CraneWorm

> Students getting caught in mass cheating or deploying sly means to not get caught is not uncommon in India where competition is fierce as aspirants outnumber the number of vacancies for a job and seats in colleges for courses.

I'd like to read a long form piece on this subject. What's being done about it? India is a huge country, they need specialists no doubt!

you can buy monitors running android now :)

It's a mixed bag, the so-called "obfuscated servers" can sometimes allow you to watch region-locked content on Netflix.

But they (Netflix) are definitely trying to combat these attempts and you can get cut off in the middle of the movie...

Pirates offer a superior service every time, until this is solved nothing will change.

as long as you pirate stuff you should be golden

Sencor used to offer big (as large as 58'') TVs, some of them even dumb as bricks

I'd argue this is what parent wants instead...

doesn't load w/o js

It's just a command-line tool to download audio/video from youtube (and many other sites). You'd need to setup the iPad thing yourself, maybe using something like Plex?

WTH, you don't, just use youtube-dl

his description of perl is even less charitable

> Different languages have different failure modes. With Perl, the project might fail because you designed and implemented a pile of shit, but there is a clever workaround for any problem, so you might be able to keep it going long enough to hand it off to someone else, and then when it fails it will be their fault, not yours. With Haskell someone probably should have been fired in the first month for choosing to do it in Haskell.

So much unnecessary hate and stereotyping. And I bet they were thinking they're tongue-in-cheek-but-still-sounding-clever.

Also, interesting choice of programming languages, neither Python, PHP nor C got any flack, Javascript was spared but Java, Perl and Haskell are evil and using them makes you a "mediocre drone that cares only about cranking the lever and spouting code" (I'm paraphrasing the article here).

Choose your technology, learn your tools...

> I enjoyed programming in Java, and being relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product.

Although, with that mindset, maybe forego programming altogether.

It's not, it's due to greed and people (and corporations) living of rent.

isn't this web based? in which case the obvious choice is ad blocker

> If you don't like it, your job is to turn down that offer.

Sure, and disappear, because you're not listed by the bad deal company that has container-ships-of-money for marketing.

it boots from a usb stick and seems web only so it should run anywhere you can run chrome browser; I suppose?

I downloaded Inkscape because trying to use Gimp for pixel perfect graphics was an exercise in frustration.

Sadly, my experience seems to mirror yours, my first project crashed (no data loss, fortunately). Then I tried writing a simple plugin and it turned out 1.1.1 broke unit conversion.

I don't see a problem, did you try to use it?

For me it opens "Choose an application to open the mailto link." all listed options open webmail clients.

neat! here's mine:

  while true; do curl -q --http0.9  http://susam.net:8000/; sleep $(( $RANDOM % 10 )); done

bar = Bar() if bar is None else bar

DRM and the unskippable ads that make you aware that you payed to've become a product.

The pirates offer superior product, every time.

sorry, no. greed is what made big players implement the banners and make them as painful to navigate as possible (unless you yield and click "accept")

> # Forensically clone filesystems and do other low-level operations on files. Very dangerous:

> dd

this kind of mindset is not helping and IMO only alienates newcomers (they seem to be the target here) from the many uses that dd has (other than overwriting your data)

> machivellian character who murders people on a regular basis

I read the first one he murders someone so it seems it has always been like that.

WARNING, triggering content: lots of filthy swearing.

still, a nice summary of what NFTs are good for :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxaHugHihh0

Well... in my case low value on my package added a week to my delivery precisely because after seeing this trick once too many the customs are now checking everything. I had to mail the sender (big US based company) to send me the correct invoice after the customs sent me the one they received.

yes, the game that uses fomo and artificially creates scarcity of collectibles to exploit people into spending cash via gambling is the gold standard and every one else is copying it

> I'll go to the good old web site for free and a fraction of the time.

if it still exists. Once the metafart comes to be it will naturally compete with the Web of old, so it will probably look for leverage to extinguish that.

if a predicate depends on finitely many bits then you can exhaustively check whether it is total by enumerating all of it's possible inputs

Now, that is what I call organic advertisement.