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D-Coder
·il y a 13 heures·discuss
And carrying stuff, the Lug Age.
D-Coder
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
Note that "360 Patches" is 360 uses of strncpy that have been removed, not necessarily bugs.
D-Coder
·il y a 26 jours·discuss
Yes, and people keep paying ridiculous prices for the first and for ads for the second.
D-Coder
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> He never gave us a fucking manual in the first place, so who knows what He is thinking.

He did give us a manual. He very clearly says that slavery is okay and eating shrimp is a sin, and lots of other rules.
D-Coder
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> non-local hidden variable

Like, global variables?
D-Coder
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Someone should be fined a bazillion dollars and disbarred for life for this indictment. Like every lawyer and law firm involved in the prosecution.
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
A billion years of kludges.
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> Seriously, I wonder about why it's supported.

$$$.
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." — Auric Goldfinger
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
So... who is Satoshi?
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
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D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I've heard that a non-Mensan asked a Mensan what it's like at a Mensa event. They replied, "If I have to explain something during a conversation, I only have to explain it _once_."
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I see your point, but voters are not voting based on the candidate's intelligence levels.
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Crashing the economy in order to put all the blame on already marginalized scapegoats may well be the point.
D-Coder
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> Uppercase doesn't distort shapes

It distorts the shape of the words. Many people recognize many words as a whole, not by checking each letter in (eg) "the".
D-Coder
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Yes! I had a QA person apologize once for finding a bug in my code. I thanked him for not letting it make me look like an idiot.
D-Coder
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
> There are no fully electric, or even hybrid, options for the type of vehicle I drive.

So fucking what? Keep driving your air-pollution vehicle. No one (not even Obama or Biden) is trying to take it away from you.
D-Coder
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Interesting historical overview: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/aviation-fai.... (Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494469.)
D-Coder
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
And killing them with an insufficiently tested treatment is not optimal.
D-Coder
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
It's a trade-off: better info versus handling an immediate crisis. If it's not an immediate crisis, you can take more time.

Engineering is trade-offs.