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An open question is whether the rideshare model, where the service provider knows which passenger was with which driver at which time and place solves the problem that regulation w…

> the complexity of the problems demands so much code that the REPL cannot keep up. Now we disagree, at least in part. REPL-driven development is in part about incrementalism. You …

I think we're largely in agreement here. Unit tests and REPLs serve different purposes and are poor substitutes for each other; red_admiral was arguing that unit tests obviate the …

Unit testing doesn't provide the level of interactivity a REPL does. A REPL lets you see the output of parts of an unfinished function based on the running program's state. If you'…

C++ predated the OOP hype cycle and triggered, or at least accelerated it.

I don't think C++ succeeded because it was object-oriented. I think C++ was object-oriented because classes were an abstraction that could layer on top of C with fairly low overhea…

I was hoping it would address Lisp. Lisp is fun. The interactivity and instant turnaround of a Lisp REPL is still rarely matched in other languages. Common Lisp also solved a signi…

Not a pilot either, but it's my understanding that accidental spins almost never happen at altitudes where they're recoverable. Preventing the spin is the only way to avoid most cr…

That may be, but quite a few of the things that people want to keep kids out of are entirely usable from a browser.

The commercial value of a ten year old smartphone in a wealthy country is approximately $0. It's probably not terribly hard for a determined child who goes to school and has friend…

Is it? I saw macros and went mad with power. I wrote a macro that could have been a function today . But seriously, I think Clojure has a particularly strong tradition of writing c…

It seems to me the Clojure community internalized the lesson of not writing macros unless it's really necessary more than other Lisps did.

A "bad look" is legally irrelevant. A US citizen has an almost unlimited right to enter the USA carrying anything that's legal to import. Blank phones are legal to import.

The border search exemption is not intended to allow searching for evidence of crimes that aren't related to importing something illegally. Of course CPB isn't expected to ignore e…

> That anything within 100 miles of the border is constitution free tosses that out That's a misconception. Border/immigration agents can operate inside this zone, including making…

This probably doesn't hold up legally, but it does hold up logically: if the reason a border search exemption exists is to prevent importation of material that is unlawful to impor…

Looks like the correct link is now https://geekyants.com/case-studies/nowmatch-next-gen-dating-...

This seems to describe a workflow with a small number of apps that store things remotely. I want to back up my phone and restore it in one step, possibly to different hardware, and…

A US citizen has an almost unlimited right to enter the USA. The border search rule permits officials to search for things that are illegal to import. A blank phone is not illegal …

Possible, yes. Easy, not so much. Phone operating systems don't really place nice with local backup and restore, which I consider a serious flaw.

The article already links to a website that shows their locations: https://deflock.org/ It does not gamify or otherwise encourage damaging them, which would be legally risky.

A long time ago, I fixed Windows machines for pocket change. I can confirm some users will make bad decisions no matter what warnings they're given. I think the impulse for an OS v…

Then I wouldn't use it, and I would probably stop using services that tried to push me in to it. I use multiple devices and I want to log in to things using only my master password…

I have a hard time imagining any significant number of people objecting based on the sender's privacy. An adult sending explicit images to a child is a crime in most jurisdictions.…

> Pedophiles aren't stupid I'm not entirely convinced that's true. Facebook is a leading reporter of CSAM, much of it sent through Messenger, which only recently got E2EE, and Inst…