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Do people at conferences buy coffee by SSH'ing into coffee shop servers?

> Take Herb Sutter for example, who argues that "memory safety" as defined in this article is an extreme goal and we should instead focus on a more achievable 95% safety I wonder h…

A coin deposit is no more a mark of a bad neighborhood than having cart corrals in the parking lot -- like them, it is a way of reducing (or trying to eliminate) the amount of time…

>so putting the OST in CD format was a nice easter egg. It wasn't an easter egg; it was how the games accessed and played the in-game music (and digitized speech when that was a ne…

>I like money staying local, seeing kids sports teams sponsored by Bob's Ford In theory that sponsorship money could stay local, if the people who saved money by buying cars direct…

>It's like finding out my neighbor doesn't lock his front door at night and announcing it on twitter. No, it's like finding out your neighbor sold a bunch of faulty locks to a bunc…

> When they are cast to the shadows they can grow, It's a nice poetic conceit to think of good ideas as thriving in the light like flowers while bad ideas flourish in the darkness …

>Is it also one of the safest in history in other nations that have not increased their incarceration rates? Yes[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop

>We had an XT/286 and I don't recall any expansion card involved... And other people had an XT that they installed an expansion card into -- like the Pfaster-286[1] [1] https://boo…

>Wouldn't that hurt men even more? More than the internal injuries that could be caused by water forcibly entering the vagina? Probably not.

FTA: It is available first today in the July release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, and we will later release it as a standalone component that you can use with an…

Yep. And the shark is still a shark, and the horseshoe crab is still a horseshoe crab...

>Every time they write a loan they are forced to provide the customer with a 200-page "book" of all the compliance and regulation surrounding that loan. This must vary by state; I …

>That some genetic features may be dropped or changed if not required anymore without the pressure of a higher death rate / lower reproduction ... darwinism doesn't seem to explain…

>...One of talents greatest contributions is knowing how to let your winners run and cut your losses... >...talent would understand what events are more likely to succeed... If we …

>where metaphors have been mistaken for new words. Dictionaries have included metaphorical definitions for ... at least 60 years? I have a 1958 Webster's that defines "feather in o…

Given the rate of startup failure, and the sheer number of other companies whose "product wasn't there", what reason do we have to believe that hiring a diverse workforce is more r…

The formula for constant growth over time, for example, a 2% increase every year, would be starting salary * 1.02 ^ t where t is the number of years. So there is an exponent presen…

I think for circularity you'd need a pair of definitions -- "programming: making a program" and "program: the result of programming". In this case, we already know what a program (…

>It might even explain why so many cultures had rites to male adulthood involving extreme pain. Unless you believe that the rites were created to address the problem of "one day, t…

>If you classify say 50% of people as AI's and 50% of AI's as people then those AI's passed the Turing test. And if your version of the test is "heads it's an AI, tails it's human"…

>If you're locating a chirper by sound, you're not seriously impaired by the lights being out. Even if you're locating it by sound, you probably don't want to stumble around in the…