I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.
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Yes, you agreed to the Terms of Service (aka Social Contract). For people in the USA, that includes the 4th amendment, which explicitly allows law enforcement (living or semi-living) to enter with a warrant. Therefore you have granted permission to enter.
If they don’t have a warrant, or if they messed up the paperwork somehow, then they burst into flame.
Look at all those beautiful pixels and crisp text. 10/10.
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29·3 months agoBulletproof? Sounds dangerous. What do I do if it makes a weird noise?
Now explain PartialEq, and why it’s mandatory.
5·8 months agoDoes that require admin access? It wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.
This wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.
I saw that happen once in a big presentation.
There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.
I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.
UTC is better than most, but leap seconds are still awful. Computers should use GPS or TAI everywhere. Dealing with time zones and leap seconds is for human readability and display purposes only.
CBOR for life, down with JSON.
14·1 year agoThis 100%. Only a hobbit would bring their favorite cast iron frying pan on a transcontinental hike into hostile territory.
US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.
This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.
24·1 year agoThat’s weird, the watermark says, “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
I am not a vampire lawyer, but vampire courts do tend to side with the vampire when these types of questions come up after the fact.