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uxp8u61q··on Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
The evidence is that VideoLAN still exists months after getting banned by Unity. If they "depended" on Unity they'd be bust by now.
uxp8u61q··on Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?
Unless you actually have several machines spread around the globe, you're not building a "global" CDN.
uxp8u61q··on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)
OP claimed that pwsh was started because it was new and shiny and would lead to a quicker promotion than working on cmd. Turns out that the guy who created pwsh didn't get promoted, but actually demoted. If you can't understand that demotion is the opposite of promotion, well...
uxp8u61q··on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)
That's literally the opposite of what the OP claims, then.
uxp8u61q··on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)
> That's literally the explanation for PowerShell. Many of us wanted to improve cmd.exe, but couldn't.

I stopped reading here. (Not really, I read the rest, but I could have.)

Powershell is a fundamentally new thing that's miles ahead of its competitors. They couldn't have gotten there by just improving cmd incrementally. If the authors confuses boldness with being carefree about maintenance, that's on them.

uxp8u61q··on True Name – Mastercard (2022)
In Europe they just bring the handheld payment terminal to your table...
uxp8u61q··on True Name – Mastercard (2022)
Step 1. Go to google news or whatever news aggregation website you want.

Step 2. Search for "transgender attack".

Step 3. Take some time to digest the horrible news you're reading.

Step 4. Try to figure out the common thread between these stories. The people in question usually get outed in public during some kind of ID check, and got jumped by some intolerant moron who witnessed it.

This is happening. Today. Including in "North America and Europe". The people who say they feel unsafe because they feel unsafe for their physical integrity and safety. Not because of "awkwardness or very minor psychological discomfort".

uxp8u61q··on True Name – Mastercard (2022)
You should read more carefully. GP wrote "minor psychological discomfort". They're definitely trying to downplay the danger that transgender people sometimes get put in.
uxp8u61q··on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
I specifically took the example of a (physical) $10 bill. You can definitely tell apart two different $10 bills. They have serial numbers, for example. They're different physical objects.
uxp8u61q··on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
You watch too many action movies.
uxp8u61q··on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
How would this help that hypothetical person in any way? If the coins are stolen, then the victim will want the money back. They won't care if the "same" coins are given back or not. Money is fungible. If someone steals a $10 bill from you and burns it, are you going to forsake your claim to $10? I bet you'd even be happy to get two $5 bills back rather than nothing.
uxp8u61q··on Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
"Forcing"? Are they holding a gun to the devs' heads and "forcing" them to implement safety circumvention features? I doubt it.
uxp8u61q··on Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
They're just following orders, is that it?
uxp8u61q··on How Open ID Connect Works
Since OP seems to be the website author... You should remove or alter the ::selection style in your CSS. In dark mode, selecting text makes it illegible (white on white).
uxp8u61q··on A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs
Some people in this thread need to calm down. It's just a new icon for the "super"/windows key. Not a huge conspiracy.
uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
That is correct, yes. Do you have a point?
uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
Handling non-Ascii characters in url has been a solved problem for years now.
uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
As if the opinion of a random person on the internet had the same value as the policy of an organization established by the general assembly of the UN.
uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
Take it up with the UNHRC.
uxp8u61q··on LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
If you want to handle complex client-side state, you will soon reinvent an inferior react or vue. Not every app is a simple CRUD app that can be summarized by a series of GET and POST requests.
uxp8u61q··on 7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen
I know nothing about building NASs so maybe my question has an obvious answer. But my impression is that most x64 CPUs are thoroughly beaten by Arm or RISC-V CPUs when it comes to power consumption. Is there a specific need for the x64 architecture here? I couldn't find an answer in TFA.
uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
That is what TFA suggests, yes.
uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
> * Person used characters that you no longer want to accept in nicknames

Why would you refuse certain characters? My last name contains a dash and one letter with a diacritic. I am beyond tired of playing whack-a-mole trying to guess what rule I violated with my "invalid name."

And fuck companies who have the gall to call my name "invalid" to my face, too. Have some thought before you write an error message. "Contains an invalid character" wouldn't be insulting, for example.

uxp8u61q··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
Once you've served your sentence you should recover all your rights. Lifelong punishment is a violation of human rights - those rights that you cannot "forfeit" or lose.
uxp8u61q··on The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop
Is this an advertisement for thinkpads?
uxp8u61q··on Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts
The easy and widespread solution to this issue is simply to ask the user if they would like to log out their other devices when they change their password.
uxp8u61q··on The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
Keeping going after errors is common for many scripting languages, isn't it?
uxp8u61q··on The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
What programming language isn't full of inconsistencies and gotchas?
uxp8u61q··on The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
> I always thought R was a vestigial artifact of the bad old days of computing that had no place in the Real World

Why on Earth did you think that? Because it's not what the hip frontend devs use?

uxp8u61q··on Cold-blooded software
Sure...
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