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For a secure communications app, the website is awfully light on details of that security. This could just be a mis-alignment issue (i.e. website aimed at "average users" who may f…

Submitting an article but substituting in a title to make the story about yourself goes against the submission guidelines [0]. The article doesn't have a particularly informative t…

In non-tournament settings, every dollar you win at poker comes out of the pockets of another player at the table. It's truly a zero-sum game, as adding up the gains and losses of …

Aside: does the phrase "grasping hand" have a particular meaning in robotics jargon? (Or is there a different reason to avoid that terminology?) To me a "gripping hand" is intuitiv…

From reading through the supplementary materials for the paper [0], it seems that the authors are aware of this flaw and they found a way to make it hydrophobic. The approach they …

I assume GP is referring to Title: "Over the Air, Under the Radar: Attacking and Securing the Pixel Modem" Summary/Slides: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#over-t…

Dr. Blum is also a great professor for smaller undergraduate classes. I took his "theoretical cryptography" class, which was a semi-random walk through the history of creating and …

The terms of the settlement[0-pdf] are kind of interesting. Drivers in New York City proper are entitled to $17/hr for sick pay. If I'm reading it correctly, that is also the minim…

I wouldn't call that a final solution to the paradox, though. (Put on your tinfoil hats.) Maybe the Earth-Moon system was engineered. The solar system came together from a nebular …

I'm amazed by this. Platform-independence _with the same binary_ is such a neat solution that would really have helped me at a prior job. Some corporate IT shops manage user machin…

I don't think, based on 20 minutes of internet research, that the job title "therapist" (with no modifiers/descriptors) is legally protected anywhere in the United States. But with…

How is Twitter tied into this problem? The first reporting on the topic was the Al Jazeera English tweet, which used "killed". The second reporting of the topic was the Al Jazeera …

> It'll never happen, but if funding agencies like the NSF or NIH put strings on the funding like "100% must go to the PI awarded this grant" with accounting requirements, it would…

I really don't like this assignment idea as anything more than getting used to the assignment submission and grading system. 1. What is it teaching? Comparator is trivial to implem…

There are definitely people advocating one-way trips to Mars. Buzz Aldrin wrote "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" (2013) pushing the idea of one-way trips and colo…

"Cruise gives the cars cutesy names" is typical of fast turnaround journalism. The reporter doesn't have the time or resources to investigate the details to determine if this is in…

From my limited understanding, web browsers were improved drastically by the creation of cross-vendor testing (e.g. Acid tests). I wonder if there is a way to do some sort of AV si…

I've been in those situations. Your description here does not match my experiences at all. I _hate_ the vernacular of "fighting cancer". As a leukemia survivor, it wasn't a fight. …

The laws and regulations around genetic information seem to be (intentionally?) easy to misread. Health and Human Services has a FAQ page[1] which states: > genetic information is …

In the fonts I use, I've never noticed a difference between hyphen/dash/endash/minus. But (as alluded to in the intro of the submitted message) some fonts will render it differentl…

The Arxiv[0] paper abstract seems much clearer and more informative than the linked article. In particular, it points to WHY the mass has been revised down so far -- there's seemin…

When crypto is involved, I think of shady folks. If you use a crypto exchange to acquire cash and then purchase a Ferrari in cash, you probably will trigger IRS regulations that re…

Without underlines makes the data even more hidden. The style looks nice and clean to expert users, but I don't expect any of my less-savvy users to actually find it. (Though I cou…

I used to put exact time/date information into tooltips, thinking "the users that need it can find it without overloading the UI". I ended up undoing a lot of that a few years late…

It's a VERY time-consuming process to do a thorough review of localization materials. I've spent multiple working days on single massive commits when working with an unreliable tra…