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Comment · 5 years ago
>calculating the total size of the string to allocate memory

In some languages this is 90% of everything you do with strings. In other languages it's still 90% of everything done to strings, but done automatically.

Comment · 5 years ago
No, but the alternative is that they would have stolen the data anyway. So it's either neutral or positive.

>let's sanction crime against them

If it were legal it wouldn't be a crime.

>Are you sure kindergardens are punished reliably enough for lapses of security?

Given that I rarely hear about children being kidnapped out of kindergartens, I would assume so. I'm not well educated on this, though, since I don't have a personal stake in the matter.

Comment · 5 years ago
Game 1: Every time offence scores, they get $100 of defense's money.

Game 2: Every time offence scores, they get $100 of my money. Defense loses nothing.

Neither is fair to defence, but game 2 is unfair to me, and that's what's important.

Comment · 5 years ago
Schools, kindergartens and parents have a legal responsibility for children under their protection. However it has been repeatedly proven that businesses who allow enormous amounts of user's personal and financial data to be leaked will suffer no meaningful consequences. See: Yahoo!, Target, Experian, etc.
Comment · 5 years ago
And the sharer is just going to trust you to throw away that information? I don't think so.
Comment · 5 years ago
Looks like you get through once and then it blocks you. Ctrl-F5 fixes it.
Comment · 5 years ago
>The copy_file_range() system call looks like a relatively straightforward feature; it allows user space to ask the kernel to copy a range of data from one file to another, hopefully applying some optimizations along the way.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes.
Comment · 5 years ago
>it's entirely possible that Telegram sends everything to some government entity somewhere even for private chats

No, private chats use end-to-end encryption, and unlike WhatsApp the Telegram client is open source so this can actually be verified.

Comment · 5 years ago
I assume tomjen3 was referring to browser extensions that block ads on the YouTube website.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why? You need Python to run Meson anyway, might as well install Ninja too.
Comment · 5 years ago
How on earth is that anonymous? All of your emails are on the same domain, and nobody else is using that domain. As soon as I see an email @jamesboehmersdomain, I know that it belongs to jamesboehmer.
Comment · 5 years ago
They should leave it up, obviously.

I mean they have the right to take it down, but if I were running YouTube I wouldn't.

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