y ago
> extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence I think you've got the sign on your skepticism reversed. The burden of proof is very much on those who claim that FTL travel is possible. From Wikipedia: The special theory
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by munchler 5y ago
This makes me wonder whether there would be value in an OS that is also a DBMS (or vice versa). In other words, if the DBMS has total control over the hardware, perhaps performance can be maximized without too much additional complexity.
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by munchler 5y ago
To elaborate on point 1: Although L2 itself is in Earth’s penumbra, the orbit of JWST around L2 is not in the earth’s shadow at all. (In fact, JWST will orbit L2 at a distance greater than the distance from the earth to the moon.)
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by munchler 5y ago
As another old guy: Amen. I love being productive, but hate being pressured. All these FAANG jobs sound like the opposite. No thanks.
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by munchler 5y ago
Unix timestamp is hardly better, due to the Year 2038 problem. I think the only truly robust solution is to use a 64-bit integer instead.
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by munchler 5y ago
Why is it even possible to enter a desired altitude of 0 feet into an automatic pilot? As a layman, it’s hard for me to imagine why anyone flying a 777 would want to maintain an altitude of zero at full speed for more than a few seconds (if
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by munchler 5y ago
It's pretty clear that the living individuals about whom the investigators were conducting research are the operators of the websites targeted by the study. The researchers perhaps misled their IRB by stating that they were studying th
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by munchler 5y ago
That's an interesting scene, but it's not a passive viewing scenario. I do agree that passively turning on the TV just to see what's on is virtually extinct. As a side note, it seems very unlikely that a baseball team named t
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by munchler 5y ago
I never said Microsoft makes good software. Indeed, Office is often very buggy. My point is that Microsoft isn’t unusual in this regard at all, except that their software has become very popular. In other words, people experience Microsoft
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by munchler 5y ago
And which was acquired by Life360 last month.
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by munchler 5y ago
This is not accurate. All complex software has had bugs since Grace Hopper's moth, at least, and it was never common to seek refunds because of software errors. Microsoft is only notable because DOS and Windows became ubiquitous in a w
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by munchler 5y ago
Yes. F# 6 was just released with .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022. It's an awesome language with a vibrant community. Plus, it's fully open source and cross-platform, so if MS were to abandon it, I think it could carry on anyway.
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by munchler 5y ago
In that case, I think the point is that some "crime" is ethically justified and worth supporting technologically. The OP's statement implies that all crime is bad.
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by munchler 5y ago
FWIW, the project in the article is explicitly intended to allow privilege elevation: "You have an application which runs in user context, without any administrative rights, and you need to perform some tasks which requires higher priv
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by munchler 5y ago
F# has anonymous records, which are great, but I definitely wouldn't want them to be the default.
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by munchler 5y ago
As an F# developer, I find it a little frustrating when people assume.NET = C#. If the blog post is about the speed of IL generated by the latest C# compiler, it should say so in the title instead of claiming to measure the performance of .
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by munchler 5y ago
It’s almost like women are autonomous individuals capable of making decisions about their own lives, and pursuing their own interests. Very odd. </s>
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by munchler 5y ago
You’re describing an office, not a living space.
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by munchler 5y ago
Not usually. There's a stack of a thousand abstractions between me writing this and you reading it, but it still works fine.
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by munchler 5y ago
Even in a dystopia, an immersive metaverse is totally impractical without something like neural implants. I think even the guy who wrote Ready Player One understood this.

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