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The em dashs are a callback to the silent film title cards days –– they represent a pause in speech.

For local NFL games in a bigger stadium that, most people attending do drive, but do not park at the stadium, rather nearby, then walk the rest of the way. This spreads out the tra…

Sprites are a beautiful place to make an abstraction. But I have never used a buggier infrastructure product in 30 years of development than when I tried sprites. Data loss left an…

1. Wolves were basically exterminated in the continental US for most of the 20th century 2. There were still deaths from wolf attacks in North America during that time https://en.w…

The report to the government about a more than 50% fraud rate was from six years ago. The Minnesota government was not serious about dealing with problem. Most businesses would not…

Here's a rap video, the entirety of which bragging about fraud against the government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ck7hTsug8 "I just been swipin' for EDD Go to the bank, get …

Similarly, it drives me up the wall with people posting black and white "historical photographs" of history happenings, that are AI slop, and from the wrong era. Just yesterday som…

Yes. As someone who spent years on the receiving end of these, I'd change my original post to be about "real" vulnerabilities, not the results of automated scans.

In the software development / security world, someone reporting a vulnerability to you is one of the greatest things one human can do for another. I've been burned in the long past…

Yes, it's a very logical part of a tariff regime, and tariffs penalize domestic manufacturers without it. But wow, are tariffs (and other micro taxes) disruptive on getting things …

So the important bit here is that the guns failed drop testing. And that's bad. The rest of the article seems to misunderstand FMEA style "write down every conceivable bad scenario…

As others have pointed out, this is primarily due to the American Civil War when the Medal of Honors was given out much more freely than today. Here's the breakdown on more recent …

I carefully drew a lion fish. Turns out only 37% odds of being a fish. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionfish ) Fun idea, fun site!

Don't be fooled by the headline - that's neither the authors words, nor his opinion, but an editor trying to bait viewers. The article itself is good, and worth a read. You can rea…

For camping in humid summers, it's amazing how much difference a power bank and little fan can make. A little electricity goes a long way.

My guess is that the people who are paying $13 each way for a 30-minute commute are paying orders of magnitudes more than that in taxes already. Also, given that this is not a huge…

As almost every other commenter here has said, this is just a bad article in practically every way. It's quite possible that the problem isn't smart phones, but this article comple…

Market cap doesn't equal what people have purchased. See this classic from 2015: https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/press-release-basecamp-val...

I handle reports for a one million dollar bug bounty program. AI spam is bad. We've also never had a valid report from an by an LLM (that we could tell). People using them will tak…

> And how sure are you these weren't random hackers or trolls, but actual NK agents? "Agents" is way too big of a word. Just cogs in a corporate theft machine. There's a lot of rea…

I am saying they are both a credible threat and many are amateurs. Those are not mutually exclusive. You are talking about North Korea attackers from a theoretical point of view. F…

These aren't spies first. They are often children of well to do, high loyalty group North Koreans. It's just a privileged job. The skill and IQ level varies widely, from super smar…

It used to be only against specific industries, but now it's evolving. Now they have groups just going after remote IT jobs regardless of industry.

North Korea's efforts have been evolving. In the past, they just tried to break into bank computers, then into crypto company's computers. For the last two years, they've been work…

I see a lot of comments here and in the other thread talking about Amazon's high profits on retail sales, so I looked up the last earnings report. For the year of 2024, Amazon made…