_Understated_

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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Bullshit! Absolute utter woke bullshit! I don't have familial wealth and I can study for stuff. I happen to spend around an hour a day (most days) studying programming-related topics. I'm sick of this woke nonsense pervading socie
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
You mentioned "minority candidates" twice there. Both times it was in reference to them being at a disadvantage. I read that to mean that the tests are geared towards white candidates! Is that really what you mean? Coz I can'
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Not US data but UK data backs it up: https://fullfact.org/health/dr-hilary-lorraine-kelly-90-perc...
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, so that makes some sense to me. Thanks for explaining it.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Perhaps I flew off the handle. Partly due to being flagged with no reply!
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Not to hijack the thread: why is my post being flagged? I'm asking a genuine question! I was linking to UK Government data here [0] and asking about the numbers. They're not adding up. I want to know if my interpretation is correc
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I can't help but think that with the way modern languages/programming are going, we're making a rod for our own backs! Don't get me wrong, I've read about Rust and it's capabilities vs things like C++ and yes,
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> The point is vaccinating everyone, just like we did with Smallpox. Which is essentially dead because of vaccination. It has been shown time and again that the covid jag does not prevent infection/re-infection/transmission so
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Wouldn't this imply that the vaccine is physically harmful to you? I have no evidence to say that the vaccine is physically harmful to me, personally, but there are plenty of stories on the web where people in the prime of their h
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Vaccines should not be a personal freedom choice. I don't do personal attacks but in your case I'll make an exception: you are a fucking psychopath if you think it's ok to tell people to get a jag for something that is k
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I've long felt that WWIII will not be fought (initially, anyway) with tanks and bombs and such, but with computers. What could be more effective for your enemy than taking out all your power stations and plunging your country into tota
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
It's funny you should talk about sleep deprivation messing with your mind... I once remember trying to program a for-loop in C# about 8 or 9 years ago (I've been programming since the 90s) when my son was a baby. He'd been up
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I haven't read the whole doc but does it take into account stress or factors that lead to stress? For example, money problems, dangerous job, working in toxic environments etc. I reckon we don't put enough "science" into
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> but a bigger danger is mobile phone use by cyclists. Or by pedestrians! My brother curses the number of pedestrians in Glasgow that cross the road while looking at their phones... they're by far his biggest hazard.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I've often wondered if Mark Zuckerberg has anyone in his inner corporate circle that is willing to say "no" to him. Meta seems like there was a wall of post-it notes in Zuck's office with a bunch of ideas to stop FB from
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> It does not cost the users anything. It does: Try creating a a local account on the Home version! You can't. You must create a Microsoft account which ties you Microsoft. You may not be physically handing over $ but you are using
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Most proeminent features for Windows 11 are an updated scheduler tailored to big.little architectures like the new Alder Lake from Intel and Direct Storage for games, a rebranding of the same feature from Xbox One and PS5. Let's b
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> They likely want laptops being sold running Win11 to have sane security capabilities for corporate use out of the box Corporate security has been fine for years: TPM 1.2 (if I remember the versions correctly) alongside bitlocker and se
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, ignore my comment: it appears that about 5 minutes ago, all the OP's comments were marked [dead]... but they're fine now.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
What's with all the downvotes for the OP?... has this been downvoted for a reason?
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> All your data from Photo Vault is always end-to-end encrypted Where are the keys? If they are on your servers then this is dead in the water. If they are in a secure vault on my device then that's a different matter.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
That article you linked (like literally every other one I've read) makes no mention of the numbers that recovered just fine. If they all made a recovery then this vaccine push is pointless.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
As an anecdote, in 2013 I "measured" inflation as it affected me. By this I mean the things I buy like petrol, food, utilities, insurance etc. I looked at bank statements from 2011 and 2012 and compared them to the 2013 bank state
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I haven't read this article but I have read others about the pros and cons of Metaverse. My take? It's going to be another method for FB (and other "carefully curated partners") to assault your eyeballs with advertising
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
What happened to MySpace from Facebook taking over will happen to Facebook too... nothing lasts forever.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Facebook became the town square I don't see it like that. If they did become the town square, it's one where people must only say certain things that are part of the official narrative [0] or where people post things to an au
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Interesting messing-about-with laptop. It's the kind of thing I probably might get my son as his first laptop. On another note, as I was scrolling down the page, it got laggier and slower and I'm browsing from an i9 10900K with al
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I wouldn't say JavaScript is exotic, it's more to do with what is being done with it. Traditionally it was used to enhance HTML pages with some DOM manipulation but it's now being used for a million other things too. So histo
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> It's just a means to an end. This is the conclusion that most people don't ever reach. They assume that there is an altruistic element to things like open source within Microsoft (and other commercial organisations) and perha
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, if I squint really hard I can see where you're coming from but if I took your stance I would have to disconnect from the internet. Every site has logs. They can all see where I've been, what I've looked at, how long I loo

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