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There should be some process that punishes those, who does that.

As I was reading, I mostly thought "well, it might make sense sometimes; well, it's an opinion"

And then I reached:

> 10. AI is fine. Generic language is not.

> It is fine to use AI to draft or review an email.

> But edit it until it sounds specific and human.

Ok, maybe we shouldn't take advice from someone, who authoritatively states it is fine to put slop in the email?

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어제discuss

No reason to post shortened URL instead of this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4dmufm/how_tech_writ...

Insimwytim

3일 전discuss

  Dismantling the EU is like burning down your own house

I'm not an expert, but isn't "your own house" should rather be your country in this analogy? It ought to be still there without some bureaucratic institution on top of it.

Insimwytim

6일 전discuss

  The application probably still treats id as unique, but nothing in the schema guarantees it. And you can’t recover the guarantee with a separate UNIQUE (id) constraint: both MySQL and PostgreSQL require every unique constraint on a partitioned table to include the partition key columns. The uniqueness property has effectively been traded away.

Not really?

MySQL has AUTO_INCREMENT [1]

PostgreSQL has SERIAL [2] and CREATE SEQUENCE [3]

What am I missing?

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/example-auto-increme...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/datatype-numeric.html#DAT...

[3] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-createsequence.html

Insimwytim

10일 전discuss

So, if someone were to modify a Debian package to show Palestinian flag for Hebrew speakers or Iranian flag for ...Enligsh speakers, the change won't be instantly reverted and the user won't be restricted, right?

Insimwytim

18일 전discuss

DST works fine with Unix timestamps.

It's the scheduling changes that disrupt DST switch (or something else) need adjusting to. But this is usually planned in advance and everyone would (or at least should...) update their tzdata.

The amount of issues you'll have due to those (comparatively rare) changes cannot even begin to compare to the amount issues you'll have with datetime stored in timezones.

Insimwytim

22일 전discuss

Wouldn't you have to "consent" first?

What if you didn't and did not proceed with the process? Can you complain still?

As in - if you didn't give your consent there's no violation has occurred and they don't have your data, so nothing to ask for?

Insimwytim

22일 전discuss

Whole lot of nothing.

This isn't about payment technologies, it's not about isolating transactions, it's about scaling the middle layer. What's worse it's not even explained what middle layer does.

No info on how routing works, no info on data synchronization.

Folks just learning Kubernetes and write extremely abstract stuff.

Insimwytim

22일 전discuss

There's also issue with EU companies forcing candidates to agree to their anti-privacy policies (confusingly named "privacy policies") as a requirement before the job interview.

Those anti-privacy policies will state, that you grant the company and third-parties (so, anyone) permissions to use your data (including voice and image) for any purpose. (Of course, it is stated in a slightly obscure fashion, so a layman may not comprehend it.)

I wonder if there has been any similar action taken against those.

Insimwytim

24일 전discuss

"Potemkin village" - a fake propaganda narrative, created by Saxony's embassy clerk Helbig. He conveniently told that story in Hamburg, a decade later after the trip (which he wasn't a part of).

Charles-Joseph de Ligne (who has been part of said journey) regarded such tales as preposterous.

Insimwytim

지난달discuss

Iran is blocking internet for months, US ...bans creation of secure connections - that'll show 'em!

Russian quasi-government structures are spending quadrillion of rubles on a TSPU (censorship system) to spy on Russian residents, US ...helps them by making snooping on what is currently encrypted traffic possible by banning accessible encryption!

Insimwytim

지난달discuss

  Enable JavaScript

  This site requires JavaScript to function properly. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.

The way I see it, if you go for keyboard-only approach you aim for efficiency. And then you build a site, that doesn't work without javascript at all. Which is a contradiction if you ask me.

Insimwytim

지난달discuss

> toxic "so smart I can't communicate" superstars

This is your framing, which is openly hostile to people, that you chose as your enemies. And that framing itself is a great demonstration of toxicity.

The whole narrative is just an attack on engineers, who do the job, coming from the side of the so-called "communicators".

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지난달discuss

Those new obfuscated links prevent old.reddit to work.

Is there a way for you to post proper direct links?

Insimwytim

지난달discuss

Fascinating.

I use NoScript, not 'javascript.enabled' setting.

I checked more closely and here is what appears to be missing:

  Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://static.ietf.org/dt/12.65.2/ietf/bootstrap-icons.5b9cac4e.woff. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).

Bootstrap icons.

  Block javascript - icons won't load.
  Allow javascript - icons load.
  Block javascript again - icons load, unless tab is closed and then opened again.

This behavior has been observed previously.

I tried to selectively block css to see how it's tied to javascript.

  Block javascript, block css from static.ietf.org - icons won't load, page layout is broken.
  Allow javascript, block css from static.ietf.org - the icons won't load, layout is fine.

Evidently, with javascript blocked, layout css loads fine, but bootstrap icons only able to load when javascript is not blocked.

'javascript.enabled' setting seem to has no effect on icons. However, unlike NoScript, it does not provide any domain separation/granularity.

Insimwytim

지난달discuss

> Sergei Korolev, the literal architect of the Soviet space program, was sent to the Gulag, where he lost his teeth to scurvy and survived a broken jaw

That's just a scary tale, that was created long after he died.

> Trofim Lysenko’s fraudulent agricultural theories were deemed "more communist."

Not exactly. His "fraudulent" theories delivered real value, and saved millions of people from starving. But he didn't belong to fancy scientific establishment (which traveled to conferences abroad while studying things with no impact to the people). He was a regular man, with experience working on land and with an aim for a practical results. He was not from "the club". So said establishment hated him and seized the first opportunity to attack him. Said establishment in all forms and shapes still hates him and other talented outsiders.

Discussion between Trofim Lysenko and his challengers actually public - you can read it yourself, not distorted conclusion-ready version presented by his haters.

I'm not saying you are wrong on all counts, but at least with those two examples you seem to just follow the usual narrative.

Insimwytim

지난달discuss

> overly-centralized nature of national resource and economic strategy and planning.

This is a common misconception. Supported by the Soviet Union government in the 80s.

The fact is, that the efforts to sabotage and disband central planning started as early as 1954.

In 1954 an executive order of 14 Oct 1954 reduced the amount of administrative personnel by 450 thousands.

The amount of metrics went down from 9 940 to 6 308 in 1954, to 3 081 in 1955, and to 1 780 in 1958.

Khrushchev moved most of the planning power from central planning institution to the regions and down to the factories and enterprises. What previously was strict targets from the center now became soft suggestions.

Imagine you are a CTO and your workforce is heavily reduces and the goals you set are considered to be a mere suggestions. Not a very efficient instrument indeed. But not because it is overly-centralized.

Insimwytim

2개월 전discuss

> I set the "javascript.enabled" preference in Firefox 151 to "false" and reload the page

Do it the other way around - disable javascript first, clear cache/open incognito (maybe close/open browser after that just for good measure), then go to the page.

If you load it with javascript first - buttons icons stay loaded after you disable it.

Insimwytim

2개월 전discuss

> At that elevation at Mach‑5, air around the nose and leading edges can reach temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832°F), a challenge the U.S. Air Force has struggled to overcome with its own hypersonic jets.

> To handle that level of heat, engineers constructed an advanced thermal‑protection system that maintained the aircraft's interior near normal operating temperature, allowing the onboard avionics and control electronics to function normally.

Hindenburg 2.0 waiting to happen