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Have you seen how much people struggle with getting on wifi when you include just include certificates, not even MFA on such security things?
Re:The Two Factions of C++ on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @01:37PM (#42248515)
Microsoft has been net negative to the ecosystem as well.
Math is a stepping stone to critical thinking skills. And while one can probably learn those skills in any way, math forces you to learn those skills by learning the method of writing proofs. No other field forces you to push your critical thinking skills to the limit that math does.
Actually not. Punishing the smaller company while allowing big company to run amok is essentially making things even worse.
It is the government's responsibility. Change your government with votes.
Russia did have some problems, but China suffered badly due to colonialism.
You cannot forget about the money drained from the undeveloped world during colonialism and the subsequent effect which continued during cold war.
at these points, these cable cuts are more dangerous than actual bombs
Re:Apple Smells Blood in the Water on Saturday November 16, 2024 @12:55PM (#42157780)
I mean isn't Apple as worse as Adobe in subscription models?
Re:Apple Smells Blood in the Water on Saturday November 16, 2024 @12:53PM (#42157769)
My question is, all these people who spit on Adobe. What is Apple doing differently that would make it a good option? Apple is even more rent-seeking than Adobe. The fact that their software only runs on exorbitantly expensive hardware being the least of those methods.
Re:PyPI now supports digital attestations on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:46AM (#42145032)
CI/CD components and steps.
Re:On Building Git for Lawyers on Thursday November 14, 2024 @12:49PM (#42138908)
If Word was implemented with standard XML backend instead of OOXML, then today, we could have easily developed tools to show good, reliable diffs without having to resort to tricks.
If you read the article, you'll see the knowledge of electrolytes to prevent dehydration was commonly know. The more difficult part was to get it in a form that is cheap enough and robust enough to be able to distribute in distant, hot parts of Indian subcontinent.
Question is, does he have a choice>
Re:Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:15AM (#42006594)
Anything where you are doing massive and complex parallelism will require tonne of unsafe. Think co-operative thread groups on 120x4 = 480 core machines.
Re:Rust and C++ with Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter on Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:00AM (#42005151)
C++ leadership are blinded by their own success and have no information of outside world.
Copilot is very good.
Re:Care Doesn't Scale on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:31AM (#41983201)
Training is the high-cost missing from the equation of "low-cost" High quality training doesn't scale.
Great point!
Re:Please Show Lots of Digits on Friday October 25, 2024 @02:13AM (#41942674)
Notation is in the data repository. Exposition is for understanding.
Re:Why Safety Profiles Failed on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:55AM (#41942345)
It's because those people are lying. They are letting their egos and panic get to their technical decision making.
Re:Why Safety Profiles Failed on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:54AM (#41942341)
You mean certain individual's lying?
Re:Why Safety Profiles Failed on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:54AM (#41942338)
Profiles it the wunderkind and magic child of people in committee like Bjarne and GDR, who are lying their way to get their way, and people are too afraid to call them out on it.
Re:Why Safety Profiles Failed on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:53AM (#41942329)
They are lying.
Re:Why Safety Profiles Failed on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:52AM (#41942327)
You are more correct than you think you are!!!
rules of the prize can be changed.
Sabre is the company in Office which buys Dundler Mufflin
Re:Terminal Colours Are Tricky on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:50AM (#41729776)
Re:Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @08:08AM (#41707317)
Given that it was this easy for an amateur, professional repair shops should be able to do this commercially right? So, the only thing that needs to be documented are the steps, and then this should qualify in a 'right to repair' scenario, no?

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