qu4z-2

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by qu4z-2 7d ago
This is what I always tell people. If something is obviously sketchy, don't bother trying to make it safe. Just discard it. No reason to play the attacker's game. (Obviously you need to know what inputs are sketchy vs just uncommo
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by qu4z-2 10d ago
I appreciate the New Jersey simplicity as a user (with development skills) too, though. It's usually just a matter of time before I have to dive into the program/library/whatever internals to fix a bug.
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by qu4z-2 24d ago
I don't so much mind about Paint, but modern Notepad is completely unusable. We had "Notepad but with Rich Text formatting" -- it was called WordPad and no-one used it so they eventually deleted it.
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by qu4z-2 29d ago
FWIW I bricked a ThinkPad motherboard not that long ago by toggling the wrong BIOS options. Wasn't even a BIOS update (although ironically that would've fixed it), just toggling setting in the F2 Setup Menu. The target configurati
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by qu4z-2 29d ago
That may have been added since I started doing that, but thanks for the heads up :)
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by qu4z-2 1mo ago
I always turn off Android's animations in the developer settings and it makes everything so much more usable. (Animation Scale: 0x, I believe is the setting)
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by qu4z-2 1mo ago
Yeah, even if you look up reviews of a particular model, chances are the manufacturer doesn't make that one anymore (it's over a year old!) and just has some seemingly-identical one with different failure modes. I'd love to b
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by qu4z-2 1mo ago
I did this a couple of months back. Ended up refunding the game after spending nearly two hours "playing" the account creation game. If someone doesn't want my money, that's fine by me I guess.
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by qu4z-2 2mo ago
I specifically bought an AMD card for my living room Steam box, and I've had way more driver issues with that computer than when it had an nVidia card (although there's also other software changes). Mostly: the audio hitches frequ
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by qu4z-2 2mo ago
Yeah but the display server people are different from the WM/DE people. And the former kinda just said "coding is hard" and made it all the responsibility of the WM/DE people.
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by qu4z-2 2mo ago
I had the physical DC barrel jack port fall out the back of a monitor the other day. Granted that's not the connector per se.
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by qu4z-2 4mo ago
I wouldn't call running a vegetable shop "politics", even though politics clearly affects the environment you operate in (tax rates, bylaws, heck some weird dystopian place could ban vegetable shops entirely!).
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by qu4z-2 5mo ago
C-c isn't quite the same, alas, but C-[ is. (compare 5itest<esc> vs 5itest<C-c>)
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by qu4z-2 5mo ago
And keeps you on the same line unless it was the last one, if you were already in normal mode.
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by qu4z-2 5mo ago
I think if everyone with a website made a small financial loss on it, the web would be immeasurably better.
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by qu4z-2 6mo ago
I've heard them called "backronyms", which I quite like.
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by qu4z-2 6mo ago
> it's brought to you by the some of the very same people who want you to prove you are a citizen every time you vote I'm staying out of the other issue as best I can, but as a non-American the resistance to this is just baffli
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by qu4z-2 7mo ago
Then use a non-buggy browser...
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by qu4z-2 7mo ago
You can disagree, but "Presumably you meant the opposite of what you said" is condescending nonsense.
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by qu4z-2 9mo ago
I know all the reasons it "wouldn't work", but I'd love to see somewhere try this.
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by qu4z-2 10mo ago
The commonly cited source says, when you take the entire sentence, "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." and continues "Yet we should not pass
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by qu4z-2 10mo ago
So, big enough for a 25GB game but not a 150GB game? I will be amused if we get stats in the coming month that the percentage of users installing the game on a HDD has decreased from 11% to like 3% after they shrunk it.
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by qu4z-2 11mo ago
If they're not passed around as objects a la FILE*/fd they're not even really capabilities, just (sparkling) fine-grained ambient authority (which still has value to be clear).
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by qu4z-2 1y ago
You're already putting your trust in some mysterious first party to not embed malware...
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by qu4z-2 1y ago
Do factor in that people in a healthy marriage don't have a lot of marriages.
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by qu4z-2 1y ago
Presumably adding Redis to a new project with no performance issues (yet?) is the premature optimisation.
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by qu4z-2 1y ago
Quantity has a quality all its own.
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by qu4z-2 1y ago
If someone tells me x86, I am certainly thinking 32-bit protected mode not 64-bit long mode... Granted I'm in the weird space where I know enough to be dangerous but not enough to keep me up-to-date with idiomatic naming conventions.
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by qu4z-2 1y ago
You don't understand why someone who uses Firefox specifically because of its stance on privacy would be upset that the ToS are being updated to be "basically [the] same language as Chrome's"? Chrome, as in Google, the b
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by qu4z-2 2y ago
Why would they have to go to Windows when systemd is bringing Windows to Linux?

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