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If you use the typing system (which I do religiously) Python becomes a lot easier to reason about in larger projects it also makes linters and refactoring tools easier to use.

Idk how Florida handles it but several states citations issued by red light cameras and those issued by officers are handled entirely differently for the exact reason you mention. …

Even if a zip code contains multiple cities, each ZIP has one "preferred" locality name and you can default to that. Any of the locality names within a zip code is deliverable for …

Businesses can use deposit management services to spread cash among many banks. Bonus points they also are less impacted by the poor business practices of one bank. Individuals can…

It is supposed to be if the amounts are above $250,000. I have no problem with the first $250k being risk free, that is a policy that is well published and that we all "agree" on. …

The privacy issue has two facets, when I show ID to get in to a club or buy alcohol, the entire interaction is transient, the merchant isn't keeping that information and the issuer…

Right, I mean the Roman Republic declined and gave way to Roman Empire for a long time before Rome finally waned. That doesn't feel like it would be a good time for the rest of the…

Even if 'possibly preface' is interpreted to mean CNAME RRSets should appear first there is still a broken reliance by some resolvers on the order of CNAME RRsets if there is more …

> It's called a firewall. You want a firewall. IPv6 also has a firewall. NAT is not a firewall. NAT is usually configured as part of your firewall, but is not a firewall. Expanding…

Wouldn't that just be because the construction is common in the training materials, which means it's a common construction in human writing?

Just because an imprinter was used doesn't mean the transaction was necessarily "offline". Depending on merchant's policy, the cashier would call their processor, give them some tr…

I would argue, the issue is that they had exclusive control over the customers bank accounts. I have no problem with fintech that integrates with existing accounts over the top. Th…

The principle issue with hardware keys as implemented today via FIDO2 or U2F is that you can't enroll them without having them in your physical possession, which means if you have …

Blame the Normans for that one...well English was already kind of a mess, but the the conquest of England by the Normans really sealed the deal.

git does have word diffing if you need something more granular than line diffing, the default delimiter being whitespace.

This is, in theory, the difference between checked and unchecked exceptions in languages that support such distinctions. Checked exceptions are basically part of the control flow a…

I think JetBrains model is best with thier IDE. You purchase, and get one year of updates, if you don't renew you get a perpetual license at whatever update level your update licen…

Header passthrough is nice to have, but there isn't really a standard for it for TLS, and it isn't well supported by most applications that are interested in doing mTLS. Additional…

Client certs are strongly bound to the TLS handshake, and thus a connection, which makes them pretty unfriendly to a lot of proxy driven architectures, where as JWTs and Cookies ca…

The treasuries are effectively zero-risk assets to the trust fund and they also pay interest. Just having the fund sit the on cash would not be efficient. The money goes to the tru…

Pulling $10k out of the global banking system by physical coercion in a way that isn't reversible and won't get you caught is hard problem, you might as well attempt to rob the ban…

if a passkey is exportable how is it materially different from a password? Isn't the point of a passkey to be hardware bound so it can't be swiped?

Additionally, while not specific to this SEC enforcement action, corporations also have to think long term, just because this administration is not enforcing laws, doesn't mean the…

P&C insurance is a pretty competitive industry, and there are plenty of mutual insurance companies in the P&C business that don't have a price gouging incentive. Most of the regula…

XML also decouples the data model and serialization with the XML Infoset specification.