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Read the article. The elaborator (where metaprogramming is evaluated) is not part of the trusted computing base. The security model is that bad proof terms get rejected, not that t…

And it has array programming features, logging, and (time-travel!) debugging all intuitively graspable for most non-technical people. I sincerely think there are lots of unlearned …

There is one example that succeeded and became the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet: Spreadsheets Though you might argue that the "programming language" part was…

> How's this any different than say, not bringing your wallet with you, because 95% of the time apple pay works Apple Pay involves at least a third party (your bank) as a part of i…

Why should be ? I think it is abundantly clear by now that market competition alone will not fix this. Though that does not stop people from claiming "Yes that failed and people su…

NIS2 allows for the arrest of managers in case of cybersecurity incidents resulting from negligence. I think it's a step in the right direction, but we'll have to see how it plays …

Once I start a conversation about Postgres query plans, maybe 95% of the knowledge will be almost certainly not needed, and for an inference provider there will be many more concur…

I wonder if the EU will someday figure out a patch for this "Deteriorate everyone's user experience in a way that is technically compliant and blame the EU" behavioural exploit...

Once once they are rejected by charities, they can be destroyed just like before this law. EU regulators are flawed humans, but you can be assured that any argument you can come up…

... than by surprise, when you find your integer column contains "[object Object]"? Jokes aside, breaking backwards compatibility is obviously a non-starter.

Their boss hired GP over others for a reason. The person who is finally desperate enough to do it might be just a little worse at their job, a little more expensive, ... It will ha…

Be here long enough and you will find people bragging about their captcha solving services, or how they found a clever loophole in anti-gambling laws. Posts about certain unmention…

Of course, what they charge $39.95 for is in the public domain. So it's a sort of double scam.

You can also buy licenses to use AV1, a royalty-free codec.

While I won't dispute that 6 months is outrageous, OP has not spent them to "please the bureaucracy", they spent them to escape personal liability should the company go bankrupt. T…

Debit cards usually also use the Mastercard or Visa payment networks. Even though I and the supermarket I go to are both part of SEPA and I can issue a bank transfer that will clea…

The sequence numbers of problems on Project Euler only represent the order of publication. They aren't deliberately connected except for a few problems that have one or two follow-…

This hinges on two misunderstandings: - That data processing always requires consent. There are exactly six reasons for storing or processing data: consent, contract fulfillment, l…

There is certainly a lot of demand at the current price of free or subsidised subscriptions. It remains to be seen what the demand is at profitable prices. If the vendors decide th…

Capillaries cannot defeat the divergence theorem: If you have a volume where heat is produced but the temperature does not increase, the heat has to leave via the surface. It is tr…

On the one hand, you can set up a proxy that supplements secrets for API calls. On the other hand, you can whitelist what you need, in the simplest case with iptables (The devconta…

And yet we cannot stop time, and a decision has to be made. It seems natural to involve the child in this decision. Of course, the next best thing (if a decision can't be made now)…

Very nice! One small note: In an Eratosthenes sieve, you can start crossing out numbers from p^2, since i*p for i for (size_t i=2; i by for (size_t i=p; i

I also live in the EU. betfair.com is not blocked by my ISP here. Rather, they are blocking my ISP ("[...] you may be accessing the Betfair website from a country that Betfair does…