7steps2much

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by 7steps2much 3y ago
Honestly, dang is what makes this place so great! One more thumbs up from me!
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by 7steps2much 3y ago
> if your program doesn't work on their test environment Bold of you to assume they have one of those! Personally I assume they will break production, then call you names because of it.
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
A capitalist will always support whatever is best for them. That means amongst other things: - privatizing gains, socializing losses - free markets/competition while they are poor, monopolies once they are on top As a good capitalist y
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
I mean ... At that point you could just include a caching/proxy layer at your router.
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> Our measurement based on the micro benchmarks shows that Rust is in general slower than C, but the extent of the slowdown varies across different programs. On average, Rust brings a 1.77x “performance overhead” compared to C. [1] Of co
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> it's pretty old tech that is very inefficient. I can guarantee you that this "old tech" was coded with more thought invested into it than at least half of these "modern libraries". Well written C code can easil
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> because their enforcement is seen as either unfair, or a detriment to society I mean, I do agree with you in general, its just that I do not see this issue as a detriment to society. If someone demands massive interest rates on loans t
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
If you make that pen available to me under these conditions? Sure. If you "just give" me something without any conditions then no, you could definitely not claim that story. But if you make that pen, your property, available to me
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
If you actually care about this then you can go and write a polite but firm letter/mail to Facebook's legal department. Contacting support/appealing is unlikely to do much since their metric is tickets closed, whereas the leg
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Different scale of seriousness. If the whole world goes into a recession there is a big difference between food shortages that you can buy your way out of with cash and food shortages that come as a result of societal collapse and money bei
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Assuming that you can charge whatever number you want. Realistically however you will have to negotiate with insurances and sometimes governments about the price of things. The second group is particularly tricky, since government make the
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> Curing cancer would be infinitely more profitable than yet another crypto exchange. Treating an illness is even more profitable than curing it though
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
(1) I wasn't aware of it, but I am not surprised that something like this was written into the standard (presumably. I doubt carriers rolled their own thing) (2) All the ways I can think off are significantly harder than rooting, so es
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Banks often have high fees for investing/stock related actions. Depending on what European country you are in you could also have a look at brokers/online banks, these usually have more sane fees. In central Europe flatex would be
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Only if your work is so important they can't afford to let it go undone. If a company has to cut costs they cut the positions they can do without, and in those positions consultants are cut out first. Of course if you aren't easil
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Assuming the fediverse becomes popular enough there will no doubt be large websites that finance themselves with ads/subscriptions. After all git is a decentralized system as well and big silos like GitHub exist.
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Copyright isn't eternal. Stuff from "a hundred years ago" is no longer protected.
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> Now, I completely agree with the licensing issue when it comes to github's copilot. It used public code to train, and therefor any work that is produced through it should be public as well. It's a different issue. Artwork can
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
At that point we would be almost going full circle back to terminals and mainframes. Then someone will figure out most users don't need much processing power (only emails, word, etc.) and back to centralized computing we go!
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
In my opinion you should think of WebAuthn as the first factor. If you want additional second factors (of whatever nature they may be) you can still add these of course. Think of it like logging in using a SSH-key.
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Till now I kep't signal around despite the fact that I wasn't really getting that many messages on the app. Now I am faced with a decision: * Do I keep signal around, for that one to two messages a month I receive? * Or do I get r
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
It's not, they can take you to court or take other measures against you if they care enough. At least in the EU (where this advice was aimed at).
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Just a quick note: It works on none widescreen desktop browsers as well if you zoom out far enough. Or at least it does on my 14" with FF 106
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
MDN[0] says: > Glyphs are taken from the default user interface font on a given platform. Because typographic traditions vary widely across the world, this generic is provided for typefaces that don't map cleanly into the other gene
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
At least for the verifying that an email is original I agree with the other poster, DKIM exists for that purpose, to sign emails while in transit. As for changed messages while synching, do your messages change after delivery? If not, a sim
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Yes, it's one of the classic trade-offs, comfort vs security.
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
Depending on where you are located you might want to check if your cameras offer a "black out" function. The camera essentially censors all public space with black bars. That said, as far as I remember legality of this approach wa
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
True, but if you are talking about video games in particular you could just build a sin/cos function with different parameters into the game engine. have a `sin(x)` where the unit of x is radiants and a `sin_turn(x)` where x is express
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> The project started off as a pure Windows project, according to the motto "Biggest bang for the buck", there are just too many Windows users. However, we're now also shipping Linux binaries, there are packages for Arch L
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by 7steps2much 4y ago
> Rather like ISP's today aren't responsible for the web pages they deliver - the HTTPS encryption means they couldn't scan or block them even if they wanted to. ISP's can be required to in fact not deliver certain we

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