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This looks too easy, the first solution. If there is no logged on user, which User object is fetchUser going to return? Which friends? At the top level, if I were to forget to chec…

The same site has an article about all this from today: https://www.icelandreview.com/business/elon-musk-and-halli-s...

It's also available as an Android app, MaximaOnAndroid. I love having it on my phone, even though I rarely actually use it :)

This is quite easy to reproduce. Wow. IMO they should just remove the password generator feature. It's barely usable, and with this behavior it's just dangerous. Why barely usable?…

I can't see the square either. Firefox 99, Windows 10.

Just BTW on the Netflix subtitles issue - I live in Germany, but I'm not German and generally prefer original audio on everything, typically with English subtitles. And some movies…

Not only resets, you cannot activate the old way in the Settings anymore. It is hidden in about:config (set browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel to false), but even if y…

There's a contradiction in the conclusion. Foucault was an academic philosopher, got a degree in philosophy, was awarded a doctorate, and is respected by many people who also got a…

You're right, my mistake! But it still should not be an issue, since according to what you quoted an acceptor will not reply to a second proposal that bears the same number ("If an…

I think you're mistaken about the ability of 2 proposers to move to phase 2 - once an acceptor has agreed to a proposal with a certain seq number, it cannot just agree to another o…

I've had lots of ideas like that, things I'd like to do which I never get around to. The one I did go through with and still keep working on it on and off is the one that had a con…

C# has LINQ. Implement Select and SelectMany extension methods for whatever you like, and you can use the LINQ syntax with your type just as easily as with IEnumerable. Foreach and…

I don't know if this works well on JS, but there is a purely functional way that avoids most of the performance hit - generator methods. In C#, I'd write functions that return IEnu…

I'm currently working on a side project, a distributed in-process key/value store for .NET Standard, which might be interesting in this context. I hope you'll pardon the shameless …

I think I get it. With doubling, the sum of all the work done for resizing is roughly (written chonologically backwards): n/2 + n/4 + ... ~= n, and O(n) + O(n) is still O(n). Thank…

This is what I'd do too, and it is quite strange that it was dismissed like that. Maybe because it's not as much fun :) BTW I believe it may be a bit more than just O(n) time on th…

I was also wondering why simply opening curly braces after the => was not allowed. It would be consistent with lambda syntax generally.

This is a weird title. The article says that the people on basic income were equally likely to find a job as those who were not receiving it. I was expecting that basic income migh…

If you deliver the impossible on time, they'll just ask for the even more impossible next time...

Here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/501DevelopersFamilyAndExcitem... I'm not sure if that is the original post. There was a bit of backlash against it, someone even published a 5:…

This is a bit off-topic, but on another occasion, Scott Hanselman infamously used the term "5:01 developers" targetted at many of the same people ;)

Did you check if the "nouveau" OSS Nvidia driver was still installed? Happened to me all the time, so I got used to always checking and removing it manually before letting him rebo…

"Pun not intended" should definitely be among the top 10 most common lies, along with the likes of "I'm starting tomorrow", or "I'll pay you back" ;)

Why always Peano numbers? If it's doable, I'd love to see something like a web server with provable safety guarantees (e.g. eliminating any SQL injection risk), or a concurrent sys…

I stumpled upon a good text here once, but I don't remember where it was published, so I guess you should best google it, sorry.