Copernicus law: "bad money drives out good". It applies to marketing products, too (neither iPhones, MacBooks nor Windows have their use share on technical merits).
That one leads to some "Update to privacy policy and how we use cookies." without any apparent means to continue. Both with and without javascript on, and no element of the page is blocked.
The label of "socialism" was invented by Henri de Saint-Simon, whose ideas were basically an early version of marxism. The main difference was that de Saint-Simon's and his contemporaries' version was based on magic pixies that somehow make everyone help the "working class", while Marx instead wanted to force anyone "rich" (in late 19th/early 20th century practice defined as "not starving") to do that.
The next generation of philosophers considered "socialism" to be pretty much a synonym of "communism", which lasted well into late Lenin. Then "socialism" came to mean a present-day stage of communism, with the latter being an eternal paradise for workers.
Beside utopian socialism, and the mainstream version, there's also one where means of production were supposed to be owned by nation. This also brought a lot of, uhm, joy to the world.
Thus, pray tell, which one of these three your perfect version that absolutely won't murder anyone, would be?
Tiny terminals work as long as you're a kid and don't value your eyesight. After three or so decades of staring at tiny letters, you'll want full-screen.
Yeah, a big monitor of big resolution can emulate two portrait ones, but that's 35" not 23". And those that are not repurposed TVs with shitty blurry pixels are extremely expensive compared to regular rotated monitors.
As for 16x9, they're too narrow. I'd say 16x12 is optimal for both portrait and landscape.
Because we're doomed once society accepts portrait videos as OK.
Can't wait till we're doomed, then. You really need to rotate one of your monitors -- portrait is drastically better for working with code, sysadmin/etc work in a terminal, web page reading, etc. I keep one monitor in landscape only because some crap assumes that bad orientation.
Another problem is that 16x9 monitors are unfit for rotation, and to get one with a sane aspect ratio you pretty much need to buy used.
2000 was a good deal saner, other than certain security improvements. But, as we know, each other version of Windows is passable: 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8,..., 10. Yes, the lack of Windows 9 is not an accident.
Massive adoption of features we're used to for 30 years on POSIX systems gives quite a bit of hope. All that WSL, virtual desktops, curl, tar, sane terminal, ssh, AF_UNIX sockets, etc suggest it's possible that like they switched from DOS to NT, there might be a kernel switch to Linux soon. So Windows 11 might be... interesting.
Please read the summary: YouTube uses something that has never been a standard, it was merely a basis for a prepared standard. Think of Microsoft Office vs what they submitted as OOXML.
If you remember the Oracle v Google suit. APIs are copyrightable.
In the US. US law doesn't apply to Russia, and Russians are supportive of ReactOS.
No idea what EU courts would say. In none of these places what the law actual say actually matters: in the US, despite the law explicitly allowing compatibility purposes, there's that insane "precedent" system where whims of a judge overwrite what's written; in Russia the law doesn't apply to any projects backed by the president; even in the EU courts are unpredictable.
Because you are not allowed, under any circumstances ever, to be a beginner.
There's a difference between a beginner tinkering on his own toy box at home and a "programmer" that doesn't even know what O(n) means leaving customers' private data for every script kiddie for the taking.
Most capitalists are sick ****s who'd sell your children to pedophiles if it meant they could make a 'legal' taxable profit out of it.
You mean compared to pedophiles who make a legal non-taxable profit? Pretty much every religious and quasi-religious group (be they Nazis or SJWs) makes indoctrination of children from the earliest possible age one of their top priorities.
Uhm, so your MUD did not even have basic security? In this particular case, you need a simul_efun override for efuns that should be privileged, do permission checks and only then call the actual efun.
The driver (LP's name for the VM) also had some egregious bugs, but that's nothing a rudimentary audit can't fix. Once you have a few security-minded people among coders, LP was quite nice. Alas, with no equivalent of git, fixes hardly ever got exported to the multitude of forks.
It won't be long before stuff like fork bombs and data deleters get "suggested" for common programming queries.
