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This sounds a bit like the fallacy of the beard; the existence of ambiguous behaviours that exist somewhere on the spectrum between "listening to an entire podcast with ads" and "a…

This is interesting as a technical PoC but also feels a bit unethical. The moral case for ad blocking on the web seems pretty clear: online advertising is built on massive exploita…

Really miss Divvy (RIP). At the risk of causing a good thread on Apple's weird inability to lauch a really valuable OS feature devolve into a list of workarounds, Hammerspoon (a ge…

I think the main difference is that a 1 month sabbatical is typically over-and-above your normal holiday allocation. This can make a huge difference for some people, particularly p…

According to these numbers the combined cost of replacing the battery and the screen is 22.99 + 44.99 == 67.98, which is less than half (~45.3%) of the cost of the original new pho…

I think this assertion from them is misleading (in the same way that it is when Facebook et al make it). If Apple is allowing micro targeting then they are implicitly sharing data.…

Unless I'm massively misunderstanding your setup, that Docker image contains an entire OS and runtime, not just your website. Reasonable people can disagree about whether that enti…

This kind of point comes up a lot in these discussions. I'd suggest a slight alternative: "Death per million person kilometers, broken down by car age and road type." The expectati…

Bit late to the party but I just wanted to put one top level comment saying: this is awesome! I'd never have thought that putting a Fortran codebase like this into WASM was so poss…

I always find this to be a funny point in these conversations. The entire discipline of "agile development" exists because it's so hard to have foresight into the requirements of a…

Strangely I think that might actually be less of a concern with BAYC? From the article: > A growing number of NFT projects are granting owners the right to commercially adapt their…

This is probably a cliched comment by now, but it never ceases to amaze me how quickly many crypto users appeal to centralized authorities as soon as they accidentally lose ownersh…

I think they address some of the reasoning behind this pretty clearly in the write-up as well? > The potential risks of misuse raise concerns regarding responsible open-sourcing of…

Out of curiousity, have you looked at the paper or read the Forbes article linked in one of the other top-level comments? ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/08/30/kathe…

I see where you're going with this, but a reasonable counterpoint would be that this is a CS teaching role. Most people with the skills to teach university level CS, who also live …

There might be some value in opening these algorithms up but, also, the moment you reveal how they work you will immediately start to see them gamified. Aspects of content recommen…

Just to note, there are many reasons to not want to "require identification to use the site" that aren't related to "[wanting] bots on there". Cost, friction, safety/protection, et…

This makes me wonder why not just use a one-time second price auction? In that case everyone just needs to huddle up with their family once, submit their maximum price for the hous…

For anyone wondering what this was ... looking at the last Archive.org link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220401002723/https://www.devan... ...it looks like this might have h…

I think that, at the margin, very few people make a decision about whether to have kids based on global food supply projections. And, at any moment, a lot of population growth is j…