pitay

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by pitay 5y ago
This reminds me of BlueJ. Does anyone remember BlueJ with its auto generated class diagrams?
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by pitay 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062977 I posted the linked comment almost a year ago, but the incident happened much closer at the start of Covid. I didn't say it at the time, but I willingly say it now, LiveCo
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by pitay 5y ago
Parameterized queries and statements are great. They solve problems where the paramaterized queries are used. However care must be taken, a script running on the database after information has been entered can still inject long after the
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by pitay 5y ago
It was one time for me. Although I do think what they advertised there and the way they advertised it was nonsensical and disrespectful to the user.
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by pitay 5y ago
I do not have this issue, but I have a very customized about settings. Here is the relevant about:config settings I have these changed for the URL bar: browser.urlbar.suggest.searches false browser.urlbar.searchSuggestionsChoice false
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by pitay 5y ago
My bank used to have a virtual keypad, they now have a normal password field. So they actually saw reason. I think there is reason to be optimistic about bank password security getting better; what is known to be good password policies an
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by pitay 5y ago
Steam also allows a user to view the raw information if they want. At least the last time I looked. The option could definitely be more obvious though. Giving the user the ability to see the like/dislike data over time gives them th
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by pitay 5y ago
Microsoft could just not give discounts to computer suppliers that don't have UEFI secure boot on forced on. I definitely recall Microsoft killing hardware manufacturers putting Linux on the machines that they sold by mandating that if
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by pitay 5y ago
Interestingly just removing the US location restriction it looks quite different, with KDE being far more frequently searched for than the others at the moment. Searches for Linux desktop environments look to have reduced a lot in total si
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by pitay 5y ago
Yeah the lack of consequences for those that administer justice is (I believe) the strongest reason an innocent person is convicted or punished far too harshly for the given crime. The only time I have heard of judges ever getting punished
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by pitay 5y ago
Here you go: DavidXanatos on 16 Aug Interesting driver, is the process termination feature of PH the only thing MSFT has a problem with? I mean if its the only thing they don't like, may be its worth moving that feature
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by pitay 5y ago
I guess this will have to do for now. https://web.archive.org/web/20210301034848/http://oss4gov.or...
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by pitay 5y ago
Sounds like a micropayment system where there is much more significant first buy in amount to be on the micropayment system than the actual (tiny) cost of a micropayment to use a service would make it worth far less worth it to spam online
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by pitay 5y ago
That was a previous attacker, not the one now. The article does not give any identifying information about the new attacker except they know who he is, but don't have the data to prove it. Look at the top of the paragraph quoted to s
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by pitay 5y ago
I completely agree with this list. Although Windows 8 had a bad desktop UI, it was easily mostly fixed with Classic Shell at the time (these days it is Open Shell as Classic Shell is not updated any more). What Windows 10 has now is a bet
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by pitay 5y ago
Live Editable Environment? Live Editable Program(ming)? Live Editable Programming Environment? Just what instantly comes to mind. No recommendations.
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by pitay 5y ago
Well as someone who does that on occasion, not very often, far more on this site than real life, the answer is fear. If I was to do argue for free speech, I'd think twice because from experience I know that I will get called names and
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by pitay 5y ago
They certainly have. Here is one from 2010 when they held over 600,000 euros from Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft for 'suspicious activity' that they wouldn't disclose. It's a good thing for him that he was so
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by pitay 5y ago
Take this as you may, but I would just like point out that this is even more strongly implemented in courts via an offence called 'contempt of court'. Here is what is advised to do to avoid being charged with contempt of court. 1
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by pitay 5y ago
I recently installed the latest version of Linux Mint because I was sick of Windows with Microsoft thinking that because I had installed Windows it owns my PC, automatically 'fixing' things that were better off not running, as the
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by pitay 5y ago
Not even Microsoft's core windows applications seem to generate a event log when it has a critical error. If you've disabled a service which part of its 'Settings' application uses, or Microsoft Store requires and it ha
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by pitay 5y ago
Do note that Windows Update may just not offer a major update because such as Windows 10 2004 because of concerns about driver compatibility. It happened to me because Microsoft and the manufacturer of the PC didn't come to an agreeme
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by pitay 5y ago
Q anon believers are at most are a tiny proportion of who is described by that. Judging an entire population by the worst few of them that you can think of, is questionable. Also, you don't really know the distribution of where these
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by pitay 5y ago
Chin up. The world may be a far more horrible place than is commonly known but you can help your friends and loved ones. You can support the people you like and you can do nice things for yourself; such as a nice walk, have some great food
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by pitay 5y ago
Yes, another way to discredit someone with a valid concern is use name calling as the basis of their argument, just like what the parent post does here. School yard bullies used named calling to socially destroy the reputation of their vic
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by pitay 5y ago
Do remember that something like 'fossil fuels are destroying the environment' would be called 'hate speech' if power shifted a bit. 'Hate' is an emotive term used to bypass peoples thinking so that criticism o
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by pitay 5y ago
Ah, my bad, my experience is old. Thanks for the correction. :)
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by pitay 5y ago
Not saying this is a good or bad thing, but one way to make laws not be selective is to have mandatory enforcement and mandatory sentencing required for every law. If the law could be interpreted to apply to a situation, then it does apply
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by pitay 5y ago
Was the Java utility one that started and didn't run for very long, like a command line application? The JVM (at least the Oracle one) takes a long time to start up, so any application that runs on the JVM takes a long time to start u
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by pitay 5y ago
I'd like it if they tested their distributable product on a hard drive sometimes, not just SSD all the time. I've come across a game that had major stutter problems, very noticeable on a HDD but still noticeable on SSD, just notic

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