Seems excessive to convert everything to rust when you can use std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr to eliminate the memory safety issue?

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jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.

There’s a UK scheme called Flood Re that does this kind of thing. If you’re more than a certain probability of flooding, you need to go with an insurer that’s backed by the government’s reinsurance policy.

There’s an “editorial complaints” link at the bottom of BBC news website.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

re #7, I hope they are also saying no ‘secret questions’ to reset the password?

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When your first notification about the change is a Mastodon post telling you to look for a pre-checked checkbox that wasn’t there before…

Looks like the space station with so many ThinkPads!

2FA codes where you can read everything you need from the notification area?

I remember a video of a white woman closing the window into a policeman’s fingers, driving off (over his foot?) getting forced off the road again, screaming insults at the police, hitting them with the car door, before they resort to, iirc, a taser or dragging her out (might be more than one such video)

So in my mind, that’s kind of the ‘gold standard’ for behaviour which only leads to slow incremental steps in the use of force.

Similar with the computer magazines, before they started coming with floppy disks.

“I don’t have a plan” - person desperately trying to distance themselves from their plan.

PuTTY: “unexpectedly” disconnected.

Previously.

The creation of Adam, 2024

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Some bicycles can run out of honk