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I fall somewhere in the middle these days- I really like knowing in advance that I have a place to sleep each night and that I have a way to get there, but then just do whatever I …

Who said anything about GDPR? If someone reveals to you that they are in some kind of protected class, then there’s a risk that anything you do they don’t like could see you tagged…

That's also an option available to you: Mutex::new() is const, so there's no trouble putting one in a static variable. If the inner value can't be const-constructed, you'll need a …

There's some precedent for this: Back in the 40s, the movie studios were forced to sell their stake in theaters due to antitrust issues around exclusivity. Streaming services ownin…

The law says that toys have to look like this, but there's often no restriction against painting an orange tip onto an actual firearm.

`Send`, `Sync`, and `Unpin` are special because they're so-called 'auto traits': The compiler automatically implements them for all compound types whose fields also implement those…

> There’s no difference with a password, except that the sign-in process can be streamlined when everything works There is one other major difference behind the scenes: With passke…

It’s an attack that lets the malicious actor hijack the passkey registration flow to insert a key that they know, so that they can later log in as the victim.

A quick read through of their anonymization process seems to indicate that they didn’t scan the message contents for PII (other than usernames). If true, that seems like a huge ove…

I use Anki more as a serendipity engine than for memorization: Whenever[1] I have an interesting observation or thought, I'll write a couple of sentences about it and file two copi…

From my understanding, it's more that the explosion phase of a detonation is more fuel-efficient than the burning phase, but can't last very long under normal circumstances because…

This is one of the annoying constructions in English that has two common meanings which are the opposite of each other. It can either be referring to the worst possible/conceivable…

> You buy back shares and 'retire' them, thereby making everyone else's shares more valuable. But the cash outflow to purchase those shares makes the company less valuable at the s…

I admit that I was unaware of that order, as I currently live overseas and don’t follow US news that closely. However, the order opens with the line “By the authority vested in me …

For one thing, the US has never had an official language. English is obviously the most widely used there, but contracts and official documents written in other languages are also …

It's worth noting that this post is 8 years old, and some things have moved on since then. In particular, trait object upcasting is on beta now and will be promoted to stable in a …

> The part that troubles me is how an unenforced law is practically any different than a canceled law. In the case of the Tiktok, if the Justice Department refuses to investigate, …

My parents have always gone for an absolutely huge number of white mini-lights on the tree. So many that they have to be plugged into a dimmer circuit so that the intensity isn’t b…

US congressional districts being an order of magnitude larger than UK constituencies probably has something to do with it. Also, there are significantly more MPs than representativ…

The key thing that you get by integrating the two tools is the ability to more easily extract a single file from a multipart archive— Instead of having to reconstruct the entire fi…

> There are diminishing returns but they don't really kick in until you're already pretty fit, they are only really a concern that athletes need to think about. Unfortunately, it's…

Striking/pressing with a shaped die is the traditional process, not least because the material itself used to be the store of value rather than the provenance of the mint— The coin…

At one point, I worked out that US dimes, quarters, and half dollars all weigh $20/lb (iirc), which made the task of counting my accumulated change a lot easier.

That's an old decision to open an investigation into X. Presumably, that investigation has now concluded producing the finding being announced today. According to the press release…