syntheticcdo

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Comment · 4 months ago
Did you try to delete the memory yourself?
Comment · 7 months ago
Spotify is more popular than Apple Music on iOS.
Comment · 8 months ago
And if the recipient uses a Chrome extension to handle the decryption... Google still has access to the cleartext. There's no winning.
Comment · 10 months ago
But we didn't name them "artificial swimmers". We called them submarines - because there is a difference between human beings and machines.
Comment · 10 months ago
Sometimes the only review a PR needs is "LGTM" - something today's LLMs are structurally incapable of.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm asking about your personal opinion: in Griswold v. Connecticut should the Supreme Court have upheld states right to ban access to all contraceptives, including condoms?
Comment · 1 year ago
Note that the court case that first invoked “emanations from penumbras” involved a Connecticut law banning the the use of contraceptives. Do you believe such a restriction should be constitutional?
Comment · 1 year ago
You can! Go ahead and launch chrome with the --disable-web-security argument.
Comment · 1 year ago
If it were that simple, Vanguard wouldn't have taken the additional step to prevent trading in these products on their brokerage. Telling customers "you can't buy Bitcoin because we can't sell it to you at a profit" would be ridiculous.
Comment · 2 years ago
Singapore has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world regarding ownership and possession. If you want America to be more like Singapore, start by repealing the second amendment, not increasing policing.
Comment · 2 years ago
I work in K-12 EdTech and this hurts to read. Every sprint spent working on a "check the box feature" that administrators want to see is time not spent improving the effectiveness and usability of the product for teachers and students. Worse, sometimes the features or changes administrators think they want actively work against the interests of the users.

Edit: And god forbid you end up working on a core curriculum product that needs to be reviewed by each state's board of education. In that case you end up building a product that appeals to state-level bureaucrats, just to get get the privilege of selling to administrators, with little thought left for the actual students.

Comment · 2 years ago
I will never understand why more developers don't just learn effective SQL. In many cases, the database is both the most expensive and most powerful component of the system - may as well put it to use!

The N+1 query used as an example in the post could have just been a single query.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/780cbf29d5a88db... to update the NEWS file is equally honest:

    5.6.1 (2024-03-09)

    IMPORTANT: This fixed bugs in the backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) (someone
    had forgot to run Valgrind).
Comment · 2 years ago
8:35 certainly looked like a high stress moment, even if the driver didn't "intervene".

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