> it was common for unix tools to do bullshit like read input into fixed length line buffers and silently truncate anything longer (when they weren't overtly crashing). You might want to remind yourself what caused the…
<cough>scanner drivers<cough>
> Long-press and the ••• menu in the overflow is a far superior UI paradigm than having a purpose built menu button. I disagree - long-press isn't intuitive or discoverable, and it's slow. You could make a case that…
I know that church, and I know one of the people in the photo on the sleeve - and have sent the blog post their way - so it's definitely nice to have seen it. I didn't expect to see that church mentioned on the front…
I'd hope what we'll actually see is people finally demanding that appliances with no need of an internet connection don't get connected to the internet!
As I understand it, the compiler "knows" the range of valid values for a variable (for instance, if an int was promoted from an unsigned char, it knows it doesn't need to bother with testing for negative values). If the…
Indeed - a nice bloat-free site, but it still looks reasonably modern. I needed the SMBus specification a week or two back, and was greatly amused by the 1990s-looking website which hosts it - still with purple bevelled…
Bad as in your lips will be prone to chapping, you'll get frequent random static zaps, and your guitar top will split?
Yeah the paste-on-middle-mouse is insanely useful. But I have an uneasy feeling it will be going away soon.
I've avoided that bug throughout more than 20 years of Linux usage just by disabling raise-on-click. (Except of course the Gnome folks did they utmost to make that option unavailable back in the Gnome 2 days: Metacity's…
And yet a third bucket is the license-laundering of GPL code when the entire github corpus was vacuumed up.
I'd frame it more that Google is incentivised to show you the results which are most lucrative for them to display, rather than the ones which are most beneficial for you to see.
Sure - it sucks, unfortunately the alternative is the sites going away entirely. When the load from scraper bots is constantly knocking the site offline the choices are literally to allow it to remain inaccessible for…
More abundance per person isn't a good thing if only 1% of the population sees the benefit and everyone else is squeezed tighter.
> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. So what incentive structure would you suggest? How do you prevent the concentration of wealth that results from a business raking in…
Whatever the legal outcome, whether it's ultimately decided that people can or can't "get away" with using LLMs to license-launder code, it's undoubtedly a dick move.
I never particularly liked the standard hard disk icons from MagicWB, but in general I really liked the aesthetic, especially the drawers with topic icons overlaid. As for MUI, it was a fantastic system for programming…
Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code? * no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.
Also, strictly one question per email - otherwise only the first will be answered and any others ignored!
The problem is, quite simply, insurance. When something is paid for from a big nebulous ball of money rather than straight out of people's pockets, the downward pressure on prices just isn't there in the same way. The…
I would pay what I used to pay for DVDs.
Sure, I can do that, but there's some value in being able to check quickly and easily that, for example, the xz utils binaries shipped by a major distro actually match the published source. Also useful for checking that…
Sure, but a signature doesn't prove that a particular binary came from a particular codebase - merely that a particular human (or other trusted entity, for varying degrees of "trusted") has vouched for it. Being able to…
> But online retail (and food delivery, etc) does seem to be slowly but surely eating away at local shops so I think it's within the realm of possibility. Online retail eating away at local shops is a problem with two…
Showing my age here - it took me a while to realise this has nothing to do with old Apple keyboards and mice.
> it was common for unix tools to do bullshit like read input into fixed length line buffers and silently truncate anything longer (when they weren't overtly crashing). You might want to remind yourself what caused the…
<cough>scanner drivers<cough>
> Long-press and the ••• menu in the overflow is a far superior UI paradigm than having a purpose built menu button. I disagree - long-press isn't intuitive or discoverable, and it's slow. You could make a case that…
I know that church, and I know one of the people in the photo on the sleeve - and have sent the blog post their way - so it's definitely nice to have seen it. I didn't expect to see that church mentioned on the front…
I'd hope what we'll actually see is people finally demanding that appliances with no need of an internet connection don't get connected to the internet!
As I understand it, the compiler "knows" the range of valid values for a variable (for instance, if an int was promoted from an unsigned char, it knows it doesn't need to bother with testing for negative values). If the…
Indeed - a nice bloat-free site, but it still looks reasonably modern. I needed the SMBus specification a week or two back, and was greatly amused by the 1990s-looking website which hosts it - still with purple bevelled…
Bad as in your lips will be prone to chapping, you'll get frequent random static zaps, and your guitar top will split?
Yeah the paste-on-middle-mouse is insanely useful. But I have an uneasy feeling it will be going away soon.
I've avoided that bug throughout more than 20 years of Linux usage just by disabling raise-on-click. (Except of course the Gnome folks did they utmost to make that option unavailable back in the Gnome 2 days: Metacity's…
And yet a third bucket is the license-laundering of GPL code when the entire github corpus was vacuumed up.
I'd frame it more that Google is incentivised to show you the results which are most lucrative for them to display, rather than the ones which are most beneficial for you to see.
Sure - it sucks, unfortunately the alternative is the sites going away entirely. When the load from scraper bots is constantly knocking the site offline the choices are literally to allow it to remain inaccessible for…
More abundance per person isn't a good thing if only 1% of the population sees the benefit and everyone else is squeezed tighter.
> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. So what incentive structure would you suggest? How do you prevent the concentration of wealth that results from a business raking in…
Whatever the legal outcome, whether it's ultimately decided that people can or can't "get away" with using LLMs to license-launder code, it's undoubtedly a dick move.
I never particularly liked the standard hard disk icons from MagicWB, but in general I really liked the aesthetic, especially the drawers with topic icons overlaid. As for MUI, it was a fantastic system for programming…
Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code? * no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.
Also, strictly one question per email - otherwise only the first will be answered and any others ignored!
The problem is, quite simply, insurance. When something is paid for from a big nebulous ball of money rather than straight out of people's pockets, the downward pressure on prices just isn't there in the same way. The…
I would pay what I used to pay for DVDs.
Sure, I can do that, but there's some value in being able to check quickly and easily that, for example, the xz utils binaries shipped by a major distro actually match the published source. Also useful for checking that…
Sure, but a signature doesn't prove that a particular binary came from a particular codebase - merely that a particular human (or other trusted entity, for varying degrees of "trusted") has vouched for it. Being able to…
> But online retail (and food delivery, etc) does seem to be slowly but surely eating away at local shops so I think it's within the realm of possibility. Online retail eating away at local shops is a problem with two…
Showing my age here - it took me a while to realise this has nothing to do with old Apple keyboards and mice.