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The main bitterness is pretty clearly directed at Google's handling of internal sexism and sexual misconduct, culminating at what seems to be pretty direct (but underhanded) retali…

> It is to serve public and corporate good without restriction. Sometimes those two are in conflict, such that it will not be possible to satisfy both simultaneously.

> If anyone feels negative, I recommend seeing a psychologist. There is no reason for anyone not to feel exceptionally optimistic about the future these days! "European heatwave is…

"An area of oak-pine wood was selected East of Upton, and a tower was constructed that could raise and lower a canister from underground that contained radioactive source material,…

> I think a lot of people actually dont realize the value it gives humanity. Lots of people think we would have been better of in an alternate universe where we never discovered oi…

Nobody is pretending fossil fuels are not producing value, if they did not nobody would bother using them in the first place. The argument is about the fact that they produce relat…

The HDI ranking has been published for 36 years now. And for many of those countries I would feel confident claiming the trend goes back to at least WW2, altough you would of cours…

> Allocating money through the government has not been a particularly successful strategy for improving the overall standard of living. What are you even basing this assumption on?…

Being jewish is not the same as condoning Israel's war crimes (which shouldn't even have to be clarified, but here we are...)

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There's only a limited amount of context and decisions that can be effectively communicated informally without looking at the code. Sometimes it is required that people look at the…

Graphs can be abused and statistics can be misleading, and some things are hard to quantify and measure. But the author never makes any convincing case why the statistics would be …

I don't know much about vim, but from the report it sounds like part of the issue was that disabling modelines would not prevent it: > tabpanel is missing P_MLE Unlike statusline a…

But you would expect running "git status" or "git ls-files" in the unzipped directory to completely pwn your system? Probably not either. If you don't trust git, you can remove fro…

The first one seems to indeed be a real RCE in vim. Also including the emacs one as a "found vulnerability" seems really disingenuous. It basically amounts to "emacs will call git …

Pulling the emergency break promising to improve a situation will in general not build any trust unless the mea culpa also includes: 1. An analysis of what allowed the situation to…

It's a really interesting case study, but the summary seems to lean into the AI hype to an extent that borders on lying. > His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the enti…

The standard for obscurity is different for LLMs, something can be very widespread and public without the average person knowing about it. DICOM is used at practically every hospit…

They mention false positives as well on github: The rate of false positives is harder to measure, but based on limited manual reviews it's well within 20% range and the majority of…

You make it seem like it's not predominantly skewed right wing, just a "healthy" mix of right wingers and left wingers due to not banning anyone. Which might be an unpopular take, …

> "a problem for everyone" The phrase "a problem for everyone" doesn't mean everyone agrees, it just means the described situation would affect everyone broadly... And even you lit…

So you completely agree with the factual description of the problem I supplied when asked to describe the problem, your only real complaint is that I used the phrase "more awful sl…

Then you haven't understood the complaint.

Do you think people complaining about online marketplaces being overrun with unscrupulous drop-shippers are "gatekeeping e-commerce" as well?