snarbles

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by snarbles 2y ago
> In general, I think it’s a very bad look to endorse murder. Stopped reading right there. You don't need to endorse it to recognize that all other means of redress have been corrupted or hijacked. If you leave someone only one opti
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by snarbles 2y ago
StackOverflow has been in trouble for a while. That became obvious to me when the moderators went on strike. The site was being spammed with AI-generated questions and answers to farm reputation, and the site ownership forbade moderators fr
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by snarbles 2y ago
The author seems to be offering a false dichotomy. His strawman argument is to offer platform-specific specified behavior for UB, but then concludes that that would make optimization impossible, operating on a presumption that that behavior
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by snarbles 2y ago
Edge, Bing, and Safari do not have majority market share. It would still please me to see these companies broken up. They have their own obnoxious and/or harmful practices that are the result or of attempts to be monopolistic.
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by snarbles 2y ago
I'll speak it. The law in question is reasonable.
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by snarbles 2y ago
We can control what we do, but not what other parties do. Anyone who has been following along is well aware that the other side has already been doing. We can choose to be prepared, or to be unprepared. We are watching the consequences of b
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by snarbles 2y ago
Weird how every pro-consumer measure is always met with THIS WILL SPELL DOOM FOR CONSUMERS. That's generally a sign you're on the right track.
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by snarbles 2y ago
> “No matter how much you level the playing field, people are going to go to the best product for the job” How you know folks at google aren't eating their own dog food.
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by snarbles 2y ago
Not all recalls involve disposing of a product. Apparently in this case it does. I'd have thought they could just send out some correction stickers to slap on there, but I suppose food labeling laws could be too rigid to allow for this
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by snarbles 2y ago
The conclusion of the article seems to be that passwords should be encrypted with asymmetric encryption instead of being hashed. I really couldn't disagree more. We see how competently companies manage their security. It's very ea
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by snarbles 2y ago
I couldn't be more pleased with this outcome, and I haven't seen anything to suggest that this is less than entirely legitimate.
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by snarbles 2y ago
The point wasn't that you can't find people on twitter. The point is that nobody should be patronizing it. It is fundamentally hostile toward you (though not necessarily overtly), and by being one of the people supporting it, the
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by snarbles 2y ago
I mean, I know people joke about it, but last time I saw one in a parking lot, I literally thought it was a dumpster at first.
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by snarbles 2y ago
Good on Jetbrains
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by snarbles 2y ago
Xitter is not designed for productive or healthy engagement. For all the excuses people give for still being there, I think it ultimately comes down to laziness and, to put it charitably, "risk aversion". Not wanting to put in the
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by snarbles 2y ago
Often when Russia does something that appears foolish to the west, it's because it is for internal propaganda purposes. The west is not the intended audience.
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by snarbles 2y ago
I think I would sooner argue that refusing to take a safe vaccine and exposing others (or yourself if you have dependents) to potentially serious but largely avoidable diseases would be the greater violation.
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by snarbles 2y ago
Weird takes. These are circumstances of Russia's choosing.
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by snarbles 2y ago
Huh?
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by snarbles 2y ago
>Win10 Home If you're running a version of windows that includes group policy editor, it does. Given the way windows 10+ disregards if not outright changes settings, I wouldn't exactly bet my life or my PC on it anyways. My spe
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by snarbles 2y ago
My laptop (Win10 home) installed updates over metered connections (and actively combated my efforts to disable the update service, take ownership of the service, etc.). Ultimately the fix was to install Ubuntu.
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by snarbles 2y ago
Not my area of expertise, but if theoretical turing-completeness requires potentially infinite storage, doesn't the possibility of file or network access neuter any argument that a finite address space renders C non-turing-complete?