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I love Kotlin, but don't want to use IntelliJ, and they obviously have strong financial incentives against supporting other IDEs. Has anything changed in this regard? I appreciate …

I've heard many stories about Chinese food safety. But is government oversight getting better? Is this a story of local corruption, or of a larger corrupt system? And if it has "mi…

Have you found anything that makes everyone happy and productive? I sometimes wonder if we'll replace traditional design patterns, especially OOP, with new patterns, that are neith…

The article is extremely short and by an unknown author, so there isn't much to discuss. But I've met many people who hated onion architecture with a passion. I have a few theories…

Yes, in theory. In practice, however, the source code can be overwhelmingly large or complex, e.g. Chromium. And yes, even if you're blocked from contributing to the project, you c…

Unfortunately, I don't understand what this article is trying to say, but I respect the author and made a diligent attempt. Yes, open source is now common place. But I sometimes wo…

By Poul-Henning Kamp

Could DNS responses have been hijacked as well? Edit: Could this have been used to hijack/create TLS certificates?

It's impossible to take technology out of the equation. I.e. that one person may have superior insights in their physiology/glucose levels, or a superior diet before the race. And …

A court would likely decide that the supplier is in malicious non-compliance and may be able to assign financial penalties. So it's important that the penalties are significant eno…

This is silly. Soldered CPU, RAM, SSD. Pretty much the only thing repairable is the battery. I'd argue that this was a cheap business decision to make. Keep the price gouging on pa…

Indeed! I wonder what caused all this madness. Doesn't it degrade productivity? And thereby hurt profitability? And thereby the attractiveness of such strategies? It sometimes seem…

Isn't it just a PR stunt? They get to use her voice for some time, generating hype. Then get even more coverage over the controversy, for free, while talking about their new produc…

Why didn't they reference the study by title and author names? Who conducted the study? How can we fact check it? This is bad journalism.

Are you saying that the problem of monopolies should not be solved through regulation, but by tax-funded public service alternatives? Regulation tries to restore a free market by r…

Maybe it's a way to funnel government money into an obscure international entity?

That's a specieist argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism#%22Discontinuous_mi...

What's different? I imagine that it's increasingly hard to contribute or even participate in the ongoing research, which is dominated by major companies? I work in a different fiel…

Is anyone else using Qubes OS or airgapping at work? E.g. finance, trading, ... ? Do you use specialized equipment and processes, e.g. PDF-to-PNG rendering, one-way diodes, and suc…

It's when you turn on flight mode, right? /s (You have to physically remove the wifi and bluetooth hardware) Also, one-way diodes are fine, mostly. But I agree completely. There's …

You're a great educator! I'm surprised that other people here cannot separate their subjective opinions, whether they agree with your judgment, from fact, whether you're a good edu…

Do foreign nationals have the same rights as Americans? Foreign companies shouldn't have the same protections. And in many countries, locally-operating subsidiaries are required to…

I have a similar question. It seems to me that the software engineering salary distribution is bimodal. I'm simplifying a bit here, but basically into those that make 200k USD a ye…

Then why do people use Airbnb?