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Somehow I was able to place a pin in Quebec, which resulted in a ray of 2058 miles to the USA northwest

I did immediately consider setting up a prediction market willpayfornoreasonpayout.com

It doesn't even need to be government-run, we just need the right incentives. I've seen proposals for making some kind of data loss insurance mandatory to compensate victims. The i…

Yes, they are immutable. It's only possible to "yank" a specific version, which will prevent new dependencies, but it will still be available for download for existing dependencies…

The argument is that Silksong will completely absorb any potential market for you new indie game had during that period. People will be too busy playing another game, leading to po…

The problem is that technology exponentially increases the negative effects of bad actors. The worst a sociopath could do in the stone age was ruin his local community; while today…

I don't think this is unique to code, but a limitation of filesystems in general. You could make the same argument for photos: I want them sorted by date, by tag, by person in the …

By explicitly being obviously a scam, scammers can preselect for the most gullible people

Quite some years back I worked with JetBrains MPS which used a "projectional editor" instead of a text editor. It was pretty neat to be able to enter "code" as mathematical express…

As a secondary effect it kind of is; the general assumption still is that the slop-generating AI will need a lot of power to train, so there is surprisingly a lot more private inve…

Training was considered to be "bad sportmanship" in the early days of soccer, when it was amateur gentlemen sport clubs playing against each other.

The "install -y" pattern is kind of similar. Various tools have as a default that it gives a list of packages that would be installed, and then ask for confirmation.

A couple of years ago there were news articles that the pentagon has a "lasers that can identify people in a crowd from 200m away based on their heart rate signatures". No idea if …

Nah I've seen this happen IRL. In this system "configuration" was read out of tables in a word document, processed via XSLT transformations and eventually it would spit out a huuuu…

I agree LaTeX has it's uses, but... markdown can also do this trivially. See for example the Rust Book [1], and `cargo test` automatically runs example code in markdown doccomments…

It sound a lot better than what we had when I worked at a fastfood restaurant: every location remote desktoping to some overloaded server in the regional office, so simple things l…

I have put a ton of hours into Crusader Kings III. It is less complicated than other grand strategy games, but the real fun is leaning into the generative story aspect and roleplay…

One of the reasons 'City' is notable, is because it is just so big. The first time I heard about was in a video "Monumentality" [1], which explores why humans throughout history ha…

"What is yellow and if you get it in your eye you die?" "A train" (context, in the Netherlands all the large intercity trains are yellow)

From a mathmatical perspective: does the assumption that "any line of sight from Earth must end at the surface of a star" hold? There are countable infinite number of stars, and un…

Your body and genetics, it takes a really long time to evolve a different body (thousands of generations), but it takes very little time to update culture (couple of generations).

I'm in a similar situation. From what I could find the easiest way to resolve the issue is to report the original transaction ID [1], if you still have access to it. They list the …

Why doesn't it make sense? I believe emotions do play a role in the courts. A criminal doesn't get punished for nothing, they get punished _so they don't commit the same crime agai…

I agree with almost everything, but was curious about > Skip to the beginning or the end of the video. What critical use does skipping to the end of a video have?