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There's a great deal of labor involved in building+preparing casks, storing them, monitoring, maintaining the temp/humidity of a space. Additionally, a good chunk of the price of a…

Sure. I'd say reproducing and distributing it to someone who happens to ask the right questions would qualify

Depends on how closely that person can reproduce the original work without license or attribution

What is the rationale behind the following? > When comparing password hashes, use constant time comparison instead of ==. If you were comparing plaintext you'd get some info, but i…

I'll get this occasionally when I've scrolled to the end of an article without realizing, attempt to scroll further a few seconds later, and then have my eyes/vision caught off gua…

There's some jank involved depending on which combo of x/wayland, window manager, and compositor you're using, but if you can manage to get virtual monitors working on an ultrawide…

I mostly agree, but there is one slight benefit: whenever I read one of these articles, each topic acts as a little quiz where I get to test whether I think it's a do or a don't be…

I think it actually adds some of the human part back in. "Hey, got a sec?" in person comes with quite a bit more context--body language, tone of voice--and a pretty quick transitio…

I've seen people claim that they show a variable amount of ads depending on the user, which I imagine would be based on your clickthrough rate or other metrics. The ratio between a…

Looks maybe like the opposite, there's way too much smoothing. I don't mind pixel perfect fonts or even aliased text but these just look like an aggressive blur was applied to ever…

It's shorthand for "I believe this is a problem that can be solved by the technology rather than requiring a manual workaround", not "I am entitled to a solution"

+1 for Freya Holmér, I had skimmed through some explanations on shaders in the past and never really sustained much interest until finding her series. It's been a while since watch…

They mention this under the "What if there is no true perspective?" section: Second, they point out that viewers almost always view pictures from the “wrong” location. A cornerston…

My understanding of detachment is incomplete but I think the simplest answer comes down to whether it's in your nature to accomplish those goals without an ego-based drive. Regardl…

"Practice" with depression resonated with me. Having another episode feels much more familiar, and there's an advantage to having already recognized and improved a lot of issues wi…

Why wouldn't men and women be interested in each other if they had similar interests? How do gay couples exist in this framework?

Not the worst idea to specifically point out scenarios with a high ratio of actual-vs-perceived danger

Odd to think about future "civilizations" of uploaded consciousness(es?) surviving the extinction of the organic species that produced it

The access/opportunity/etc are what is being referred to as privilege, not the quality granting it. In a world where being beautiful doesn't come with advantages, there is no "priv…

I was also intriqued and put ~10min looking into it. This study[1] seems to suggest that although reproduction rates might increase modestly when the population is reduced, high im…

If the goal is an equal playing field, yes. There are significantly more barriers to entry in America for a poor black person than an equally poor white person. Housing, education …

I think the solution would be sending as little data as possible to answer the query, and choosing which/how many queries to respond to. Any large scale requests for data would hav…

Well that's just about all the data I need to come to a firm conclusion on the matter

This is probably just a funny statement but be careful about submersion w/o conditioning yourself for it prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shock_response