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While that is true, "Drivers consistently ignoring rules" is also a systems issue, which can be mitigated through e.g. better road design (narrower roads reduce speeding, for examp…

Unless the design of the object is copyrightable (which it often is!) in which case the photo is a derivative work.

- Using the commit SHA of a released action version is the safest for stability and security. This is not true for stability in practice: the action often depends on a specific Nod…

The solution to the "interface/tooling to translate" problem, at least for open source applications, is https://translatewiki.net/ , with the additional benefit that it comes with …

uses: actions/checkout@v4 That uses the Node that is provided by GitHub, and that will break in the future.

I find the repeated deprecations on GitHub Actions frustrating to work with. One of the key goals of a build system is to be able to come back to a project after several years and …

In the end, this is the age old "I built by thing on top of a 3rd party platform, it doesn't quite match my use case (anymore) and now I'm stuck". Would GitLab have been better? Ma…

I would argue that the second rule is even optional here. There is enough literature (McConnell's Software Estimation, Boehm's Software Engineering Economics) that suggests that, g…

The subsidy could be independent from the carbon emissions (e.g. by subsidies on the produced goods) while the carbon tax isn't, effectively creating an incentive to produce in a l…

Which risk would TLS mitigate in this specific use case?

The alternative would be "two applications talking to the same microservice" where you run into the same issues with backwards compatibility, except the API is now "application to …

I have the same (and ran into this trying to wrap my head around why Maven didn't work... I don't want a tutorial explaining how to get started, I need to understand the fundamenta…

You also have to allow the end user to make changes to the LGPL software running on the device.

Judging by the graph on the linked page, the UK's rail network is mostly safer due to a lower number of workplace accidents. A cynic might suggest that that's correlated with a lac…

It's the power output that is relevant for the failure mode described in the article, not the yearly production. And in terms of power output, 20GW is an incredibly common number f…

The failure mode is much simpler: you don't need to physically break anything, you just need to drop 10GW of production from the grid (send a "turn off" command to all solar invert…

You can, but you need to enable it (as it fundamentally changes how the game plays); https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/Passenger%20and%20cargo%2...

You can do this with `np.newaxis` - in the NumPy course I wrote as TA we required students to always be explicit about the axes (also in e.g. sums). It would be nice if you could d…

I appreciate your response. I feel the same as the other commenter: the asymmetry between "a steep fine" and "losing your home" is enormous. But "what happens if the fine is enormo…

So what happens when the law requires a contract yet the landlord doesn't offer a contract and simply collects the rent?

You can be refunded without receiving additional compensation.

They are not entitled to compensation over their previous work, but you/me/AWS are also not entitled to their _future_ work.

That only works for copyleft licenses. Even with Antirez' original work fully available under BSD, there is nothing stopping Redis Labs from adding new code under a proprietary lic…

A Vector Network Analyzer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_analyzer_(electrical)