Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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I remember when Mandrake was a young distro – a redhat derivative – and they (gasp) chose to compile for i586 instead of i386. People were like VROooooOM! And a bunch of other people were like: why would you target CPU instructions that not everyone has?!
Very cool. Always impressed by debugging skills
On the windows gaming machine, I let it do its own thing with UAC clickthroughs basically just notifying me when something is making system changes.
On Linux, I have a separate root password and use some combination of su, kdesu, yast, or whatever, but I never log in as root directly. I don’t game that much on Linux (that machine is lacking in graphics horsepower), but things like EU4 work well enough.
Probably someone’s pet project
This isn’t a linear trend. Probably a slightly geomtric trend. Source: I turned my phone sideways to analyze the line.
So these are only the times they get caught.
Likely placeholder art making it into production because no one is checking, rather than a deliberate policy. But still bad form.