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I read this entire article but I’m still confused. What exactly is the financial motivation for keeping units empty? And is the concern the fact that the units are empty or are the…

“Love-hate relationship” were the exact words that I used when I used go professionally every day. I could complain all day about things the language does obviously wrong, often in…

> right shifting adds zeros to the most significant side. So, using the same number we get… 1110 >> 4 -> 0000 1110

I don’t remember NYT. But I recall the other major poll site Real Clear Politics had an election map with a percentage chance for each state and they had Hillary at 99%. Their mist…

I see “blocklist” becoming more popular in programming. But it just occurred to me how bizarre and out of place it would be if the parent comment said “a blocklisted word”.

This sounds like an xwindows thing. The way popup menu windows work in x, is the program grabs all keyboard and mouse events.

Has someone made a faithful representation of ssh over quic? You could use quic’s built in certificates and multiple streams of data and create something very similar to ssh. Is an…

My wife thinks they’re cute.

To be more clear, here is a quote from another article > The company said it would publish 17 of the author's books in their original form as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection alon…

Why did they feel the need to move the backslash key?

Might I suggest a spin on this: instead of blocking the IPs, consider serving up different content to those IPs. You could make a page that shames their domain name for stealing co…

What’s to stop someone from sending unique last-modified dates to uniquely fingerprint browsers?

Is this one step closer towards signal being TikTok?

This article is crazy. Basically, big tech is a god, a fairy tale, a delusion, pushing unnecessary technology on all of us, and praying on poor tech workers by dangling stocks in f…

Make a version that uses different frequencies for different major companies.

People just use whatever their programming language provides. There's a concept of sorting "stability" in which equal elements stay in their original order relative to each other. …

This is every company that deals with fraud of some sort. They collect evidence. Once evidence is damning enough, they ban, without giving any information. If they were to give out…

Everyone else replying to you is trying to convince you with arguments that reddit isn't a good use of your time. As you already know, this won't work. You're already convinced. Th…

So they checked 666 python repositories and fixed bugs in 69 of them. Interesting choice of numbers.

In those cases, Claritin and Zyrtec are allergy medicines. The -D indicates that this allergy medicine comes along with a decongestant. The version without the -D will just be the …

This is really good news. Whenever I see people talking about if previously infected people should be vaccinated, they always mention how we don't know how long protection lasts fo…

The conspiracy, which was not mentioned in this thread, but is all over youtube and twitter, is that the WEF is somehow going to reset everyone's wealth to zero and enact communism…

Here's what I did, I put up roadblocks to mindless browsing: Use firefox nightly on android and do the hackery required to install arbitrary extensions, and install the "Request Bl…

I always thought this was a good idea for a company. Almost all of the electricity providers in Texas all buy energy at wholesale prices and lock customers into long term contracts…