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Yaml is the language nobody needed. All we wanted was a better JSON format that supports comments and doesn’t crash with an extra comma as the end of a list, eg: [1,2,3,]

How does a self signed cert protect you from MITm if the iPhone will accept any signed certificate thereafter? There’s no cert pinning AFAIK in imaps.

Can you expand on that subject? What are the traits of warm blooded species that lead to higher cancer rates?

Free PDF file of the research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.09423

No they killed the project a while ago. The goal was to identify if you were watching a video based on the audio. I assume that the feature was not worth privacy implications and p…

It is, it was then used regularly across project as a sign that touching this code is very dangerous and should not be done except by the experts of that codebase. Fun nostalgia to…

Cars rarely spontaneously burst in flame and causing a chemical fire taking that takes hours to put out. I am all for safe e-bikes, and these bootleg batteries are dangerous to the…

Looks like another scam. In the end, who decides who to give money to? You might vote but money has to be distributed to real people, not faceless addresses. This reads like anothe…

That’s correct :)

The binlogs are applied first, then the deletes are emitted. There’s also support for read after write consistency within a single cluster by adding a canary to the memcache key wa…

I don’t think this generalization carries your point. Do you live in Europe? Are you aware of the numerous opinions on this matter in Europe? If you did, your comment would have mo…

And then you won’t have maps, Gmail, … On iOS you can have the above without giving them your location 24/7

I'm going to assume you are not trolling and hope this will change your mind, but I am not sure what proof you expect will convince you. It's worth asking yourself before reading t…

That's a very eloquent way to put it, I agree to it all :)

The SR71 was flying at a much higher altitude to achieve lower drag and fits 2 pilots, 0 commercial passengers. If you want to compare apples to apples, I suggest you refer to the …

The faster the plane goes, the more fuel it consumes due to the drag increase by the square of the speed. In a world where fossil fuel is needed to fly airplanes and where oil is c…

It's true, it was well known internally that internal chat that are sensitive would be auto deleted.

It's only higher than other big tech companies because they have so much difficulty hiring new grad. it's what's holding the funnel together, the moment comp drops compared to the …

Do you live in a low density area? I think your point of view aligns well with the idea that increased density and good alternative transit options lead to less need and want for c…

I'd love to know as well, especially for software engineers. I'm wondering if there are opportunities in this field for distributed systems experts, but not a necessity.

You only need to pay a $10 transaction fee.

Corporation are really the ones responsible for what you mention as they lobbied for all of these not to happen for profit’s sake. And they won at that game.

I could work if you are doing dull repetitive coding tasks, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't tank ones efficiency and thoroughness in intense tasks.

TL;RD: Facebook wants to announce in the future some privacy enhancing ideas, nothing concrete yet. But don’t worry, they still want to track you enough to tailor ads to users (the…