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throwaway889900

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About throwaway889900

I'm at work and forgot the password to my usual account, but I can't get to my normal email from work to get my password reset so all bets are off and this is what you get.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45970730

    The late bird gets the second mouse.

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    Comment #45959477

    True, I guess I was expecting if you were reimplementing these with additional protections, why not add the protection using the custom pointer reimplementations to ensure no use a…

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    Comment #45955220

    Does the StringView/Span implementation here seem lacking? If the underlying data goes away, wouldn't the pointer now point to an invalid freed location, because it doesn't track t…

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    Comment #45019960

    SLOC as a metric of productivity was always useless. AI only proves this more.

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    Comment #44946388

    Their advertising of it being like a sushi cut then makes this possibly dangerous marketing then, no?

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    Comment #44802850

    Got death threats because I wasn't prioritizing stuff people were requesting, said nah I'm done

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    Comment #44727570

    Just submit a PR that removes the action so it doesn't run on the branch before the merge! If devs aren't reviewing the code anyways, will they even catch that kind of change?

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    Comment #44726722

    Combine them with a phalarope to make a fully functioning CD player?

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    Comment #44675522

    Sometimes you have to keep repeating a packet, they're very good at it.

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    Comment #44526775

    Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather teach how to use a knife safely? And a cut from a blade is a lesson to be learned, hopefully only once. Edit: Oh and if anyone's looking for the …

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    Comment #44515132

    A keyword exclusively used for network calls, in particular microservices ahaahaha

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    Comment #44514545

    Shame we can't use `cast`, that's already being used for types. And `conjure` probably only works for object constructors.

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    Comment #44500740

    I've thought about donating plasma. Might do it this Friday or something.

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    Comment #44424148

    Bored at work lol

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    Comment #44389014

    Right, Windows Hello requires it for facial auth, Windows itself does not. Hello still works, just you have to authenticate with a different method if the hardware isn't present.

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    Comment #44388871

    Windows is an operating system and does not have dependence on specific hardware being present.

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    Comment #44379470

    Blade Runner 2049 style interrogation to prove you're not in a bad state of mind huh?

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    Comment #44258408

    Thank goodness I don't have to use IBM's Rational Team Concert anymore. Even just thinking about it makes me shudder.

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    Comment #44248350

    Not only can you yourself manually check out a specific repo, but if you have submodules and do a recursive checkout, it's also possible to pull in other security nightmares from p…

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    Comment #44240817

    First iteration no, but after 5 or so iterations they'll get to it haha

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    Comment #44240790

    You don't need to do a monolithic design, and kludging things together is just fine. Start with local playback from the server or something equivalently small and work from there. …

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    Comment #44240186

    It's time for human-animal hybrids to become a real thing!

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    Comment #44230818

    Gotta wait for Apple VR 2, next year? maybe?

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    Comment #44126860

    Having the thing is better than not having the thing, even if it's not the best version of the thing.