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RTL lets you obfuscate file extensions.

E.g. Annexe.txt (that you might assume would be safely opened by a text editor) could actually be Ann\u202Etxt.exe, a dangerous executable.

Another possibility is that every streaming service wants "Pokémon" and parents don't care which season.

So each service buys a single season to tick that box.

That way you can also claim 100% of mining rewards with 51% hash rate.

BTC can't move to proof of stake because religious zealots would keep their money in the old fork.

It's doomed in general, see the cash fork.

AWS/GCP are at least making money with their current pricing model.

When your provider is dumping at a loss, it's their way of saying that the business plan is to maximize lock-in/monopoly effects followed by the infamous "enshittification".

You could, but it would be mad to skip the code review because it "only" touches customer-facing code rather than GHA.

Giving analysts direct SQL access can be great, but you should tell them to use an IDE rather than trying to build your own IDE in a text box.

Cryptocurrency contracts are going to touch actual tokens at some point.

Even if the compromise wasn't on the developer's machine, it could have enabled a supply chain attack post-deployment.

% of people vs % of games.

A single person who "collects" games or buys them because it seems like good value can have thousands of titles in their steam library. Someone who actually plays all of them will have a much smaller number.

At a certain scale, face value is meaningless and all that matters is liquidity.

$21tn in bitcoin isn't going to get you any more money than $1tn would.

Mining and theft mostly.

Miners get paid in BTC but have costs in money.

They have to sell, so the money is coming from buyers and impacts holders via reduced demand.

Yeah the paper gains are nice, but they all net to zero in real money.

In the long term everything goes to zero, so an asset that pays no dividends but has significant storage costs isn't much good for investment.

Bitcoin holders as a group are constantly losing money by definition. Some of them cash out at a profit, I suppose.

Also FPS just requires throwing more compute at it.

Excessively high detail models require extra artist time too.

I realise this is meant to be a jab at high-level programming languages, but SQL really did succeed at that.

Its abstraction may leak sometimes, but most people using it are incredibly productive without needing to learn what a spool operator or bitmap does.

Even though the GUI and natural language aspects of 4GL failed, declarative programming was worth it.

Downvotes help clear out false but emotive posts.

The sort of "gangs of [minority] on murder spree in [town]" posts that get so much traction on Facebook.

Even if most people dismiss it out-of-hand, it's so inflammatory that the gullible are much more likely to interact and you get exponential spread.

Maybe HN is just better than that, but I see it as a major differentiator of Reddit vs Facebook.

If you're already using python or powershell, you're not going to switch for one library (I.e. pandas or ImportExcel).

For this library in particular, powershell is already installed on the computers of 95%+ of non-dev admin workers. It fills the niche that VBA used to of shadow-IT automation.

It's not a problem in MSSQL, so solving the fat head of problems is clearly possible.

The escape hatch in MSSQL for the long tail is materialising an intermediate result to temp table.

Relational databases are going to be around for the next thousand years if you want something useful outside of tech.

If that list became popular it would be weaponised by military intelligence.

Csv is much more useful than Excel.

Pdf is much less useful.

Rather than ignorance, it's the ongoing development of the language.

French schoolchildren seem to spend half their time learning the gender of inanimate objects. The sooner we can get rid of that, the better.

The closest equivalent time-waster we have is different names for different groups of animals (flock, pack, herd etc).

If it's an exit node, you know what the user is connecting to but not which user.

Personal assets in The DAO

Vitalik got indirectly pwned by the infamous DAO smart contract hack, but had the social clout to pause/rollback the supposedly decentralised/immutable Blockchain.

Maybe not the best example of cryptographic security.

You can do dangerous actions in user space without any need for escalated permissions.

E.g. downloading a file and running the contents as code, or uploading/encrypting all files you have access to.

Crowdstrike and Defender handle those possible but suspicious actions.

You'd seize the company from its current shareholders.

That gives shareholders of other companies good reason to care going forward.

I'm mandated to use one of those.

The security tradeoffs don't make sense at all once you understand how it works.

Ssh or winrm are significantly more secure than whatever some security vendor thinks will tick an audit box.

10ft pole is an excellent approach.

C# Dev Kit is not only recommended by Microsoft, but developed by and for them.

It still has a serious license footgun built-in, Oracle-style.