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571.
by problems 10y ago
I'm a big fan of a lot of the work NPR does, but I disagree. I think applying this to the general population is a recipe for bias and disaster. Those agencies have their own slew of motivations which differ from others. Consider them a
572.
by problems 10y ago
Windows isn't the best at multi-DPI in general though either. Only recently did Firefox on Windows get multi-DPI support - not sure if Chrome does yet because I gave up on it and went to dual 4K because the scaling was easier. If you w
573.
by problems 10y ago
It lacks many of the more advanced features like integrated debugging and deobfuscation and it isn't open source, so unless it happened to work better with a given executable I probably wouldn't use it.
574.
by problems 10y ago
You're right - if they're zero day. If you don't update your VM and someone lugs some old ones around just to see you could still get bit. Like I said though, odds are actually very low and it's probably not as major of
575.
by problems 10y ago
VMs are extremely useful for malware RE, but there are a few potential concerns: - VM breakouts are a security concern. While fairly uncommon this is a risk. Most of that risk exists in drivers and VM acceleration tools and can be mitigated
576.
by problems 10y ago
Looks good, one comment on tooling though: Don't screw around with other .NET decompilers, use dnSpy. https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy It's fully open source, integrates with deobfuscators and includes a binary
577.
by problems 10y ago
It's a lot easier to see many pollution problems and the harm often is more direct and quantifiable - with a privacy issue the harm is often abstract and harder to see. I think privacy and pollution regulations can be good, but they ne
578.
by problems 10y ago
I agree we've definitely wasted far more money in far worse ways, but it still doesn't change the fact it's wasteful scientifically and economically speaking, just because there are bigger wastes doesn't mean we should a
579.
by problems 10y ago
I always found that quote incredibly pointless. If you just want to do something because it's hard, there's lots of options, the cheapest is to turn up the difficulty on a game. Don't waste tax payer money sending humans to t
580.
by problems 10y ago
Nope, it's standard, Terry Davis is the author and he's a very religious schizophrenic. He's a very smart guy, but he got banned many times on HN and Reddit for going off about "India niggers" and spamming blocks of
581.
by problems 10y ago
You dev on linux, try your best to write in a cross-platform way - then only once you've got something that works and you're fairly motivated to actually do something with it, go through the hassle to make a Windows build.
582.
by problems 10y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I always avoid apps that don't integrate well with my platform. They're just not pleasant to use. I want the same look and feel, I want the same file browser, I want the same DPI scaling my desktop use
583.
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, it basically seems like an "oh shit, we're sorry our site is so ancient, here, have this coupon code so you save some money and don't jump ship instead". Seems like a reasonable stopgap as long as they're work
584.
by problems 10y ago
Most people I know who casually pirate things don't even use torrents, they use streaming websites, file lockers, Kodi plugins, etc. Which offer similarly no risk of getting caught. I was simply using Popcorn Time as the extreme exampl
585.
by problems 10y ago
But it's the truth - those Uber drivers don't get guaranteed work, they don't get hours, they don't get salary. Instead they find contracts via Uber and they keep their portion of the earnings. Just because Uber takes th
586.
by problems 10y ago
If you're meaning to say you can write "multi-platform desktop" apps using Electron... I suppose you're technically correct, but they don't feel native on any platform, are generally slow, massive to distribute, don
587.
by problems 10y ago
Qt pretty much nails this balance, WPF isn't bad either. Both will run circles around browsers at rendering performance and are much less tedious to develop in unless you've only done web dev before.
588.
by problems 10y ago
I'd be quite happy if LetsEncrypt becomes a significant monopoly - they're following much better practices than many other CAs, they run on open source software and are generally operated in a much more transparent way than other
589.
by problems 10y ago
Uber is essentially just a matcher and payment processor that takes a cut, they don't own vehicles or employ drivers - will they only have to pay taxes on their cut?
590.
by problems 10y ago
Or - without doing any of that - just ship it on the honor system - no DRM. GOG does it and they still get more than 1 sale per game.
591.
by problems 10y ago
There's a big different between breaking a door down to bypass a lock and pirating a movie via bittorrent though. It doesn't "keep honest people honest" when piracy is so damn easy regardless of what they do with DRM. Th
592.
by problems 10y ago
They quite frankly can't technically, only legally - they're selling a 0 margin good, anyone who has it can basically give away infinite copies at zero cost per additional copy. Anyone who wants it for free will have it for free.
593.
by problems 10y ago
Yes, the bundling is ridiculous, but as long as the browser is open source, it'll still be possible to disable it - it's a tiny amount of code to allow that to happen, not a high maintenance effort item at all.
594.
by problems 10y ago
> Why didn't Mozilla work harder to catch up with Chrome and counter Google? Was it a case of "My enemy's enemy is my friend?" I'd argue that this "catching up to Google" was more their problem than the
595.
by problems 10y ago
On Android they feed it directly to the OS codecs except for 4K video so they can't really care that much.
596.
by problems 10y ago
So I remember reading some early EME specs that seemed to indicate that EME encrypted content could be decoded and played by the browser's standard decoder and player - in the case of an open source browser like Firefox - hooking these
597.
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, the problem started when people decided installing a browser from an ad agency seemed like a good idea.
598.
by problems 10y ago
I think emacs in practice would give different results than this as you'd typically use it with server mode. There's also addon tools like vlfi if you're editing very large files on a regular basis. I'd be more intereste
599.
by problems 10y ago
Is this really a surprise though? It uses Electron, which loads an entire web browser just to do text editing and adds several layers of indirection which aren't needed by other editors like sublime.
600.
by problems 10y ago
SyncThing solves this quite nicely on Android at least. For iOS, I'm not sure, Apple's restrictions make proper sync near impossible in the name of battery life - even while charging or on WiFi.

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