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Is there another option? Or were you asking if it leaks memory?

Maybe you were asking if it implements custom destructors? GC?

Some people are dense... now in three dimensions!

I'd suggest buying the OpenWRT One. I've bought a bunch, and I think it's terrific.

Oh dang, we all know –based on observation of your throughput and availability– that you're AI, you just can't "be nervous".

Jokes aside, thanks for your selection. I had read some, but missed others until your comment.

If it matters, I think there's some people that hasn't decided yet what tribe (pro-AI/anti-AI) they belong to. There's probably dozens of us!

Indeed. Seems that Amazon is doing this more and more. Here in the US, I've just received a used (and damaged) Rode microphone, sold and shipped by Amazon 'as new'. And as you said, I returned it and decided not to order anything valuable from them, ever again.

Still, I wonder if these (arguably illegal) practices are still worth it for merchants and companies, considering that there's no enforcement and the majority of consumers don't drastically change their shopping habits when being abused.

I wonder how they are going to prevent abuse-theft, assuming the products are free or under the market's cost. There will always be someone wiping it all (to sell or whatever), and the vending machines will be always empty. Or, if there's some measure (e.g. limiting supply per person via biometrics), it may turn to be a disincentive for some people that need it.

I'm pretty sure wg0 was being facetious.

I agree. I really hope that they improve it.

Not sure about the SP3, but my SP4 (which, btw, had no problems running Linux) was afflicted by the so called "flickergate", and I didn't manage to replace it. Since then, I sworn off any Microsoft hardware. Their software and OS, I had sworn these off years before, which makes these devices even less appealing...

Interesting. My brother had a very similar experience with an ASUS laptop when doing a RMA several months ago, in Europe. It seems that it's systemic.

My favorites are Debian for servers, Arch for desktops. Debian in desktops didn't really work for me... a rolling release makes more sense.

Pitifully, Porkbun's marketplace depends on Paypal... Otherwise it'd be perfect!

I've always seen Russell Brand -like many street preachers- as something similar to the raw verbal intelligence we see now in LLMs: capable of bringing a stream of words with interesting derivatives, easily interpretable as agreeable and intelligent, and then hallucinating a little. Yet in the depths of those regurgitated concepts that are a mix of things you've already seen, you search for glimmers of any abstract idea that you haven't thought before. Something that tickles your brain. And you find none.

He also has good timing.

Ryan —not Okai— is the one with a legal practice.

Ha! Somewhat unrelated, but that reminded me of a homeless guy in Portland whose intro line was "do you know how you say dragonfly in Spanish?", to which I responded "libélula" (I knew it because Spanish is my mother tongue). Interesting, he seemed kinda pissed off, as I spoiled his soliciting routine. Maybe he's the human version of those sites!

I'd imagine that it's referring to their endocrine system changes leading to changes in gene expression (of that many genes).

Assuming they read more than the title...

Yet there are businesses like TaxDown and TaxFix trying to get in the middle (just look at how much they're spending on ads in Spanish TV).

I seriously hope they fail, and also that they're never able to influence the powers that be / the whole process with Hacienda (they surely would like to make it more complex, more like filing a return in the US).

Many people here seem to forget that cookies aren't the only way to track, and fingerprinting a user is easy without having to use cookies (via UserAgent, IP, canvas data, and a myriad other techniques).

Now, I wonder what does the GDPR and similar legislation say about those, but my uneducated guess is that a user accepting the site's policy regarding user data collection would approve the use of fingerprinting as well (and deleting the cookies would only work partially, privacy-wise).

I guess so... with an extra dose of neutrality! (one hopes)

At the same time, you're giving free feedback saying that his free comment is a poor comment.

Arguably, his poor comment may have taken less effort than the poor video he was criticizing, and probably an equivalent effort to your comment on his comment... anyway, this doesn't seem to stop... until this will look like Reddit.

When the conversation about "oh, you work for us?" started to get too repetitive, I'd just start using "Caesar +1" for the name, that is, <tipq> instead of <shop>.

The problem is that I'd still received a lot of spam. Tried graylisting and other methods, but a hard rule (i.e. name must end in a number) ended up working better.

Another amusing thing about using a personalized catch-all is finding out who had their users' database hacked/leaked ...and, other than the common ones that we all know (the ones in have I been pwned?), I received some others that were kinda big (i.e. a Spanish airline company)

I really hope so, but I wouldn't count on it... in my view, FreeCAD seems to be suffering from certain stagnation -similar to GIMP's a decade ago.

The "triangle of uses" of Blender/FreeCAD/OpenSCAD has a weird void in the middle to fill ...and seeing how Blender keeps growing, I'd imagine it'd be the first covering most of it. It may be argued that it's already doing so in many ways, via plugins and Blender's Python API.

I have contradictory feelings about this. It's as if the system instilled some anti-taxation, anti-regulation thoughts in anyone participating in a small sized endeavour, thus intending for most people to empathize with corporations.

Having dealt with the exasperations of trying to start a small business from California (years ago), the burden of bureaucracy seemed nowhere proportional to the short-term aspirations... resulting in a quite negative influence to the initial intentions of the projects to be performed.

I guess that my wish is that they'd make at least trivial to have any entrepreneurial activity (well, maybe it boils down to the state your business is in), until it really grows into something (morally?) taxable.

[ It’s Performance Is Like Molasses ]

The "it's vs its" fight's dilation is overdue: I knew that it was going to become a grammar mistake spreading throughout, reaching almost every pseudo-professional writer...

I guessed that anybody criticizing the trend towards the unnecessary apostrophe would be: either considered a grammar nazi; or their own writing being extraordinarily examined for mistakes (as a punishment for their criticism).

As a non-native speaker, my language credentials may be slim, but I can't really stand the -quite widespread- extra apostrophe when it's a possessive "its". The reversal, though, doesnt bother me that much. I guess that it's about character conservation.

And someone keeps a relatively up-to-date .slob file with the entire wikipedia (that can be read with Aard2), which I find more useful than kiwix!

(A link to it can be found in the GitHub page with Aard dictionaries)

It's interesting that DW would choose that reference. Germans... they surely love the Balearic islands.

It seems that it's from "Stench and Stenchibility", from the last season of the show... so, much later than "Jurassic Bark".