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This makes me feel physically ill. It's like something straight out of a sci-fi dystopia, how did this get approved? Who determined that reinjecting biological activity into a huma…

It's 100% recycling, if the alternative was just "throw away the excess". For all practical purposes, recycling just means "repurposing material that you would have otherwise sent …

The issue with "At the right price", is that your minima (what's enough to filter the spam) and maxima (what are legitimate contributors willing to put up with) can be on the wrong…

> Everybody is not you Perfect example of a non-sequitur. Irrespective of whether or not the statement is true, it has no bearing on the veracity of the original claim: that in the…

It's not a communication problem, it's a scale problem. An AI could spit out dozens more massive PRs in less time than it takes you to even evaluate whether or not the current one …

So you agree. Unless you're using some definition of "reviewing" which somehow doesn't involve "reading and understanding".

Statistically speaking, most codebases are brownfield. Without joining a startup, working on a greenfield project is actually a pretty rare treat. And deleting code is wonderful . …

That you're only just "learning" that these things are true is a damning admission. And to fix your bad analogy, it's more like "hey maybe we shouldn't be allowing f1 street races …

Basing what you consider important to know solely on "what can make me money" is a very self-sabotage way to live life.

I would personally argue that it's a lot easier to say something definitely isn't x, with confidence, than to say it definitely is . I definitely don't know what the surface of jup…

Finding something funny doesn't necessarily imply you endorse the behavior, believe it to be harmless fun, or even that you don't feel sorry for the victim. There's entire categori…

Maybe you will read it carefully every single time (and to be clear, I doubt even that) but for the majority of users this will only lead to increasing the already excessive amount…

Not exactly. It's not a "new" attack vector, any software which was malicious would have already been able to attack when you first gave it permission (a prerequisite for this stic…

It's pretty shortsighted, bordering on intentionally obtuse, to insinuate that the only person that benefits from solving the support problem is the person on support.. Take the ex…

Hyperbole is a thing that exists. It is also rare that anyone says anything that is meant to be taken 100% literally.

No, because the limitation is not money. More money does not magically make the humans in the profession be able to handle higher case-loads, nor magically produce new lawyers and …

"what do you mean there's no more sheep in my field? There's hundreds of wolves!"

the EFF didn't move from political neutral. The right just moved more right.

It's pretty damn simple actually. Their target audience by and large doesn't use twitter anymore, either.

claiming there was rampant "censorship of conservative opinions" is about as honest as claiming that the Romans were being persecuted by first century christians.

By definition, it is exactly a law. It's known as business law. The ToS is a business contract which you must agree to if you wish to use the service. Violating terms of service is…

... A tool that had code which explicitly enables and advertises the ability to violate those terms of service.

it is neither being delisted, nor was it requested to be. As far as rights holders exercising their rights, this is about the most collaborative way it could have gone. Not every r…

Counterpoint: these patches are used specifically for slow, controlled absorption of the medication in order to provide symptom relief over long durations. And even then, many drug…

The "squatting" part of "bucket squatting" is a bit of a misnomer here. The attack vector is actually in the opposite direction. 1. You set up an aws bucket with some name (any nam…