I think you're already plenty concerning just on your own!

There is no international Dog, the bounty hunter?

Private kidnapper services are pretty much a strictly US thing. And its insane that its legal over there.

And international bounty hunters will never be a thing because there are *serious* problems with juristiction.

If Dog turned up here in australia to grab someone, you could bet your bottom dollar the cops would be intercepting him hard and charging him with a conspiracy to kidnap someone.

Actual legal processes dont always succeed but they are *far* better than any of the alternatives.

Are you OK? You don't seem OK.

It's time to learn about the REU!

"Penultimate" isn't a synonym for "ultimate"—it means the thing before the ultimate. Likewise we have penumbra for the blurry edge of a shadow (umbra). This results in some truly special words like "antepenult," meaning "the thing before the thing before the final thing," commonly used when discussing where the stress/accent falls in a Greek or Latin word.

"Invaluable" does indeed mean "not able to be valued" when analyzed morphologically, but the standard usage of it is indicating something is beyond value, i.e. infinitely or inestimably valuable. A value of zero is still a value, after all.

"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

Exactly. In the 90s we still used to try to optimize C code by using register variables and complex function structure that happened to suit the way the processor worked.

Then we stopped doing that because we realized the new compilers could optimize it a heck of a lot better.

Now we typically don't even write programs that generate machine code any more but feed everything into a VM that generates code on the fly.

I don't remember having to do any serious optimization for years, and it was mostly stuff like batching up messages so we weren't trying to process them one at a time with all the overhead of starting and stopping the processing operation each time.

It was not entirely based on how academic you were, it was also based on how many places existed and were funded. There was a cap on university placements to fit within the funding. A key part of the thinking for the tutorial fees (which I am personally against, but for this post will argue its rationale for existing) was to remove that cap and have placements based on demand.

Student loans came in early 90s rather than mid - I'm from the first year ever to have them, and I gradated in 1992.

Unfortunately its becoming increasingly harder to find good software that isnt some sort of bullshit cloud service. Hell even half the open source packages out there are being munted into some sort of lovecraftian monstrosity thats half "open source linux package" and half shitful "cloud ai blockchain buzzword service".

Yep. They "added some language" (god I feel like theres something resembling a pun in here, but I'm not sure what. maybe theres a dictionary that can help me), that lets them delete features without refunding.

THAT however might not survive long in front of a judge. Particularly with Euro, UK or Australian customers. Hell even a US judge might find that obnoxious behavior and strike it.

If a judge decides that nobody in their right mind would agree to a contract that says "We can just kind of decide not to give you this thing you paid for" then chances are he'll decide that wasnt what the user agreed to and order a refund.

So yeah, good luck with that shit dictionary dot com

Oh I dont know. My workmates think I'm a goddamn horrible monster in code reviews.

That said, in 30 years in the job, you get a nose for that sort of things, cos god knows if theres something stupid you can do in code, chances are I've already done it and learned the hard way.

You could, you know, read the code and find out if theres any nasties there. Popular open source projects with malware tend to get caught out pretty quickly, in timeframes measured in minutes, not hours.

Yeah I'm regularly doing that. use inspect to find the DIV or whatever thats sticking the stupid paywall crap over the page. And then look at the body(etc) tags to find something like overflow:none or possibly a class tag that freezes the page. Works about 50% of the time in my experience.

Information wants to be free.

It was a bizarely hypocritical claim from the Kremlin since their previouslty favorite mercenary group was literally run by a neo-nazi. And pretty much any military anywhere in the world is going to have members of pretty much any political affiliation you could imagine, so yeah, that was a stupid accusation.