Chlorus

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by Chlorus 5y ago
the dedicated server situation was (is?) pretty dire back when i hosted a few SRCDS instances. here's a small taste: https://wiki.alliedmods.net/SRCDS_Hardening#Current_Exploits not to mention that the commands themsel
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by Chlorus 5y ago
Wasn't Apple's iMessage protocol supposed to be an open implementation too? Whatever happened to that?
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by Chlorus 6y ago
> ". Your tools seem to be bizzarely obsessed with colors, though" Ah, there it is. The "you don't need that feature" attitude that made desktop Linux the roaring success it is today.
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by Chlorus 6y ago
> We have shown an ability to not just change code artifacts, but the protocols and languages which we use to communicate, at a very rapid rate. Results may vary for the C language, IPv4, X11, GTK, ALSA, and massive swathes of the CoreU
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by Chlorus 6y ago
> "this ORM is just bad, next time we will use a different one" ...pretty sure there are competing abstraction layers to working with DBs other programming paradigms. > OOP works on low complexity, small projects, but quickl
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by Chlorus 6y ago
Do tech support for a hospital and this attitude will very quickly dissipate. >In my experience, the contrast is stark to another high-paid professional group: lawyers. Database systems like WestLaw & word processing systems in the 8
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by Chlorus 6y ago
"You missed a trick by not naming it 'Just the Tip' or something to really convey the true spirit of the app" --> Rejected
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by Chlorus 6y ago
…That is not, in fact, the (exact) definition of a paid shill. Apple would have to be paying him conditionally, with the sole intent of him advertising / defending / whatever, regardless of his actual personal opinion. He just has
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by Chlorus 6y ago
He's referring to the mobile version of Safari, which for some reason labels 'open in new tab' as 'open in background'. If you hit 'open in new window' by mistake you end up with a split screen view that c
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by Chlorus 6y ago
20th century Communists, of course, were famously tolerant of their opponents.
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by Chlorus 6y ago
The guy who was repeatedly reprimanded by his own party for it & stripped of his assignments? By this standard, the Democrats are socialists since they won't reprimand AOC. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/
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by Chlorus 6y ago
This is a completely worthless, ahistorical comment. > French Revolution, How did that turn out? > American Revolution There is no definition of leftism that would include the American independence movement. The conception of leftism
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by Chlorus 6y ago
…it was created in September 18, 1947 as part of a reorg brought on by difficulties encountered during WWII. Pretty good foresight on their part to realize they were going to need to start a bunch of unnecessary wars!
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by Chlorus 6y ago
"There is not a major political party in the US that advocates for an employment guarantee, banning private property, or withdrawing all armed forces from around the world. These are positions you would expect from a range of left part
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by Chlorus 6y ago
I for one can't wait to return to a time where the only people who could afford to be writers were members of the upper class who didn't need to rely on publishing for their income; we might be spared the next Dan Brown. It's
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by Chlorus 6y ago
> One should not use so much memory for a mail server, way too risky. Is there a table or formula I can consult that will give this particular dumb person(myself) a handy guide for what amounts of addressable memory will introduce securi
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by Chlorus 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted - I expect more meat from a submission than 'here's a context-free few sentences on a tweet!'
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by Chlorus 6y ago
Yes being able to freely buy a product that offers a different point on the security / openness continuum is slavery, and phrasing it like that doesn't undermine either the meanings of the word 'enslave' or 'authori
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Found some additional info on the legacy computing symbols - chapter 22, page 856 - https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf "Support for these legacy computing symbols includes 212 characters
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> it isn't even necessarily incorrect to express that they may not want to pursue that particular field anymore Can I express that to people who think a volunteer project owes them anything & couldn't be arsed to implement
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Yeah, it's kind of weird how little attention some of C's (historical)competitors in the systems programming space get. You'd think to see a lot of comparisons to whatever Ada* or Pascal would do in the same context. * Probab
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> If steam would be forced to build new products rather than sitting on their platform we'd probably have had Half Life 3 a bunch of years ago. Steam is a terrible example for this. First of all, Steam isn't a company, it'
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Came here to say the same thing- had eye surgery a few years back and the floaters are maddening. I've got a few apps that use a white background feels blinding whenever I have to use them.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> it's gotten really unreliable in many places these days because the infrastructure is decaying and companies are spending the absolute minimum to keep it going, but they're milking it for profit from all the dinosaurs who ref
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Wait til you find out who gets the most IPv4 addresses!
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> Many people were saying this, Paul Krugman (one of the leading economists) went as far as comparing the internet to the fax machine: And he caught a bunch of shit for it, even at the time. You keep trying to conflate critics of Bitcoin
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Good riddance, I remember when web browsing on Linux was obnoxious because every other site used Flash but the only plugin available was an older version for Firefox that had serious glitches like desyncing audio. It wasn't until like
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Because it's very not not broken, and here's the reasons why: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/
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by Chlorus 7y ago
It just reeks of the same lazy garbage of that whole "separating the programming goats from the sheep" meme that went around a few years back. "It's not that my pedagogy has faults, people are just inherently bad and th
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by Chlorus 7y ago
"“Yeah, medicine seems really powerful, but med school is hard and I’ve got patients to treat.”" Isn't that in fact the case, and why we have nurses, RPNs & medics? "Sorry, I can't give you this flu shot - I&#x2

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