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time "spent" in the database depends on the speed of DB drivers too, which depends on the language. Our stuff is Java and average query is ~2ms round trip. Python, Ruby and friends…

50% of graphics would be 100% better if we banned red/green color schemes and pie charts

this site is also considered a "questionable source" with "extreme" right wing bias https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-national-pulse/

In my experience, its usually project managers and sales doing feature driven development while developers beg them to stop. Devs have to deal with all the bugs and messy codebase

I'm an idiot, was confused with mean

> Real median per capita income is the highest its ever been regardless of which inflation index you use Median is very misleading because of rise in income inequality. More than 5…

It might be a good thing for me at this point. Started out on a promising new project. Years later its been designed by committee into a sprawling unfocused mess. Maybe getting the…

Unless the site uses certificate pinning its possible to do a downgrade attack that forces browser off of HTTPS. The extension HTTPS Everywhere is a stopgap against this

I think some bias may be inherent. To blue eyes again, you could make a facial recognition system that just looked for 2 blue iris shapes and probably score 90%+ accuracy on most d…

I'm going to be controversial here, and say that its possible that light colored skin is easier to identify from background, giving higher confidence to "is face" detection with lo…

> Tech companies have made clear that they don’t like the idea of blocking apps without a more organized policy process, and have suggested that they see this as a First Amendment …

this might be one of those projects that gets open sourced with the hope that someone else will maintain it

As far as "studio monitors", you should know that a quality set of over ear headphones has better sound reproduction than any speaker. I used to be involved in the pro audio scene,…

India and China aren't exactly friends, I think its pretty reasonable to limit business ties of any kind. A sovereign nation has the right to ban any import, are you disputing that…

Remdesivir is a prodrug that converts to GS-441524 in the body. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00316 By most anecdotal accounts GS-441524 is better and possibly …

I never "bought" TDD. Just like "microservices" it adds a ton of complexity and cost for something you probably don't need. The TDD cult doesn't consider that its the last thing yo…

yup. Setting some tor privacy extensions in Firefox already locks you out of Google login. Yay!

anything with an orbit calculated to take more than a decade to decay without station keeping is banned. These calculations are routine so the requirement is only a burden for miss…

Useful but not necessary. Anything pointing at the Earth, nearly all satellites, work better closer. The issues of line of sight and coverage are all about money, and the cost of s…

I think there needs to be rules about orbital distance. Low earth orbit satellites like Starlink aren't risky because their orbit decays rapidly without constant boosts. Its the pe…

When the monopolistic rideshare titans were banned in Austin there were local competitors within weeks. They kinda sucked for a few months, but by the time Lyft and Uber returned t…

its pointless to bikeshed this. People did the same to defend TD and other crazy communities. Most of the posts are fine, but occasionally blatant sexism will make the front page a…

I use Peazip on Linux https://peazip.github.io/ tar.gz is ancient

Its clearly what they do. The best example, a default sub TwoXChromosomes is full of blatant hate speech against half the species and its touted as a progressive bastion when its a…

Do they really need to access thousands of C++ API calls from Rust? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of writing safe code in Rust? This smells of "not invented here" which applies t…