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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
The idea sounds tempting at first but the founders set it up so congressmen could be voted in for decades or voted out. The real issue in my view is, why are constituents not voting the scoundrels out.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
>The elderly are on Medicare, and health care providers know they can treat much more aggressively when the government is picking up the tab. People should not make the unqualified statement that Medicare is free, which is what "the
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all said no, we're not in a recession just now when I asked them.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all said no, we're not in a recession just now when I asked them.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming Bullship, I've used it since it came out in 2006 for everything including gaming (I'm a gamer). And that is on nvidia since then too. Not the same card, va
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
Speaking as a long time gamer, at least on Ubuntu, I've never seen the issue you're describing.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
I use industry standard Ubuntu, I'm a gamer, I have no issues, and I have used nvidia cards going back 2 decades so I can dispel the nvidia myth too.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
I'm sticking with Ubuntu, used it since 2006, works great with nvidia going back that far on several different nvidia cards over the years, great gaming performance. Make that Ubuntu with kubuntu desktop, since Gnome sucks.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
As a Java dev, seems like only a matter of time before Maven Nexus repo attacks become commonplace.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
strndup would be safer if I correctly recall from my C days?
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
"a friend" because friend starts with a consonant sound, not a vowel sound. "a project" for the same reason. HTH.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
> Rust is like a "cleaned-up" C++ Except they got the order of type and variable wrong. That alone is enough reason to never use Rust, Go, TypeScript or any other language that botches such a critical cornerstone of language sy
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
Right, but my context is that devs often use no passsphrase at all. If someone can get a copy, they have instant access to whatever it has access to. They don't need to even break encryption since the key has none if none has been appl
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
Right, but my context is that devs often use no passsphrase at all. If someone can get a copy, they have instant access to whatever it has access to.
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
> It's a total pain in the ass to try to have password encrypted gpg or ssh keys in mac I'm anti-Mac but for the year recently that I had to use one at work, no choice...I had no issues, none, using gpg or using a passphrase on
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by newsoftheday 11mo ago
> Who uses password encrypted keys anyway ? Edit: I'm not suggesting an ssh key with a passphrase (or password) is better than what the article suggests; I'm only saying that adding a passphrase (or password) to an ssh key at l