macniel

Gravity is desire

Forza Horizon 4. I fricking love the British countryside!

They even have music and audiobooks!

Why pay a streaming provider to stream your shit when you can build a mediocre streaming service to peddle your shit? Because you have to peddle a lot otherwise your customers realise that you only had like 2 good movies and a TV series.

shi(p/t)s on fire yo.

It’s Dick.

You realise that the modlog is public right? Learn from your mistakes and read up on the rules.

The grand slam!

If only there were less sensational words to describe what happens.

Rice cookers. It’s super low tech but works great to cook perfect rice.

You heard our concerns? No fuck you, you will hear from the EU suckers!

Mhm, I dunno. Do you have more on offer here?

what’s the actual appeal to foldable phones?

Falkon on my Surface Go and Firefox on my Desktop.

sure thing buddy, and never feel discouraged to ask “stupid questions”, it’s how we learn after all :)

but rather a raw binary sequence, e.g., the first 24 bits of an IP address, therefore allocating 3 bytes of memory for storing the NID.

That would require dynamic memory allocation, since you can never know what CIDR your stack encounters. It could be a nibble, a byte, a byte and a nibble, …, 4 bytes. So you would allocate a int32/int64 anyway to be on the safe side.

But why do we need the bitwise AND for that, specifically? I understand the idea, but would it not be easier to only parse the IP address string of bits only for the first n bits and then disregard the remainder (the host identifier)?

Essentially it boils down to:

bit operations are stupid fast and efficient, String operations are super slow.

Also, IP addresses are always stored as int32/int64, so applying String operations would require them to be converted first.

Depends, do you trust Apple with your privacy? And how about Amazon, do you trust them?

I work in the public health sector.

And I am trans. Need more reasons?

Okay, so you want a laptop or a desktop?

I mean you can program on a potato, so what would be your programming need? Something specific you want to get into?

Yes Hardware Firewalls exist, but those are primarily infrastructure and not part of a computer.

If all you want to do is program on that rig, then maybe consider an integrated GPU solution so you don’t have to invest in a overpriced Graphics card.

When you care about security and privacy you probably want to run a Linux distribution/BSD instead of Windows? Or do you want Apple (as then this discussion would be superfluous anyway)