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I stand corrected, it is not a lazy shitshow. You’re right, fake sudo prompts is how people get exploited all day long. I’ve witnessed it on MacOS. For UAC, the user still has to l…

> programmers can allocate their smarts to something more productive than expertise in programs corrupting themselves Amen. This is called progress.

When you write C++, you can allocate memory all day long and write ZERO delete statements. That is possible, I’ve been writing C++ like that since 1998 (Visual C++ 5.0 and lcc). Ca…

LOL you should be upvoted as your comment perfectly captures the blind arrogance of the software industry. When you call people computer illiterate, you are blind to the technocrat…

lol UAC is such a lazy shitshow of a security implementation… A) there is no interception to be had. It’s a fucking “Yes I am Admin” single click a child could do unsupervised. B) …

Continuing to use a memory-unsafe language that has no recourse for safety and is full of footguns and is frankly irresponsible for the software profession. God help us all. By the…

I think there’s more to it than just messing with serotonin. There’s something about Sertraline (Zoloft) that seems to make it quite reliable at causing brain zaps. 3 people I’ve k…

I would check your answer. These are pauses due to time spent writing to diagnostic outputs. These are not traditional collection pauses. This affects both jstat as well as writes …

Probably because pages mapped, even if they are locked into memory are not allowed to stay dirty forever. Does this help? https://stackoverflow.com/a/11024388 (In contrast, if you …

Beware the trade-offs of interning affecting GC behavior. Now you can’t have a stack-allocation optimization, for example.

Just because there was research from 1970 (as there was in subsequent years) showing that big design up front is a bad idea doesn’t mean that waterfall is a straw man argument. It …

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