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Even a dog that doesn't bark makes a lot of noise, and that's just part of living in an apartment. In my last place, my upstairs neighbor had 2 dogs and whenever they wagged their …

One of the stated goals is to have long-term support and maintainability. Adding in a dependency like an IDE is already a large step away from that goal, and to include a dependenc…

Telephone-based sampling is hardly random sampling, given that most people don't answer calls they don't recognize the caller ID for. Those who do might be pre-disposed to certain …

This is a call from Memphis TN with a badly formatted ANI. The format that you would recognize would be +19011700119 or (901) 170-0119. 111 or 011 are country code prefixes in the …

STIR/SHAKEN has barely started to be rolled out, and most major carriers don't fully support both protocols. Realistically the reason you've not seen a difference is that... well t…

That's a counter example in the same way that someone responding to "Stop depicting all humans as spread eagle with their hands over their head, they don't naturally stand like tha…

I'm afraid you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the "burden of proof" means in this context. Let's clarify a few things: 1) there is adequate and persuasive evidence tha…

I'll assume your line of reasoning is in good faith and answer it as such. To OP's point, leading research actually has answers to the questions you're asking and backs up your fri…

There's an entire dialect of English that has evolved just to handle expressiveness in text formats. There's a standard and reproducible grammar, and most people (who do or have sp…

It's somewhat apparent just reading through the python that you are self-taught. Some of the idioms used, especially around file handling, are outdated. For example: you should ope…

So, a more complete example might help: def myFunc(par=None): if par: # do whatever is needed when the parameter exists pass #finish processing This allows you to pass in [], {}, N…

Quick note, the more pythonic way of checking par in this case would be just to: if par: do_stuff() Python does some really cool, if slightly unintuitive, checks for "truthiness" w…

There's some subtle irony in that the linked site is not in fact a WayBackMachine link, but instead a direct link to the site.

That's not necessarily true, especially in consulting firms. I am drug tested somewhat regularly.

You have NO IDEA how tempted I've been to add that! I've literally had printed this out and pinned to the wall of my cubicle for years!

It depends build to build. The standard approach is one of 4: 1) The bot initiates the conversation and your initial message gets sent directly to an agent. This is the older model…

I think OP means that you have to make sure you don't forget to/neglect to renew it and make sure you don't accidentally lose the domain for any reason.

Free speech means that you won't be prosecuted/persecuted by the government, not that you're free from social or societal ramifications. Hate speech is one of the exclusions (see C…

In medicine, at least in my experience, the terms are used fairly interchangeably.

GDPR is not enforceable in the US, so this is applicable only to the EU. In the US AFIAK Google can collect anything that you consent to.

Disclaimer: I'm a telephony engineer, and while I understand and will below present the motivations and logic of enterprise-level companies, I don't always agree with it. On the en…