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Comment Re: success (Score 4, Insightful) 205

One thing that code will never ever be able to document is why
Code will never answer following questions:
  • Why is this code here in the first place (what process does it support? who requested it?)
  • Why is this code acting in this particular fashion
  • Why was this code implemented in such way? (out other possible choices, especially if it's not the most performant way)
  • Why is it using the services it's using?

Code can document what or how something is done, and not even that always (if it's for example using external service, you will never know what is being done really without documentation)

Comment Re:Right to read. (Score 1) 96

It's a publicly traded company that has a responsibility to shareholders to run a business not a charity

Then why does amazon donate to a charity if you go to smile.amazon.com? Also this is often repeated lie and bullshit. There's absolutely no law like that in USA or otherwise. You're not obligated to seek maxmum profit, your'e not obligated to seek maximum share price. This lie needs to die. It's not a game, it's the players

Comment Re:Couldn't give a rat's (Score 1) 84

What is actually wrong with Firefox, as it stands today?

Whole bunch of things. What made me put gigantic "Do not use Firefox" banner when we detect it in our software is 6 year old regression / parity bug that prevents FF from reliably printing PDFs from javascript. Literally every browser (including old FF versions), can do it, firefox can't. Sure it might be fixed in FF 78 when it comes out, but it's to little to late.
This is just off top of my head most recent issue. Other being for example lack of "rich paste" that chrome has.
The other thing is it just looks like Chrome. Why install firefox that looks like chrome, but doesn't _exactly_ work like chrome, when you can simply have Chrome, browser that's better, more future complete and has engine used by 90+% of the population.

Comment Re:Vote with your Feet (Score 1) 256

Then they (employees ) should improve themselves in some way as to make themselves more valuable.

So we're back to "learn to code" argument?

Job pay has very little correlation with your skill. In fact it's almost always about luck, location and who you know, or where you were born.

Get yourself better, "pull yourself by bootstraps" (which used to be used correctly as an expression of pointless foolishness, and somethign impossible) is bullshit.

Comment Re:Easy answer. (Score 1) 148

So let me get this right:

1. You have no confirmation that happened.
2. You don't know if it's Poland that denied flight path either.
3. We already had a false rumour that Poland stoped masks for Italy which was straight up lie

So basically you're spreading baseless rumors that simple deputy to Parliment (who's granted also party leader), personally denied that specific flight.

Yea. Bullshiet

What probably happened is Poland has a standing order to deny all the military flights over Poland, and it was faster to fly around it, then to get an exception approved
Again assuming it's Poland that was a problem and not other NATO countries the plane would have to fly over

Comment Re:Easy answer. (Score 1) 148

Any source on this? because I can't find anything on this either in english or polish.

Polish government is generally acting quite random. They made a right decision to lock borders and institute quarantine
But then they didn't set up humanitarian tunet for people trying to come back to their home through Poland.

Now they are talking about still holding elections in May which is just braindead idea.

Still overall response I feel is much better then any other European country.

Comment Re:WTF kind of headline is that? (Score 2) 71

You are actually paying for that with RobinHood. It has uptime guarantees. Not to mention that regulatory agencies enforce uptime to. If the internet channel is down, they are supposed to provide orders via phone/email. But of course as every internet startup they were massivley understaffed there to (to the point their email system borked up during the day to from the overflow).

Comment Re:Majority to phishing websites. (Score 1) 55

Grey padlock is what they get now, now that LEts encrypt was let to run for a year or two, and they had to remove a green padlock.
I fully suspected this will happen (and you can see it in comments), year ago I was already arguing that this confuses users. Sure some IT pros knows that "Secure" in Https means "encrypted" really, but noone else gives a fuck, they see Green padlock "Secure" connection, and they assume that well... they are secure. I was modded down to obliivion
The thing is ... I lived through it once before - with self signed certs, and I knew from expirience what happened with them. Wasn't hard to figure out what will happen to lets encrypt.

Comment Majority to phishing websites. (Score 3, Interesting) 55

Absolute majority of them were for scamming and phishing websites. https://www.thesslstore.com/bl... 14000 confirmed just for paypal, but that's just a drop in the ocean.
Even my company which is a big nobody with 40k users, was spear phished last month using a lets encrypt verified domain.
What needs to be done is the same thing that happened to self signed certs - big yellow warning when you use one.

Comment Re:still run by a sociopath though (Score 1) 259

> The remotely disabled feature in question was never purchased - it was turned on in error and Tesla turned it off when an audit revealed the error. Moreover Tesla restored it.
This is not true, twice. It was purchased by the original owner, then purchased by a second owner (it was on a list of features sold by Tesla to the auction house). Then it was Tesla that decided uniliterally that cars now come with account (or more specifically owner) locked DLCs, and removed the feature, after the card was resold

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