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Given the US Government's recent habit of sudden announcements on export controls or new executive orders with 'voluntary' review programs that are perhaps not entirely voluntary -…

My CS degree started first semester with Haskell, with a few weeks of Java tacked on the end. It was interesting to see some of the students who had prior programming experience ha…

Assuming it's the US we're talking about, the federal minimum wage is $7.25, which means that if every worker involved is paid at the minimum wage, you incur a cent of labour costs…

In Australia, if a company fails to pay its Goods and Services Tax, or its withholding payments for its employees' income tax, or Superannuation Guarantee (retirement fund contribu…

My initial reactions: - I hope they succeed and eventually deliver a solid version of this product - verifiable photography is going to become important, and it's good to see start…

I'd be shocked if the major sensor vendors don't already have engineers working on exactly that, though.

It's bizarre to me, an Australian, how the pardon power is used in the US. Our federal, state and territory executive governments all have a pardon power, inherited from English la…

Yeah, you're wrong - a court simply isn't going to consider a lawnmower's translation of throttle input to motor power as "inference". The principles of statutory interpretation re…

A relative of mine had to go back to their paper-only specialist a couple of months ago to get a prescription reissued because the specialist had omitted a mandatory detail from th…

This is true, but the general advice one gives through, for example, publishing a style guide, should focus on producing reliable outcomes over great outcomes. I'd happily lose mos…

Can't speak for the US National Archives, but I do occasionally head to the National Archives of Australia to look at things that pique my interest, and I can confirm that yes, you…

Give them the credit after the sponsor actually finalises the updated contract.

There are also a few businesses e.g. Collabora that pay LibreOffice developers today.

> Do you know that our voter registration, which is organized by state and ultimately administered at the county level, does include that information? If you're a citizen, and you'…

I quite like the kiosk system for ordering McDonald's. You can see the entire available menu, along with all possible options for adding or removing ingredients, sides, sizes, comb…

This company isn't the only one running autonomous shuttle buses - what makes theirs different from their competitors?

Here's a few more: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-assessments-and-deci...

If you're making a brochure to go out to the whole population of a country, keep it simple and straightforward even if that means oversimplifying the advice a bit.

Sure, but institutions and regulators care about this issue, and at least making some attempt to address it will make them slightly happier.

Using LLMs to write your essays and reports for school or uni, in a way that could get you punished if caught, is a reasonably big use case.

An interesting aspect of ACWST is that it has no legal status - it's observed purely by local convention, though it's still managed to make it into tzdata.