I don't see a downside. Someone bad enough to code via cargo culting snippets shouldn't be allowed anywhere near actual data. Sure, it'd decimate Javascript and PHP coder base, but that's not a downside either.
Well, yes. But just take a look at the other guy...
Both are worse than a typical DeviantArt amateur. But only one has his paintings sold for millions. Picasso and his followers were masters of an art, though: the art of milking sponsors and taxpayers-paid organizations. Then you had masterpieces of that art such as selling a broken bicycle wheel, a picture filled with a single color, or an unmade bed.
Hitler's paintings were not top-level art, but at least deserve to be called "art". On the other hand, "degenerate art" is pure swindle.
Compare art by painter 1 with some by painter 2. Unless you take some strong drugs, there's no question which of them is better -- the other can be beaten by some bright kindergarten kids, some of their contemporaries get beaten by a chimp, yet get exhibited in major galleries for taxpayers' (ie, ours) money.
Just think: how many millions would Picasso kill if he didn't get admitted to the art school?
I tried to come up with some redeeming aspect of Facebook
Well, their engineers created ZSTD and a bunch other brilliant tools. But then, without Werner von Braun we wouldn't have spaceflight, and his compatriots made some good advances in chemistry and so on...
These days, most sites don't have a single source of annoying ads -- they have several. There's no option but to block those, and the war against spammers (ads are a form of spam) is going so badly that opt-out blocking is a losing proposition, you need opt-in.
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Copernicus law: "bad money drives out good". It applies to marketing products, too (neither iPhones, MacBooks nor Windows have their use share on technical merits).
That one leads to some "Update to privacy policy and how we use cookies." without any apparent means to continue. Both with and without javascript on, and no element of the page is blocked.
If you look at TFA at Betanews, the image they used is pretty creepy if you think about it...
I prefer 4:3 to 16:12 ;)
But then, Gemini is marketed praising a novel idea of 18:9 instead of lousy 16:8 or even 2:1...
The label of "socialism" was invented by Henri de Saint-Simon, whose ideas were basically an early version of marxism. The main difference was that de Saint-Simon's and his contemporaries' version was based on magic pixies that somehow make everyone help the "working class", while Marx instead wanted to force anyone "rich" (in late 19th/early 20th century practice defined as "not starving") to do that.
The next generation of philosophers considered "socialism" to be pretty much a synonym of "communism", which lasted well into late Lenin. Then "socialism" came to mean a present-day stage of communism, with the latter being an eternal paradise for workers.
Beside utopian socialism, and the mainstream version, there's also one where means of production were supposed to be owned by nation. This also brought a lot of, uhm, joy to the world.
Thus, pray tell, which one of these three your perfect version that absolutely won't murder anyone, would be?
Do you even know what socialism is?
Considering that I was born in a country with "socialist" in name, I believe I do.
Tiny terminals work as long as you're a kid and don't value your eyesight. After three or so decades of staring at tiny letters, you'll want full-screen.
Yeah, a big monitor of big resolution can emulate two portrait ones, but that's 35" not 23". And those that are not repurposed TVs with shitty blurry pixels are extremely expensive compared to regular rotated monitors.
As for 16x9, they're too narrow. I'd say 16x12 is optimal for both portrait and landscape.
Because we're doomed once society accepts portrait videos as OK.
Can't wait till we're doomed, then. You really need to rotate one of your monitors -- portrait is drastically better for working with code, sysadmin/etc work in a terminal, web page reading, etc. I keep one monitor in landscape only because some crap assumes that bad orientation.
Another problem is that 16x9 monitors are unfit for rotation, and to get one with a sane aspect ratio you pretty much need to buy used.
Windows 7 is the Best Windows.
2000 was a good deal saner, other than certain security improvements. But, as we know, each other version of Windows is passable: 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, ..., 10. Yes, the lack of Windows 9 is not an accident.
Massive adoption of features we're used to for 30 years on POSIX systems gives quite a bit of hope. All that WSL, virtual desktops, curl, tar, sane terminal, ssh, AF_UNIX sockets, etc suggest it's possible that like they switched from DOS to NT, there might be a kernel switch to Linux soon. So Windows 11 might be... interesting.
