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Try using "desktop mode" to view the webpage.

How would one actually (legally) hey ahold of an LTSC key?

For me, the big thing I've liked about the XPS is that it has a good balance of powerful hardware, weight, battery life, and looks. I especially enjoy the fact that it has a dedicated graphics card, since usually only gaming laptops have those. The only laptops with comparable specs (gaming laptops) are either too heavy, have poor battery life, or are just plain ugly.

That being said, the touchpad on it is just barely "ok"-level and the webcam (on my older model) is just awful. The friction on the touchpad is so high my wrist becomes sore, and the webcam is located on the bottom of the screen (with a microphone on the bottom front edge near the trackpad!). Even though these flaws have required me to switch to a wireless mouse and external webcam, I'm still pretty satisfied.

For my next laptop, I'll likely either buy the newest XPS model (the newer ones have webcams at a usable position), or try the Razor again (the one I previously tried had quite a small battery life).

(I would love to know the series of events that led a high-end laptop to have a webcam placed at a position that is only optimal for looking up one's nose.)

Take each sub-item in `.` (the current item being processed), apply the function `x` to each sub-item, and collect all the result values from `x` into an array.

Sure, but this isn't exactly intuitive for new users - even those that have experience with others raster editing programs. The de facto expectation is that there is some dedicated facility for drawing shapes and lines.

What is the reasoning behind "no lidar"? Cost?

I just want to say, this was a wonderfully written article!

Personally, I have an interest in biology and nature - everything is so complex and interconnected!

I would say that many people here have an interest in learning "how things work" that isn't limited to just computers.

Both ffmpeg and Audacity can be used to convert sound data from one format to another.

"Lego Creator: Harry Potter" had something like this. If there is more than one piece of software with that title, the one I'm talking about was published... early 2000's? A little bit after the first movie, at least.

I'll admit I don't know much about Ada, but the "when" syntax additions described here look interesting. Is there any difference between "return when ..." and "if ...: return" in Ada?

The article is using "program" more in the sense of a package -something that might contain multiple executables - rather than a single executable.

Mentioned a little after that sentence:

  These privileged components generally take two forms:
  - Installed services
  - Scheduled tasks

So another way to put the article text might be:

  When an application is installed on a Windows system, multiple executables may be installed. Some of these executables may be configured to run as part of a system service (akin to a *nix daemon) or scheduled task (similar to a cron job). Both system services and scheduled tasks may run with privileges separate from those of the currently logged on user.

Essentially, Windows services are equivalent to *nix daemons. Just like certain *nix daemons, Windows services are used to carry out more "system oriented" tasks (such as installing software updates), and can't necessarily run correctly with (possibly restricted) privileges of the currently logged in user. Furthermore, they may need to run regardless of whether a user is even logged in.

Scheduled tasks are similar to services in many aspects - they may require a static set of privileges, and may need to be run even when there is no currently logged in user. They just have the added requirement that they should be run at certain times or when certain events occur.

What section are you referring to?

Most of this article is about privileged processes incorrectly loading shared libraries.

What circumstances call for nesting form elements,?

Idiosyncratically, the website looks better on mobile if you view the page in desktop mode. That is, the content actually fits to the screen size, and the code examples aren't cut off mid-line.

What are your requirements? The most recent CI/CD system I've used was Concourse, and using it was great - it's very flexible, if a bit barebones. (I didn't have hand in the initial installation for it, so this is only for using it)

https://concourse-ci.org/

> no one takes a bus when a train is available at the same price.

I agree, although I'm curious - was this trip to NYC, or somewhere else? Round-trip Amtrak tickets from DC to NYC sell for $150+ dollars, while equivalent bus rides are usually $60 or lower, depending on your departure times.

I've happily taken buses over trains, despite the cramped conditions, just so I don't have to pay $100 more.

How is it a misuse? And what are the alternatives?

To be clear, I do agree with your assertion, however I'm having a hard time actually putting "how/why" into words.

Oh! This explains so much, particularly why I've always felt like most REST APIs aren't really... REST.

Development teams go "ok, we need to design a REST API", and, due to the inherent architectural characteristics of REST (large-grained) clashing with their own needs (small-grained) what they end up with is something more like some Frankenstein-esque REST-RPC monster.

What would the outlook be if Discord was bought by Microsoft?

