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Yes. It depends on the customer rapport, polish of the product and elasticity of demand for the solution (how much pain they have and how much pain it alleviates). Some conservativ…

Btw, correct me if I'm wrong regarding extendable output hash functions: Keccak instances of SHAKE are XOF, which allow varying lengths of output hashes rather than fixed-sized out…

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) lets donors realize tax benefits now and transfer funds promised later. It has an endowment of around $14 Billion. https://en.wikipedia.o…

Blow into a ketchup cup to make it even more conveniently sized.

Having deployed a dozen or so JIRA instances: it usually comes down to tuning and hardware selection. JIRA can be fast, but admins usually don't pay enough attention to better conf…

FYI: zsh's autocorrection is fairly good.

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I never heard of this library before. Most projects seem to use libssh2. https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2

Thread A. Correct, weakness always invites aggression. It's human nature. "If you want peace, prepare (as Smedley Butler would: defensively only) for war." The problem is the US' n…

Terms like "democracy" and "peace process" have different meanings: one to you-and-I, and another to the diplomacy corps. To diplomats, these terms usually mean "whatever America w…

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But it's not gluten-free! (Seriously, recently diagnosed with some auto-immune issue like IBS-Crohn's. I'll take a glutenous bagel emoji though.)

The difference is that not taking a flight is like returning the fries to let someone else immediately buy them.

I'll only be worried when celebrity chefs make more than CEOs. Oh wait, nm.

"A cure" is a very deceptive headline; it's an allegedly curative personalized protocol, The Bredesen Protocol™.

There is some truth to this criticism, esp. on desktop browsers according to PageSpeed https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

Hmm: looking at 19th century shops where only merchants picked products to self-checkout today, that seems like the trend. Everyone will end up doing everything themselves.

PDF and ePub. LaTeX if you want to get fancy and OSS.

Seems like an X reasons you should(|n't) Y

Not everyone qualifies for SS because either they didn't pay in long or enough. There's thousands of people working well into their 70's and 80's in menial jobs because SS doesn't …

Because human activities are error-prone, evacuations cause an increase in fatalities; so any evacuation decision has to be balanced against the risks of sheltering locally.

I'm equally excited about AvE tearing it apart and ripping Dyson a new one.

TBH, at about 5, those clunky animatronics gave me nightmares.