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Individual republicans may well love science, but the Republican party is and has been anti-science for a long time, and aggressively so.

Listening to the Christmas lectures was a high point of my childhood, and everyone in my family still remembers and talks about the ones we watched.

I was startled when I was interviewed by an AI interviewer, since I wasn't expecting anything like that (perhaps I'm naive). It asked a series of questions about my job experience …

CS Lewis on the dangers of caring too much: "It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was …

Is the company DataAnnotation? I ask because the feeling I get from comments on the Internet is that they are not a real company - they might just be collecting people's contact in…

I don't have kids, and will never have kids, but even so I don't see people whose children are being denied food as a problem that the children's parent's caused. I see hungry kids…

Could this be it? TLS 1.3 connection, with every field in the packets labelled: https://tls13.xargs.org

That may be the first time I've heard of AI actually creating jobs, rather than abolishing them.

This is how I got laid off. Working on legacy software, sole person on the team, eventually management decided that it could be replaced by AI or some such pixie dust.

And it was 1971 when the last chemical castration as a 'treatment' for homosexuality was performed in the US.

Uhuh. Let me guess, you're a heterosexual white male? the Republicans have been very explicit about making my existence a crime since the 1980s. These are the despicable people who…

> None of that is "opposed to Open-source". You're quite right. Open-source vs. non-open-source is irrelevant to the question.

I do use a desktop environment. I don't use many additional productivity tools, though, and that is likely why I have a blind spot about that part of the software market. My questi…

It seems that the vast majority of software I'm hearing about is targeting iOS, Android or embedded systems. Is anyone working on a software product that (a) targets a non-mobile, …

I have an interview question: step 1: the candidate is shown the specification for a method and the results of running the test suite on an obfuscated version of the method. All te…

I _hated_ The Green Brain, but that was mostly because he had all the characters say everything in Portuguese, then repeat themselves in English. It was as if there was an echo in …

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