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My employer bought me a Claude Max subscription. On heavy weeks I use 80% of the subscription. And among software engineers that I know, I'm a relatively heavy user. Why? Because i…

"Age-restriction laws push platforms toward intrusive verification systems that often directly conflict with modern data-privacy law" - when you make rules contradictory, someone a…

You need only a device on network to spam DHCP messages with malware DNS. So you don't need "shady hotspot", only compromised device within network.

> easily solved Asynchronous (you don't know when and where you will get Internet/local network connectivity) mesh (there is no gov infrastructure to be trusted) networking in pres…

Mining in Arctic is a technical nightmare. Typical alloys become brittle in these temperatures, darkness severely limits operations and/or workplace accidents, transport requires i…

There are multiple tech companies with quadrillion-deep pockets.

Because almost everyone involved in AI race grew up in "winner takes it all" environments, typical for software, and they try really hard to make it reality. This means your model …

Oh, you mean specifically GPL v3 license, not any GPL license. Yeah, broad tivoisation and patent clauses make it a problem, because making any patent litigation on unrelated groun…

So what? Standalone binaries don't infect other things with copyleft anyway.

> given support to these fake public interest groups in attempts to sue wind projects out of existence. Remember - that's the core issue. Development of housing or green energy pro…

Electricity is not really an expensive resource for communications. You need like a single rooftop to provide WiFi for the entire village.

This is merely an engineering problem. The hardest part of building nukes is acquiring weapon-grade enriched uranium, because it's controlled as hell and you will get bombed if you…

Conflict of interests is a real thing to worry about. I wouldn't trust scientist working in tobacco company on cigarette harm, even if I have no evidence of wrongdoing.

This, but unironically. Humans have the best daylight eyesight in mammals, and only birds of prey come close.

Asymmetric cryptography isn't a rocket science. Airline keeps encrypted recording and public key, certain government institution keeps private key, you need both to decrypt.

Title "People cough more during classical concerts" implies that people are more likely to cough during classical concerts than non-classical concerts. Article implies that people …

I was already running home server, so for me, setting up smart home was relatively simple: - Buy Zigbee USB dongle - Install Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT in Docker on server - In…

Incremented serial numbers can leak things like eg. volume of sales in your shop.

> length prefixing is annoying when streaming This can be avoided by magic number. If length is 0, then message length isn't known.

History as social science was basically invented between 19th and 20th century. Ancient writers generally had agenda and they happily filled missing pieces with ideologically-fuele…

> Mentally I felt like I needed more food and more junk food than I ever did before using the drug This is consistent with hungry brain hypothesis. Your hypothalamus detects that y…

> If it was the case then insurers would already be adding the drugs to their formularies. American healthcare system has perverse incentivizes. Most unhealthy groups are generally…

> This is opposed to coming up with long term solutions that involve re-evaluating daily decisions that lead to some of these diseases in the first place. Medicine tried this. It's…

> At that time, Gophers leaped to defend it, going so far as to say that it's better because it's simple. I'm not sure why certain things generate such fanatical community. Eg. I r…

I think that inflation isn't exactly comparable over that large periods of time. No amount of money could buy computing power equivalent to smartphone in Dickensian times. Our expe…