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by owl57 7y ago
Do they actually promote non-game win32 executables these days? I thought current fashion is mostly services with mobile and web apps, and sometimes Electron ones?
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by owl57 7y ago
Yes, but for opposite reasons. You probably don't get left-pad in an ecosystem without one — and preferably only one —obvious way to publish and use it.
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by owl57 7y ago
An IoT botnet blinking SOS on all LEDs sounds like a good plan to make people notice the disaster.
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by owl57 7y ago
Planet Nine would be an interesting addition here.
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by owl57 7y ago
Seems like any user of this trick would think of //-style comments and add them to the next language in this lineage. How come this didn't happen until C++?
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by owl57 7y ago
To me Tarkin felt much more natural than Leia in that film. Maybe people with more "official" face expression are in danger sooner.
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by owl57 7y ago
the whole world turns into some crime-less surveillance utopia Doesn't sound totally unrealistic to me. Also, maybe the only way to evade extinction through bio/AI tech proliferation. Not sure about the "crimeless" par
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by owl57 7y ago
Your generation is lucky enough to have deflationary cryptocurrencies. Do you expect cryptocurrencies to be relevant 50 years (5 times their current age) later?
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by owl57 7y ago
Do you think React can be going away any time soon?
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by owl57 7y ago
Sure, I didn't mean Linux isn't standing on the (partially the same) shoulders. What I meant is macOS/iOS and Windows teams are unique in shipping general-purpose OSs AND doing so and accreting code and expertise tied to that
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by owl57 7y ago
And they have a somewhat continuous team working on that OS since before Linux was a word. Same with Microsoft. Is it really relevant to any other company?
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by owl57 7y ago
I mean, of course the library in question could contain something like this: try: hash = int(raw_hash) except ValueError: hash = raw_hash But WHY? Can you think of something one could do accidentally to achieve
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by owl57 7y ago
No, that's certainly just transliterated Russian: https://github.com/neex/phuip-fpizdam/blob/d43b788a65f83ba6f... (those literals mean "Fucking: your mom").
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by owl57 7y ago
Python is mostly strongly typed. You can get a mix of floats and ints from e.g. parsing JSON, but your library's authors must have been pretty explicit on wanting to confuse strings with numbers.
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by owl57 7y ago
Seems like the main game changer here is the feasibility of massive surveillance databases, not the human/"AI" decision-making. Of course non-invasive keys for those databases, like face recognition, are convenient, but if t
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by owl57 7y ago
Some of the violence of past centuries brought us good parts of the current order, sure. But the relevant question is: are there any definite recent examples? Examples of violence turning a bad (sometimes really bad, I won't disagree!)
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by owl57 7y ago
When we are talking about "best way" to do something, we probably imply a (rational or not quite) agent making decisions, not the government as a whole. A monarch is without a doubt such an agent. Does abdication[1] count as stopp
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by owl57 7y ago
Depends on whether it's successful in preventing bloody protests. Almost everything is better than war.
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by owl57 7y ago
> Contrast this with Windows, where browsing through system settings is like going back in time from Windows 10/8 to XP to 95 all the way to 3.11, if you click "Advanced" enough times. Note why we know this. We know this b
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by owl57 7y ago
I bet half of houses in my neighborhood has a TV dish. If it will be possible to make Starlink dishes visually indistinguishable from those, the police will have a slightly harder time. Slightly, because detecting radio transmission doesn&#
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by owl57 7y ago
I'm inclined to place some trust in Apple too. Is there any statement that force-reboot is a security feature?
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by owl57 7y ago
> he could make everybody (not just women) "feel uncomfortable around him" in some ways I had a colleague tell he won't invite X (a local celebrity with a lot of similarity in character with RMS) to our team because he &qu
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by owl57 7y ago
Firmware updates are a thing for other devices. Sure, the force-restart logic should be stored on some separate device that isn't touched by any part of OS other than the firmware updater — but are you sure if it really is or should be
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by owl57 7y ago
It's not easy to pull battery out, so we are left with a force-reboot button chord. That feature is probably meant to protect from normal, non-malicious bugs. How sure can the hypothetical paranoid be that the phone has indeed rebooted
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by owl57 7y ago
> I just use the simplest and most boring things that work. Most of my software is written in Haskell… As simple as possible, but not simpler!
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by owl57 7y ago
Using safe and well understood tech to handle my money sounds like a good thing.
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by owl57 7y ago
> for things such as implicits whose whole purpose is to not be explicitly named. Now that's an interesting perspective on a language that seems too magic. A whole ecosystem of objects who must not be named!
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by owl57 7y ago
Not sure. Once upon a time I wrote a small program in Haskell for an exercise in cryptography. It defaulted to Word8 for all arithmetic throughout the program because some of the operands came from a ByteString. Scary. Maybe you are less to
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by owl57 7y ago
"…as the chairman of cultural department of our house..." "Chairwoman," Philip Philipovich corrected her. "Would like to ask you," at this point the woman pulled out of her coat-front a few brightly coloured jo
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by owl57 7y ago
> these aren't military assets Do we know that for sure?

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