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by ordinary 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
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by ordinary 10y ago
Yes. Incomplete list for Windows 7: 3015249, 3022345, 3068708, 3080149, 3175249.
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by ordinary 10y ago
No, but it is rumoured she is not a Europhile.
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by ordinary 10y ago
FSF and GPL are about user freedom. Nobody who has been in software for "decades" could misinterpret that. You would be surprised. There are many developers who rail against the GPL for restricting their ability to turn free sof
35.
by ordinary 10y ago
Google management is neither unobservable nor unobserved.
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by ordinary 10y ago
Keep in mind that you have to be vigilant every time you install updates. Microsoft can (and often does) release multiple versions of updates, and it appears the ignore flag is not preserved between versions.
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by ordinary 10y ago
I'm not even talking about tricks. IE comes pre-installed on all PCs, obviously, except for Europeans, and that only for a few years. But users generally do not bother performing in-depth research on the software they install, be it a
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by ordinary 10y ago
You think more than 50% of the people using Firefox or (especially) Internet Explorer deliberately sought it out and installed it after making an informed decision?
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by ordinary 10y ago
> It is the government responsibility, in their mandate as representatives, to address the problems perceived as important by the citizens But it is the citizens' responsibility to make clear to their representatives the problems th
40.
by ordinary 10y ago
No one thought it was him before he spoke out, and no one believes it is him now. There was no scent to throw people off of.
41.
by ordinary 10y ago
Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't have used that word.
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by ordinary 10y ago
Sounds like hxsl doesn't actually solve most of the problems described in the article, but just obscures them in a layer of indirection. If you're generating shader strings at compile-time, you still have to compile them at runt
43.
by ordinary 10y ago
I knew Mozilla was working on it, and at some point abandoned the process, but I wasn't aware they had picked it up again. Thanks for the pointer!
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by ordinary 10y ago
Hogging tabs in long-running Firefox instances has taught me that Windows (even 64 bit versions) still cannot address more than 3 GB of memory to 32 bit applications. It used to be that was because 1 GB was reserved for the GPU, among other
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by ordinary 11y ago
Use? No. Test with? Certainly.
46.
by ordinary 11y ago
What defines the PC for ordinary consumers is not the big black box under the desk, though. It's the keyboard, the mouse, the displays. The smartphone may replace the box, but it won't replace the peripherals. Those will continue
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by ordinary 11y ago
Computers are just really fast calculators. Calculators are just weird abaci made out of sand. Modems are just phones for computers. Phones are just smoke signals through a wire. By reducing things to their absolute basics, it's easy t
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by ordinary 11y ago
It closes some too. Anti-virus software does not have to be perfectly secure (not to be confused with providing perfect detection!). To have a net positive impact on computer security, all anti-virus software has to be is quite literally be
49.
by ordinary 11y ago
People who don't have a job and aren't interested in getting one, like housewives, are not included in unemployment numbers. What is measured is how much of the labour force is currently unemployed. If you're not in the labou
50.
by ordinary 11y ago
I thought ephemeral keys prevent replay attacks as well. Is that incorrect?
51.
by ordinary 11y ago
First of all, thank you for your contributions to this thread. They've been very interesting. I noticed a couple of points in this post that I would like some clarification on, if you have the time and inclination. Christians are supp
52.
by ordinary 11y ago
I have never heard of this, which is scary in itself. Or maybe it isn't, I don't really know. Do you know of any further reading for me?
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by ordinary 11y ago
> This presumes that playing into their hands would actually bring forth enough support to rebuff the reaction. If forces overwhelmingly squash the terrorist organization, then it doesn't matter if it plays into said organization&#x
54.
by ordinary 11y ago
Wouldn't this apply the other way around as well? If you become known as a blackmailer who's true to their word, wouldn't your payment rate go up?
55.
by ordinary 11y ago
> packages [...] don't fully solve the dependancy issues (IE I might expect Ubuntu 14.04 to have a specific version of libc, but the user might have upgraded it, and I can't install my own incompatible version) I feel that once
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by ordinary 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by ordinary 11y ago
C++11 has improved the situation somewhat by making it possible to explicit state what you want from your numeric types: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/integer
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by ordinary 11y ago
Nitpick: you mean complement. I'm going to go ahead and assume your soulmate isn't "your hair looks nice today!" :)
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by ordinary 11y ago
Right now, you can avoid that fate by unticking one checkbox. I'll start caring when that checkbox disappears. But even in that (currently entirely hypothetical) scenario, I genuinely don't understand why people are so scared of A
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by ordinary 12y ago
Stallman strongly believes that the language you use in large part frames the debate you have. This belief is supported by a century of marketing research. Stallman's limitation in this regard is that he's not a marketing genius,

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