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@swedishempir @petite_michelle I'm sure if Ukraine were to give Chishima islands back to Japan, they wouldn't mind Ukraine keeping a corner of Shumshu island just to have this symbolic land border, kinda like Hans island.

@petite_michelle When I saw this first on Twitter I really needed to rub my eyes, like what am I even seeing, and I definitely do not hope for such an end and second of all if this is to mock Russia, Russia doesn’t even share a land border with Japan in the first place so neither would Ukraine.

What a great thing it could be to neighbour Japan...

@plxnetriri @TheeTerryP317 @frosteddq @nedeball6 @gloriizii "Pick a number from 20 to 29" "20" "That's illegal. You can't read. How can you not follow very clear instructions."

@TheeTerryP317 @frosteddq @nedeball6 @gloriizii yall are choosing to be smartasses when the point is very clear. must be part of the adults that don’t read past 6th grade

i’m 23 and my siblings are 17 and 14 y’all are absolutely lying about not being able to tell adults from children.

@thiojoe So all software development tools should also look like shit and be borderline unusable because they're "for nerds only"? Just because something is not designed for tech illiterate people doesn't mean it shouldn't be user friendly and look nice.

I don’t think the Windows run box should be user friendly tbh. Normies are already getting one-shotted by malicious websites that tell them to run a command that just installs malware. The design should imply “this box should be rarely used and by nerds only”.

@LuftkoppTim @msnofficial_on I thought the point of those stands was to make the laptop screen be at a suitable location for use together with external displays. Which only makes sense if you actually also look at the display. There's no need for a stand for a closed laptop.

@msnofficial_on of course they do. There's is basically an entire market of Macbook Stands where you put the Mac in when its closed and then connect it to a monitor

Do Macs not have an option to keep the device on even when the lid is closed? It's been an option on windows for over 2 decades now

@StDoritos @Merrydawg That doesn't make any sense though. Unless you're specifically pirating games/applications, neither of those would lead you to execute anything. If you click on "movie.mp4.exe", the problem is not piracy, the problem is that you're an idiot.

@Merrydawg Piracy and porn , that’s pretty much the only way, or they are just actually Slow and fall for the spam “click here or your account will be deleted” messages from strangers

How do peoples Discord keep getting hacked? Are you guys clicking weird links, scanning QR codes, and downloading viruses daily or something? I haven't had my Discord hacked in 10 years.

@RnaudBertrand Fortunately this deal is not actually ratified yet in EU. It won't take effect until the CoEU approves it, which they can just choose to delay indefinitely, or simply reject.

Yet another proof that the US is completely agreement-incapable. It's pretty crazy when you think about it: they made the EU sign a deal that was egregiously one-sided in their favor - basically a colonial treaty - which the EU justified signing by saying it prevented higher tariffs on EU cars. And the US just violated the latter 🤦‍♂️ I'm not holding my breath but hopefully this time - unlike the previous times - Europeans learn this lesson: accommodating the US is literally worse than useless.

@knightofivanhoe @TheGingerBill > Win32 is a 32-bit API Didn't need to read any further, this already demonstrated that you don't know anything about Win32 API.

1) Win32 is a 32-bit API that's frozen in time, warts and all. It's a specification that's set in stone, of course it's stable. 2) Torvalds ran a developer through the mud for breaking Linux's userland ABI. When's the last time a kernel update broke user-land? 3) When using the word "Linux" people act disingenuously. Of course when one refers to "Linux" one can wiggle between talking about the kernel or the user-land or the various distros. Different distros (or better yet OSs) do whatever they want, the fact that one uses the Linux kernel and breaks it's own ABI doesn't mean it is Linux's fault. We call them distributions but those projects are under no obligation to work with one another keep ABI compatibility between each other. Cathedral vs Bazaar. When one refers to the stability of the user-land that's another story. If one comes to "Linux" and expect Cathedral level stability to be given to them for free they should review their mental capacity. The blog that coined the phrase used it because glibc broke changed the hash-style IIRC, and they complained about it. Yeah, glibc is not Linux, and one should target a libc that promises this level of stability.

I don't know if a lot of people have thought why this happened. To make Linux viable for the layman, Valve had to make Proton (derived from Wine) so that Win32 API became the first and only stable ABI on Linux. Why did Linux Distro devs not care about stable ABI historically?

