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by sellyme 6y ago
The claim wasn't that they never have security flaws, the claim was that they almost certainly have fewer security flaws than the alternative self-hosted solution someone named MastodonFan87 comes up with.
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If you have extremely reliable home internet I suppose it's viable, but personally I've found the redundancy of being able to fall back to hotspotted mobile data when required extremely important.
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> You don’t speak for the rest of the market though Do you? > Steam comfortable holds its lead for good reason Yes. One of those good reasons is that it allows people to purchase Steam games without buying them on Steam, thus avoiding
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Unfortunately the linked easter egg on that article has since been taken down. So that somewhat demonstrates the "undocumented features don't get maintained" pitfall.
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> The idea that users would all be side loading apps and developers would be making far more money having their apps spread across 5+ different stores that would compete down to lower prices is delusional. If that were the case, why has
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> of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw It's a computer. It doesn't know that unless it's explicitly told to remember it. You can very easily test this by just drawing whatever you want
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Given the sheer quantity of idiots underestimating it right now, I'm not too sure that things will have improved a few decades down the line.
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If I were to believe that the US Constitution made it impossible for the government to prevent companies from lying to employees about their rights, my conclusion would be "wow, the US Constitution is a pile of trash, let's get th
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> The purpose of this is to keep the OS feeling responsive, since it allows it to bring up the window immediately, rather than leaving the user staring at a screen with nothing happening for several seconds Wait, you only get one of thos
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I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down this thread to get to the "does Egypt have any nukes?" solution.
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> the prize awards 5000 euros for each one percent improvement (with 500,000 euros total funding) I get the feeling that Marcus Hutter is going to be able to keep some of his money. EDIT: This apparently isn't the case! Turns out th
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> There isn't annoying modals that take over the screen. No ads inject themselves into my scroll. Videos players that work and don't have two minutes of prerolls and the main content just buffers forever. All of these functions
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> Skype is still great. In 2015 my Skype install used >3GB of RAM within minutes of launch. Searching for an uncommon term in chatlogs took hours. I've not been able to open it at all for years because it just hangs on boot. I&#x
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> and likely have introduced some trust issues between the child and parents. I couldn't help but laugh at this. If you want to avoid trust issues, maybe don't lie to people. Seems like an easier solution than lying to them an
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> Yeah it seems pretty clear that this was a 1Password flaw and didn't really have anything to do with Substack's UI The UI is styled to make it so that a form input is completely indistinguishable from surrounding text, to suc
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> But if we're talking about a kid believing in Santa Claus, and the parents actually do care that you keep up the fantasy, you actually are an asshole if you tell the truth, no question. Why is the desire of the parents more import
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by sellyme 6y ago
Maybe I've just been extraordinarily lucky in who I associate with, but no-one I would consider a potential "collaborator" (either in professional or personal life) would ever demand I be incorrect about something to suit the
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> It's also possible to be both correct and diplomatic, and to criticize diplomatically. Oh absolutely, but those are both totally compatible with someone who "care[s] more about being right than being diplomatic". It&#x27
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Weirdly I think taking it to the extreme made your point somewhat worse. Something like theft versus kleptomania is just a punishment versus treatment scenario, but I would definitely perceive someone who commits an unprovoked murder to inh
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> Or they care more about being right than being diplomatic. This doesn't seem like particularly assholeish behaviour. Caring more about being perceived as right (even when erroneously), sure, but if the person is actually right o
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Does John Cleese post this address in a tweet Yes, he has done so.
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> Canvases painted a single color, and other forms of abstract and conceptual art, remain a major part of recent art history and can sell for tens of millions. I don't think anyone's under the impression that people paying lots
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> Every bug is a "n00b mistake" when you are looking right at it. Except the ones that are just the universe conspiring against you, like bit flipping in the SM-1800 because of heavily irradiated cattle being transported on a n
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by sellyme 6y ago
> The only relevant thing I can eke out is that they both went to the same event a week or so ago and probably shared a Wifi AP, where a "leak" could've happened. Or maybe a hash collision in FB's side? Given two user
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Some of them are special (they can be displayed on devices with very low colour depth), some of them are just there for sentimental value (e.g., rebeccapurple), but most of them descend from X11's colour list - which itself descends fr
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A lot of BTC was held by an exchange like Mt. Gox and Bitfinex, too. With banks I can trust that I can actually get my money bank. BTC isn't decentralised, and the central actors controlling the system are far less reputable (which is
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by sellyme 6y ago
Man, if all advertisements were this level of quality and usefulness the world would be such a nice place. Not only are all of the example visualisations very illustrative and pretty, but they actually use real (and interesting!) data inste
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The crux of this is that most readers presumably found out about both the bug and the fix in relatively short proximity, and their response is negative to the combined events, not to the knowledge of just the patch. A criminal prosecuted
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Just today I improved performance of an enterprise system by over 15000% by commenting out a "sleep(1);" line I used to debug a race condition! Might not put that one on the resume.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Oh absolutely, I have a whole host of stuff on my todo list for projects I'm developing that has been there for months and will remain there for months longer. That said, they're all things like "refactor the frobnicator code

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