Jwarder

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by Jwarder 3y ago
I don't think the issue is with the number, but rather the context. What should the end user think when finder reports that there is 60TB of data on a 2TB drive? People with above average file system knowledge can generate an explana
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by Jwarder 3y ago
It isn't too bad; naming stuff is always hard. If the Microsoft marketers knew about it then I would expect to see Azure™ Gen.NET™ Live™.
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by Jwarder 3y ago
Can anyone speak about YouTrack/Space's warts? The marketing blurbs makes Space + YouTrack look like a decent replacement for Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket, but I don't recall ever hearing a developer talk about it.
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by Jwarder 3y ago
> How many military bases does Russia have in Germany Not the direction you are aiming, but I find Kaliningrad/Königsberg a fascinating example of soviet imperialism.
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by Jwarder 3y ago
Oddly Bing seems to like PDFs more than other pages. I have a project that generates PDFs for logged in users. I see a handful of Bing/MSN IP addresses that keep on trying to view that page everyday, but MS has never tried to index o
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by Jwarder 3y ago
Because we all know that banning photo books that include that statue of David protects your children.
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by Jwarder 3y ago
I would add boots that are high enough that there is no gap between the rain pants and the shoe. An old pair of "hiking" boots did the job for me. Riding through a puddle and getting your socks even mildly wet feels terrible.
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by Jwarder 4y ago
I've been thinking about it in terms of the transition from pre-1950s human computers to electronic computers. How much should we morn the loss of rooms of people doing calculations by hand? Making it easier for people to solve probl
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by Jwarder 4y ago
Are there any gotchas around the sql parameterization? Looks like you're passing in an array into db.exec. I would have thought that would be enough, but if I search for org-mode then I see an error on the console complaining about n
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by Jwarder 4y ago
The Try For Free link is a bit awkward. It points to a page that just says Jobs, that in turn just points to a empty black page. I assume the intention is to use the Login link. If so then I think that should be at the forefront instead o
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by Jwarder 4y ago
I remember hype in the early-mid 2000s for turning the semantic web into a general purpose knowledge engine. Are there projects trying to merge the natural language parts of a ChatGPT-esque system on top of a knowledge graph? Seems like t
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by Jwarder 4y ago
Closest I've seen is when UAE's Darkmatter was revoked as a sub-CA. Darkmatter claimed their "Trust Services" business unit was separate from the business units accused of spying for the UAE government. https:/&#x
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by Jwarder 4y ago
You can install uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android.
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by Jwarder 4y ago
Seems like it makes the problem worse because you are then tied to a specific version at time of publishing and need to republish to get any framework patches. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/dep
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by Jwarder 4y ago
Weird, I haven't seen any recent banners frame it in terms of demise of Wikipedia. The urgent banners I've seen are about the time to complete the fund drive. Along the lines of: If X% of users paid $Y then the goal would be rea
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by Jwarder 4y ago
I think it depends on what problems you want git to solve for you. Some people like having the context from the complete the history of little commits without the risks of rebase breaking something. Some people like using rebase to group al
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by Jwarder 4y ago
As has been said before: Users are almost always right when they say a problem exists; but they are almost always wrong when they suggest a solution.
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by Jwarder 4y ago
I don't want to put works in cies's mouth, but it possible to read the comment in a reasonable way. It is not necessarily a claim that polio isn't real, but rather that patient's signs and symptoms can overlap with othe
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by Jwarder 4y ago
Is there a good no-nonsense way to clean PDFs of possible threats? Hunting around I see mentions of converting PDF->Postscript->PDF to remove junk, but I also see mentions that Postscript is its own security mess.
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by Jwarder 4y ago
I agree with your points, but I think you're painting with too broad of a brush with: > They really mean they hate trans people and want them to go away. It is certainly an issue; viz various bathroom panics over the last decade. B
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by Jwarder 4y ago
At what point should I push for a code audit? I don't think any of the codebases I worked on ever had a "real" audit. Best case was reviews pre/post acquisitions. An external audit seems like a good thing, but I have n
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by Jwarder 4y ago
Didn't the UK run into a problem a decade-ish ago where the group compiling the list of porn sites to block by default included the websites for their rival political parties? I just tried searching for references, but I can't fi
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by Jwarder 5y ago
> There is nothing in bitcoin's code that makes it deflationary. Depends on how strict you want to be. The number of coins the system allows is fixed. But the number of usable coins will decrease as coins are trapped in lost walle
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by Jwarder 5y ago
Looks like they are trying to create a distinct set of APIs for third-party advertising (and I think everything else) SDK libraries. Those libraries are submitted to Google independently from the app. The apps now have to declare they are
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by Jwarder 5y ago
At this point how can they trust any installers they get from the company? The risk the manufacturer bundling some "legitimate" remote access tool that won't show up as a virus seems high to me. Once burned twice shy.
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by Jwarder 5y ago
I remember these being a bit of a nerd cred item in the early 2000s. Googling around I don't see anything too new in this space. I wonder if there was a problem with that approach or if SSDs just filled that niche.
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by Jwarder 5y ago
I think echelon is referring to the "Automatic Sample Submission" option that is enabled by default in Windows Defender. It will upload exes and dlls without asking. It can also upload documents, but it should prompt the user fi
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by Jwarder 5y ago
I think this would work in the scope of vaccines, but I fear the effects of inflaming xenophobia. There were plenty of reports of random violence against asians the past year; I'd rather avoid increasing that.
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by Jwarder 5y ago
When it comes to international relations I would depend on (not exactly trust, but close enough) my government more than Mozilla. When it comes to browser implementation topics I trust Mozilla more than any government. There is nothing int
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by Jwarder 5y ago
Mozilla says so. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgJe-Ku4u66JF2D6zha28tSKxPB... I can't speak with authority, but my reading of PKI issues suggests Google is just as strict, while Microsoft and Apple are les

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