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It was hard to track down a source to confirm a half-remembered fact, but apparently the expansion content will be split between a number of mods so that you can independently enab…

How could the AGI punish players who don't help? It's not like it would be able to send an extra logistics bot into their games, set to occasionally pick up an item off one belt an…

Lawyers don't exist to decide who wins a case. It's all about making the other side show their work, prove that they have valid evidence, it was collected legally, etc. An AI might…

You can replace a chunk of innerHTML faster than a full page reload, using a near-trivial piece of vanilla JS. But a full page reload also clears out memory "leaks", old state acci…

Imagine an email program that, knowing how many total items there are in the inbox, gives you finite scroll! Even if it only streams metadata for nearby items, so if you suddenly d…

Imagine sites like facebook, reddit, and google themselves who have more monthly users than the FLoC ID has bits to count. Imagine they store each result for a given user, and assu…

So what, those third parties will then request that first-parties run a cookie proxy to generate and relay your unique ID, in order to get better payout rates?

XML guarantees that tag precedes attributes which in turn precede contents, which is a great help when any sort of polymorphism is involved. Heck, anything beyond a tree of untyped…

By the time a web app has megabytes of JS and fetches just to show its initial content, is it actually saving money?

If I were an emacs user, I'd figure out how to write a plugin to display tab-indented code to my preferences. No, I used to be a notepad user (on personal projects, not shared work…

In an ideal world, I'd think you would put a "tab stop" character before arg1, then a single tab on the following line, with the bonus benefit that the formatting would survive aut…

I don't know about anyone else, but I like aligning certain things at half-indents (labels/cases half an indent back, so you can skim the silhouette of both the surrounding block a…

Can you return a bit by deciding whether the executable gets flagged as malicious in response to the network activity? Can you set up a timing difference to send more than one bit …

Consider: Malware that doesn't do anything suspicious unless it can first fetch a plausible benign file from what looks like a CDN. If the goal is to properly inspect the behaviour…

Federation is nice, but going out of your way to hide that federation is occurring from users is a bit too much. Doesn't it matter who gets to see the full URL you are accessing (e…

JSON exposes implementors to all sorts of recursion, numeric precision, etc., where the only advantage is that you can consume the data through whatever JSON library already exists…

Reading about speculative execution exploits makes me wonder whether it would be useful to have a speculation register, and an instruction prefix that claims one bit of that regist…

The user who posted that has a strong history of looking for, and loudly proclaiming, malice in many decisions reddit makes. They're not necessarily wrong, though, just slightly mo…

Is that packaging style the same for all English-speaking countries? Standing on the side of the road and facing traffic, you'd expect all of the near vehicles to be facing right i…

Some time ago, Twitch bought Curse, probably for the Curse App that already does voice and text chat. Also viewing streams and mod management for a handful of games.

When a system tries to do something automagically and makes a mistake, it is very frustrating, especially because, to allow seamless large changes, hide competitive details, or mak…

With labels, hidden checkboxes/radio buttons, and some awkward CSS you can make no-javascript collapsible/expandable content, tabs, user-changable colour themes, and other horrible…

Desktop and laptop systems tend to be in portrait orientation; phones and tablets tend to be in portrait. So you already have to either make two layout styles or accept a mediocre …

4. 0-day in the kernel's USB code. Your computer crashes. You're not part of stuxnet. You also get a message that tells you how and where to report the bug that was exploited, but …

Facebook probably looked for anything matching "facebook(web-related words)", and were lucky to find one with only one errant character. There were probably enough acceptable varia…