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Why is this a link to a random fork that has no commits, rather than the original?

Doctors regularly have people's lives in their hands and if they make a significant mistake, they are liable. Not that the current state of medical malpractice law is exactly the g…

I'm not sure what you're arguing against here, but it seems clear to me that the comment you're replying to was drawing a comparison to the military.

I noticed the same thing, I suspect it's hallucinated. It seems like the correct package is @fly/sprites -- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fly/sprites

Minor nitpick, but Sam in the title should be SAM. (It’s an acronym.)

I think this was Capistrano, but you're right I that's quite the throwback as well.

I think the parent commenter is referring to a general dislike for target="_blank" (i.e. new tab) links. Probably because there's a way to force a link to open in a new tab, but no…

https://archive.ph/xcad7

Basically it's a setting for people who are concerned about being targeted by 0days. > Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals…

I think most non-perishable goods are the same across stores. There are regional differences between some perishable goods based on where they come from.

This feels like the plot to a dystopian science fiction story. You’re effectively arguing in favor of eugenics…

AFAICT The Junk Science at play here is not that SBS doesn't exist, but that the triad of symptoms is enough to definitively prove SBS. The reference to Texas is because the subjec…

FWIW this seems to be a NY focused publication and my understanding is that the tradition started on WNEW. I grew up listening to it, but I have no idea how far it’s spread outside…

I’m not the parent commenter, but I believe they’re making the case that there are negative externalities that come from not wearing protective equipment which are borne by others …

You're right, for most simple use cases it doesn't matter. But I once spent an hour on a weird bug that turned out to just be some plugin applying a map that I didn't know about an…

I think the reasoning is less nefarious, Chrome apps never got that much love on other platforms, and I'm guessing they want to move towards Progressive Web Apps.

I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.

It works with the beta version (i.e. 2.9).

I went to one of Mr. Tufte's workshops several months ago, and I do believe he mentioned Overleaf while discussing LaTeX. I must admit I had forgotten about it until just now, so t…

I'll just leave this here: https://news.vice.com/article/indonesia-is-killing-the-plane...

On a related note, I recently found out that all SIM cards run JavaCard applications. Apparently SIM applications are not uncommon in countries where smartphones still aren't commo…