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Not entirely. If the ship is sinking (no future development) it's highly likely things like warranties, support, maintenance, etc -- are also sun setting or degrading in quality -- in a sense that most of the brightest and keen individuals in those departments have routed or been reassigned, leaving lack lustre or not as motivated people behind.

I kind of speak from both sides of this, I had some audio hardware I bought but one day they went radio silent (404 site so presumably belly up), so future support was dead along with all their support drivers. Another was an internship I did at a hardware company where there was just maintenance patches being applied to the product, and it was depressing.

IMO that's too late of a condition check. You should keep a margin of free space for OS/Background applications just so you have enough life left in the application to detect and log it.

At the very least a fire should be lit under their arses to try and address/fix the vulnerability.

Cheers mate, I love reading about history.

Do you have any sources one could read into?

Is that a 'should' as in best practice, or a 'should' in terms of a RFC for a mailing standard?

The reason I ask is because I'm pretty sure lot's of sites (invoices/receipts/newsletters) send out stuff via a noreply intentionally.

Comment rating systems are purposefully gamed by "paid" actors -- fake accounts, likes, etc. They aren't foolproof for preventing misinformation as such.

Also, it's rather also disingenuous to write off an entire comment as a "paid actor". That poster just makes the claim (which I believe you contest), that Venezuela is a "legitimate government"? Just say you disagree with the claim and explain why. It's something that would promote meaningful discussion.

Cause really, although I'm a bit of a novice in Central/South American history -- the USA has indeed done some shady stuff in the recent past.

Sounds like you are describing FIRE -- (Financial Independence, Retire Early).

A singularity is by definition a superintelligence, no? A company (corporation) is just a legal structure of a bunch of people. If a company does something amazing, it's the people behind it in the company responsible -- not the company itself. Although that layer of legal separation is an opaque mapping of who-did-what from an external eye.

> capitalism as a whole isn't an AI, it is an amazing computational process that has produced the greatest advancements in the standard of living in history.

Uh, I think this claim would be hotly debated. Human innovation and curiosity -- tied with scientific knowledge that is carried forward is responsible for standard of living improvements. Things like medicine, building materials, entertainment, access and logistic improvments, yada, yada. Capitalism is just an economic system of letting the buyers and sellers decide where to allocate their funds? If you were talking about a separate measurement, like GDP, I would probably agree with you that capitalism advanced that metric.

Why does Facebook need your banking info and SSN? And how in the seventh circle of hell would they feasibly brute force the correct information?

Curious how you manage to do this? Do you use apps, rooted OS, proxy sinkhole, etc?

I'm definitely excited for this, considering I couldn't fork out the thousand of dollars needed for using IDA. I can't really justify that on a small hobby project (reverse engineering games).

I agree with you, yeah. The problem is sometimes you have to go back to old code and optimise it, because today's performance expectations are higher than yesterdays -- whether because hardware has become more powerful or software is being pushed to its limits. So I'm a bit biased, thinking, "If only this was optimised day 1", but truthfully, recognising the requirements and reacting to the performance needs as they arise can be less wasteful than having ironclad performance requirements that won't be met or needed to be met.

The cost shouldn't be 0% or 100%, but the percentage chance of getting the reward, multiplied by the value of the reward. IOW, E(X) = P(X) * X, so a 50% of 100K is effectively a 50K payout. The problem is P(X) is unknown, and you only really have heuristics to guesstimate. Whether you move forward with the idea 0%/100% is just if you are a glass half empty/full kind of person, but the real answer is somewhere in between.

From looking at tldroptions.io, it's just taking an empirical approach to guess the P(X) value.

If I recall correctly from an economics class yay days ago, it doesn't matter if the seller pays the tax or the buyer -- the effective cost is shared (fewer buyers too).

The difference is "hidden from the public" vs "hidden from every human being every living". If there is a perpetrator/victim, there's at least two people that can break out of the nd/hush scenario.

And, well I'm a little surprised on the teacher angle (and even firefighter).. Have teachers really abused children and simply been "reassigned to different positions with pay"? Is this a common occurrence statistically?

It's actually a big issue in any performance critical regions of code. I've come across this in both the network stack and the file system (user space and kernel).

Switches can sometimes be optimised away into O(1) using clever static compile time tricks, but if you rely on jump indirection you get branch misdirection penalties, or even worse for a ladder of if's, you are doing O(N) work (where N is number of cases).

How is having 0.8 kids/year over 5 years & shirking job responsibilities the spitting image of someone who is raising well-adjusted kids? If the person doesn't care about the company why should the company care about the person -- outside the legal obligations enforced by the government obviously...

Maybe I am too cynical, and having >= 5 kids is the outlier.

I'm just advocating for the simpler and less costlier solution, speak with your wallet and remove yourself as data from the system, and encourage others.

Definitely don't send any money to these companies, as that's a lost game already.

I don't think that plan follows awfully well, why on earth would you pay money for services for the sole intent to game their database into inefficiency? A spotted chance of that even working, at best you've given them money for nothing back. No, it's best to just spread the word amongst your friends, and avoid all this muck.

I'd largely echo your sentiment, but luckily our professor had a hands-on attitude. This involved actually coding things that used those concepts. We had to implement a non-recursive DNS resolver and a FTP server. Reading the RFCs and chewing out something that worked (mostly) was real fun.

Curious if anyone finds this language pretty to look at, a lot of punctuation :/

http://cs.au.dk/~beta/doc/beta-intro/Quick-Reference-Card.ht... http://cs.au.dk/~beta/BETAbookExamples/BETAbookCode.html

I'm not sure that's a complaint, rather than a fact. A complaint would be something like:

X does not have a Wikipedia page -> X is not a good fit.

It's more of a factoid, you see :-)

Curious why you bring up language anyway, are you not a native speaker hence your tone misapprehension?

Me too, but I imagine a tsunami of 4head spam.

Not to defend the guy you're replying too, but it's quite a stretch to imply the author is in jail - or on the chopping block for, even.

The quote you originally had shoots down your complaints anyway, if you're upfront about it you can plan around it. And if people have strong preferences for same sex lodgings they can plan that upfront, or if not, maybe I'm misunderstanding your complaint?