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I just turned off my ad blocker and literally only 21% of the page is content and the remaining is ads. After 2 seconds, it got replaced by a full screen ad. What? How? What are the people at fandom thinking? This is completely unusable without adblockers!
Don't believe me, here are the screenshots I just took: https://imgur.com/a/sNg3IlJ
What's even more frustrating is that when you search for solutions, you come across two kinds of (pardon my language) completely brain-dead responses:
First, there are those who argue that unused variables/imports lead to bugs and worse performance in production, so they should always be fixed. But that's completely beside the point; I've never seen anyone argue that allowing unused variables is good for production. It's always been about facilitating the development process and debugging. Yes, I am aware now there are unused variables, but please just let me see what does removing this part of the code do.
Secondly, people suggest using a dummy function like UNUSED or a blank variable _ to solve the problem. But again, these suggestions miss the mark entirely. Changing variable names or adding UNUSED calls to "disable" the rule is even worse than what we've been doing to temporarily "circumvent" the rule, which is simply commenting out the declarations, test, and undo afterwards. Not only it involves more effort, but more crucially, you might actually forgot to revert those changes and leave in unused variables.
Frankly, I believe this is just a bad design decision, and it seems like the Go team is stubbornly doubling down on this mistake due to ego.
(Sorry, I just have a very strong opinion on this topic, and I am deeply frustrated when the tools I am using think they know better than I do and are adamantly wrong.)
> Something not commonly seen in JVM malware that is present here is a class titled VMEscape. It checks if its in a sandboxed windows environment by checking if the current user is WDAGUtilityAccount, which is part of the Windows Defender Application Guard. If this condition is met, an attempt to escape the sandbox system is made.
> The process is roughly as follows:
> - Start a repeating thread to run the following actions:
> - Create a temporary directory using Files.createTempDirectory(...)
> - Iterate over FileDescriptor entries in the system clipboard (Supposedly this will be accessing the contents of the host)
> - Create a shortcut that looks like the original file (using icons from SHELL32) but instead invokes the malware
> - Assings this shortcut to the clipboard, overwriting the original file reference
> Thus, if a user copies a file and goes to paste it elsewhere they will instead paste a shortcut that looks like their intended file, but actually runs the malware.
This is just evil.
For example, if the instruction says "return person objects that are at least 20 years old", it might be more reasonable to generate:
array.filter(item => item.age >= 20)
as oppose to
array.filter(item => (item instanceof Person) && (item.age >= 20))
However, in practice, SQL is surprisingly easy to write and expressive. I do prefer using ORMs for simpler queries because of intellisense and typing, but for complex queries, SQL is just better. I really don't understand why.
I write erotic novels as a hobby. I legit thought no one else does this (putting random unorganized ideas at the bottom of the document). I am genuinely pleased to know I am not the only one.
Aside from the classic `country_code: NO`, the other day I ran into issues with scientific notations. Now, guess, which of the following are strings, and which are numbers:
- 1e+10
- 1.e+10
- 1.0e10
Also, it feels _really_ good when you get to a new ship tier faster than your neighbors. The reverse is, however, very frustrating, as you are forced to play catch.
parent.append(<p>Hello</p>);
(Mine has slightly more functionalities, such as allowing passing in styles as a object, auto concatenate array of strings for class names, etc.)
I am not trying to say HR is evil but this line of reasoning makes literally no sense.
Whether someone is just doing the job has absolutely nothing to do with if the job they are doing is evil. "They are just doing their jobs" should never be used to justify anyone's actions. For brevity, I will skip all the war crime analogies that everyone can think of.