You can’t edit them in Word, so that must be too advanced for most people. LibreOffice never opened the PDFs too well for me, but Inkspace was pretty good, one page at a time though.
The terminal backlog is just sitting in memory as well. Just don’t leave passwords there, remove them immediately.
You also have an option not to save the command in history, e.g. whitespace prefix in bash.
Half of my bash commands that are longer than 20 symbols start with ^R to look up a similar command and edit it, not having history would make that much slower.
On one hand this is not a big deal, on the other one this is a fallback option on a slow connection and no access to IMAP apps. Someone’s day will be ruined.
Singapore has a government dating service, SDU, right? They try to do eugenics on top of that though, so the long term relations might not have the highest priority as well.
HTML, CSS and JS are not the best pieces of technology, otherwise there would not have been a whole industry of tools that allowed you not to touch them with a ten-foot pole. But we are stuck with them at least for a while.
Borland was the alternative. You could throw together a C++ database application in a day.
And if you used Delphi you even could not justify a coffee break by the long compile time.
Error handling? What error handling? Corner cases, what corner cases?
The software industry still suffers greatly from the decisions made in UNIX. Only the SUID bit caused so much trouble. It’s crazy to this that we still have /usr/bin, /home and /bin only because the original UNIX machine had 3 disks in the system. Bazaar wins, I guess.
Wireless communications are inherently jammable. Where is the border between this and a bunch of microwaves jamming cell reception?
I’m not saying Apple should not have done a better job in anti-spam measures, but “please don’t” is a basis for many nice things we have.
I’ve had a mouse cursor move slowly when doing some tasks in Chrome. And all other apps barely reacting. Still a mystery to me. I hope that was not a sign of some backdoor being installed through a Chrome vulnerability.
I’ve seen this happen, but I don’t understand why that is possible. Chrome tabs are separate process, how can one tab freeze the whole browser even when running the worst code in existence?
After the fall of USSR it was widely assumed that market economy will make China a democracy given enough time. The euphoria on the early ‘90s in the West is hard to imagine now. End of history and everything.
This is not even the worst thing Russian agents have done. They used radioactive and chemical weapons to conduct assassinations. They even blew up ammo depots. That is still below the threshold of reasons good enough to declare war on a nuclear country.
“The air seller” by Belyayev reminded me a lot about the more wacky side of James Bond. The protagonist is not glamorous, can’t do that in USSR. But it does have a villain that tries to take over the world with revolutionary technology from his evil layer. The villain captures the protagonist to boast about his evil genius. Even a final battle between marines and henchmen is there. Could have been adapted into a golden-age Bond movie by adding a couple of tropical locations.
“The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin” has a similarly grand super-villain scheme. And with more locations and glamor.
Most young men in the US are already alone[1]. And this will get only worse unless something radical happens. The dating apps strategies do not help. Reverting to offline dating will need to restore the environment that facilitates it.
[1] https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...