Debug_Overload

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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
I've been using it for the last few weeks, and it's been pretty good so far. It doesn't suspend music tabs when they're not playing (which TGS did automatically), but nothing much to complain about.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
Mentioning the author deleted it out of fear and then posting his Twitter handle might not be a great combination here.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
Also, the term "sophisticated" is almost meaningless here, and that's usually the case when talking about these kinds of issues. Pretty straightforward Nigerian prince style scam is now "sophisticated" phishing atta
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
The book is amazing! The technical analysis by Symantec [1] also makes for a very good complementary read. [1] [PDF] https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/11/w32_s...
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
This is just not realistic, and not how the world works. "Oh, you expect me to be available on the app we used to communicate regularly and most people in our circle use? Too bad, I just dumped it and got on this new app, so you guys b
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
Taking into account anything conspiracy nutjobs have to say about this stuff is an exercise in futility. They will not not find another wild excuse to declare conspiracy.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
That was awesome. Security is often an afterthought for many companies. Anyway, it's good that they fixed it in the end.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
> The majority of the accounts following him have 0 posts, very low amount of followers and follow thousands of other people. There's also the issue of "follower farmers". Basically, some spam accounts start following tens
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
I think having a good introduction before reading the big books suggested here is a good idea. For an introductory book, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy is pretty good. It's short, and covers the important topics and h
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
r/askscience might be the closest one in terms of strict moderation and not tolerating off-topic/joke/anecdotal (or otherwise unscientific, obviously) stuff; you'll mostly find high-quality answers submitted by the verif
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Oh, boy. This early? The link is on HN for less than an hour and the site already panicked.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
The write-up was great, actually. The whole point of sharing the article is to read about the process and the technical details, I don't know why people insist on these cheap TL;DRs.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
Regardless of whether the argument of the commenter is valid or not, appeal to authority isn't very compelling.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
For me, it's Dark Reader. I can't browse the web without it.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
> Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI This was actually my only quibble with HN. I love the simplicity and the fact that HN doesn't suffer from the "obesity" that plagues modern websites, but I felt
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
> You have to at least click on the thing to up vote it or not. I always thought this was a good idea. I've seen exactly one platform try it (Quora) and they dropped it for some reason. Their version was especially good because you
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
> I wrote the "num command" tool entirely in gawk That's pretty cool! It's really packed with features.
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
The author also lumps AWT, Swing and JavaFX together. They're different, and some were created to solve issues others didn't address, and/or improve them (never mind that JavaFX is its own beast, and is quite different from t
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
That's just for compression. Commits aren't diffs, and when you checkout stuff, git doesn't do diffs to give you the working directory at that point. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/25028688/827237
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
> OS updates spontaneously reset your default browser back to Edge I've never seen this happen, and I have Chrome as default. I noticed the other issues you point out, but this never happened to me the years I've been dual-boot
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by Debug_Overload 6y ago
patrickJMT is really great. I remember frequenting his channel when I was taking some math courses in college.