I’ve never seen this. Just checked ZDNet’s website and it didn’t show anything about my ad blocker.

I block ads because they are such a distraction that I can’t read, and because auctioning off arbitrary javascript to the highest bidder is just asking to be hacked. If ads were not animated, and had no external or obfuscated javascript, I might not block them.

But as is, I’d rather close the tab than enable ads.

C when I cast a char * * to a char * * const: ok

C when I cast a char * * to a char * const *: ok

C when I cast a char * * to a char const * *: WTF

C when I cast a char * * to a char const * const *: ok

I agree about blanket statements and calls for death, but it looks to me like this meme is just calling cops trash.

I didn’t collapse or uncollapse anything on the page before taking the screenshot. On loading, all the spam sections are uncollapsed, and the “specifications” section is collapsed.

The “specifications” section is a collapsed section about a quarter of the way down. It starts out collapsed on every page, even if you open it up every time.

Check out this screenshot from Home Depot’s website.

About 1/8 of the page is the product. Almost NONE of the page is the “specifications” section, which is the most important section.

The majority of the page is “frequently bought together”, “More from this brand”, and “Customers also viewed”.

I have NEVER bought anything from any of these useless lists. But they have slowed down the page sufficiently that I stopped using their website and went elsewhere. Try browsing with just 10 product pages open on this site – you will start having tabs unload or crash due to memory consumption. Some of these product lists have a dozen items in them if you scroll right, so it consumes gigabytes of RAM.

Software engineer here. I find the petition to be very specific, and totally feasible.

Anyway, this isn’t a true referendum where its text would become immediate law as soon as it passes. It’s a petition that would be presented to legislators who would write the actual law. The petition doesn’t need to be written in legalese.

(Also: if the customer paid them even one cent, then they DO owe the customer something. Also: They should be forced to release the server software when they shut down the servers.)

The potato is just the electrolyte. The energy comes the oxidation of the metal electrodes.

It doesn’t change the fact they’re getting paid a ton for a comparatively small amount of work.

Why is the antivirus software detecting my Cortex-M3 binaries as dangerous to an amd64 computer? Happens on Windows 7 through Windows 10, across 3 different employers.

And how do I submit my builds to Virus Total if they’re getting deleted as soon as they come out of the linker?

I don’t care what Hamas says or admits. Reliable news sources have repeatedly reported that IDF is killing an unreasonably high number of innocent Palestinian civilians, relative to the number of Hamas soldiers that they kill.

The Catholics are going to be in a difficult place as gayness becomes more normal. It’s quickly becoming self-evident that homosexual relationships are not immoral at all. That’s probably going to accelerate over the next few decades.

So the church should probably do more than just this to accept gay people, but they can’t. Catholic rulings set by ecumenical councils or by the pope (in such a way as to invoke papal infallibility) can’t be changed. It’s like if the US constitution could only be amended if the amendments didn’t contradict or repeal any existing text.

So if the church says “no homo, and that’s final,” then they can’t go back and change it to “just a little homo, as a treat.” It’s hard to find an exact citation, but I’m pretty sure they’ve already said “no homo” enough to make it official, so there’s no going back from that. Unless they also retract infallibility.