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by ok123456 10mo ago
They're squeezing their customers after locking in to juice their margins, having become a monopoly/monopsony. This is the classic enshitificaton playbook.
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by ok123456 10mo ago
> Makes sense basically creating an easy to point out pattern for static analysis to find everything security related. This is essentially already the case whenever you use encryption, because there are tell-tale signs you can detect (e.
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by ok123456 10mo ago
But we have the same 1970s REPLs in 2025; additionally, the web browser, how end-users consume most programs, is a giant REPL. For interpreted languages, most fancy IDEs provide a language interpreter shell, which is a REPL.
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by ok123456 10mo ago
This proposal is worse because all the valuable regions of code will be clearly annotated for static analysis, either explicitly via a library/function call, or heuristically using the same boilerplate or fences.
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by ok123456 10mo ago
Stopped in the dark on a December night on the shoulder of an interstate junction to change a tire after I had a blowout while driving. Under normal circumstances, I probably could have handled it myself, but I was getting about four hours
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by ok123456 10mo ago
>We know now that communications are being intercepted in bulk as a matter of intelligence gathering, but that does not equate to everyone being surveilled by the government. Yes it does.
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by ok123456 10mo ago
Probably, that he did the right thing at the right time.
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by ok123456 10mo ago
Ruby has had frozen dictionaries since version 1.0, and they are generally considered a good thing to use where possible.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
CIA disinformation campaigns notwithstanding, maybe accept global competition, open-source models, and the fact that whatever advantage OpenAI had was fleeting and mostly squandered at this point. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Using COM in Perl was pretty seamless back in its heyday.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
The adversarial nature of the US Government changed the threat model, and it moved from a "nice to have" best practice to a business necessity. They were caught red-handed undermining the privacy of US citizens by systematically e
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Yes. And I remember sniffing Facebook traffic in clear text in 2011. The fact remains that it was considered a significant engineering problem for them to deploy it. It was a "best practice" that most people rolled their eyes at.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Snowden was the other big reason that TLS became the de facto standard for every site. Prior to that, the consensus was that you only really needed TLS if you were dealing with money and wasn't worth the hassle otherwise. You could sni
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by ok123456 11mo ago
yes
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by ok123456 11mo ago
This will ruin the formatting randomly. I would not do this if you're working on a deadline.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Force a divestiture of Microsoft.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Ruby on Rails.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
People were talking about micropayments for content in the early '90s. The first digital currency proposals were made with exactly this use case in mind. Ironically, the protocol that finally stuck the landing is terrible at handling t
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Typically: Take tests with no time restrictions. Retake tests. Use assistive technologies (e.g., calculators) that are usually disallowed.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
> index.pdf won't tend to play nicely with screen readers The horrible Wix sites most restaurants end up using are likely less accessible than a PDF. The Adobe PDF reader can reflow text. > also sucks for people on crappy mobile
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by ok123456 11mo ago
If the restaurant doesn't have anything besides a menu, /index.pdf is fine—no web design required; reuse the menu they're printing anyway. The trade-off is that they'll have to pinch/zoom if they have a small displa
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Clippy was easy to turn off and never see again. Copilot? Not so much.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Only if you're in the market for a stolen catalytic converter or kids' toys.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Neat to use for a few minutes as a novelty/toy. Not something I'd do daily, though. I remember trying it out years ago, and it would peg the CPU at 100%.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
For more on this subject, here's a book that documents it: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wire-Incredible-Largest-Operatio... .
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by ok123456 11mo ago
IRC is fine.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
Aladin did make a commercial linux version of StuffIt Expander. It was free to use to expand, but to create archives it needed a registration code iirc. Edit: found it http://web.archive.org/web/20060205025441/http
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by ok123456 11mo ago
> This is demonstrably false given the election result in 2016. Donald Trump was absolutely the anti-elite candidate with all of the establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle denouncing him as a candidate and calling his suppo
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by ok123456 11mo ago
CVE scores are junk. Most CVEs are noise.
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by ok123456 11mo ago
I once had a coworker who used the FFT to determine whether coordinates formed a regular 2D grid. It didn't really work because of the interior points.

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