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by zahlman 4mo ago
> If you spend an absolute fortune protecting someone's named and address combination, that will be paid for by the customer. And then you get your lunch eaten by a competitor who understands that the PII is unnecessary for the busi
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Students also don’t believe cheating will cause them future harm because they assume they can cheat everything up through graduation the same way. And in the workplace as well. And so do their parents. With alarmingly good reason, at l
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> firewall rules that only permit connections to the exam site. ... did LANs (Ethernet, with wifi disabled) stop being a thing?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
TIL about "HBM".
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> only visit certain websites that can be visited on older version of browsers. A second-hand 16GB laptop can go a long way. My desktop has 8 and I have no problem keeping multiple tabs open using up-to-date Firefox.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Why would it? Such a government would just... not approve Linux, if it interfered with their objectives.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
It is, though, definitionally. Throwing things out on the street or the sidewalk is different from letting them end up in a landfill.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I thought it was a strange way to express the problem, too. OP didn't really explain where or how the clipboard text was getting pasted in order to reproduce the issue.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
The discussion started with someone telling you "I have currently 2 browsers open and my memory commit is 370MB". Nothing about the concept of "modernity" (which is entirely subjective) there. Then someone else explicitl
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> It drives me nuts when a developer documents something or other as being a "regex" > I don't know what language your program is even written in! I legitimately don't understand how you're in this situation.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> if someone thinks I'm an LLM because I used an em-dash, that's on them. I'll go a step further: I think I'd rather actively filter out people whose AI detection is that naïve.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Do you feel the same way about seeing "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" in the terminal from some other arbitrary program? If not, why not?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Must be nice to be able to take seriously the idea that multiple people might be browsing your site simultaneously… :(
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Why? Of course it means the dialect that is most directly supported by that language (by builtins or the standard library). And why should they have to consider other dialects? They aren't reading regexes from user input (or they&#x2
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I've noticed it commonly uses phrasing like "that's usually the next step" when I'm using it to design something that I can't find an existing implementation of.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
It is not "bad faith" to assert experiences that differ from yours. "Bad faith" is (per Wikipedia) > a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while ac
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by zahlman 4mo ago
The point is that I find it difficult to believe that Gnome/KDE are that much worse. Please consider being more kind and charitable to others, before you make your own demands.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I agree with the sibling comment that it's been worse in the past. But it also tends to correlate with types of sites that I'm not especially interested in anyway. Well, except the image hosts. Webmasters who claim that their site
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I would assume due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 .
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Modern Gnome and KDE distros with batteries included also idea at around 2GB RAM Really? I'm seeing 1.3 for Mint/Cinnamon.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> and it had issues crashing on browsers under even a couple tabs. Surely this has way more to do with the browser (and the website!) than the OS, nowadays.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> 8GB of DDR3 is currently in the ballpark of $10 Where would I find it sold? > and the machines that take it can be found by the pallet in the "free e-waste" pile Hey, I'm using one to write this :(
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I only see a blank white page. I'd expect that people who are specifically trying to show me an interesting CSS library could make at least something show up on the page without JavaScript. As a matter of policy, I don't white
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I got Mint back in 2022 for my desktop built in 2014. Everything worked fine and I was even able to customize my install (though I regret some choices). It used considerably fewer resources than Win10 (never mind Win11, which I don't t
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by zahlman 4mo ago
The website version works fine.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Reading the replies is amazing. OP: a specific manufacturer raised prices on some products. Thread: endless argument about everything that's good or bad about the current living situation, in historical perspective, across the entire w
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by zahlman 4mo ago
When I look at these sorts of diagrams, it seems as if the colours don't blend continuously. Generally I see three rays extending out from the white point that seem much whiter than the surrounding colours, and also a line perpendicula
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Do you feel the same way about real-time syntax highlighting?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> AI agents lack durable, long-lasting, unique identities forged by real-world memories and experience, and they therefore lack judgment. I agree with all of this, but I think there's also a simple information theory issue. If the o
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Pardon? Management can't tell employees "stop letting your agent submit 10,000 line PRs unattended or you're fired"?

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