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"State" has lots of meanings depending on context, as it can also refer to the highest level of governments for example: State actors or "head of state". In the U.S., the head of s…

Except airlines, literally oversell flights all the time, and the context of my response was to preventing oversale.

Would a retail business want the inventory to decrement just because users put items into carts that get abandoned? Seems like that would really mess things up more in the long run…

Just think how sullied whitehouse.com has become due to the current occupier of whitehouse.gov.

I'm going to assume that commenter is referring to 'black crime rates' claiming that they make up 13% of the population while claiming that 85% of crime or some segment like violen…

It might be deleted at the PD, does not mean it wasn't uploaded to Flock DCs for metadata analysis and retained there.

Hollywood is ready to run the gamut of cocaine-fueled fauna.

Web devs aren't forced to deal with accessibility either, unless they choose to work with or for an entity that requires it. No one is coming for your self-hosted blog because its …

BMW: The Ultimate Advertising Machine

Our government chooses to not punish those companies. Unfortunately, the lawmakers have decided that the donations to their PACs are more important than actually doing something ab…

Post your domain and we can see if that is still the case in a few days.

And miss the chance to rewrite it in Rust?! How dare you, good sir!

The issue for doctors isn't medical school but the bottleneck is residency slots available post graduation. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12256077/

We couldn't get people to wear masks to reduce the spread and help keep beds open for all the other typical needs, why would they let harm from fireworks impede them?

BitTorrent transfers files, so should a BT client be bolted on too? Typically the Unix philosophy has been do one thing well, not do all the things.

Sure, if those functions added were related to configuring network interfaces, but it would be odd if someone added functions for configuring storage controllers.

He could have finished the series long before the Game of Thrones adaptation was in full swing, much less the general availability of LLMs. I think the HBO money made him care a lo…

Security Best Practices change all the time. Failing to implement MFA because "it takes time and energy" and "besides we implemented 12 character, complex passwords years ago" will…

Did you read the article to the end? It does bring speed ups for high resolution, like 4K. It's at more conventional laptop display sizes that its roughly on-par with, but the GPU …

It's not like those consultants recommended something the CEO and Board didn't want to hear. They are paid to be the shield that blocks the arrows from shareholders. If they can ge…

A game that I get bored of in 20 hours versus a game I sink 200 hours into have provided different levels of entertainment value. Even for books, a book that one enjoys reading so …

Another way to consider it is to think of it in terms of entertainment value. The average movie runtime in the US is 114 minutes or 1.9 hours, and the average movie ticket is $11.5…

>Prices should get cheaper. That's a progress dividend. We get better at growing food every year, why shouldn't food get cheaper? This can only really happen if the rate of efficie…

>most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place. It would severely depend on how you categorize "most apps" because I would say I pretty much only use apps…

Are you not permitted to bump to current LTS on work laptop?