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You might want to try what I do: run JS in allowlist mode: https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher By default, I don't run into these problems and save a lot of…

Just FYI, the bigger companies all allow you to block crawlers via robots.txt: # Block Anthropic (Claude) User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: /…

> As for drawn child porn, involving fictional characters (i.e. not CSAM), it is legal in certain jurisdictions. Notably, America, where the 1st Amendment errs on the side of creat…

Currently it is explicitly against the law[0]: (a)In General.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly produces, distributes, receives, or possesses…

Meh, I assume "possession" (of drugs) is how the law is worded because otherwise law enforcement would have to catch someone in the act of using or distributing, which must be much…

I am not a lawyer. There is something ironic about US laws that attempt to prevent crime A by outlawing action B. For example: * A: physical sexual abuse of children. B: possession…

Love this. Whoever made this, please make a "proportion" column somehow! I would like to know which has the most complexity per total volume or weight (it's less surprising that hu…

The variation in prices of staple foods between different stores has exploded in Chicago. For what it's worth, Aldi is significantly cheaper for many items. It's gotten a lot busie…

For day-to-day programming work, have you seen a difference in the quality of output between (Opus 4.6 / GPT 5.2 / GPT-5.3 Codex) and the current (GPT-5.6 / Fable) that justifies t…

Initially I assumed it to be negligible but the numbers are actually very close! I calculate around a 3% drop in speed (from 60mpg) for holding an average sized book out of the win…

> ... you should worry that your car is going fast. Only if we know of an intervention that will likely slow the car down and the risks+cost of that intervention justify the benefi…

As always with a lot of these: it's not saying causation. You might measure the speed of your car by putting your hand out of the window and notice that the wind force on your hand…

The title confused me for most of the article because I assumed they were saying that getting an MRI was equivalently dangerous to a year of smoking. > So the same effort you would…

It's 25-34 year olds: > To calculate the earnings premium for undergraduate programs, the threshold is the median U.S. Census Bureau earnings of a working high school graduate, age…

The calculation is interesting: (For bachelors degrees): Each year, they will calculate the median earnings 4 years after graduation of graduates of every (Institution, CIP code) t…

Yes. If one lives in the US and feels strongly about it, they should file an Out-of-Hospital DNR and POLST with every local hospital. Also consider wearing or carrying official bra…

> Even when the right preparations have been made, the system can still swallow people up. One of my patients was a man named Jack... He explained to me that he never, under any ci…

> Say you want to throw an event. A medium sized gathering. More than a couple of friends. What happens if someone gets hurt at this event? Who's liable? Who's insured for what? It…

If you're going to take the time to read Geohot, take it with a grain/boulder of salt: he appears to enjoy poking the bear / being provocative, sometimes outrageously. Sometimes he…

"The Anti‑Forbes List" Other possible titles: "List of Founders by Uncaptured Equity Value" "List of Most Regretful Founders" Logic fully breaks down when looking at ratios. If you…