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Come on, it starts out with a link to the CVE and a remark "While the advisory contains all the necessary details. I figured I would use a few additional words..." If you just want the gist of it, the article does everything it ca
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How many skeletons of cats have you seen on roofs or in tree tops?
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The keywords are tokenized, the line number is converted to a 16bit integer, leading spaces are stripped (which is why some "formatted" BASIC uses ":" as the first character in a line, like the following), everything els
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This process predates DMA, and given that it's the cartel office and not a data protection authority (although from what I've heard, the German federal DPO was much in favor of this effort), the angle was more about competition th
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It's possible to have a single privacy policy for a collection of services and different applicability of it for each single one, and for the interactions between them. For example, some people might not mind Maps and Search data to be
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"Do you have adblock set up to filter ads only, or do you have it set to also filter all kinds of other trackers?" would be the more accurate question.
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Because advertisers are only waiting to only get the eyeballs that can't pay their way out of the platform's ads. Like cable TV, streaming services, and various other outlets this will be a "premium service" until they r
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Pressing CDs was expensive, which worked for the audio mass market, but not for the PC niche market. That limited the appeal of buying an (expensive) CD drive, and they weren't even using a standard protocol (so: lots of issues). When
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they're stored as 16 bit little-endian word, so unless it's used for goto/gosub (whose targets are stored in petscii) the line number makes no difference.
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Give them 1* reviews for it, and encourage everybody you know to do likewise. It doesn't take that many of them to ruin somebody's day at the producer.
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The tax/social contributions stuff can be cherry picked to become very high and very low to support any point people want to make. There are employer contributions in Germany that are recently counted in such calculations to prove a po
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It's about inflation (see https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/strategy/pricestab/html/index... ), but there's a relationship because their interest rate informs the interest rates across the region t
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The ECB aims for "2% inflation on average". Inflation and interest rate have a close relationship, so at least for them that's the new normal. I seem to remember that the Fed and other central banks likely talked about the 2%
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Pilots are pretty well paid and sought after, and have a US/Canada union that is 74000 members strong...
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There was a world before "stores", you know...
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I guess a closer analogy would be an article about file systems called "The sermon of the mount", or something. "The ten commandments of ..." is a popular trope ( https://medium.com/byte-sized-code/th
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Since text in commit messages is free, a more accurate tag hurts noone but keeps the spirits up and encourages future work: Based-on-work-by, Investigated-by, ... Reported-by is more of a participation medal because it can mean anything inc
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> People will state google has better search results than anything despite never having used anything else. People will happily use the default search engine, no matter what it is, and believe that it's Google they're using, un
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Of course that's possible, Apache even has a process for that: https://attic.apache.org/
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It's not about the correlation, it's that higher performing employees have an easier time finding alternatives. And even if they mostly prefer the office, they might not like the heavy-handedness with which management is pushing t
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> play 90's rock ... some animal documentary ... not too far from the truth Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch?
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> its how they partially make up for a declining birthrate. To the detriment of their origin countries who suffer from losing their best and brightest. How "Northern countries exploit the South again" is a (rather quiet) talkin
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> It's simply not politically feasable to say, "Without immigrants, our economy is f'ed." And yet, that's what politicians in Germany are saying: "Denn Deutschland braucht sie dringend: Durch die seit Jahrze
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> If only we had actual Engineering certifications for software engineers. See Canada: Software Engineers are called Software Developers there, problem solved.
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Oracle? Cisco? Do something for somebody else for free? Are you mad? They'll license the fire, and calculate the fees based on volume of air heated.
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> And those voters are voting! That's why it's even more important to go vote this time, and for a party that will likely make the cut. For all intents and purposes, votes for the everybody-knows-they-will-be-<5% parties are
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> in computing: engineering culture becoming dominant in the '60s (where it was more the domain of mathematics before) That would suggest that countries in which that transition didn't happen (such as Germany: Informatik was an
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Have you spoken to men who have joined yoga courses? Same thing there: it's uncomfortable when you're the odd one out, and assholes who are going to asshole are most egregious towards those who are "other." The underlyin
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WinFS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS ) without the mssql Engine?
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The French have a programming language for tax related work: https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang

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