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Are people who know of or remember Half Life even a significant fraction of the market anymore? At this point it's like releasing a new Fred Astaire musical. A new episode of The Lone Ranger.

> I don't see "soldered" anywhere, so I guess maybe they'll be switchable Unfortunately that's quite a logical jump...

This article does not work due to many protections that were added since then, not only in compilers but also the kernel and CPUs. If you want to follow along, download a Slackware 3.0 ISO.

Indeed, "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit" changed my life, even though I work nowhere near security. It's about perspectives.

Oh, so onimous. Your claim is that the number 5 is cursed because it is a communist number? There is no lesson to take from the number 5. There are lessons to take from longer term planning.

This is inverted. AI books should come with warning labels similar to those found in cigarettes.

In my hometown there is something like that. There are two schools, one of them had a year with particularly good approval rates. Competitive parents started preferring that school, finding ways to se…

The message you replied to is a reference to an anti-von Braun song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro …

NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' - Snowden (2014) https://www.bbc.com/news/25907502 …

The problem is that you then have to trust the site's own statement about whether its subdomains are independent.

The way to think is the opposite: your system is making millions per hour.

Ah, thanks for the historical take. I learned Rust recently. I like it. I never fought the borrow checker. I was sometimes happily protected by the borrow checker. I never understood what people were …

Stop accepting requests like has been the case since the beginning of time?

VS Code is sluggish for me as well and crashes. I have minimal expansions, this is just a poor excuse for a lousy editor. Zed is much better, neovim is much better. My only real concern with Zed is wh…

CloudFlare is dystopic. It centralizes even the part of the Internet that hadn't been centralized before. It is a perfect Trojan horse to bypass all encryption. And it chooses who accesses (a con…

That's how I've been doing it as well. There's no guarantee that the LLM will follow your minute, detailed, description, and dumping it all at once at the start of a session has made it…

Invariant TSC has been around for over 15 years, probably more.

All you will get out of the government being involved is automatic police access to your car's mic.

CORBA emerged in 1991 with another crucial insight: in heterogeneous environments, you can’t just “implement the protocol” in each language and hope for the best. The OMG IDL generated consistent…

I thought foldable phones were dumb until I saw a bunch of phones and tablets in person at a Huawei shop. They are super-neat actually and I now see how they make sense. The rollable laptop seems to b…

I think Apple had it in all their software. It's a good stance and easy to ridicule by taking iTunes as an example.

> With crypto, it’s still the case that you create a wallet and then… there’s nothing to do on the platform. You’re expected to send real money to someone so they’ll give you some of the funny mone…

It wasn't just boycotts, however and unfortunately. The South African army was defeated militarily by FAPLA-Cuba. There's a reason why Nelson Mandela's first visit as chief of state was…