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Weren't they also caught modifying their "archived" content?
Remember this is the same company that demands they're the only ones who can possibly decide what software their users get to install.
Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:34PM (#47390364)
That's not what fraud is.
Re:DEC64: Decimal Floating Point on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:31AM (#45875311)
Near the end of the article, under Motivation:

> The BASIC language eliminated much of the complexity of FORTRAN by having a single number type. This simplified the programming model and avoided a class of errors caused by selection of the wrong type. The efficiencies that could have gained from having numerous number types proved to be insignificant.

DEC64 was specifically designed to be the only number type a language uses (not saying I agree, just explaining the rationale).

Re:Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:40AM (#45548717)
> But there's no way to tone down the new animations

Does Reduce Motion (under Accessibility) not work? I haven't updated to 26 yet, and probably won't for a while.

Re:Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:35AM (#45548678)
> In iOS 26, controls insist on animating themselves, whether or not the user benefits. Carousel dots quietly morph into the word Search after a few seconds.

This has been the case for several years now (started in iOS 16 IIRC); it is not new in 26.

Re:All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card' on Saturday September 27, 2025 @09:10AM (#45395430)
No it isn't. This line of comments is explicitly in response to your claim:

> Isn't a larger issue the number of immigrants who are NOT contributing to the economy, living at taxpayers' expense

No one has yet mentioned illegal immigrants except you.

In any case it doesn't matter, since GP was specifically replying to:

> In my experience, immigrants have low paying jobs and regularly use cash to avoid paying taxes. Most have no sense whatsoever of cohesion with the country they live in and instead make groups of similar culture that don't really try to fit in.

They were simply giving their own opposite experience on the subject of immigrant wages and taxation, which is equally as valid.

If this thread was actually about illegal immigrants, both comments would be equally off topic. I find it interesting which one you decided to respond to.

SIGINT, not SIGTERM.
Re:Fstrings.wtf on Saturday July 19, 2025 @10:26AM (#44615726)
Yeah I consider that one to be a trick question. I knew same-quote-style nested f-strings were coming, I just didn't know which version, and I still use the `f'{f"{}"}'` trick because I want my code to support "older" versions of python. One of my servers is still on 3.10. 3.11 won't be EOL until 2027.
leftpad was 2016
Re:Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor on Friday April 25, 2025 @10:40AM (#43794084)
I cannot reproduce this.
Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:49AM (#43523112)
It's a clickbait title that needs to be changed to stop spreading misinformation.
> > If after the above I created an array like so `char str[n]` and then assigned such that it pointed to the same region of memory that malloc() returned, then would the provenance of both pointer be equal?

> Yes.

Uh, no. This is flatly untrue. You cannot "assign an array such that it points to a region of memory". Arrays are not pointers, they do not point to anything.

> With Safari providing this, it can be used by some providers, but nobody can block or behave differently with unattested clients.

What mechanism prevents websites from blocking or behaving differently for unattested clients? The article doesn't make that clear.

Also: Apple's attestation implementation introduces an external real-time single-point-of-failure, but given that the failure mode is just "show a captcha", it doesn't seem too severe. Is it even possible to implement a broader attestation infrastructure without introducing a similar single point of failure? TLS PKI, for example, does not rely on an external "live" server; the private keys live on the origin.

That's not what the word "need" means.
Re:Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:00AM (#31861093)
Brilliant feature, but this is the sort of thing that reinforces the idea that CLIs have awful discoverability compared to GUIs.
> This failed, b/c bash can't represent an empty array!

It absolutely can, I have no idea where you’re getting this idea.

Re:White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:57AM (#30331449)
Wtf is a “blockchain-based VPN”?
Base64 costs 1.3x space, not 4x.
Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:05AM (#29660363)
Who says this? I have literally never once seen this.
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation on Saturday December 18, 2021 @03:51PM (#29608386)
You can’t think of healthcare costs?
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation on Saturday December 18, 2021 @03:45PM (#29608356)
After it therefore because of it.
There is a 0% chance this story is true.
Re:NRA Dumps New York to Reincorporate in Texas on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:11PM (#25814455)
> as old as the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:44PM (#25021013)
“ If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

Flagged

“Can be used for infringement” is not the same thing as “encourages infringement” why does everyone make these bad faith comparisons.
Re:This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine on Monday October 19, 2020 @12:59PM (#24828283)
Of all the things you can say about an HTML file, the one thing you can absolutely not say is that it is a collection of instructions. It is literally a declarative description of components to be rendered.

I also did not say HTML is not a programming language.

Re:This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:52AM (#24826335)
An HTML file is not a program.
Re:Dockerfile Security Best Practices on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:51PM (#24778762)
There is absolutely nothing special about `latest`, it’s just a tag like any other. It simply happens to be the default tag when omitted, just like how `origin` is the default remote name when performing a `git clone`.

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