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No - toothpaste is in part an abrasive. If it's wetter, the abrasive is less effective at removing biofilm/plaque, and the chemical components are diluted in situ. Your mouth is pl…

My experience is that working in an office is _much_ worse for distraction. Even if you're lucky enough not to be in open plan, the shoulder taps and quick chats easily demolish an…

Environment visibility is easy to get. If you pwn a box which has foo.internal, you can now impersonate foo.internal. If you pwn a box which has *.internal, you can now impersonate…

"You can use adblock" is a pretty chunky benefit over Chrome

Trust. OpenAI's ignored everyone's copyright and legal usage terms for the rest of their training data, what lawyer is going to trust them to follow their contractual terms?

Doing in-database computation can be very advantageous for some applications, and writing those functions in Rust would be fantastic for some uses, not least for the library ecosys…

There were some legal challenges likely for the relevant statute, and doing it this way is much more in keeping with Singapore's approach to keeping politics "in politics". It's ca…

Assa Abloy's eCliq stuff (similar to this) uses asymmetric crypto for some parts and symmetric for short-lived stuff. The lock cylinders in that system are updated with new CRLs wh…

It's enabled by default, actually, but otherwise about right. https://www.blocked.org.uk/ is a useful resource on this front.

QGIS will, for raster basemaps, fetch the detailed version to get you your high DPI detail but this of course involves stitching together lots of tiles from the basemap's lower zoo…

We do a huge amount of very complex analysis and entirely run QGIS. Looked at ArcGIS and decided it wasn't anywhere near worth the money, and getting into their ecosystem at all ma…

The internet basically only works because small entities have as much standing and control as large entities. This is also why things like RPKI are required, to prevent small (and …

UK? Pick any county within an hour or so of London. Oxfordshire and Berkshire is full of systems/tech people.

The company commissioned to build it were FM Conway. That should have been a bright red flag. FM Conway do roadworks. They fix infrastructure, and rebuild streets. They're a civil …

Because we do take people's licenses away if they repeatedly cause accidents? Treat the Tesla FSD as a human driver and it would've had its license revoked many years ago. It's onl…

So it is huge, but well within historic capabilities - and materials science has come a long way since then. I'm quietly hopeful for this.

Well, no, it's not perfectly possible to recreate a singular human vision system and capture and reproduce imagery to match that. But actually, we have lots of excellent, well-rese…

Yes, CCSDS Magenta and Blue reference books mandate AES-256-GCM as a minimum for data encryption and mandate that encryption and authentication should be used, particularly for com…

Red tape in the medical trials domain is forged from blood. Human experimentation is limited and carefully managed for very good reasons. Killing people to extend other people's li…

The linked article (and government push to do this) completely ignores the fact that this is done frequently now. It's used to get the last few metres into the home, e.g. from the …

Not OP but it very much depends on which bit of Azure you're using. Some bits are very polished and work great, some are a dumpster fire.

Behringer's goal has always been to make stuff cheap enough that people can afford. Which is noble, except they do this entirely by ripping off other people's R&D and undercutting …

Openreach in the UK are deploying 0% new Huawei for FTTP and have basically stopped using them for FTTC because of the 30% rule. EE still use Huawei for new 5G deployments - but on…

Just so you know, the original source of the expression would be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. VOGON GUARD: I’ll mention what you said to my aunt. [Airlock door closes and …

Absolutely. I use loads of those features including regexp in nano all the time and it works fantastically well. For me it's the fact that it's small (so available on nearly every …