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That's why I start with "are you a human or a robot", then "what's your favorite color"

I've been reading on the topic recently and that is referred to as "criminal trespass". I want to put up signs that say "yes trespassing"

Don't forget to track if the rooks or kings have moved, for castling eligibility. And what the previous move was for en passant. And the full game history back to the most recent c…

We have that law in Maine. It's wonderful. I don't see why it would be ok at the state level but not the federal.

or... userd could opt-in to auto-substitution of blocked words. The recipient gets "m*rphine".

Yes, humans make mistakes, and we improve by creating strong disincentives for mistakes.

Bluetooth is a running joke around our house. When I'm talking on the phone and my girlfriend gets in the car and suddenly my phone call gets teleported to the car that I'm not in.…

So you can't charge your phone and listen to audio at the same time. That sentence would sound crazy 10 years ago.

It's not a setting you'd "see", it's a secret you'd find on the last page of that manual you threw out.

Yep, we had a similar use-case. I remember the error message pointed to a help page which pointed to an article about this patent.

I believe I ran into this issue a few years ago and discovered the patent case when trying to work around. The xml file format allowed for arbitrary properties to be added (as xml …

I just checked out otta.com, and started their "quiz". Third question: "where would you like to work?" and only lists major cities, nothing in my state. As if to say "if you want a…

Since we already have computers this seems very attractive. Thank you for the suggestion, I'm pursuing it.

My school bought new windows laptops designed “for education” and they are trash. They demand a microsoft account to sign in, don’t let you install programs (even as admin), restar…

Audio ads playing at gas pumps is now the only factor that determines which gas station I go to.

I try to ignore the message of bad-faith content instead of penalizing the person who it seems to favor. Otherwise you enable false flag attacks.

I installed a reed switch just under my windshield to unlock the doors. Swiping a magnet is easier than keeping a key in my pocket. Getting myself locked out is more of a concern t…

sock -> hat = hock I can see that logic

it might pan the audio side to side each time there is silence just for effect.

FM radio receiver and a headphone jack! Both are hard to find and on my wishlist. This might be my next phone.

Coworkers copy/pasting code snippets through teams led to data corruption in production. That was a fun one to track down.

Air tags ring so abusers can't use them to track a person secretly. The speaker can be disabled though.

That fruit salad is called salsa.

Could gravitational forces between particles in a beam tighten a beam as it travels?

I made a chess variant. Looking for play testers and feedback, particularly around the scoring system and clarity of the directions. It takes a minute to get your brain into revers…