zbird

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by zbird 4y ago
I don't understand how OP could take that seriously. I can't think of anyone who has built a successful business and can trace their origins back to "I was very inspired by people on Twitter". I thought it would have bee
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by zbird 4y ago
I like meself a well-written and formatted article. Thank you.
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by zbird 4y ago
Did you mean 'hear, hear', or is 'here, here' something I missed?
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by zbird 4y ago
Of course they will. What they are less likely to do is to rewrite it in a completely different language (e.g. Rust.) C++ became popular in the first place because it could easily go along with C. No need to rewrite in bulk.
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by zbird 4y ago
"Building something from scratch is rarely a good idea." Except when you actually want to learn something. Worst possible advice to give someone and I haven't even read the second sentence of this blog post.
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by zbird 4y ago
I see, so it seems to be taking off then.
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by zbird 4y ago
Rust doesn't even have a formal specification at this time. Technically speaking, everything in Rust is undefined behaviour. That's a hard sell for, e.g., people writing safety-critical systems. Another problem recently was that c
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by zbird 4y ago
I see, I imagine the server you put on is by default public and joinable by anyone. This kind of stuff typically has some form of whitelisting or password protection to keep the server semi-private.
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by zbird 4y ago
Why is this downvoted? This is literally the TOS of much proprietary software out there. People don't read the TOS?
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by zbird 4y ago
> I guess I don't understand - the troll will report your 6 year old for dropping f-bombs? They'll report for no reason, that's the point of trolling. > And the chat logs (which MS will now have) will back then up? I ha
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by zbird 4y ago
Regulate them.
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by zbird 4y ago
'Fog Reveal'. I'm sure there's a secret tool out there called 'map hack'.
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by zbird 4y ago
You wouldn't use Teams if you cared about privacy. It's not the other people on the call you need the blur the background from.
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by zbird 4y ago
Does Australia have no property tax? In what Earth do you sink a one-time $10.5m payment into a house you can't maintain? Perhaps I am missing something very fundamental here. I can think of much better uses for those funds anyway.
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by zbird 4y ago
My first bet would be the GSL library: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/
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by zbird 4y ago
It's so bad, that even the NSA and CIA recommend an ad blocker. https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-a...
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by zbird 4y ago
Like Facebook? https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
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by zbird 4y ago
Just install Ublock Origin or Noscript. At least it's not Cloudflare.
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by zbird 4y ago
GPT3 was written by GPT2.
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by zbird 4y ago
The first review on the Microsoft Store should be featured on the home page: "Found this during a search for the word "clip." The app's description is dishonest, to say the least. This is not an app. It's a wrapper
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by zbird 4y ago
Not to mention all of the surveillance/targeted advertising that happens on these platforms while the "influencers" are busy influencing each other.
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by zbird 4y ago
Hey guys, make sure to check out my Youtube channel and smash that Like & Subscribe button.
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by zbird 4y ago
I like how the company is called Autonomy. Subscription handcuffs are the opposite of autonomy.
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by zbird 4y ago
How is this different from leasing a car?
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by zbird 4y ago
Many have commented on correlation-vs-causation. We get it, there is lag in the economics and the profits have partly been boosted by COVID. However, there has also been inflation-riding on behalf of these companies, and the same argument c
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by zbird 4y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing. Let's submit comments. Doesn't have to be an essay, you can comment on the individual items listed there. If we all here tackle one or two items, we should be able to make a sufficient impression
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by zbird 4y ago
He should have run for president.
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by zbird 4y ago
You get on a call periodically.
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by zbird 4y ago
> and the companies I’ve worked for have only seen record profits This cannot be sufficiently overstated.
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by zbird 4y ago
How much did Apple pay for the vuln report?

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