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As you can run Nix on top of any Linux system you can use it wherever you want it. Some time ago I was having a dependency-hell problem with a C++ program that used particular library versions which w…

"Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" is the reason why I work with computers nowadays. I don't even work in security - this is the article that made me realise computers are full of …

I don't think they use anything in common. Try to set your locale to "C" as otherwise string comparisons will do extra work handling your locale's notions of equivalent characters.

Amen to that. And it's not just cab drivers. Their culture explains a lot about the state of things in the city/state.

That doesn't mean you can't use Wikipedia's content in other ways, nor does it make it immoral to do so. I found this page which gives an overview of what's ok to do with their con…

> How exactly do you expect wikipedia to survive if no one ever has to actually go there Did they start running ads or something?

Exactly. The deal wasn't static: people got their freedom back when they showed they were worthy of it. The aftermath was that a few people left the company for better jobs after we shipped (unav…

At a previous company, I joined a team that had to deliver something a year before I joined. All previous teams assembled to deliver that had failed and had been fired. That the company didn't ha…

Maybe I am prejudiced but I have the feeling that mainframes get sold to shops with a lot of money based on the salesman's skills and, well, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a kickback h…

I posted something but don't have the time to double-check the math. I suggest you do your own calculations. In particular do not count income (13th salary, food tickets, travel reimbursements, e…

The 13th salary exists in other countries too (example: Switzerland). It's a dumb thing to complain about because you have to be able to pay an employee's yearly salary in a year. It's …

I believe you mean "classism".

I have heard the argument that regular users often believe that copying and pasting passwords makes them immune to keylogging, so allowing that will cause some of them to keep a copy of their password…

I'm a foreig parent in Switzerland and have been put through several hours of being told that Gymnasium is not the only way. I think foreign parents in particular are concerned that their kids ar…

Keeping a copy of the journal in the Keybase filesystem (or Keybase git) could be a good/easy/safe way to do it.

Was labour ever scarce? Was work ever an inalienable form of wealth? Why did half the world go through communist revolutions, is that because workers were too wealthy?

If you have malware on the PC you can still be MITM'd when you actually, say, access your bank.

> SOme people are really precious about their shitty code and can't take criticism, esepcially in small companies. It's very easy to criticize, often not easy to understand the situation …

Mine isn't that different and I worked for two of the Big 4.

Or Switzerland.

FWIW I now checked and I could remove SMS without tricks. It definitely forced me to set that up first.

Same problem I had. I got a bunch of keys, and everything I actually want to U2F does not support it. Sure - Google, Github, Fastmail. But nothing financial. Not even the more startupy stuff like Tran…

And nothing of value was lost.

(This was in the 80s/early 90s so none of the mechanisms are needed anymore) The urgency of payment was handled implicitly by the banks. Salary payment was traditionally done using checks (back i…

Oh, for sure. Inflation was the result of the government failing to manage its debt. Institutions, businesses and the law still existed. Even the mechanisms for coping with hyperinflation were market …