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I don't know about that: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...

The objection is generally landlords have to show damages to collect compensation from renters. They collect deposits to ensure at least some of the bill gets paid should you damag…

Because I'm buying the service of them paying my liability, and also my own damages if I opt for it, if suddenly I crash. They sell the service of protecting you from financial ris…

Leases are pretty clear about the non-refundable nature of the deposit/fee/whatever, and it isn't exactly a rare practice.

If I have a serious wreck in my car, I win the insurance bet—that is, it may well pay out more than I've paid in. Even crappy health insurance policies have cases where they do the…

Non-refundable deposits are. If you really do have a model pet that damages nothing, why does the landlord get to keep your deposit anyway? I can grant, say, compulsory carpet repl…

They could even do this without preventing the machine from squeezing improperly-ordained-by-DRM bags. "If we recognize the bag, and it's recalled, we'll stop you—or at least yell …

The Linux kernel seems to have a centisecond obsession too. Probably from way back when HZ was 100 and your computer woke up once every centiseecond to make sure it still had nothi…

Recent surprise: exponentiation by squaring. Not by name, but by being the correct answer to the question. (This is in the list of 500, by the way.) It's trivial to explain: x^n = …

For functional purposes, I consider myself to know something if I could page in the details well enough to implement it in 5 minutes with Wikipedia or less. How this plays in inter…

Fair enough. But people will decide not caring even slightly about binary size is admirable (move fast and make users buy new phones, I guess) and eventually everything will be hug…

I did not buy 64GB of flash storage so Facebook could be lazy. I bought 64GB of flash storage to store media that gets noticeably better, to a point, when you throw more bits at it…

Did you read the article? People add the structure they think they need to interviews, but are clearly able to troll themselves into worsening their judgments by requiring steps th…

Counterexample: I did not apply to, nor interview for, my current gig, and I'm not cheating by working for myself. And I bet almost everyone reading this has worked with at least o…

When users of code I've written complain that something sucks to use, I don't demand they come up with a better solution. Probably I don't even want to know what they think the ans…

Nothing makes people more interested in freedom of speech than the fear their own ideas will be suppressed. Precious few people are willing to defend both Milo and Anita's right to…

I am not an expert, but since no one has answered I'll give what I know and hope somebody corrects me if I'm terribly wrong. Substrate: the thing that's supposed to bind to somethi…

I understand the need to defend unpopular speech, but this is such a weird hill to die on when so many other things have unjustified stigmas attached to them. It'd be nice to hear …

This is true. Compilers even sometimes act vaguely like JIT—see also speculative devirtualization. If your code really needs runtime profiling information to optimize well, we have…

In theory Java can be more optimized than C—machine code generation benefits from knowledge of how the program actually executes. Just let the JIT figure out where you should've us…

Sure, but its products help keep those populists alive—or at least give them a fighting chance. I bet everyone in Alabama at the time remembers April 27, 2011: https://en.wikipedia…

The law did grant them powers to run pieces of this scheme that a judge decided they took way too far. And they got to run it for years before a judge stopped it. And AFAIK no one …

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/01/macys-shopl... Not killing, but taking of liberty and property through their own extrajudicial system of justice.

I know exactly zero developers senior enough to have gotten over writing bugs. I know I've written bugs that happened to pass all my tests only to blow up in somebody else's face, …

The former stopped working in iOS 9.