owl57

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   by owl57 6y ago

   > a strained analogy, but this thing is akin to saying that "you can eavesdrop https" and then show ld_preload hooks for intercepting openssl calls. Well, it would be fair game if it were popular to discuss how HTTPS helps agai
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   by owl57 6y ago

   Unlikely. My fixed internet provider in Moscow suburb went down citing "upstream network failure", came up around 11pm. Today's load is probably less than a pre-pandemic football game and definitely less than new year, and ou
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   by owl57 6y ago

   Looks like Haskell-like do notation would be helpful.
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   by owl57 6y ago

   Note that people didn't have any (new) problem with free proprietary edition of Visual Studio. VS Code is different because it's aimed at displacing free tools and marketed with misleading "open source" messages.
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   by owl57 6y ago

   Are page tables garbage-collected in Linux? That seems like a potential non-trivial leak source: up to 200MB for your hypothetical 100GB file.
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   by owl57 6y ago

   Twitter should be closed down It probably can't be closed down in a way that's not even worse than current situation. Even if there's no coercion and management just has the revelation and decides to close shop, some (proba
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   by owl57 6y ago

   Mention of Russian coups reminded me of the following quite relevant Lenin quote[1] that for some reason was repeated enough times by Soviet media to be easily recognizable by anyone born in the USSR: "Our three main forces—the fleet,
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   by owl57 6y ago

   > People are concerned about the lethality getting worse, but they shouldn't be They should. Lockdowns deal with the exponential phase, but in the long term the process is not exponential. The virus is probably going to infect hal
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   by owl57 6y ago

   dragons {}
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    by owl57 6y ago

    > It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people. Exactly how it is rolled out here in Moscow. It has never occurred to me
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    by owl57 6y ago

    «State of total array» sounds like some serious CS shit.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    So, the message "Stay the #@$! home" with a shiny virus animation is somehow inappropriate in an app classified as "entertainment". Idk, maybe they even have a point. Games are usually meant to distract from immediate pr
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    by owl57 6y ago

    I actually imagined a lobsterman from X-COM: TFTD: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Lobster_Man
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Even if you need, for example, word boundaries, you might be better off pretending that no non-ASCII non-word chars exist than pretending that everything is valid UTF-8 or whatever. Depends on your inputs and requirements.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Lots of footguns in all of them. Arch probably has the most new and shiny ones, and Gentoo has accumulated a lot of work on footgun tuning.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Sounds like it could be intentional. — We bought .dev, now what we do with all those people in the wild misusing it? — Well, most of them misuse it with our browser, let's break at least their hacks early and loudly.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    As far as I understood, from the bureaucratic point of view this was some kind of temporary approval needed to include risk groups in phase 3 trial, which could be a good thing given the general urgency of the situation. And then, yes, Puti
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    by owl57 6y ago

    No one has production capacity to vaccinate everyone in a month or two. So yes of course, they said only healthcare workers and teachers are going to get it this month, and not all of them. Will it be actually voluntary, as promised, or som
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    by owl57 6y ago

    I believe such a horrible misfeature would require support from desktop environment. I mostly use XFCE and believe it doesn't have that feature. I'm not so sure, but believe that Windows is also mostly fine: note that an app minim
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Not being snarky towards you — Chrome starts really quickly — but was that the snapped calculator from Ubuntu 18.04?
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    by owl57 6y ago

    1. Is it expensive for TLAs to deploy drones for exactly that if the practice becomes popular? They won't even need many actual detecting drones: if they look the same as regular surveillance drones, which are already up in the sky in
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    by owl57 6y ago

    How do you disguise a radio transmitter? It's about as futile as disguising a searchlight.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Now that's an idea. Haskellers routinely use x' as a variable name, but ẋ and x̃ are also valid ones!
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    by owl57 6y ago

    which at first sight looks like function calls to me This is at least consistent. Let's try to think of numbers as functions. Then dots or juxtaposition must mean function composition, right? Then, f(x)=f⋅x is consistent with arithme
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    by owl57 6y ago

    What's "accountable"? Any old releaser on a big tracker has way better track record of not screwing users than the average corporation.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Yes! It's not the first time I posted a rant on the net and found myself guilty of the sin the very next day. This time, a web app of mine has big tables full of dates, and I didn't quickly figure out a way to show the full date w
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Human readability sometimes matters.
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    by owl57 6y ago

    Does anyone use mm.dd.yyyy?
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    by owl57 6y ago

    I don't even know why anyone still uses this notation in today's connected world. 2020-08-06 is ideal. Russian standard (06.08.2020) is uglier (digits are not sorted by significance) but still unambiguous. But that slash horror? W
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    by owl57 6y ago

    And the screenshot on VSCode page shows Linux version. Emphasis on non-Windows applications may be intentional.