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How did you get started in R&D? I've always wanted to get into "exploratory" software development.

You also have to consider what happens if a 60mph belt breaks/halts while people are on it.

> How exactly is education a privilege? At least in the US, everyone has access to public education. The article is literally about life in North Korea...

Let me clarify what I'm claiming here. In many counties, users have their OS/Browser settings set to English only , when they actually also speak other languages (or in certain cou…

Unfortunately, thats just not true. Accept-Lanuage is set to English most of the time, even for people in non-enlish speaking counties. It's not that they cannot use English, it's …

Except, in non English speaking counties, the vast majority of people do not change the Accept-Language header (through various browser/OS mechanisms), and receive default results.…

You can add a "hl=en" parameter to the URL, and most Google sites should respect it.

Just in case you haven't seen the postmortem of the Cloudflare outage which also was caused by a regex based DoS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...

Except I've been able to do medium complexity tasks in various Autodesk products(Inventor, 3ds Max) within minutes of opening the program for the first time, without looking at any…

You still have to trust your assembler and linker in that case.

Are you trying to claim that locking your door at night, and carrying a firearm daily, both result in the same amount of risk of life threatening downsides? Because I would very mu…

Locking your door at night is extremely unlikely to have any life threatening downsides. I suppose you could concoct a scenario where you live with someone with an altered mental s…

As someone who knows only the very basics of CPU architecture, this was extremely informative, thank you. It's given me lots to read up on.

"When pigs fly" is an idiom to describe something that is very unlikely or rare. To paraphrase, you can force a square peg into a round hole if you push hard enough, but it will pr…

I use a Nuc clone to run Home Assistant, and AI event detection for my camera network (assisted by a Coral accelerator). So I think it legitimately qualifies for those buzzwords.

How much of that food was grown with help from weather satellites, and GPS satellites, among other things?

"worth his salt" is common, at least.

> Teslas do phone home a lot for other stuff, but for better or worse, so do most other modern-day cars. And the Tesla UI is pretty zealous about asking for your permission for all…