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I don't think the issue is with the number, but rather the context. What should the end user think when finder reports that there is 60TB of data on a 2TB drive? People with above …

It isn't too bad; naming stuff is always hard. If the Microsoft marketers knew about it then I would expect to see Azure™ Gen.NET™ Live™.

Can anyone speak about YouTrack/Space's warts? The marketing blurbs makes Space + YouTrack look like a decent replacement for Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket, but I don't recall ever…

> How many military bases does Russia have in Germany Not the direction you are aiming, but I find Kaliningrad/Königsberg a fascinating example of soviet imperialism.

Oddly Bing seems to like PDFs more than other pages. I have a project that generates PDFs for logged in users. I see a handful of Bing/MSN IP addresses that keep on trying to view …

Because we all know that banning photo books that include that statue of David protects your children.

I would add boots that are high enough that there is no gap between the rain pants and the shoe. An old pair of "hiking" boots did the job for me. Riding through a puddle and getti…

I've been thinking about it in terms of the transition from pre-1950s human computers to electronic computers. How much should we morn the loss of rooms of people doing calculation…

Are there any gotchas around the sql parameterization? Looks like you're passing in an array into db.exec. I would have thought that would be enough, but if I search for org-mode t…

The Try For Free link is a bit awkward. It points to a page that just says Jobs, that in turn just points to a empty black page. I assume the intention is to use the Login link. If…

I remember hype in the early-mid 2000s for turning the semantic web into a general purpose knowledge engine. Are there projects trying to merge the natural language parts of a Chat…

Closest I've seen is when UAE's Darkmatter was revoked as a sub-CA. Darkmatter claimed their "Trust Services" business unit was separate from the business units accused of spying f…

You can install uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android.

Seems like it makes the problem worse because you are then tied to a specific version at time of publishing and need to republish to get any framework patches. https://learn.micros…

Weird, I haven't seen any recent banners frame it in terms of demise of Wikipedia. The urgent banners I've seen are about the time to complete the fund drive. Along the lines of: I…

I think it depends on what problems you want git to solve for you. Some people like having the context from the complete the history of little commits without the risks of rebase b…

As has been said before: Users are almost always right when they say a problem exists; but they are almost always wrong when they suggest a solution.

I don't want to put works in cies's mouth, but it possible to read the comment in a reasonable way. It is not necessarily a claim that polio isn't real, but rather that patient's s…

Is there a good no-nonsense way to clean PDFs of possible threats? Hunting around I see mentions of converting PDF->Postscript->PDF to remove junk, but I also see mentions that Pos…

I agree with your points, but I think you're painting with too broad of a brush with: > They really mean they hate trans people and want them to go away. It is certainly an issue; …

At what point should I push for a code audit? I don't think any of the codebases I worked on ever had a "real" audit. Best case was reviews pre/post acquisitions. An external audit…

Didn't the UK run into a problem a decade-ish ago where the group compiling the list of porn sites to block by default included the websites for their rival political parties? I ju…

> There is nothing in bitcoin's code that makes it deflationary. Depends on how strict you want to be. The number of coins the system allows is fixed. But the number of usable coin…

Looks like they are trying to create a distinct set of APIs for third-party advertising (and I think everything else) SDK libraries. Those libraries are submitted to Google indepen…

At this point how can they trust any installers they get from the company? The risk the manufacturer bundling some "legitimate" remote access tool that won't show up as a virus see…