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Do you have the same opinion of labour-saving inventions that were created before you were born, or is it just future ones that are evil?

Zurich is third behind Dublin (definitely for tax reasons) and London.

The site doesn’t make it clear, but it’s not available worldwide. The App Store doesn’t tell you where exactly it is available, but it’s not in the UK. This surprised me seeing as …

They fortunately fixed the repeating feature in iOS 18.3. Though it does seem a bit ridiculous that something like this is tied to the entire OS version.

Do you mean “difficult to overstate”? “Difficult to understate” would mean he has little to no social capital.

I bet this is the same guy who draws markings on the pavement to tell dognappers where to strike!

“In Paris, you can buy a beer in McDonalds” ~ Vincent Vega https://youtu.be/6Pkq_eBHXJ4

I spent several hours earlier this year helping a colleague debug a protobuf deserialisation error, where I noticed that the first byte was a varint-encoded length of the rest of t…

In general, people often forget that if your target is a ratio, you can attack the numerator or the denominator. Often the latter is the easier to manipulate.

They weren’t scammed, they willingly chose to engage in scummy behaviour with a company that enables such scummy behaviour.

This but unironically

This is my favourite page on this subject: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm Well actually, it’s the linked celeb page: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknottin…

Firing employees who publicly abuse people is in no way similar to committing genocide. To imply that it is is grossly offensive.

We’ve all worked with these people. Nice to see the company just get rid of one for once.

The first car didn’t change the world, nor did the first plane, etc. At least not directly. But they did pave the way for the examples that did change the world. No different here.…

Strangely, Americans kept the head part with “hood”, but not the foot part.

Only if the user is the one deliberately doing the prompt injection. The AI system might be used to summarise the user’s incoming emails. Now anyone who emails the user has the opp…

Of course: a group contains the inverse of every member.

Sony Bravia also allows this.

I purchased some CalorieMate from a Japanese vending machine half-way up a mountain. I was taken aback as I’d assumed it was a fictional product as I’d only encountered it in the v…

Current top post on HN is a Raspberry Pi project: rpi is a British invention. Second is a paper from UCL, based in London. In the top few is a paper by DeepMind, also in London. Ye…

Interesting article, but a shame it had to end with a political attack on England for no reason.

G prevents this. From its page here: https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/... “The 9-mm long insulated sleeves prevent accidental contact with a bare connect…

Indeed. In particular, I’ve seen variations of “Watch how people treat service workers” in this kind of content again and again. It really makes me wonder who needs telling “If the…

No-one plays in the World Cup for the money.