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"A lot of the reason why concrete structures have failed so quickly is that the material was still fairly new when most of the structures failing now were created." Or the designer…

And what about archer companies doing "volley fire" ? As in what looks like 99% of Hollywood movies. https://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-...

MBAs are mercenaries, that's part of their formation. They fully expect to be working somewhere else when things start looking bad. They are just doing what mercenaries have been d…

I would not be surprised if it was some sort of AI driven mistake. Some guy somewhere deciding to delegate threat assessment to Copilot or some other automated tool.

It is heavily dependent on the history of your area. I am near Lyon (12km away), I had 20mb then 100Mb coaxial cable very early because the "département" built a public network and…

I can confirm this from France.

I think it is also fairly similar to the kind of discourse a manager in pretty much any domain will produce. He lacks (or lost thru disuse) technical expertise on the subject, so h…

there is a bug in the CSS : explicit border:2px solid var(--border); on the input which takes priority over the class : .demo-uv-input:user-invalid { border-color: var(--red-muted)…

I personally think that the more appropriate quote from 1984 is this one, because the cruelty is the whole point : “The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is…

Exactly, there is no need for nefarious intentions, when time constraint et mild incompetence suffice. The OOXML format is likely a not very deeply thought out XML serialization of…

Literally in the title of the article "... in areas of decreasing demographics ...". So yes if you are willing to live in areas : - without jobs, - without healthcare - in ghost to…

The author has a VERY dim view of Sparta, and of the people who worship Sparta and of the quality of information the legend of Sparta is based upon (second hand roman information, …

I have pretty much the same experience, but it is highly dependent on what you were using. - WCF ? (very enterprisy i know) : you are still mostly screwed - aspx ? compulsory rewri…

the technical term in "contingent" : https://acoup.blog/2021/10/15/fireside-friday-october-15-202... "(The fancy way of putting the influence of all of those factors, both the big …

Maybe it's the right time to once again quote this poem : https://jochenenglish.de/misc/dearest_creature.pdf The joy of English pronunciation George Nolst Trenit´e (1870–1946) 1 Th…

That's the magic of genius marketing

do you know thet firefox for android has extensions, including uBlock Origin, cookie autodelete, tampermonkey (these are only those that I use) ?

Maybe because when Elon Musks walks into a room everybody is a billionaire on average ? Besides what is the use of inheriting at 60 or 70 ?

The first risk with virtualized setups is DRMs, if your uni use any kind of "professional" software with student or university wide license that makes use of pain in the ass DRM, y…

Naaaah. Musk is a G.E.N.I.U.S (tm) He clearly identified that Tesla owners want a "Rat's Style" custom car. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Rat%E2%80%99s+Style+cars&at...

here it's more like the Bing team. It's all about targeted ads.

"- merchant checks if debit or credit card is accepted by their payment processor —> if not accepted, tell buyer present diff card or “get bent”" This is america, in France (and mo…

"One-Half the Money I Spend for Advertising Is Wasted, But I Have Never Been Able To Decide Which Half" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/04/11/advertising/

Reading the various comments on this article, I get the feeling that drugs are russian roulette with a random number of bullets in the barrel. Some people enjoy that. Not me.

So this makes you a candidate for the ultimate retro-computing challenge : "¹ If you’re one of those retro-computing archivists, I guess this poses an extraordinary challenge even …