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Never mind Europe. As a Canadian, I question how we can permit Facebook to act as a massive conduit for official American propaganda like QAnon. If it's a national security issue f…

There is a “Red Queen’s Race” between the accelerating productivity gains of abstractions, frameworks, libraries, and other stacks we can leverage, balanced against the fact that e…

First, I think you and the OP are correct. It’s not Barbara’s money, and Barbara’s career is driven by hiring and developing productive people. If her group is shipping good produc…

"Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by _cilckbait_ headlines." I like the deliberate misspelling of "clickbait," it layers a sp…

I guess you're suggesting that adding a million lines to a log is excessive. But in my math, you can count lines like this: 1, 2, 3, ..., the-number-of-lines-that-fit-in-a-window, …

The equally interesting implication of your comment that "we don't get a stack trace from an ordinary loop" is that maybe we should have logging and introspection the behaviour of …

Fact check... TRUE! https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/using-the-library/your-l...

I have been to excellent public facilities in the US. Excellence is not evenly distributed anywhere, but the discrepancies of available public services between rich and poor neighb…

I have a feeling that as a Canadian, I really cannot cross the chasm between our society and America's, but I'll try. Here in Toronto, the libraries are open to the public. Borrowi…

This comment is a master class in civil argumentation, and informative to boot. Thank you.

I believe it's somewhat correct, based on some random diving training. There is a thing where you deliberately hold your breath, which starts with taking a big lungful of air, whic…

"Wait until I find out?" Don't patronize me, I am keenly aware of automobile deaths, and furthermore, it's a complicated problem to solve for many, many reasons, some of which are …

They may not have obvious solutions, but we recognize that they are broken and we try to find solutions. We then find places the solutions don't work and we iterate or even replace…

I make software that is broken ALL THE TIME. And what do I do then? Find the faults and then fix them. Just because software is not perfect does not mean that I sit like a dog in a…

There are two completely separate issues here, and they need to be disentangled to have a productive discussion. First, there is the question of the right-to-repair and to what ext…

And that goes back to Macintosh 128K. Obviously, Apple stole mice and bitmapped graphics and GUIs from Xerox Parc. But a huge part of their pitch for MacOS in the early days was in…

Not just ads, but yes ads. If I friend/follow a lot of people, and I have a simple timeline, I see what they're thinking about. But if there's an algorithm selecting which posts I …

I question the words "sucked in." Influenced is more appropriate. Before VisiCalc was invented by Frankston and Bricklin, nobody wanted it. Many people had the problem it solved, b…

You are preaching to the choir on this subject!

Just tried it on iPadOS 14, and yes, "Messages pasted from Safari."

You're 100% right. Everything Apple does can be construed as "abuse" if someone is willing to argue in bad faith. iOS now tells you when one app pastes content from the clipboard, …

Dare I say it can be both? Some things are "virtuous cycles." You get updates, and in your experience those updates add value, which increases your expectation of value should you …