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But then... When then they come and sue you with something then you are the one that have to proof innocence because in civil right you have not the "innocent until proven guilty" right.
Everyone is equal under the justice and has the same rights... but some are even more equal than us.
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Quote: According to the filing's reasoning here, Facebook should not have been held liable for violating Illinois law, because doing so didn't actually hurt anyone, as far as it could tell. What a dangerous sentence... you can break law if you don't harm anyone or even better... if you can't be proven to have hurt anyone
Quote: We will find out sometime in May or June if the Supreme Court decides "no harm, no foul" to be a compelling legal argument. Why I do have the feeling that it will be a really sad day for the "normal" population
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nelek wrote: What a dangerous sentence... you can break law if you don't harm anyone or even better... if you can't be proven to have hurt anyone
Nelek wrote: Why I do have the feeling that it will be a really sad day for the "normal" population
Yes, both these arguments are very, very dangerous.
Even if the current court rejects them (which surely it should, although this is far from certain), I feel sure that legislators will make up for it in future.
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I suggest that the likes of Google, Facebook, et al will eventually get their way on this.
My reasoning on this is that, as they accept more and more state regulation of and meddling in their services, they will demand that in return they should have some of the protection of the state. I.e. If the state (I mean government, not state in US terms) wants to meddle very heavily in their services then it is only fair that they are treated more like a branch of government with special legal protections.
I think this argument will eventually be compelling for law makers (especially after a nice undocumented deal for future employment).
This type of special legal protection for private businesses is already the case in some countries. E.g. The UK where privatised utility companies have special legal rights and protections that do not apply to other private companies. The US will follow.
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Quote: Hotwire offers “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript.” It’s described as an “HTML-over-the-wire” approach, meaning it generates the HTML file on the server and then delivers it to the browser. It’s an alternative to delivering JSON, a data format used by many JavaScript-heavy web apps to send content from the server to the client.
Run, Don't Walk[^] obligatory music video.
The lyrics are oddly appropriate. "I can't stop talking to myself."
Ruby on Rails Creator Takes on JavaScript Frameworks with Hotwire – The New Stack[^]
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Link?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Link?
OMG. I failed at my Insider News post.
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ASP.NET WebForms did that 20 odd years ago.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: ASP.NET WebForms did that 20 odd years ago.
I know. The irony.
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Terabyte-using customers doubled from 7% to 14% as pandemic wore on. I doff my data cap at you all
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The video shows the electricity reaching from the sky and up from a lightning rod until a thin connection appears It *was* Zeus all along
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. "What is the Matrix?"
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"I'll take the blue pill for $800, Alex!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft Word for Windows is picking up a major improvement to its dark mode implementation: Soon, the writing canvas will be dark as well. Once you go dark, you'll never format as Heading 4? (I really need to work on that one)
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To hell those godamn dark modes!
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We're shouting at the clouds, I'm afraid...
TTFN - Kent
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Creating truly convincing digital humans is hard. Unreal, indeed
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The most effective managers have used the past 12 months to support new remote-working practices with Agile leadership styles. This is what two digital leaders have learnt from the experience - and here's how you can benefit. Isn't that what they used to call, "by the seat of your pants"?
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By the seat of your customer's pants?
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Even though I'm a nobody where I work I've read several books on leadership. This is by far the best, Turn the Ship Around![^]. It tells the true story of how David Marquet took the USS Santa Fe from the lowest rated submarine in the U.S. fleet to the highest rated vessel in U.S. Naval history.
And he did it by doing the opposite of what the U.S. Navy teaches their officers, and what most managers would never do, by giving up control. It talks about his frustrations, his disappointments, his failures, and successes.
As one person put it, if the leader-leader model can work in the most stringent of organizations (U.S. Navy nuclear submarine fleet), if it can work at the GE Equipment Repair that was failing, it can work in any organization at any level.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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This blog post will demonstrate how to build a system file watcher as a Windows service that runs in the background, and classifies images using WinML "Be our guest! Be our guest! Put our service to the test"
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Hmm. The boilerplate code to make a service seems a whole lot more complex and verbose than what I used in .NET 3.5.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not to mention that every service written in .Net core comes with at least an extra 5mb footprint.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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New "dependency confusion" technique, also known as a "substitution attack," allows threat actors to sneak malicious code inside private code repositories by registering internal library names on public package indexes. You mean downloading random blobs of code from random developers might be a bad idea?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You mean downloading random blobs of code from random developers might be a bad idea?
Joking aside, yes, this is a bad idea.
Yes, I know it's how more and more languages and ecosystems work. It's still a really bad idea.
I'm learning about TypeScript at the moment via the book 'Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications'. It seems to me like a good introduction to TypeScript. It begins by describing how to set up a dev environment to match the author's one. Installing one or two packages in Node (I forget which ones now) pulls in some unbelievable number of other packages. (If you really want to know I'll get the names and numbers).
This is absurd. I don't care that it's normal now. It's still absurd. It's dangerous, it's not properly maintainable (by which I mean that the coder doesn't really know what his codebase is), it's a mess.
Back in the 90s, componentised code was seen as a future way forward, although the components were expected to be runtime consumer components that users could purchase and plug together. This didn't quite work out but now we've got dev components on a level that no one expected. It just evolved. And it's dangerous.
There has to be a way forward from this. There's a lot of money to be made by someone who finds a way to catalogue and audit it all, moving it from what amounts to random code generation to actual, traceable, properly maintainable code.
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