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I checked this on my computers: On Windows 10 the Weather application uses 2-4MB when not active, which climbs to around 490-550MB when active. On Windows 11 the Weather applicatio…

If you want to read that book I would try and find a second hand copy of the original print. I bought a more recent print from Amazon and it seemed like it was a non-edited OCR'd s…

An interesting parallel to this is parallel construction, where a side knows X but they know it through illegal/illegitimate means, so how do they create a trail of evidence for X …

I will probably be installing that on my servers soon. Luckily I don't need to use it as a desktop machine any more.

Unfortunately these days bank apps are required by the banks for "security", and good luck getting anything done without the bank app installed on your phone. The only other altern…

The article's point of view is that using unique_ptr to implement a PIMPL idiom is inadequate since it doesn't allow copying of the outer type without implementing your own dedicat…

Do you have the code shared somewhere, via a blog post or code snippet somewhere?

Ubuntu is still annoying with it's daily popups asking to update the system and then most times requiring a system restart. In some ways it is worse than Windows.

It was used extensively at a former workplace of mine where each class that wasn't a message or data type was a pimpl. They had implemented their own private pointer class to handl…

Same sort of reason that way more people use Microsoft Teams than Slack, because it's already there in something that you've paid for. Personally I would not encrypt a whole disk, …

I believe users are given an option on Windows setup to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker or not. I've done an install in the last few months and seen it. They should also be given …

That's why I understand businesses requiring full disk encryption on their devices and on contractor devices, because in their case they are fine with losing data as they have many…

One thing I disagree with the article about is that drives should not be encrypted by default. For the vast majority of people an encrypted drive is just data loss lying in wait. I…

To add to this, a Google search now is answering your question in an incorrect way rather than merely bringing you to a site with incorrect information on it. They are also no long…

Very much like gambling, you can hit the jackpot, or just have continuous near (and far) misses.

In the Russian-Ukrainian war the GPS guided shells that the USA was sending to Ukraine cost about $40k a pop, where as you can get at least a dozen drones for that price. Even the …

A key point here is open in terms of being able to download and use it, not open as knowing what data and instructions were fed into it when training. A paranoid part of me thinks …

They aren't going to make _this_ show, they might make another show in the future, one catering to a broader (non-core-fan) audience.

One concern I've heard about the move to ARM cores is that it is done in order to lock down the devices more so they're more like a phone rather than a computer.

I would have thought that the default 5V coming through the cable should be enough to power on the chip and negotiate power delivery though? Or was it actually working but charging…

Bare metal or bare bootloader only right?

There's definitely some form of addictive behaviour going on in a similar vein to poker/slot machines. There are studies and anecdotes that I've heard where the most thrill and rew…

Isn't there a limit on the public markets where if a company has less than a certain percentage of its ownership traded publicly then it is no longer a public company and therefore…

Depends how you count profiting from it, if you only count direct monetary profit, or if you count things such as favours to be profit. There has to be some motivation for people t…

That sounds quite scammy, like it could have been designed to scam applicants or people that wanted to hire that agency. Then again maybe giving an image of a more normal "white/mu…