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I might be off trend myself, but 2011?? I CS'ed in 2016 in Singapore and it was insanely popular

if we do, we will die of starvation and pollution pretty soon, unless we start making wonders really fast

If developer didn't put size check in his software then it's not bug with RCE exploit, it's just doing what author has intended.

Where do we put a border?

Don't you find it selfish that someone is forced to start commuting to office again, only because somebody wanted to be surrounded by coworkers?

I've been fully remote since 2010, and I would be completely frustrated if I was told "You need to sit at the office now, because John is feeling different in half-empty office"

in one web shop i worked with, developers who were fanaticslly using constructions "WHERE user LIKE '%$user%' "

we've had some really heated debates, but nobody would listen to me. and then one day DELETE happened where $user was empty. they spent half day restoring the database, but nobody made any conclusions and nothing changed...

i wonder, wouldn't copy over sftp work? i don't think it depends on shell

I was moving customer's two servers to virtual machines. They told me "do not touch server A, it has network share with pdf documents that are critical for our business. Take server B and make VMs there".

So I format the drive, install win server on it, and the owner runs in with red face "omg did you delete it? it was on server B!"

And of course there were no backups. And pdf files were indeed crazy important. The customer is in panic and despair, he is crying that we must remove the hard drive and take it to some data restoration company. We shut down the server, and they ask me to check accountant PC before I leave, she was complaining that it is very slow.

I turn PC on and I get pop up notification "network share is off, but your autonomous files are available". It turns out she put the checkbox on that network share by accident, but now we were sitting in front of her desktop and looking at absolutely intact folder with all pdf files. We succesfully finished moving both servers to VMs after celebrating.

That was the only time in my life when I saw that checkbox in real action.

i had it pretty heavy, all the symptoms as by the book, but two independent labs showed that i didn't have dengue. so now i do not know if i had it or something different with very similar symptoms

I still have Pentium 4 running at one location. Sometimes the temperature is scary to look at, but it doesn't care. Those things were made to last

Obviously I don't have exact numbers, but I am absolutely sure the huge majority of people buy iPhone because it is iPhone, and they have zero idea about this whole openness vs security debate. Apple won the market with marketing, not with proving that openness doesn't matter

This is the first time when I see the UAE being called ARE in a country list. I even went and asked Google, and it turns out there is in fact one ISO standard that calls it ARE. All the others, including ITU (we are talking about phone codes, after all) call it as UAE. Really strange choice of naming standard for something phone-related.

I see, didn't know that

Can anyone explain why was that a problem, from technical point of view? They already had paths starting with "driveletter:", not like unix with just "/". Why would it be a problem for parser to distinguish between filepaths and arguments switch?

To me it looks like a victim of cost saving and overoptimization.

Somebody requested that feature, and then someone discovered that if you hack around your system and set precise combination of fields, it will do the trick. So man hours were saved, some memo added to docs, and then the knowledge was lost.

And all of that instead of adding separate form for specific case. I've seen it more than once.

From my experience of talking to such denialists and conspirologists, it just comforts them to be a part of smaller group, so they feel like the chosen ones, like they know a secret that the most humanity doesn't. Of three COVID denialists that I personally know, two are flat earth believers and one believes in secret world government led by jews.

The article says that it is not your traditional slavery. Yes they are getting paid and they support their families back home, and yet I am not surprised that they die in such numbers (according to article). You would understand if you came and just witnessed their living and working conditions. I've worked in Dubai for 4 years and despite I was paid well (and no income tax), it really felt like slavery. And seeing those poor souls in construction sites didnt add to my happiness either. Btw, i personally knew people who were paid 300$ per month (hotel room cleaning staff). That $28k average per year seems more like officially reported number, not the real one.

i had same, but requesting desktop site worked

I have a friend whose NDA forbids him to tell anyone which company he works for. Because he is insured by company, and they don't want to attract kidnappers.

So I'd agree, nothing new from FB here

I'm just wondering, what if a person doesnt have smartphone? There are many elderly people who still have Nokia 1100 or something like that, and do not care. Will they get beaten every day? Or if this is mandatory, will the government provide free devices to everyone?

Not sure why that should be surprise. Skin does not go light or dark randomly, it depends on the amount of melanin and other things body produces. If her natural skin is light, the skin of new hands lost all additional pigmentation over time and went to the body average levels.