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It's your computer, and anything arriving on it needs to be done by your consent. A browser is for browsing. Going to websites and using them, in the way we've been used to for dec…

>We can and should trust statistics. We should just never trust their relation to future behavior. 99% of people I've ever met believe statistics and forecasting are synonyms. Most…

>Working at $dayjob the unit of change is the commit, and every commit is reviewed and signed off by at least 1 peer. Respectfully, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Work o…

They are saying it... is it true? Or is it just propaganda?

The trap command with printing the lines didn't work. Had to change it to drop the parantheses, then it worked, like this trap 'read -p "[${BASH_SOURCE:-}:${LINENO:-}] ${BASH_COMMA…

It's been an "ever shrinking market" since the 2000s, if you believe the news. A thing to consider is, for the consumer market, machines have gotten good enough that most don't nee…

This brings up the classic idea of Gandhi and MLK as icons of peace, and the idea that this peace brought about respect and change. This is only barely true. It's a very selective …