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argv_minus_one

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People being contractually obligated to undergo medically unnecessary surgery is still an intolerable atrocity.

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Well, yeah, of course they can. They can read the entire DOM, including the value of password fields. Were you expecting otherwise?

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Programs to keep women barely alive so they can make more babies, maybe. But help them? Hell no; that’s now straight-up illegal in half of the USA.

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They do conserve one thing: the status of the wealthy.

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What’s the difference?

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Printers should probably be connected by USB for security reasons anyway.

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By “user” I mean the person who is using the application.

Using exceptions for handling unexceptional errors (like invalid user input) is a footgun. You don’t know when one might be raised, nor what type it will have, so you can easily forget to catch it and handle it properly, and then your app crashes.

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We kinda do need him, though. Very few people are as intensely principled as he is on the subject of computing freedom, and without him anchoring the Overton window, there’s nothing stopping the Bill Gateses of this world from moving it.

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