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by pyeri 3y ago
The Buddha spent his whole life trying to understand this one problem and find a solution to it: human suffering. And 2500 years later, with so many leaps and bounds of progressivism, we are pondering that exact same question (facepalm).
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The whole "notification alert" format is a form of micro assault on your attention faculty if you think about it. Sometimes, that tiny bit is all that is needed to screw with the focus of whatever you're doing which in all li
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It's like hiring more workers to accomplish the exact same output as before. "See, I achieved 20% growth in my targets!", some recruiter will say!
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Good point. I think it's a good thing in some way as it will force the downstream (or end user) of that library to also go GPL and not a non-free license. I think more and more software should be produced as FOSS anyway and we should m
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by pyeri 3y ago
> GPL libraries are off limits for non-free programs But since GPL and LGPL are compatible licenses, can't the non-free author just fork the GPL to an LGPL version and then use it? A bit of inconvenience and technicality involved bu
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Sans the monetization debacle, it's an extremely good platform for authors. It also has some unique content value. It's like a twitter but for those who want to read more detailed and rigorous content in the form of answer posts.
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I think Microsoft, Github and many other companies also provide many free/subsidized services to those who can prove they're students, that includes even web hosting on AWS or digital ocean IIRC. Even leaving those aside, there ar
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by pyeri 3y ago
> In this case, there are 4 bugs. One causes N++ to write 1 to 3 bytes past the end of a buffer, the other bugs cause N++ to read some bytes past the end of heap objects, even the researchers aren't sure how they could be exploited.
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Also don't forget geany! It is pretty much the Notepad++ of Linux Desktop world I think.
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Almost each and every concern is applicable to VISA/Mastercard system too. UPI is just another alternative who isn't a member of that elite card system club but one who has carved a niche of their own.
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In this case, if those working from home got a 40% raise after joining, the others who came to office on their own might start getting ideas! They may also consider working from home in future and then try to negotiate their "office co
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Exactly! This has been my own head canon too since like decades! I was actually surprised to read in this thread that "infamous" is a negative interpretation of famous which seems like a revisionist and recent interpretation. The
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On the other hand, political speeches on such occasions go down as most remembered historically. The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was obviously said by some politician! (or at least with non
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Some things about the 1990s Internet will soon be found nowhere except in some people's memories. Big Tech is trying very hard to ensure that.
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Another dead simple solution would be if AWS would provide us a simple subdomain (such as myapp.xxxx.aws-hosting.com), no need to meddle with IPs at all in that case. Google Cloud already does this with xyz.appspot.com subdomains, same with
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As a lay person not graduated in STEM subjects, can someone ELIFY how is this research useful to society?
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The .NET runtime usually comes pre-installed on all machines above Windows 7. It's just that if your app needs some advanced feature, you need to upgrade runtime version in those cases, this is pretty much how other runtime based syste
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Instead of dabbling with the windows API directly, a better option is to use the .NET WinForms API. You can use any CIL language like C# or VB.NET. Granted that it is a framework or toolkit like many others but one of the most efficient and
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Let us wait and watch but I somehow feel that this no-GIL mode is just a band-aid solution to Python's performance problem. The cause goes deep inside the core of Python, it gradually came to this stage as more and more features got ad
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The "do one thing and do it well" approach died the day when systemd became a super hit.
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But what if the user actually consents by clicking on that dirty yellow "I AGREE" button? That was the whole defense of tech companies when it came to pushing forced content so far.
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>> It wasn't always like this. 15 years ago, when ICQ was huge, everything with a screen, keyboard, a network interface, and a way to run arbitrary code had an unofficial ICQ client for it. Most people haven't ever seen the
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They also had a competitor in the form of Microsoft's Silverlight, right? What happened to that?
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Here is the rocket launch video [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/erbmjha/status/1679780106422681601
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> Could potentially open up to lawsuits if the users disagree manual review outcome. That's what user agreements are for. What they usually do is put up a big ugly "I Agree" confirmation button, upon clicking of which all
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Update on Continued Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community(postgresql.org)
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In today's world, "Science equals Capitalism". Or at least Science is allowed to progress and get funded only as long as it serves the interest of Capitalism.
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But (presumably) those seven posters would be motivated by big tech money and thus be identified by some algorithm or the other in that blockchain? And/or you being a genuine reviewer would have a more organic activity across the block
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A blockchain based solution can be developed for customer reviews. If your cryptographically signed and verifiable review went and sat on the disk of every computer on the planet, there will be no options to manipulate it.
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>> querying them with http range requests to prevent downloading the entire database. It's pretty awesome! Querying isn't a problem, you can query as much as you want. But where you'll hit the Sqlite limitation is in sc

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