Please read the summary: YouTube uses something that has never been a standard, it was merely a basis for a prepared standard. Think of Microsoft Office vs what they submitted as OOXML.
Well, one thing IE6 wasn't: Spyware.
IE was wide open to spyware, but technology marches on: Chrome has it integrated!
What about asking to accept every time a cookie is requested?
That's a feature I really miss. Obviously, there must be an option "always {accept,reject,session} for domain spying.tripleclick.com".
Somehow, extensions fare really poorly here.
If you remember the Oracle v Google suit. APIs are copyrightable.
In the US. US law doesn't apply to Russia, and Russians are supportive of ReactOS.
No idea what EU courts would say. In none of these places what the law actual say actually matters: in the US, despite the law explicitly allowing compatibility purposes, there's that insane "precedent" system where whims of a judge overwrite what's written; in Russia the law doesn't apply to any projects backed by the president; even in the EU courts are unpredictable.
Because you are not allowed, under any circumstances ever, to be a beginner.
There's a difference between a beginner tinkering on his own toy box at home and a "programmer" that doesn't even know what O(n) means leaving customers' private data for every script kiddie for the taking.
Nothing wrong with whistling up a quick code snippet, as long as you understand it.
Exactly! Real programmers will spot the trap, cargo-culters won't.
Most capitalists are sick ****s who'd sell your children to pedophiles if it meant they could make a 'legal' taxable profit out of it.
You mean compared to pedophiles who make a legal non-taxable profit? Pretty much every religious and quasi-religious group (be they Nazis or SJWs) makes indoctrination of children from the earliest possible age one of their top priorities.
Kids 1. will become adults, 2. already control their parents and grandparents, having them obey a significant part of the kid's requests.
Uhm, so your MUD did not even have basic security? In this particular case, you need a simul_efun override for efuns that should be privileged, do permission checks and only then call the actual efun.
The driver (LP's name for the VM) also had some egregious bugs, but that's nothing a rudimentary audit can't fix. Once you have a few security-minded people among coders, LP was quite nice. Alas, with no equivalent of git, fixes hardly ever got exported to the multitude of forks.
It won't be long before stuff like fork bombs and data deleters get "suggested" for common programming queries.
I don't see a downside. Someone bad enough to code via cargo culting snippets shouldn't be allowed anywhere near actual data. Sure, it'd decimate Javascript and PHP coder base, but that's not a downside either.
Anybody else expecting this to be used to punish people who raise facts that the 'dear leader' (of whatever country) finds distasteful?
Was there a single instance of such a law not meant exclusively for this exact purpose?
For one thing his eye for color was atrocious
Well, yes. But just take a look at the other guy...
Both are worse than a typical DeviantArt amateur. But only one has his paintings sold for millions. Picasso and his followers were masters of an art, though: the art of milking sponsors and taxpayers-paid organizations. Then you had masterpieces of that art such as selling a broken bicycle wheel, a picture filled with a single color, or an unmade bed.
Hitler's paintings were not top-level art, but at least deserve to be called "art". On the other hand, "degenerate art" is pure swindle.
Compare art by painter 1 with some by painter 2. Unless you take some strong drugs, there's no question which of them is better -- the other can be beaten by some bright kindergarten kids, some of their contemporaries get beaten by a chimp, yet get exhibited in major galleries for taxpayers' (ie, ours) money.
Just think: how many millions would Picasso kill if he didn't get admitted to the art school?
Oh wait, this is normal practice. But "Amazon" - so somehow we need a mob with pitchforks.
Well, we do need a mob with pitchforks, just not for this particular reason.
I tried to come up with some redeeming aspect of Facebook
Well, their engineers created ZSTD and a bunch other brilliant tools. But then, without Werner von Braun we wouldn't have spaceflight, and his compatriots made some good advances in chemistry and so on...
These days, most sites don't have a single source of annoying ads -- they have several. There's no option but to block those, and the war against spammers (ads are a form of spam) is going so badly that opt-out blocking is a losing proposition, you need opt-in.