@Zebekyia @RodKahx Why not exercise that air superiority to keep Hormuz open?

@RodKahx You don't need artillery when you have air superiority. You need jdams which are cheap accurate and more effective. Artillery in Ukraine and Germany should produce more since they are close.

Germany: Outpaces US ammunition production. US: We're pulling out. Germany: Thank God.

@FurkanGozukara This would be a good time for both South Korea and Japan to explore tighter defense cooperation with Europe. The US clearly isn't a reliable ally to anyone anymore, so it's up to the rest of us to prepare for a post-hegemony world.

Absolute betrayal. DW News confirms the Trump administration abruptly removed the advanced THAAD missile defense system from South Korea, leaving Seoul completely exposed. The South Korean President admitted they are powerless to stop it. Washington is abandoning its allies.

@Tcho76521726 @yhdistyminen By selling the property to someone else. And then that other person either pays the tax or invests in the city by actually living in it. The property doesn't magically stop existing once sold.

@yhdistyminen They can also evade the tax by leaving, though.

incidentally, this is why Zohran's pied-à-terre tax is clever—it's "tax the rich" but also "the rich can evade this tax by physically residing in our city and investing in it"

@TenaciousCEEE @kmcnam1 I see a lot of people claiming /home contains everything they need, and then proceed to cry on Twitter about all the things that broke and were lost when they wiped the rest to switch distro or reinstall.

@kmcnam1 Call me a bluff old traditionalist but isn't some kind of backup in order before you lay waste to your OS?

@MikeHoax @iBringBalance @schteppe "Wrongful allocation"? There is no such thing.

@gremalix @iBringBalance @schteppe Wrongful memory allocation can't cause OS instability?, trying to make an api call of a non-OS program shouldn't cause that, right?, besides most phone apps do check if you have internet connection before making api calls :d.

Error handling, C++ vs Rust

@benbawan What makes it not a realistic prospect though? EU members supporting it is not unrealistic. Canadians supporting joining is not unrealistic. Canada has no trouble meeting the rule of law nor fiscal requirements.

It's kinda funny, because that's a prospect that most Europeans and increasingly also most Canadians actually say “yes” - while also being low-key aware that it's not a realistic prospect. But then again, why not, actually?

@MikeHoax @iBringBalance @schteppe You could make the same argument with "a program should first check if the machine has internet connection before just trying to establish a TCP connection". No. You just attempt a connection, and if it fails, you handle the error. Same goes for allocation.

@gremalix @iBringBalance @schteppe I'd assume a program like that would first check if it has memory for it instead of just opening it and Yolo...! :d

@MikeHoax @iBringBalance @schteppe There is no easy way to reliably check if you can allocate a huge consecutive chunk of memory, other than actually try. It's up to the allocator to make that determination, an application shouldn't do custom heuristic napkin math for that.

@iBringBalance @schteppe If I tell an image editing tool to allocate a 50000x50000 canvas, but that does not fit in memory, the application should just display an error. It can still continue to work just fine. Not knowing how to deal with allocation failure is just learned helplessness.

@gremalix @schteppe That, in general, does not work well If you fail to allocate, everything goes to shit & a program almost never recovers because it's in a bad state In other words, devs write their code to "handle failed allocation", do it wrong, and the program shits itself anyway

@OgGhostJelly @schteppe Sometimes it's just because you tried to allocate too much. Maybe someone just instructed the application to "allocate 50000x50000 pixel canvas" and you actually have plenty of free RAM, just this specific operation will fail. And even on low memory, you can log and do cleanup.

@OgGhostJelly @schteppe Well, I would personally consider it a design flaw. I am not here to shit on the language, I use it and it does a lot of things well. But there is a lot that you can potentially do in a case of a failed allocation.

@SteadtlerA58435 @phl43 "Stick to"? The deal isn't even ratified yet.

@phl43 Did Europe stick to the deal? Have they eased regulations that prevent imports of US cars into the EU?

How long will it take before European leaders understand that Trump is fundamentally incapable of sticking to a deal, that he'll just randomly violate it whenever he feels like it and that he won't behave until we push back and make him pay a price for this kind of shit?