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I always think of the building (and brutalist architecture in general) as absurdist architecture, and I find City Hall to be quite humorous in that light. The general shape lifts u…

My family had one of these when I was growing up (in gray - not the great blue color you linked to). When I was 11-12 and didn't have a computer, I used it to type up BASIC program…

I would hope that there is more process in place protecting against downtime than code review - for example automated tests across several levels, burn-in testing, etc. People are …

I'd like to get a heat pump to replace my existing baseboard hot-water system (currently powered by an oil furnace) without converting to a heated air system. From what I've read, …

It seems endemic to the sector. For comparison sake, Bank of America was penalized almost 4X ($83,354,221,356) in the same time period: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/s…

I particularly like how they neutrally listed all the assets and lines of credit of Voyager Digital (the loan holder) without mentioning that they add up to just $655M (< $670MM), …

When I registered for Lufthansa FF, the form was just numbers. My birthdate has two single-digit numbers in it, and I ended up with Month-Date backwards (US vs. rest of the world c…

Windows may still dominate, but 75% is far below the 90% it was 10 years ago, while MacOS has nearly doubled in the same timeframe. As someone who can remember this never changing,…

I recall when they didn't put them on the passenger side.

When my son was a toddler, he referred to all heavy equipment (bulldozers, etc.) as "Err-err"'s - referring to the primary sound they make. One of my fondest memories of this time …

The few most recent episodes of the "Darknet Diaries" podcast, which are relevant, including interviews with CitizenLab, descriptions of how NSO works, Black Cube, and the market f…

In fact, as noted above, the article was originally written in the 90s, and this line about Trump was in the original version written long before even Apprentice days. Trump has be…

As others mentioned, I've also heard this as a lawyer taking claim from the chaos. I also heard this from a friend that heard it from Ronald Reagan, who claimed it was his favorite…

Or Blondie?

Meta comment: this thread has over 600 comments after 10 hours (one comment per minute) - most of which are of the form "I use it this way", or "here's a better way to do that" - t…

I'm not sure how that's a benefit for users (multiple app stores). What he wants is the right to build his own App Store so that he can charge his own "tax" and (hopefully) become …

I find that completely unrealistic... It will almost certainly be found on an unsecured S3 bucket

This article falls prey to a very common pattern of defining waterfall as "anything that doesn't meet my narrow definition of agile". Since everyone knows that waterfall is a ficti…

It may be a good idea to fire someone who participates in that behavior, but there isn’t a legal obligation to do so (IANAL). If the behavior is because of your race and they aren’…

Note that "hostile work environment" is a legal term related to a pattern of behavior taken to intimidate someone based on a protected trait (e.g., age, sex, religion, race, disabi…

Unpopular opinion: the 30% that Apple charges includes customer acquisition cost. As a thought experiment, if Hey adds In-App Purchase for subscriptions, but everyone who downloads…

> Almost certainly, the video glosses over (read: ignores) the likely fact that the 47.2bn is over that 15 year average, and the 3.4bn is over the 15 month average, so this doesn't…

Even if she were 18 or 25, it wouldn't really change the morals of the issue - maybe the legality, but forced sex is wrong regardless of the age of the victim, and it's not in any …

Hmmm - couldn't you also say that Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern microservice?

In addition, the machines didn't have so much control of our news input and conversation the last time around.