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This is factually untrue though. Twitter was making money in 2018 and 2019 (to the tune of ~1.2B/year in net profit out of ~3B revenue, which is a fairly high profit margin) they l…

It's a hash of everything that goes into a commit, including the commit message. The idea is that nothing that makes up a commit can change without changing the hash.

I'd guess a lot of it is in hardware and firmware which would be very costly to change that late into the development cycle

Mid-30s and no regrets so far after roughly 12 years of experience. I've done mobile development (Symbian, yes that Symbian, iOS and Android) backend (nodejs, erlang, PHP, python) …

I like how you think labels correctly label anything. I happen to work at a music streaming service (not Spotify) and I can definitely say that those datasets are insanely noisy an…

I had a very similar experience with Nibbles. It was my first time reading a program and modifying it. The initial motivation was that we'd bought a new computer and it was suddenl…

As far as I can understand it: 1 - I'm proud of having cheated Airbnb out of their commission when helping me find housing so I could live like a hipster 2 - I hate living next to …

Where did you get 1,000$/KWH of storage? Even at small scales (household-sized batteries, ~10~15KWH) prices are currently around 300$/KWH for lithium batteries including shipping i…

I'm familiar with this prayer in Arabic, and two variations thereof (one used by Catholics and the other by Eastern Orthodox churches). The Catholic one would translate to 'enough …

We kept getting rejected by a reviewer who couldn't log in (we'd attached credentials to our submission). When they finally sent a screenshot with the rejection, it turns out they …

The past year in Lebanon has been like that. I'm sure if someone wrote a script about this for a movie they'd be told to just "tone it down on the grimdark shit okay?" or something…

I live about 9km away from the site of the blast(as the crow flies). I can definitely confirm that the order of events was: 1 - Earthquake 2 - Sound (sounded like rolling thunder o…

They would die of blood loss before that happens

"The ability to be expressive comes with it certain biological traits and dispositions. These traits may determine your viewpoints on matters." This is an extremely hand-wavy assum…

Happened to a friend of mine though it was Syria in that case(before the war, 2008~9). Guy was 20 and had never set foot in the country, wasn't really aware this was even a thing. …

Not an expert, but I would imagine the speed at which these carbohydrates get metabolized is a factor in whether or not it messes them up? Carbs from bread take a much longer time …

I remember our first night home with our first child. It was an extremely difficult birth(long labor followed by a C-section due to complications) and so my wife needed lots of sle…

It's only weak if you have access to a credit card and are able to pay for a VPS or VPN abroad. If you're trying to bypass it using only free(as in beer) tools, it's quite effectiv…

First, I may or may not have privately held views about the morality(or lack thereof) of US foreign policy post WW2(hint: If you look at my comment history, you can probably figure…

This particular position baffles me, especially since we're discussing Iran here. Iran had a liberal democratic government and the US toppled it(because they dared try to take cont…

In theory you can build a latch using only NAND gates, so it should be possible unless the gates that are demonstrated are flawed somehow, see my sibling comment.

He built an adder, which does always complete(by design). But having the ability to build AND and NOT gates(which he demonstrates) should be enough to build any computer from just …

You need to go to the app store app, then the updates tab and pull down to refresh(yes, the updates tab, not WhatsApp listing in the store). When you do that, you'll see the newest…

My son could read the alphabet and recite it at 18 months. He learned this on his own because someone gave him a kid's alphabet book and he kept pointing to things in it and we'd t…