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That's only true in a theoretical sense. In practice capital needs to invest in the right things for that to happen, otherwise the people are better off working for their own immed…

I wouldn't mind if ruby copied the rails docs style exactly ( https://api.rubyonrails.org/ ), and I'm pretty sure rails wouldn't mind either.

Picking one point from there, possibly the one least connected to Signal: > The focus on deepfakes in a vacuum is actually missing the forest for the trees, with the ‘forest’ being…

Being excessively reclusive needn't be a death sentence. Have you tried to transition to home-schooling[0], which might get the law off your back? If he is interested in gaming, pe…

Those books had tremendous impact. BBC Basic was the first programming language I ever saw, in a children's book in a library, years before I ever got to touch a PC. It made comput…

Failure of imagination indeed. There's much more to energy than the regular usage cycle of the average electrical supply grid. What if creating easily-fusable isotopes is the most …

> If you see a three-syllable Chinese name, you can be confident that the two-syllable name is the given name, and the one-syllable name is the family name. Statistically speaking …

The popup window login with the many different domains doesn't work with isolation on. Hope they don't take the random meeting name (the last anonymous option) away.

What are the insurance payouts like when plants like these are destroyed? Could those be manipulated to balance the risk motives for omitting or delaying mitigations when warnings …

The touchbar feels to me like a time bomb that explodes when Apple thinks it's time for you to give another stack of cash to them.

The accidents you described didn't come from nuclear power plants. The Western Australian incident was mining equipment. The Goiânia accident happened in Brazil and was medical equ…

At some point the blackout will be the thing saving them from losing data because shreddit can't delete posts from private subs.

How about being on hold, listening to repetitive music interspersed with a recorded "you are x in the queue, we'll be with you shortly" in a precisely-calculated interval to get yo…

I understood the GP as focussing more on the missed opportunity. Those cheap renewables didn't exist 40 years in the past. There could've been lots of nuclear energy built since th…

One potential life-changing application I haven't yet found for eye tracking is to train monocular people to align their blind eye properly. I don't know if it's possible, but if i…

It's also a nifty way to loosen meat from the shells of lobsters, crabs, etc.

Why would they dirty bomb their own land? If anything it's a reason to have already taken some materials offsite to dirty bomb Moscow later. Or for the invaders to threaten dirty b…

The perl-family heredoc syntax could be quite flexible with options. I'm used to ruby which does have an option for indent-stripping.

Heredoc by another name...?

For those wondering, the Q for this particular result was 0.33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99hvPlC4is&t=48m

This is the big one imo. Youtube's monopoly status is making creators sign unfair contracts, after which stealing from them becomes legal.

Once had a bug that set then re-set a cookie. Worked just fine in a browser. A customer wrote some automation that depended on the bug and ignored the first set-cookie. The bugfix …

If they had put in these proposed charges from the start, it would protect the NZ government from the criticism they're facing. Ending MIQ is inevitable but it's a one-way decision…

Even the most expensive MIQ places are incredibly cheap to the average millionaire, NZ$5520 for 14 days for a single adult, which gets cheaper per person when sharing [1]. There ar…