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Quoting from a relevant wikipedia entry[1] to hopefully pre-emptively reduce some confusion: ''' In parliamentary procedure, the verb to table has the opposite meaning in the Unite…

It's a shame that (if I remember correctly from the video?) the bug that allows this is restricted to single-player; if not, I suppose it'd be possible to start the "outer" map as …

There can be a good intellectual challenge in refactoring code like that to be both efficient and readable (although at some extremes, and depending on the programming language, pe…

Per-employee distribution might tell one story; per-manager distribution might tell another.

Offering an opinion: the tech industry is invested in the success of PyPI -- perhaps not always in a literal monetary sense, you're right, but certainly in an ecosystem sense.

Ok: you've provided two requirements that I agree with: - It should be possible to compare between two releases (I'd personally like to see a code diff, ideally with a complete pat…

Odd but serious question: could there be ways to distribute versioned software that doesn't require management of developer accounts (and the associated time-and-effort costs relat…

That's a very good point regarding operational cost of handling account takeovers. I'm not sure I have much useful commentary to add, but it does occur to me that a sufficiently-si…

Choosing to use FOSS software to build products/services has always involved an element of caveat emptor, and even with the best of intentions, mistakes and errors are introduced s…

Trying to ignore any hype, lofty sci-fi ideas, or potential philosophical questions for a moment: roughly speaking, it sounds like this is a search engine, for use in a neat and th…

Related to this, there's a really good talk by the founder of lichess that includes an overview of the cheating problem, and the techniques they use to detect and manage it. The re…

I think I'd prefer a code review discussion where the file being modified is a CSV file listing everyone in the organization's roles, seniority levels, and compensation, and where …

(see also 'Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory )

It's generally not a model that has much supportive mindshare for the web currently, but it is possible to achieve tamper-prevention without requiring the content of communications…

Digital experience ('DEX') issues reported by employees, from the original report: - 37% : Security/regulatory policies - 37% : IT overwhelmed by number of issues that need resolvi…

Worth mentioning that the experimental payments during this research were one-time-only. (a few descriptions[1][2][3] of Universal Basic Income seem to define it as including recur…

Often I begin from the assumption that the marketplace -- for some reason -- wants to gather as much information about customers as possible, rather than to sell them minimal produ…

Slightly-curious, slightly-unnerved, slightly-paranoid question here: Is there any chance that this code snippet was sampled from repositories that contained associated commentary/…

Roughly speaking, yep - Common Crawl provides a sizable chunk of web data (420 TiB uncompressed, over 3 billion unique URLs, as of May 2022; historic statistics here[1]), and is up…

A correction/clarification since writing the parent comment: publication of packages requires an authentication token, and does not require an interactive 2FA challenge. Generating…