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Do you mean that Bloomberg should have used a different title or Hacker News should have modified the title?

Ah, but that's a beauty of it. If you encrypt with ECB you can't be decrypted by a federally compliant organization!

Yep! That is it alright. Here's a talk from an llvm conference with the details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjliNp0_00

So fun fact, if you compile int sum(int n) { int sum = 0; for(int i = 0; i clang, with -O2, will turn this into the polynomial (n+1)*n//2. It can also do similar transformations fo…

Microsoft and Apple preceded the dot com bomb by several decades. (Microsoft 1975, Apple 1976) Amazon was a company that was around and survived the dot com bomb (founded in 1994, …

It is this argument, about what benefits the jaguars themselves bring to the farmers, that is unfortunately lacking from the article. Thank you for the additional context.

I don't get it. The article's title is that the ranchers have become allies to jaguars and pumas. But nothing in the article supports that view. What has changed are cattle ranchin…

Trump is notoriously transactional. If the unions continue to play ball, he might apply leverage in their favor.

Do they actually provide applications the ability to access raw camera data? They don't allow that on the Occulus. They can only rely on 3p devs if they allow access to the hardwar…

Step 1 of reverse engineering anything: Figure out the make and model of the thing. ;) "Employee badges" can be implemented in a number of ways, from simple broadcasted rfids down …

The Jacquard Loom predates that by over 80 years. I'm sure we can stretch the definition further and go back even farther.

What were they coding on in 1924?

Comma is in the wrong spot. It's $34,000 USD (350k Krona).

White, male and old. Example usage (found randomly by google, likely can find others): https://www.veterinarywoman.co.uk/2015/02/the-stale-pale-mal... Interestingly, google's searc…

I mean, say what you want about Meta only releasing the weights and calling it open source, what they're doing is better than this.

I mean, if you want to argue it's a Non Profit, not a business, go ahead, but I'm not particularly interested in fitting modern tax code and business rules to an entity that has ex…

The Church of Sinai has operated Saint Catherine's Monastery for nearly 1500 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery

> What do you mean by free speech is regressing in anglophone countries? That seems like a weird opinion to have? Do you have a particular example? In the US at least, I'd say for …

This doesn't explain why the insurance companies don't have an incentive to fight back. If Acadia is engaged in insurance fraud, the insurance companies have every incentive to sto…

Sounds like fun :) You should write up a blog post where you had to debug some weird gnarly issues. A lot of us higher up the tech stack are pretty far removed from the signals lev…