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Comment #49088500
> wait until at least the X.1 release I think that applies to almost all software, not just Apple OSes. After all, Confucius said: "The only thing worse than old software is new so…
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Comment #49062694
I'm using LiveCode for a dozen personal applications (and for just the fun of coding; I'm a retired s/w engineer). It's no longer free, but I started with HyperCard and LiveCode is…
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Comment #48862248
And carrying stuff, the Lug Age.
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Comment #48614475
Note that "360 Patches" is 360 uses of strncpy that have been removed, not necessarily bugs.
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Comment #48530484
Yes, and people keep paying ridiculous prices for the first and for ads for the second.
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Comment #48287815
> 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 …
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Comment #48012168
> non-local hidden variable Like, global variables?
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Comment #47943183
Someone should be fined a bazillion dollars and disbarred for life for this indictment. Like every lawyer and law firm involved in the prosecution.
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Comment #47912363
A billion years of kludges.
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Comment #47905130
> Seriously, I wonder about why it's supported. $$$.
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Comment #47855171
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." — Auric Goldfinger
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Comment #47699407
So... who is Satoshi?
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Comment #47667957
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Comment #47667874
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_."…
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Comment #47667793
I see your point, but voters are not voting based on the candidate's intelligence levels.
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Comment #47559590
Crashing the economy in order to put all the blame on already marginalized scapegoats may well be the point.
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Comment #47557853
> 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".
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Comment #47549941
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.
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Comment #47498483
> 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) i…
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Comment #47495983
Interesting historical overview: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/aviation-fai... . (Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494469 .)
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Comment #47407634
And killing them with an insufficiently tested treatment is not optimal.
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Comment #47405551
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.
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Comment #47252834
Scroll down a page or so, the article is there. It's identical to just going to CNN's article, not sure why it's needed though.
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Comment #47238589
Because NOT enriching uranium worked so badly for Gaddafi.
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Comment #47143264
All it takes is one ultra-rich individual to say, "I'm having my bots build a bot-building factory and giving them to everyone who wants a bot. For free (after all, bots are doing …