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Hi! I'm Dave Plummer. You might remember me from such Windows components as Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, ZIPFolders, Product Activation, etc. Cheers!
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If you know why it's "Access denied!", you're a better programmer than 4 out 5 dentists surveyed! https://t.co/4itJqNI9YJ
You can write perfectly safe C++ code with good practices. It means you never allocate your own memory, never operate on raw strings, and so on. You just don't do the things Rust doesn't *let* you do. And yet: Rust has an unsafe keyword. So, the language permits unsafe actions, which you presumably then do not allow by policy. If you had to have a policy not to use it, then you might as well just use C++ with appropriate policies about unsafe patterns. Or to misquote Anton, "If the policy you followed brought you to this point, of what use was the policy?"
It's a tragedy, to be sure. But before assigning blame solely to Climate Change, you might wish to consider the role of urban expansion into those hills. And poor vegetation management by the state. And so on. You know the person for whom every problem looks like a nail because they love hammers so much? It's like that. If you only see Climate Change wherever you look, you're not actually adding discerning value.
If you can spot the bug that causes this code to never return, you're a better coder than 99% of oil painters. https://t.co/6rRes9rWeX
My one-question IQ test. Pass/fail for 125+ "Can you define what a contingency is?"
@copewithanymore Tragic, but now you understand why when pet owners claim it's "just like having kids", that it is not.
It's not a crack or a hack, so far as I can tell. To my knowledge, the protections we built back in the XP days are still solid, and this subverts them with a key. This appears to be a leak of a volume license key that is not tied to a particular media type. In other words, this is a bad leak, not a crack, I think?
This has been my week! I'm trying for the first time (for me) to expand a PDP-11 into a second chassis. You actually extend the bus to a second system (one with no CPU or RAM) and then you can plug in controller cards and so on in both chassis. That's the theory, but I can't get it to work! I'm using two BA11 chassis with H9276A backplanes. The first chassis has an M8190CPU and 2x2MB of PMI memory. Then a M9404 card with two 50ppin ribbon cables comes out. Those cables go to the second machine, where they end in an M9405-YA card. The system boots without the expansion cable; it boots with just the M9404 added, and it boots with the M9404 plus cable. But as soon as you connect the M9405-YA, it won't start up whether that cable is plugged into the second backplane or not! I keep hoping someone who's done this before will spot something obvious like I need to remove termination resistors from the first backplane. But I've read all the DEC docs, and there's no mention of it... so I'm stumped! The H9276A backplane seems to allow dual-tab cards in slots AB only, so that's where I've been putting it...
Javascript: It's for other people.
Uh oh, I sense a trend :-) https://t.co/Gt4pPAPVel https://t.co/OQE98JAXSg