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Hi James! Does `https://onevariable.com/blog` have an rss/atom feed?
Re:The D Programming Language Conference '23 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:21AM (#37306646)
>Why has D failed to get momentum?

For me, it was the garbage collector, and the fact that I'm more interested in systems/embedded programming, where the GC is a no-go. The -betterC [1] was good, but not good enough to replace C in my projects

[1] https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

I'm a bit disappointed that the integers are not latin numerals, though I'm sure someone considered it for a moment before realizing what a horrible idea it would be.
> this isn’t technologically useful.

> REASONS:

> 1. Over 80% of breaches happen because of KNOWN but unfixed vulnerabilities.

This reason only makes sense to me if I assume that all KNOWN vulnerabilities are (and remain) UNFIXED. Assuming otherwise doesn't make sense because I can't tell how many attacks the KNOWN and FIXED vulnerabilities prevented.

> Most attacks lead with phishing and account takeovers not software vulns.

This might be true, but you seem to suggest that we can only concentrate on preventing one type of attack at a time, and therefore we should only pick defensive strategies for the most common attack,

Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:04PM (#26183256)
Have you considered the possibility that people might just like it?
Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:11AM (#12658105)
how does that work?
> And so I come to Soylent, the meal replacement plan that has taken the SlimFast concept of feeding you unpleasant gloop in place of real food and welded it to a dumbass ideology drunk with libertarianism, confused futurism and startup bro stupidity.

This is the tone of the entire article.

Re:A Clone of Chips Challenge in Haskell on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @01:06PM (#8493651)
oh, there's no need to skip the level. you can escape the bump by pressing forward+left/right
Re:A Clone of Chips Challenge in Haskell on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:55PM (#8493587)
Aha! A bug! http://i.imgur.com/2vNiRzn.gif (you can walk on ice if you have skates, but you can't collide with walls without being "repelled")

Also, I completely forgot about this wonderful game. Thanks for the trip on memory lane.

Re:The Great Big Porn Block is coming on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:49PM (#6955482)
"No they didn't. The doctors made the request which you'd know if you bothered to read more than a few lines."

Hang on! No they didn't --what--?

Re:The Great Big Porn Block is coming on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:26PM (#6955357)
troll
Re:The Great Big Porn Block is coming on Monday December 23, 2013 @11:40AM (#6955094)
"Despite the woman’s mother explaining her daughter’s condition to police over the telephone from Italy, she was taken to a psychiatric hospital and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Five weeks later, her daughter was removed from her womb without her consent."
Re:Fix Ubuntu on Friday November 08, 2013 @01:07PM (#6697902)
2b) which part of the Adobe Flash EULA prevents you from working on GNU Gnash?
Re:Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over on Thursday July 25, 2013 @02:35PM (#6104102)
What you're talking about is operant conditioning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning )
Re:Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) on Sunday July 07, 2013 @04:36PM (#6003362)
mkdir HoAC_tmp && cd $_ && wget -r -np -l 1 -A pdf http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ -nd && pdftk toc3.pdf chap1.pdf chap2.pdf chap3.pdf chap4.pdf chap5.pdf chap6.pdf chap7.pdf chap8.pdf chap9.pdf chap10.pdf chap11.pdf chap12.pdf chap13.pdf chap14.pdf chap15.pdf appendix.pdf references.pdf index.pdf cat output "../Handbook of Applied Crytopgraphy.pdf" && cd .. && rm -r HoAC_tmp

This might be too much ... :)