Or maybe if quantum immortality is real, he’s off in his own universe where it worked out for him while the rest of us take the “fucker’s getting what he deserved” branch.

How likely is he to run into Koreans very upset with what he did?

Yeah, that’s the frustrating part, it could be either way. Could be based on a heuristic analysis that recognized a pattern associated with malware (that may be based on the malicious parts of the code or maybe some big data algorithm associated otherwise innocent code with the malicious software and flags anything with similar code), maybe it’s just some string match (ie a bad attempt but maybe in good faith), or maybe they are using the malicious code removal tool to also targer code that the user wants but MS considers malicious to their desire to make money.

Iirc, it’ll say what it matches it to but from what I remember, the actual details remain vague. Like it seems to be at a “report information that sounds useful to managers” level rather than a “report useful technical information for engineers who want to understand what’s happening at a low level”. So you get malware name but nothing about what that malware does or how this current flag associated it with that.

Corruption. Soviet corruption was taking funds intended to buy x of y, priced at the cost of materials + labour + logistics for making x of y and delivering it to where it needs to be, but instead only buying (x - z) of y and pocketing the difference, but writing down that x were delivered, expecting that they’d just sit in storage anyways and by the time anyone figures it out, time, apathy, and incompetence will help avoid consequences.

Western corruption is starting a company to produce y and when a government orders x of them, x are delivered but are priced at the highest price the company can negotiate, possibly while the other side of the negotiation is feeding them info for a tiny portion of the money saved (or more likely less direct kickbacks, like the promise of a job offer after they finish their government position). All x of y get delivered but the price is significantly higher than what it costs to produce them.

Also R&D is priced in because it’s all done for the sake of making profit and must be recovered through the unit sales.

It used to be a source of annoyance. So many programs relied on undocumented behavior that MS couldn’t go back and change decisions they made that turned out to be bad ones without potentially breaking things for some programs, even if that decision should have been entirely transparent to end users. So there was a bunch of technical debt being carried in the OS itself, at least until they started adding compatibility layers that allowed the quirks to be moved to there and the OS itself to progress.

But then they started with the enshittification that made those technical debt days look so innocent in comparison. It was a time when MS cared about the quality of its products.

Though I do wonder how much of that “detects random files as malware” is actually detecting real malware hidden inside software that also does what it claims to do. Like “this removes game’s DRM and also installs a helpful little rootkit for if we need to help you debug something, DDOS websites we hate, or act as an annonymous proxy”.

I love pressure washing myself

That’s pretty fucking hardcore.

Reminder: don’t pressure wash in sandals.

Native plants are of course going to win out, they’re evolved for that location’s climate.

If that was the case, no one would care about invasive species because the natives would outcompete with them when humans stopped intervening. It all depends on the specific plants and environment.

Though, if you prefer, you can also move your hand to the mouse. With the scroll wheel and good hand-eye coordination, you can get pretty close to the speed of a true vim exper–haha jk, they finished converting the entire source file from python to rust using a specially crafted regex by the time your hand reached the mouse and implemented a matrix view by the time you scrolled to the line you wanted.

And when you say that falling green symbols aren’t that impressive, they look at you in confusion for a moment before realizing what you meant and handing you a VR plug to show you what “matrix view” really means.

Yes, thank you very much, this actually solved not only my “can’t exit vim” problem but also my “humans keep getting in the way of my world domination” problem, though for that one I had to repeat the command 3549 times and output exactly what I was trying to do on the user’s console and every PA system I could access.

Probably anti overall, though context could change that. It’s just sea banditry and most bandits aren’t Robin Hood.

The digital version shouldn’t even be compared by using the same name, but if it was honest, then it wouldn’t work as propaganda (not that it seems to be working anyways).

How many warehouse fires are there in the average week? Statistics could be used to determine the odds of this being a nornal week or something unusual.

Though even if it is unusual, it could just as easily be a false flag intended to blame high prices on anything other than the situation in Iran.

Or maybe information could be gleamed from those gambling sites. Were there any bets about warehouse fires and did any event have sudden big bets for a new fire before it started?

Yeah, lots of pointless arguing further down in here. Like arguing about whether authoritarianism is left or right like that even matters. There are no set of single labels that can describe everyone’s motivations, goals, and what they are willing to do to get them, so arguing about the labels is pointless.

Yes, but when my old sunfire’s clutch went, it would still start when I pressed the clutch in, even though the pedal didn’t do anything. The master cylinder cracked, so it wouldn’t keep pressure to work against the springs pressing the clutch plates together.

The mechanism for that must have just been checking the position of the clutch pedal. If your car instead has a sensor right at the clutch plates, then it probably won’t work, though you’ll still be able to bump start it, as that bypasses the starter entirely. But you need either a hill (going down the same way you are) or people to give a push.

That’s not using the starter, just need to set the key to on.

Spend some time getting the jist of clutchless shifting and you might be able to continue using your vehicle if the clutch fails (depending on how it fails). Just expect to have to replace your starter if you need to use it to get going from a stop and expect to grind your gears at least a bit.

And I hate that I had to go set an option so that spotify didn’t lock out other songs in my playlist based on the current song playing. If I put them both in my playlist and put it on shuffle, I want an equal chance to hear either or, even back to back when they are completely different.

The only messing around with random that I accept is avoiding a random sequence that replays recently heard songs (unless it’s the same song in the list twice, in which case, treat it like a different song).

I’d argue that neither one stems from the other but that they are both manifestations of the same thing: our desire to dominate our environment to make our own lives (or the lives of those important to us) easier and/or safer.

Lol remember when everyone thought they had it tough living through history when “history” just meant “a pandemic”?