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> If communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America? By communism I don't think people talk about the philosophical basis of an idealized socie…

> The article literally has photos of their english-language customer-facing communications. Providing a website is hardly evidence they were a legitimate business.

> We know that, because America's founders were prolific writers (...) Every single one of them was an immigrant. I mean, check the country's history. By the way, the current US administr…

> No the point is to create disincentives for people to immigrate (...) Yeah, and the disincentives consist of giving non-citizens a hard time for no reason. > so fewer people will do it. You&#x…

> In the end I had Claude produce a one-page html file that was 95% of the way there and it took minor editing to clearly explain the intent of the feature. That doesn't say much about any mod…

> The comments I see recommending selective use of cheaper models doesn't match the reality I experience working in the industry. I have the constant threat hanging over my head of being fired…

> Your computer won't explode just from downloading and compiling some C code, don't worry ;) This is the first time I ever saw anyone dismissing the risk of downloading and running stuff…

> That seems to be a pretty consistent quality level for the entire library. Look at the implementations in sp_math, yikes. That does spin the meaning of "Sp.h is the standard library that C d…

> Trading a dependency on MasterCard and Visa for one on Google and Apple is at best a sidegrade. That's really not how it works. You as the user are prompted to pick the bank you want to use,…

> I remember living in Belgium this was the case, and I always had to go and find that stupid physical barcode reader that I then had to hold against the screen, sign in with my debit card, PIN, en…

> Railway are alleging that this affected many GCP accounts, (...) From what I've read in other comments, the root cause seems to have been automatic account suspension as an anti-abuse measur…

> Isn't that including things like google workspace and similar? AWS also includes Amazon WorkSpaces. Moreover, AWS includes all of Amazon's cloud infrastructure for things like Amazon mu…

> But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet That is exactly what GCP should do: not comment on a customer's issues. Even when it's due to abuse from a customer…

> Why do people want to be in that region? Is it the default or something? It's one of the oldest and largest regions. It hosts the most services, both low-level platform stuff and higher leve…

> Perhaps you don't notice GCP outages because so few companies rely on them? GCP is the world's third largest cloud provider, and has around half of AWS' market share. Claiming no o…

> No, that's the naive view No, not really. That's pretty basic stuff. You would do well in reading up on the shared responsibility model. Customers are responsible for setting up their o…

> The instant cascading worldwide deletion upon closing or deleting a subscription sounds like a recipe for disaster. I don't agree. What do you expect to happen when you explicitly delete you…

> Let's just say Railway has had problems like this before, and the way their team handles them does not inspire any confidence. This. It's very odd that in other threads we see a bunch o…

Upgrading a compiler in production code is always a major task. It often involves introducing breaking changes in dependencies, some of which are far from trivial to fix. If you tell a Product Manager…

> Not particularly relevant here, but may I point out that Google's C++ guidelines are generally seen as bad (...) I don't have a dog in the race, but this is the first time I ever heard …

> Well, back when I wrote C++ for a living I tried to keep up with better practices and newish, more compact and sensible language features. That's fine, but definitely something that does not…

> Maybe just me, but doesn't most C++ code being written today not use inheritance very much, and so make virtual dispatch moot Most C++ code being written today is the same code that has been…

> Conclusion: devirtualization optimization is so fragile, so that it's better to avoid using virtual calls in performance-critical code to be sure, that no virtual call happens. To be fair, i…

> Vague innuendo There is no innuendo. The only claim in this discussion is trying to cast doubt on semantics such as whether "destroyed" or "damaged" has a meaningful differenc…

> Misleading headline; if you look at the actual US government source, (...) Let's pause a moment to think about this sentence alone.

From the article: > In a stunning security breach that went largely unanswered, unidentified drones swarmed above the skies of America’s bomber base in Louisiana for days in March. Barksdale Air Fo…