I don't know if you consider this a technological advantage, but compared to Slack, Discord puts a relatively heavy emphasis on its live voice channel functionality. You can join and leave them at a whim, mute and control the volume of individual users, etc.

I personally also appreciate the fact that channels and servers can be grouped, and that the markup syntax supported in text chat is more compliant with markdown expectations than the markup supported by Slack.

When I used WiX, I found it very... clunky? Everything in XML, lots of attributes to fill out, etc. And, at least when I was trying it out, the generated MSIs didn't appear to have any sort of GUI (or so I read. I don't believe I ever got to the point of generating an MSI).

I will say though, I remember the documentation being helpful and fairly straightforward, if a tad large (but that's what you get with a tool that's supposed to solve a complex problem).

Take a look at the methodology used by Ad Fontes Media (which this site uses as part of the "left vs right" scale). It's fairly scientifically rigorous, given an inherently subjective topic. My only critique would be that a larger team of analysts might be better.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sourc...

Similar to your first point, types also allow an IDE to inform user about what values can be used for a function or class argument.

I can't say that typing bugs occurred very often in released code I wrote before type annotations, but it was not uncommon to encounter them when testing code I had just written (where they usually just caused an exception early on in the program's lifecycle).

Huh. I actually write my code in this style. Perhaps not quite as detailed, but with the same idea in mind.

I wish code like this was more common. Over and over, I've heard fellow programmers reply with something along the lines of "well it should be obvious what it does! just look at the name and implementation - all you need is right there", when it was suggested that they add documentation to their implementations. What never seems to quite get across fully is that, yes, the code is all there, and it may even be clean and fairly readable, but the inherent complexity is such that only programmers experienced in subject X will ever have a chance of actually understanding it.

"So, what? If it's that complex, then maybe only programmers who are that experienced should attempt to read and/or contribute to it"* is another sentiment I've seen expressed. Of course, this misses the logic that, in order for such programmers to exist, they have to learn from somewhere, and start from something.

And how will we ever have programmers experienced in that subject

Aren't things like time tracking, etc. union-specific though?

Huh, that's really surprising. How does it happen? I assume it has something to do with gasoline, but I was under the assumption that most of the gasoline at gas stations was stored in giant underground concrete containers.

I think you might have responded to the wrong comment - the one you responded to never claimed that there wasn't waste in government spending, nor did they claim that the government was a shining beacon of efficiency.

On a different note, something like "Please study this more" as an ending statement adds nothing constructive to a comment. It just comes off as smug and passive aggressive.

I agree that a state (or country, etc.) will nearly always have a certain amount of amorality (or immorality, for that matter). However most legislatures have at least some morality as well. Taxes aren't always used to incentivize/disincentivize, sometimes they are gathered for public works or services, such as roadways, healthcare*, and unemployement benefits. I know that an individual may not always view those things as something the government should be taking a hand in, but I would like to think that, even if someone doesn't agree with the action, they can at least agree with the intention.

*the current state of the US healthcare system notwithstanding.

> Any state? Any due process outcome? Any percentage?

My original comment does not state my opinions on these parameters of the taxation process. I was commenting on how I felt the act of moving to a new state, just to get out of paying taxes in the state you currently live in (and earned that money in), is, in general, immoral. I could have spent several paragraphs going over every possible exception to this viewpoint, and hedge every assertion with "in general", "except when", etc., but that tends to be tedious to both read and write.

> Would you consider to read the state's law to discover that you are not subjected to the payment in many circumstances that you can create?

> Which this logic its not about imagining that you are passively paying for roads and schools

Could you restate these sentences? I can't quite understand them.

No, because (again, ideally) those taxes are going to be used to benefit the common good.

Trying to get out of paying them would be like saying, "of course I should get help from everyone else for education, housing, infrastructure, etc., but goodness forbid I actually return the favor later on so that others get the same benefit!"

Anyway, it's not like such taxes take away so much of your earnings that you're left with a pittance. At some point you have to ask yourself, "is the amount of happiness I gain from keeping this amount of money worth more than the various things it will be spent on, and the benefit it will give to others?"

(I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode, "The Last of The Red Hat Mamas, where Mr Burns pledges to donate money to a children's hospital, but then uses it extend his own life instead - by 10 minutes[0])

It's a sign of the sad state of things that taxes are treated more like throwing money away, than being a resource used for the common good.

[0] https://youtu.be/-Icbia3fDuY?t=45