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by nerdile 2mo ago
> tests showed that for environments with one CPU (or fewer) Article seems AI generated. Is there an official announcement we could be discussing instead?
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by nerdile 3mo ago
B2B is just businesses fighting over the value chain. Blacksmith can send as many invoices as they want. If the other business doesn't think it's worth the cost after the free trial, they don't have to pay the invoices.
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by nerdile 4mo ago
I don't understand this
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by nerdile 4mo ago
Passports are fine, and the facilities for getting them are nicer.
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by nerdile 5mo ago
TIL that Backblaze has a desktop app. Seems this is specific to Windows and does not impact anyone using it as just a storage backend for backups through something like rclone.
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by nerdile 6mo ago
It is different when you have a billion customers, all with different setups. At that scale, you notice real defects through product telemetry, support ticket volume, or trusted channels. You receive a high volume of bug reports that are du
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by nerdile 7mo ago
The original article is better: https://personal.garrettfuller.org/blog/2018/01/19/att-long-...
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by nerdile 8mo ago
Using the same CLI, which shows all the alternative "protectors".
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by nerdile 8mo ago
? This may be one of those "90% of the audience doesn't care and is increasingly less likely to buy from either vendor the more they fight in public" situations
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by nerdile 1y ago
To change it per user, set it in the user's hive instead of in the local machine hive (e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
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by nerdile 1y ago
Since this is a Windows C++ app, why not use MUI? It solves this exact problem, and since it's a standard part of the platform, there's broad tooling support for it.
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by nerdile 1y ago
Native US English speaker here, and this is the first time I have ever heard of this. TIL
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by nerdile 1y ago
Reneging on an offer means revoking it after it has been accepted, and that's poor form. Turning down an offer puts you into a small category of "people we would hire if we had the chance" and the recruiters or hiring manager
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by nerdile 1y ago
Title is slightly misleading but the content is good. It's the "Safe Rust" in the title that's weird to me. These apply to Rust altogether, you don't avoid them by writing unsafe Rust code. They also aren't uni
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by nerdile 1y ago
Agreed. Bschmidt###... who hurt you? Why is this your life?
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by nerdile 2y ago
why?
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by nerdile 2y ago
The software license terms for Word and all the other desktop apps does not include such a clause, no. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/useterms The Microsoft Services Agreement applies to your use of their online servi
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by nerdile 2y ago
I don't have to grant Word a license to what I type in it. This is a highly unusual clause that other software doesn't have. When software has to "phone home" to deliver the functionality you requested, then two things h
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by nerdile 2y ago
Agreed. Very disappointed that Thunderbird went the direction they did.
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by nerdile 2y ago
He might be seen as presumptuous for already having a pope name and get sunk in the Vatican politics.
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by nerdile 2y ago
Summary: The UK has some Online Safety Act, any websites that let users interact with other users has to police illegal content on its site and must implement strong age verification checks. The law applies to any site that targets UK citiz
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by nerdile 2y ago
This reflects on the individuals choosing to create and proliferate such misleading or hyperbolic framing more than it does on the world that we all live in. In meatspace we usually reject these ideas and ignore the people pushing them.
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by nerdile 2y ago
Amen. I don't understand the problem here. Do something real instead of playing on your phone. (Says me while I play on my phone.)
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by nerdile 2y ago
As a former Windows OS engineer, based on the short statement here, my assumption would be that your programs are IO-bound, not CPU-bound, and that the next step would be to gather data (using a profiler) to investigate the bottlenecks. Thi
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by nerdile 2y ago
That's fine. It's just not open source. Don't call it open source if it's not. Definition: https://opensource.org/osd
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by nerdile 2y ago
"Unfortunately, it was later removed from the app stores." Sure sign of a trustworthy middleware author
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by nerdile 2y ago
Glad to see someone else had the same reaction I did. There's no need to shout.
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by nerdile 2y ago
Fiber can help with that.
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by nerdile 2y ago
The "5-7%" improvement is in terms of build time, but no mention is made of any potential performance impact to users at runtime.
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by nerdile 2y ago
Equally disappointing: the situation being described, the quality of TFA.

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