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Comment #43329582
Seems AI-written. Doesn't give any justification for MacOS being better for older hardware than Linux or even Windows. You won't be getting updates for your Intel hardware on MacOS…
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Comment #34447119
Web software is incredibly simple. Having someone's ruby code doesn't really help you much. Hackers just try a few SQL injections, stuff script tags into all of the form fields, an…
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Comment #34447075
Most people will just update their keys, so I doubt anyone is going to burn botnet cycles on trying to use the keys.
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Comment #34447043
Who said I was scared? I'm just pointing out that the phrase you used it very vague and some interpretations can be scary. It pays to be specific, especially in tech and medicine, …
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Comment #34447024
I'm not sure why it took so long, but I think that lawyers dragging their feet probably wasn't it. I'm guessing that they would have never announced the release, unless the lawyers…
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Comment #34445131
Then you just need to find an angel investor. The capital has to go somewhere . The wealthy aren't just going to leave their money in publicly-traded stocks, they want some risk in…
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Comment #34444841
This. People underestimate how much technological progress has been slowing every decade. 2008 was even slower than 1998, which was even slower than 1988. Meanwhile almost nothing …
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Comment #34444663
> You may not and you agree not to: > publish benchmarking results about the Apple Software or your use of it Damn, there goes my Apple Lisa vs Amiga comparison video! I was going …
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Comment #34430939
I was there in those days too. VB was a very beginner-friendly language, more akin to what we call today "low-code" than other languages. Those developers didn't have to "re" learn…
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Comment #34430498
What? The comments here are very on-topic as far as I can tell.
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Comment #34430479
Source availability.
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Comment #34430468
The Windows team probably has laptops with high-speed SSDs, and tons of RAM, a fast CPU, and a fast internet connection. So now already with that, 13 seconds is probably down to 3 …
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Comment #34430435
Woah woah woah, who said this is "secret"? Were you expecting a big red skull and crossbones to take over your screen whenever a phone home occurs?
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Comment #34424666
ChatGPT thinks it knows everything, god.
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Comment #34409369
This is correct. This also excludes contractors, which there are tons of in the Bay Area, and they make a lot less than a regular employee, even at places like Google.
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Comment #34409300
> There is research [1] that suggests using GPS navigation could impact your brain function negatively. Wrong, that research only shows that when you use a GPS, you don't learn rou…
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Comment #34409070
Workday is cheaper, right? I think that's the ultimate answer.
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Comment #34398261
> navigate a ridiculous start menu tree That's not true, the start menu tree was usually relatively clutter-free until the XP era, where companies went absolutely insane and starte…
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Comment #34398242
Interesting, I suspected some of those things. Thanks.
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Comment #34396994
Law of averages. If I am hacked, then likely millions of other people are hacked, and I haven't heard about millions of people being hacked. QED.
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Comment #34396865
Murphy's Law in action. With this many flights per day, you need tons of safety measures to ensure that mistakes like this are extremely unlikely. Like "defense in depth", you can'…
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Comment #34387760
How does it do this? Does it cache changes and only write them every so often? Does it keep a file open to write uncommitted changes?
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Comment #34386998
The sad part is, the damage this does to companies won't be felt for years (which is how long it'll take someone to take the stolen source code, analyze it, and make a convincingly…
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Comment #34373400
I love software engineering AND programming. But too often working "in software" involves neither.