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I don't think this really helps that much. Your neighbor could ask an LLM to decompile your binaries, and then run security analysis on the results.

If the tool correctly says you've got security issues, trying to hide them won't work. You still have the security issues and someone is going to find them.


> What isn't clear to me is whether Win32 is still technically a viable choice for "modern" Windows 10/11 development. In other words, could you submit a Win32 app to the Microsoft Store, if that was something you felt like doing?

I believe so, although originally the store required other toolkits, they changed thier mind.

That said, I don't think it's very important for windows programs to come from the microsoft store... the limitations are not worth the market, especially since the store is unreliable: at least in my experience, the installation can get messed up and it won't self repair, and then you can't install new software... Why would you want to support that, when you could just provide a downloadable installer and license keys? (And tell people the sequence to escape store only mode)


Eh, if they block things when every sport or any movie is being shown, it will be reliable. Reliably blocked. :P

IMHO, you can't do blazingly fast iteration over folders with small files in Windows, because every open is hooked by the anti-virus, and there goes your performance.

Not just antivirus, there's also file locking.

Windows has a much harsher approach to file locking than Linux and backup software like BackBlaze absolutely should be making use of it (lest they back up files that are being modified while they back them up), but that also means that the software effectively has to ask the OS each time to lock the file, then release the lock when the software is done with it. With a large amount of files, that does stack up.

Linux file locking is to put it mildly, deficient. Most software doesn't even bother acquiring locks in the first place. Piling further onto that, basically nobody actually uses POSIX locks because the API has some very heavy footguns (most notably, every lock on a file is released whenever any close() for that file is called, even if another component of the same process is also having a second lock open). Most Linux file locks instead work on the honor system; you create a file called filename.lock in the same directory as the file you're working on, and then any software that detects the filename.lock file exists should stop reading the file.

Nobody using file locks is probably the bigger reason why Linux chokes less on fast iteration than Windows, given that Windows is slow with loads of files even when you aren't running a virus scanner.


> Linux file locking is to put it mildly, deficient.

Since the introduction of flock on Linux, how bad is it really though? I don't see why one would need kludges like filename.lock. Though of course flock is still an "honor system" as you put it.


I have never personally used it, but aren't Windows' Shadow Copies supposed to be the answer to file locking/modification issues?

An iPhone with no apps is pretty hard to use. A mac doesn't need the app store, but when I last set one up, I needed to install the devtools from the appstore to bootstrap macports or whatever, so that pushed me into an account.

I don't think it's unreasonable to desire to be free from the noxious odors of others.

> The right to waft my smells in any direction ends where your nose begins.

- Abraham Lincoln or Ben Franklin or Mark Twain or someone


It's not just because marijuana "smells bad". Secondhand marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxic chemicals as secondhand cigarette smoke and likely is similarly deleterious to your health [1]. I also believe everyone should have the right to be able to open their windows and have clean air come through. Smoking on balconies denies people this right. Edibles only effect the user and therefore should be permitted.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/secondhand-smoke...


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It doesn't have to be criminally illegal. Instead it could simply be civil. The apartment complex, which you do not own, would be the ones setting the rules here.

And you, of your own free choice, would have the choice to either follow the rules or go live somewhere else. The person you are responding to doesn't have an issue with you smoking in your own purchased home. Instead this was about apartment complexes.

And it wouldn't even have to be a law applied to you. It could be applied to the apartment complex. Apartment complexes already have to follow lots of laws. So they could simply be required to have this as a rule.

And then you, could make your libertarian choice to live there or not. Its not your apartment complex after all. And since its someone else property, they would absolutely have the free to make you not do this in their own property.


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> When it's forced by government decree

You aren't being forced to do anything that you didn't agree to. You aren't the apartment owner, you instead just signed the contract and have to follow the apartment rules.

I don't see why you get to complain about what someone else is doing with their own property. Its their property. What laws apply to them are none of your business as you simply signed the contract.


A railroad has to track a lot of data; what's in each car (declared by customer), what train it's attached to, where is it on maintenance schedules; similar for the rail and signal infrastructure, etc; in today's modern environment, they need multiple datacenters for high availability.

Something something route planning to reduce the number of coupling changes, etc, etc.

Edit: also, a lot of long distance fiber runs on railroad right of way, so datacenters at rail yards may be well placed for connectivity.


A railroad is the infrastructure for transporting commodities. In the modern digital economy, datacenters along with the whole internet infrastructure are the modern railroads, which need protection and deregulation for the sakes of safety, national security, economy etc etc. Maybe this argument works better if the others don't?

Maybe instead of performing mental gymnastics to expand the executive’s power well beyond beyond what Congress has legislated, we should just pass new laws

I am not sure this is a good idea. Having congress legislate just adds friction, removes chances of personal gain for the the executive branch, and has the potential of actually changing parts of it based on democratic debate. A good middle position would be to have the executive power do its thing and have congress legislate/approve long after the fact has been established.

> the cell can't know when the signal was transmitted without some prior time or location knowledge?

The signal that GPS satellites broadcast includes the current time, so knowing when the signal was transmitted is easy.

Knowing when it was received is harder, you would need a calibrated, synchronized clock. But you need to receive multiple signals to figure out your clock, so keep reading for that.


20 bucks for 1.75ml of cola seems like pretty bad value.

To be clear, it made about 1.75L of syrup, not cola. I kept the cola syrup jug in a fridge for like a year, and when I wanted a glass of "cola" I'd add about an oz of the syrup concentrate to a glass of carbonated water (which I pre-carbonated with my DrinkMate), and stirred to combine.

I used like half the amount of sugar the cube-cola recipe recommended, because it seemed high. It wasn't Coke sweet but it was still plenty sweet for a soft drink, to my palette.

EDIT: Originally said 1.75 ml, meant to say Liters.


How is the cleanup with DrinkMate? Washing everything was my primary problem with SodaStream.

Not hard? I mean you need a dedicated bottle brush, but the bottle itself is the only thing I recall having to clean. The DrinkMate advertises itself as being able to carbonate other things (juice, flat soda, etc.), but I never carbonate anything other than water in the bottle, then add my syrups only after decanting. It prevents the bottle from getting sticky.

An oz is ~29.57 ml (mililiters), so I think perhaps you meant that you made 1.7 l (liters)?

Do you mean L? ml to me would be millilitres and one fluid ounce is ~30ml.

Yes, typo on my side. Thanks for catching!

This is why normal folk use quarts and gallons so there is no confusion. An mg vs ng of astrophage is deadly.

It depends on what the political system is trying to do.

A VPN won't help against government blanket outages, where the target is complete control of communications, and attempts to circumvent may result in extreme penalty. In this case, where the government policy is to stop unauthorized streaming, and collatoral damage is acceptable, a VPN hosted in a more favorable location is likely to work enough. Afaik, I don't think Spain has the political appetite to block VPNs and such during football matches.

You can still fight the political issue with political means, but in the mean time, you can also get work done.


> Afaik, I don't think Spain has the political appetite to block VPNs and such during football matches

Unfortunately nobody is quite sure what appetite they have, because LaLiga is doing this all on the back of a relatively narrow judicial ruling that hasn't been reviewed in a long time


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