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by scbrg 5y ago
> a developer tried to parse an integer without first validating the input and checking if it COULD be parsed Is there a meaningful difference between validating that input can be parsed and parsing it? Any validator that doesn't
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by scbrg 5y ago
The problem, of course, is when you've worked on the assumption that it will do the job (hey, it was perfectly plausible!) and after a six months' work you run into a showstopper like this.
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by scbrg 5y ago
I've always considered Microsoft's Trackball Explorer the best pointing device I've come across (oh I wish Microsoft could stick to making hardware!). Apparently I'm not alone, since they go for hundreds of dollars on th
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by scbrg 5y ago
As with pretty much everything else computing, the world suffers because Microsoft has been dumping terrible tools on it for decades, and people just take their garbage as the way things have to be.
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by scbrg 5y ago
It hasn't happened, and it's absurd to think that it would happen. That's the point.
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by scbrg 5y ago
> Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along? Because most is not the same as all . Unfortunately,
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by scbrg 5y ago
Fair enough. The mobile platform is one I ignore. The only thing I know with any certainty about my phone is that it's running a bunch of closed source spyware, so I'm not entrusting it with anything much - and certainly not my pa
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by scbrg 5y ago
How different we think. I'd much rather put my trust in select people , such as Jason Donenfeld (creator of pass, Wireguard &c) with impeccable track records, than random companies that are always one quick change of management
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by scbrg 5y ago
Ah, I see. My apologies.
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by scbrg 5y ago
That doesn't seem to be the same kind of detectors at all. "21.4 million of these reports were from Electronic Service Providers that report instances of apparent child sexual abuse material that they become aware of on their syst
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by scbrg 5y ago
To be fair, SWATing kills people. Death is generally considered a non trivial and also life wrecking event.
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by scbrg 5y ago
Did I say it didn't? Advising against something is not the same thing as forbidding it. In either case, this "right" doesn't change the fact that the most significant (non) action you can do to lessen environmental impac
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by scbrg 5y ago
> If you follow your logic to the extreme, the most beneficial actions would be things like euthanasia or just plain suicide. Absolutely. Any logic followed to the extreme will yield extreme results. It could, however, be argued without
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by scbrg 5y ago
Perhaps we need to find another way to fuel the economy than the never ending pyramid scheme called population growth. At 8 billion (causing massive environmental damage) a drop in population would certainly not be a bad thing.
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by scbrg 5y ago
Footguns are OK as long as they're pointed at other people's feet.
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by scbrg 5y ago
Well, blame English. It sucks (and so do all other natural languages). In software, I'd say that "simple" has come to mean "lack of complexity" rather than "easy". Presumably, the distribution's targe
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by scbrg 5y ago
Won't this work just fine if you instead of writing: from a import A write import a and in the code (which is presumably not at module level) check against isinstance(obj, a.A) ?
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by scbrg 5y ago
The title is a question , not an argument. The answer to the question is in the article . It's a very common style of writing.
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by scbrg 5y ago
OK, I'm channeling my inner Peter, Michael and Samir here, but how exactly do you launder money by spending it on Candy Crush? Is King supposedly in on the scheme?
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by scbrg 5y ago
Thank you :-) To elaborate, when I say "cluttering," it's not really performance I'm after. Of course I realize that yet another small key value pair in a hashmap matters very little. Rather, I'm thinking in terms o
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by scbrg 5y ago
Why would you export PS1? Seems like unnecessarily cluttering the environment of child processes.
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by scbrg 5y ago
> He used median instead of mean What's the difference when you only have two values in the set?
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by scbrg 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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by scbrg 5y ago
>One of the more popular accounts is that it originated in the online computer game World of Warcraft, where a map designer misspelt owned (where own was intended to be used in the sense of 'conquer' or 'dominate'). I
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by scbrg 5y ago
That's interesting. Mortgages are 100% of my debt, and the debt of most everyone I know. Which I guess was the point GP tried to make.
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by scbrg 5y ago
That's great for your... uh... juices, I suppose, but what about the list of unsorted integers? ;)
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by scbrg 5y ago
I had a chuckle a while back when here on HN, one poster replied to another with the words: Oh, fuck off! The next sentence was That's amazing! Turns out that they were quite happy about the information in the parent post. Somethin
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by scbrg 5y ago
If people have varying opinions about it, it's subjective. That's the definition of the word subjective, no? In either case, the point of highlighting one (and only one) button is to indicate that that's the default button, i
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by scbrg 5y ago
You sure? $ dig +noall +answer ai. ai. 80534 IN A 209.59.119.34
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by scbrg 5y ago
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