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"But security!" has been the "won't somebody please think of the children" of the technology world for a long time. The end goal, intentional or not, is the same: restricting freed…

Yes, for a few years we had what was popularly called "Sun tax" in order to disincentivise people from installing solar panels in their homes. It was removed in 2018, though. Altho…

In most of Spain they sound exactly the same. I have met a total of one single person who pronounced them differently. Maybe it depends on the region. I'm from Málaga, by the way.

This is something I really like about Finnish. Being a native Spanish speaker, I am accustomed to knowing how a word is spelled just by hearing it, although there are some cases wh…

This is already deployed. My current employer (at least, my local branch) has some not-mandatory-but-actually-yes-mandatory "training" followed by tests where they do track your ey…

> I fully support anyone doing whatever they like with their body, but we should be able to at least acknowledge that any alcohol in any amount is self destructive. Yes. There is a…

Induction is also a very good way to prove these formulas. In fact, these are just perfect textbook exercises for someone learning induction: try to find formulas for the sum of th…

The thing about RSS is that big tech companies are not very fond of it because it gives too much control to the user and it's not so easy to flood you with ads when you use it. So,…

It's weird seeing Pell's equation discussed as something intractable or unsolved. We have deterministic ways of solving them (you can use convergents, which can be calculated using…

I'm not sure that twenty times the yearly price would look like a reasonable price, but if it's software I actually want, I might agree. I would weigh that price against the functi…

I'm a very, very firm believer on not paying for "subscription" to software. New content, I can understand (I spend about 40€ monthly on several Patreons, mostly comic artists; and…

As a simple example, one can look at f(x)=1/x in R+. The derivative is f'(x)=-1/x^2 and the second derivative is f''(x)=2/x^3. In general, every function of the form f(x)=1/x^n wit…

Fenwick Trees (which, despite the name, are implemented using an array) allow counting prefix sums AND updating prefix sums in O(log n) time. Very useful when n is in the order of …

I'm using 102.0.1 and I couldn't reproduce it either.

I miss GWT. Glad to see I'm not the only one. Then again I don't like web programming at all and I'd rather write a desktop UI, which explains it, I guess. I miss the times when UI…

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2169/ . I'm afraid that we are going to see these kinds of issues proliferate rapidly. It's a consequence of the usage of machine learning with ex…

This used to be common in parts of Europe as well. There is a book called From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats , from the food journalist Be…

I hate smartphones mostly because of this (although there are more reasons), and I wish I could stop using them altogether, but there are too many people out there who only communi…

This happened to me last week as well. I assume that this shit came with any of the recent updates. It really infuriated me, especially the usage of the word "need" and the fact th…

> the serious ones don't broadcast their intentions (simply because they don't want to be stopped from doing it). While this might be generally true (and it's especially true in th…

I'm going to be that guy and point out that clover wasn't considered a weed until a chemical that killed clover, but not grass, was developed by Dow Chemical and the company wanted…

The ability to switch LookAndFeels is one of my favourite features of Swing. Lately I've found myself using the Motif one a lot for my tiny personal projects, although copy&paste d…

The thing is that in other occasions I believe I have bought DRM-free music from Amazon Spain. But those particular albums weren't available in Spain, and although I found them in …

What I miss the most about this "peak warez" period (and most of the mid to late 00s, basically) is the huge amount of blogs uploading rare old music. During this sweet period I wa…

You could also do this with RAR. I always used the same command (which I could still recite up to the last character) to create compressed files of the size of a floppy, which I be…