FYI, she released an album in 2023 called Rockstar. While it still has strong country influence, it leans more heavily towards rock and pop. Maybe it will be more to your taste. Plus, practically every track features an impressive collaboration.

It's always the more expensive hotels, too.

Stay at a budget hotel? Free WiFi.

Pay more for a "luxury" experience? That'll be an extra $20/night, please.

I don't think she wants to hear my Lovefool...

Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are..

My favorite deSSert is Strawberry Shortcake.

"Nat. Convenienc" on the price tag likely indicates that it's a Stop-n-Go type of store, so, yeah, it's a convenience store.

That's interesting. I feel like my experience has been the opposite. I'll occasionally post things here, completely expecting some negative response (not looking for it, but I know how people are). For example, I posted a rant about an issue I was having after switching to Linux. Instead of negativity, I typically get responses more like "that's a valid criticism. Have you considered $x, though?", and the conversation continues quite pleasantly.

I feel like reddit was far quicker to jump to "no. You're wrong, and here's why...".

Edit: correcting hypothetical redditor's spelling.

No, but they have Insignificance.

notice

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why

measured improvement in server performance

awesome incremental search

Boo! Just give me the text!

Edit: It's long, but here's the opening section, at least:

In 1984 KenThompson was presented with the ACM TuringAward. Ken's acceptance speech Reflections On Trusting Trust (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html) describes a hack (in every sense), the most subversive ever perpetrated, nothing less than the root password of all evil.

Ken describes how he injected a virus into a compiler. Not only did his compiler know it was compiling the login function and inject a backdoor, but it also knew when it was compiling itself and injected the backdoor generator into the compiler it was creating. The source code for the compiler thereafter contains no evidence of either virus.

Ken wrote, In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

Ken does not mean bug in the sense of error, but in the sense of listening device. And it is "almost" impossible to detect because TheKenThompsonHack easily propagates into the binaries of all the inspectors, debuggers, disassemblers, and dumpers a programmer would use to try to detect it. And defeats them. Unless you're coding in binary, or you're using tools compiled before the KTH was installed, you simply have no access to an uncompromised tool.

In fact, given the amenability of microcode to the KTH, not even then.

All manner of controls and monitors could be secreted this way in the OSes of all the devices we all use day to day. It isn't very far fetched to suggest that the hack, in software, can create an updatable backdoor. This way every piece of software on the planet can be KTH bugged without any possibility of detection by any mortal engineer anywhere.

Well, maybe with the diligent use of an electron microscope.

Given last week's horrifying revelations concerning the US government's TotalInformationAwareness of every US domestic phone call, it is difficult to imagine that the ThreeLetterAgency's KTH-hacked binaries are not omnipresent. I mean, can you really imagine AdmiralPoindexter would pass up an ability like this?

I have no speaker, and I still scream.

So their actions didn't matter in the end.

Point of order: Just because the end result was the same, doesn't mean it didn't matter.

Damn. I read the headline, and I almost thought it was a "Report AI Slop" button. What a feature that would be!

No, you misunderstood. It's five "nein"s. As in:

"Is it available now?"

"Nein, nein nein nein NEIN!"

Who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that?

Worse yet, you read their article, and it doesn't actually support their argument at all. The headline just kind of vaguely implies support.

{ "ok": false }

- My Chemical Romance

It was a load-bearing readme file.

I don't think they're arguing that Firefox is more susceptible to bit flips. They're trying to say that their software is "solid" enough that a significant number of the reported crashes are due to faulty hardware, which is essentially out of their control.

If other software used the same methodology, you could probably use the numbers to statistically compare how "solid" the code base is between the two programs. For example, if the other software found that 20% of their crashes were caused by bit flips, you could reasonably assume that the other software is built better because a smaller portion of their crashes is within their control.

ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?

In this context, it means "Edited To Add". I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since "Estimated Time of Arrival" is a much more common meaning. I would accept "E2A" or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use "Edit:".

Edit: added link.

It looks like the old man is dabbing his way out the door.