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I've got protonmail connected to a personal domain (in case I ever want to switch providers and keep my address), works fairly well.

Despite almost everything being in one big repo, it has silos. Not everyone has read access to everything. Some code, like the important bits of Search, is only available on a need…

As the old saying goes, "’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Needing to Pee and Taxes."

That's an old YAML 1.1 behavior. It was removed in 1.2 (in 2009), though some implementations (looking at you, pyyaml) are still on 1.1.

If you're worried about your data evaporating, consider using Google Inactive Account Manager to set up a way to automatically gift your data to a family member. https://support.go…

We use the nanos heavily at my workplace. I've seen people make a chain out of paperclips when their nearest USB port is too far away (and they can't be bothered to grab an extensi…

That's like asking "Why are people still manufacturing bikes, you'd think everyone who wants a bike would have one by this point". Bikes generally have shorter lifespans than peopl…

The government also can't stop you from robbing your neighbor, but that's not how laws work. Laws are about punishing you after the fact. If they catch you, of course.

It would be terrible to design it that way, but I think it's fine as a compiler optimization. Most of that datastructure is constant anyway, think of the memory savings!

Just imagine the sexually transmitted advertisements. Get a strange rash for a few days that has an ad for condoms printed on it.

Or maybe they just use push notifications? https://developers.google.com/drive/web/push

Depends. The article didn't reveal which parts of her had which DNA, we just know that her eggs had different DNA than whatever they were sampling from. If she left blood behind an…

Yep, the extra non-physical keys cost money. "Additional eKeys are available as an in-app purchase for a one-time charge of $1.99. eKeys never expire and can be passed from one per…

Have you considered buying solar-powered drones from Titan Aerospace before Facebook snatches them up? Probably a bit pricey, but they are marketed as atmospheric satellites.

It's just an interface to Google Play Music, which already makes your music available on your Android.

Tried signing in with a gmail account and it wanted me to create a password. The gmail bridge seems to be functioning normally at persona.org, so what's the deal?

Make Dalvik/JVM a compile target for Go? There is at least one project working on this.

> Until recently(?) the primary JIT back-end for PyPy was, in fact, still the JVM. This sounds false. The PyPy Features page does mention that PyPy will run on the JVM, but that it…

Depends, how good are you at creative writing? I can think of a lot of messages you might send to someone that you'd want to be private that aren't nefarious plots. Weird fan ficti…

Near the bottom they mention using more than one wheat stream to achieve something like deniable encryption. If they ask you for the key, give them the one that produces innocent-l…

Jury nullification is possible, but it's unusual for any jury members who have heard of it to make the cut.

CGI-based images or pages. I don't believe GeoCities let users upload their own CGI scripts, but I believe they had a set of pre-defined CGI tools you could call. You could also se…

They're going with external expansion options. There are enclosures you can buy for PCIe cards to plug them in to the Thunderbolt ports if you need to.

Let's see him pop it into an electric car and take a cross-continent drive without stopping for a recharge.

You might want to look into getting a prepaid phone of some kind, even if it's not a smart phone. Having a portable emergency communication device seems like a good idea even if yo…