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ohdeargodno
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ohdeargodno
1y ago
And thus grows the ever increasing list of reserved keywords in Swift. All for a badly designed feature. Along with another pile of crap on top, approachable concurrency, that will still work weirdly and be prone to so many bugs and impossi
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It's written like this because making a circular, infinite list that repeats and recycles the same few components is awful to write, and "(0..60).times(50).flatten()" solves 99% of the problems with 1% of the effort. Product
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The absolute lack of self awareness, putting the danger on the energy drinks when Jägermeister contains something infinitely more dangerous than anything Red bull will ever put into their drinks. Did you forget that alcohol is a drug, and a
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1y ago
Mind you, that doesn't prevent Go's syntax from being terribly stupid. They just happen to line up on stupid choices.
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1y ago
Thank you for providing even more proof that a conventional army will never attack the United States. But hey, if you think the next Bin Laden is going to smuggle Shaheds in the country, and that the solution is to militarize every single c
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1y ago
The amount of variants of "I missed <X> important event of my life to build a drone made to [kill people|break shit|arrest small time drug dealers]" in that article makes me think of complete fucking insanity instead of amus
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>So should China trust US stats and data? As of a few months ago, the US has demonstrably proven that they are willing to lie about stats and data because the president throws a hissy fit at reality, so, no, they absolutely shouldn'
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>and their economy is rife with state sponsored excess funded by debt. Whereas the US is better with state sponsored VC funded debt ? >but they do tend to deliver things that are actually desired and economically valuable given the ri
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For what it's worth, Venmo will not get access to your biometrics data, it's a black box in which you specify a desired level of authentication and the OS just returns ok/not ok. It is, however, to make you use Venmo more eas
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It. Doesn't. Matter. Getting a DUNS number is ass, getting the 20 testers is ass, etc etc. I do not want to give Google my government ID to write a shitty little app that only my family will use, or only close friends use and it gets s
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1y ago
The only promises on the announcement are: > Verify your identity > * You will need to provide and verify your personal details, like your legal name, address, email address, and phone number. > * If you're registering as an o
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1y ago
Additionally, this kills apps like Revanced, NewPipe, SmartTube that will now be required to give out ID to Google, surely that's something they really want to do. All Open source development is at threat, Google's absolute dogshi
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1y ago
>Did it empty her bank balance by abusing the private NFC payment APIs that Apple are being ordered to open up? NFC payment APIs have been open on Android for decades and no such thing of the sort has ever happened. You cannot magically
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> Designing entire hardware Designing the hardware does not entitle you to extracting more money from anything. If you don't want to lose money on your hardware, don't sell it at a loss. (Which Apple isn't doing, nor are a
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Ah yes, putting words inbetween quotes to, uh, quote someone is a very novel usage of quotes. As an aside, being indie isn't a guarantee for honestly: I have seen come incredibly scummy behavior from indies. > zero cost (or even pro
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The walled gardens don't give a shit about the "honest indies", they make 30% off of the micro transactions while doing nothing. Billions in effortless money.
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Assuming you're american: you already do. While the US Army isn't allowed to use your house in peace time, if it has any tactical value in war time, it can and will have access to your house. The US Army is the personification of
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1y ago
Not only are you being disingenous by generalizing to "anything that exists" (when for the immense majority is "anything you put up for sale", it's just Mossad that wants your family vaction photos), but here's
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1y ago
Your software is a wrapper around an already existing, widely used, extremely documented project and basically just extends SQLite with what could have been a regular extension. No shit it's easy. So is a CRUD PHP service.
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The fact that maintaining any Jenkins instance makes you want to shoot yourself and yet it's the least worst option is an indictment of the whole CI universe. I have never seen a system with documentation as awful as Jenkins, with plug
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Absolutely not. All that's going to happen is that someone is going to try to join your server, be banned for no reason, then put it on their shit list.
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The different way is called a hammer and your hands. They don't have magic tools to break encryption. We're barely finding out software ways to attack the Xbox360 and it requires rowhammer level of fuckery. Hardware attacks are in
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>Server side checks. That's it. User input is tainted evil and you can't trust it. Anything less than server side checking is insecure. Cool. Noone will play your game. Every single thing that makes a game feel not even just go
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>There's only a limited amount of IPs available to cheaters, it won't be long before they burn through all of them. No ? Even if it takes 5 minutes to get noticed (which only happens on the most absolutely blatant cases of chea
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No. For the vast majority of games, they're either free to play, or less than 20 bucks. In addition: people pay over $100 per month for these cheats, plus the initial hardware investment. The 60 bucks license doesn't matter. You j
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>Then there will be new pressure to get at the underlying keys that protect the system. just decap your CPU no big deal it just destroys it. Unless you do something stupid and expose, for some reason, a function from the TPM to return th
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>Why not let the customers decide what is good and bad - they have agency. They can't. Your shit blogspam is all over the internet. You've been using LLMs to advertise it everywhere. You've been using bots to post fake rev
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Why do you accuse me of things I've not said, and drift away from the extremely stupid thing you said ? Value creation is not the only thing that matters, and has extremely harmful results if taken to its extremes. Trying to put the bl
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Convincing people to buy your rotten meat is value creation! Convincing people to buy a bridge is value creation! Convincing people to buy your Teflon pan that will seep into the environment for centuries is value creation! Because after al
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>The kind of content that performs best are strong opinions informed by actual expertise. So... mediocre posts that combine a strong opinion along with a perceived position of authority. No actual knowledge needed. >Unfortunately that
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