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They're using it to replace "search on stack overflow, cut and paste, does it work?"

They're tools for different tasks, consolidating them would make a less helpful mishmash

Anyone with heaps of money

He employs rocket scientists. And also, I hear, a layer of glad-handing management dedicated to keeping him from putting his thumb in the rocket scientist pie, patting him on the h…

In my experience, if what you've got is a months-ahead plan where management sets the deadlines AND controls the scope via pressuring the line manager, and delivery relies on crunc…

If they're studying history, they'll need to learn to read a whole bunch of weird, ancient, dead scripts - everything from cuneiform, to gothic black letters, to cursive. If they n…

Dry the algae, press it into bricks, put it down a mine. Charcoal is another option, including putting that into soil as a supplement for agriculture.

Programmers love "one clever trick". Reality does not, it's irreducibly complex and as a result that trick quickly becomes an annoyingly overstretched metaphor.

Pascal family languages parse quickly because they won't let you use anything before it's defined.

Reporting the images to law enforcement is good. There should be a human in the loop to separate medical images from exploitative ones. Perma-deleting his account on an automated a…

A big part of the problem is things moving so fast that a lot of stuff doesn't have a long run. Covid and its vaccines being an example. In the end the reason to trust them was a m…

> To say that a physical system is a computer requires an external observer to map the physical states of that system onto the abstract states of a Turing machine. No it does not. …

Not to mention: huge underground tanks of gasoline are a fire and explosion hazard. They are an environmental hazard if they leak or spill. They require building to safety codes. T…

Which is another feedback loop, high cost, shrinking demand, shrinking supply, rising cost. Also oil has high fixed costs. Stations, tanker trucks, refineries. Fewer customers carr…

It's the oil infrastructure that will affect them, because it's global. If that goes away...

There may be a faster fall-off than you'd think, because of feedback effects. Same way film cameras stopped being popular and then you couldn't get the films, or get them developed…

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When a measure becomes a target, it cease to be a good measure.

Real name policies have done nothing to make Facebook less toxic, because bigots in general don't mind their real names being out there. This is what happens when you ignore system…

The main use of Twitter, to me, is that it gets news out of places that have poor, slow or no mainstream coverage, and does it fast - seconds after the event, in some cases. That w…

Structured like that, it honestly sounds like the only thing that "went wrong" is that an unplanned third party end ran their "technically this is completely by the book" rug pull.…

Re the non-address bits of a pointer: there could be a method `shifted_by_address_width()` that just returns a same-size copy of the data (which remains unmodified) shifted over by…

That is a chaos magick linking sigil.

It's disingenuous arguing. Free association for me, no cancelling for you, amounts to a plea for a get-out-of-Coventry-free card.

Having them scraped, or auto memorized and dug out of cache with a tricksy autofill form, or peeked out of RAM, or I dunno... in general being treated as something other than the h…