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Does anyone have any examples of what the author is referring to as "sludge music"? I use Spotify a lot, and listen a lot of recommended songs and generally I haven't encountered m…

How would you pay cash for online content?

I've heard that the Norwegian meteorological institute's website (and app) is popular with non-Norwegians for these reasons. https://www.yr.no/en

As far as I can see only the BBC article is claiming Twitter is trying to label bots as "good" or "bad". The actual system appears to be for linking bot accounts to real accounts (…

It is true that hiding it for many years would make it less attractive for terrorists, however one could imagine another strategy where you wait 12 months before anonymously tellin…

Has there been any research on Prions as a bio-terrorism weapon? It sounds like you could infect thousands/millions and have a close to 100% death-rate without anyone noticing unti…

They also "bulk up" food products, for example introducing filler into meat products such as water and salt [1] such that they can sell a smaller amount of meat for the same price …

This is not sustainable for the clone bees right? Eventually a disease will evolve to target these bees or the victim bees themselves will evolve some countermeasure. At that point…

I agree Facebook events could be a lot better, but have you considered the possibility that Facebook simply does not see any reason to put resources into improving the feature? Ins…

So here is what I don't get about the "tether scam": I remember these worries about Tether not being backed by real cash being a major concern all the way back in 2018(?), if I rem…

I saw this plane while watching The Wind Rises and due to the unorthodox wing design I assumed it was never built in reality. Pleasantly surprised to know that it actually existed,…

I think I remember first getting déjà vu from websites with this style about two years ago. Fun that it is getting so overused now that more people are starting to notice. Below is…

Do you have sources for any of the claims above?

My first Apple product was a iPad Pro I got last year. I consider myself quite tech savvy, but the gestures was a huge pain-point when learning the device, to the point that it sou…

I don't know how common this is in other countries but in Norway we have a common system called BankID which is pretty much the de-facto way to identify yourself when applying for …

Afaik it makes perfect sense in a third-world country: There is no social security net so your only security is your children taking care of you when you get old / become unable to…

Interestingly my company is working on something that seeks to solve the same problem. It is called Podium and was recently open-sourced: https://podium-lib.io/ While it is still u…

I was kinda disappointed when I realized when you search it seems to basically only do a simple image search (ala Google) and return the primary color of the individual images, as …

I felt that one addition could be "Many problems have trivial solutions, but they are of little practical value" 0 is often a trivial solution to many PDEs, but it is of little ana…

Too many teams I have worked in have way too little personal on-boarding in my opinion. At least with these presentations I know how the manager "wants" to present him/herself, if …

Here's what I don't get about this though, was there less meetings back in the early 2000s? I'm only 24 so I don't know, but if there is one thing I feel has been passed down from …

I was hoping to learn about word2vec by reading the sourcecode but am I right when I say this has nothing to do with word2vec?

Luckily it offers two: Software security and cryptography. I have taken both. Should also probably mention that I live in Norway, so my question applies more to the European job ma…