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The Honey discount browser extension, owned by PayPal, allegedly scams not only its users, but the influencers who promote it.

This phenomenon consistently happened to my college bus system, but on an even worse scale. The main bus line did a loop around campus, which took ~20 min to complete and buses sch…

Tesla owner here. If you have the Tesla app installed on your phone, you can "share" addresses from map apps to it and it will auto-sync them to your car. So the workflow is open c…

This is mostly true, but sometimes the cost of evaluating the condition itself is non-trivial. For example, if a and b are complex objects, even something as trivial as `if (a.equa…

They stopped just fine, but their stopping distance was twice as far, and more like 3x in the rain

> But 700x28 is really the maximum tire size you can possibly fit with rim brakes This is patently false. Mountain bikes have been running tires over twice as wide on rim brakes fo…

I take it you've never actually cared for small children. One of the most obvious problems they solve is the ability to go outside earshot of the nursery - doesn't matter if the ki…

> This is one category of problem that should be solved through legislation, but I doubt that should such laws be passed, that they would be actually enforced against bad actors. I…

As a parent of two small kids, I just did an old cell phone running tinycam + generic ip webcam (amcrest makes a bunch of good ones). The dedicated cell phone is mostly for nannies…

If anyone wants this capability, the chrome extension uBlacklist ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi... ) provides it. I've found it very useful for remo…

Sorry, I didn't read your link carefully enough. I stand corrected, that does indeed seem to be the only reasonable interpretation. That said, this clause only exists in this parti…

My interpretation of that clause is it applies to distributing code over a network. The most common example of this is serving javascript to a web browser. I'm pretty sure putting …

I didn't say it wasn't a problem - if I could wave a magic wand and get rid of the concept of null in Java I would. That isn't what we're discussing though - you said, "The biggest…

> it doesn't matter how much the HotSpot JVM is tailored to OOP code This is obviously false. The JVM, or any other compiler for that matter, is what translates the OOP code into C…

I'm not sure you fully appreciate how tailored the JVM, and hotspot in particular, are to executing OOP oriented code. One great example I can think of is polymorphic methods. In C…

It doesn't fully solve the problem, but @lombok.NonNull helps a lot. It makes it clear which properties shouldn't be null, and catches NPEs closer to the source. Incidentally, lomb…

On any sort of list structure, a "find" operation generally means searching the list in order for an element that satisfies a predicate, usually equality to a given value. The arti…

Thanks for taking the time to reply. > Kindly show me where I was making a cost comparison between nuclear and solar in my original comment Ok. "There simply isn't a comparison bet…

Agreed, it's actually fairly impressive. Beware the false equivalence fallacy however - there's little overlap in the expertise needed to design and install a home solar array, and…

I'm certainly not an expert on nuclear vs solar energy, although I do have some background knowledge. As with many things, I make up for my lack of expertise by seeking the analyse…

This makes sense for lithium based batteries, but those aren't the only ones around. Iron flow batteries, for example, consist mainly of iron, salt, and water. There's no shortage …

Sony literally cannot stop making spiderman movies. Part of the deal when they bought the rights from Disney in 1998 was they have to make at least one spiderman movie every 5.75 y…

It is when your local host server is macos and your remote production server is... anything else. I'm sure the number of people running macos servers in production is quite small i…