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Since I can't edit this comment: obviously I mean a Touch-ID sensor.

To everyone who is about to pile on regarding the lack of a fingerprint sensor: you know it's not possible, we all know it's not possible, the creator of this project knows it's no…

There are a number of comments here where people open up about their contrasting experiences of not being a part of a programming community. Those are well addressed, I think, but …

So do we want to acknowledge that interest in this is probably driven by the desire to abusively scrape the web for LLM training data? I wouldn’t be surprised if the motivation is …

This quote comes up often in SJ biographies or anecdotes and they universally attribute it purely to aesthetic concerns. Admittedly the man cared quite a lot about "beauty", but I'…

> Despite skepticism from Volcker and Buffet, financial innovation has been and will continue to be a massive net positive for humanity. Juxtaposing yourself with Warren Buffet and…

> … it means delivering the kind of things that are legible to the decision-makers at the company: i.e. visible to your manager, plus 1-3 skip levels, depending on your title. The …

“Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.” - http://scripting.com/stories/2012/02/19/hackathonsAreNonsens... As discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

Subscribed. All this money I’m saving boycotting spineless American companies is coming in handy. If LWN is worth $16 a month, and it is, then so is The Atlantic, ProPublica, etc. …

Loading up this thread I knew this kind of response would be here. Like, I was willing to bet money on it. Examples of support people worth $200k+ are abundant, and the business ca…

Arguing that many humans are stupid or ignorant does not support the idea that an LLM is intelligent. This argument is reductive in that it ignores the many, many diverse signals i…

> You might think "something something incentive systems". No. At my big tech job I had the pleasure of interviewing a few programmers who worked for a large healthcare company tha…

The realities of the news business are fine, but the realities of the adtech business are not. As a consumer I very much want profiling and targeting to die off. Were the ads run o…

Was any regex documentation unclear on this? Some libraries have modes that change the semantics of ^ and $ but I’ve always found their use to be rather clear. It’s the grouping an…

I’m a happy, long term Optery user (not affiliated) and they take care of 100% of this for you. https://www.optery.com The Mozilla offering looks somewhat comparable, but I do wond…

I'll go one step further. RTO mandates are being used to mask how shockingly bad most manager's written communication and critical thinking skills are. When their ability to "manag…

> The best optimization is simply shutting things off This is the way. A similar idea has been bouncing around in my mind for a while now. An ideal, turnkey system would do the fol…

Adding to the already good recommendations on this thread: - Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols ( https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-B…

You'll notice I didn't recommend search, or actually anything, as a solution to the problems I mentioned. I think these issues need more research and experimentation before we can …

The "Fisher-Price'ing" [1] of the user interface isn't necessarily better in my view. It took the already big and colorful user interface elements and essentially made them bigger.…

People seem very focused on “should they or shouldn’t they, and why”, which somewhat perplexes me given that there is at least one really good reason for doing this: to create Rose…

Per AWS themselves, ECS is Elastic Container Service. The parent comment is almost correct. https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

How does Source 2 not make it onto this "Market Map"? It's mostly used by Valve and a smaller number of studios than something like Unreal, but it's viable none the less. I suspect…

> Although I personally suspect this is correct, the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise, whether right or wrong, including some of the people invol…

> remote code execution and "I got around the child lock on this device" are somewhat different in severity You’ll notice that the recipients of both reports responded similarly, w…