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exceptione

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    Comment #49244464

    > being bankrolled by the slaughterhouse. Thanks, that was a very loud LOL.

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    Comment #49240931

    > Storing IP address itself is not illegal True, but associating that with a device the user owns (not Microsoft) would require a very real justification like you mentioned, and I …

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    Comment #49240901

    Ah, I see. Given that you can even pass disks, gpu's, usb devices etc via pci, I would always choose the opposite route: run windows in a vm.

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    Comment #49236804

    Relatively optimized? typo?

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    Comment #49236314

    Agreed, running it inside a vm is how you would treat any other malware. Why pci passtrough instead of a regular virtio network driver though?

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    Comment #49235890

    > Court reporting in 2026 established that Microsoft held a GDID-to-URL/time/IP association in one investigation. Afaik, this is illegal under GDPR, as an IP has been classified as…

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    Comment #49203536

    In my country, no socialist is calling for abandoning the market economy. There are like 14 confused teenagers however, who call themselves communists. The various socialists might…

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    Comment #49203447

    > believing communism was literally satanic in nature. Well, he might have had some point there. The repression against the church was real and heavy in the Russian occupied territ…

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    Comment #49196032

    > capitalism vs. socialism One thing I learned from observing the Americans is how tainted the concept of socialism has become in their discourse. I have a hunch there has been som…

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    Comment #49158439

    The copy reads like it is react but improved. Which begs some questions: what strings are attached and why wouldn't the authors of react adopt this? What reasons would developers h…

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    Comment #48967595

    > At 10% of regular price it is a steal so far. What price do you see? Here standard plan has been discounted to $18.00, from $25.00/month.

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    Comment #48926897

    I stand corrected then. Although I had checked the website and the sparse UX details on the website only showed images of plain text. So this is an opportunity for the Briar people…

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    Comment #48921152

    TIL Briar is text-only, per https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

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    Comment #48909523

    «The Yivi app is the successor to the IRMA app, the first privacy-friendly digital wallet based on personal attributes. IRMA (renamed to Yivi) was developed by Bart Jacobs with his…

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    Comment #48903669

    Thanks for following up. I don't understand why your post has been flagged.

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    Comment #48892569

    Sounds to good to be true, but it works for the given examples! What is the scope though? It produces garbage with larger documents with tables and figures. For example this large …

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    Comment #48882982

    > I don't think pointers (beyond a simple "same as in previous row" marker) will be a huge improvement, since you still get a multiplicative number of rows A marker as "byte offset…

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    Comment #48880921

    > You'd still return a multiplicative amount of rows, even if those rows contained only a reference Sure, but a pointer is still a massive win over records, and I think a further c…

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    Comment #48879772

    EF Core documentation disagrees though: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/single-sp...

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    Comment #48879427

    Correct. However, this imho does not need to be a problem when using references to data instead of data duplication when sending results over the wire.

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    Comment #48879418

    Databases are incredibly smart when it comes to fetching related data, a single select is indeed better than splitting queries and doing multiple roundtrips. The problem however is…

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    Comment #48879261

    Couldn't we make references as `byte offsets in the result set` work to handle duplication? Real memory pointers wouldn't work over the network of course, but if the database drive…

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    Comment #48879128

    I don't understand the argument why `AsSplitQuery` could be more performant than a single round trip involving a multi join query. People mention data duplication and increased mem…

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    Comment #48857458

    > Intent understanding: GPT-5.6 can better infer the user’s underlying goal and intended level of work without you specifying every step. Continue to state important constraints, a…