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An important thing to consider is not just average return, but risk factors, and worst case scenarios. If you buy a home instead of investing, you've got a locked in, controlled ra…

Here's a few dozen use cases based on my own use of smart home devices: - Hands are full or dirty while cooking. Voice activation is more convenient. True for not just timers, but …

The companies on top provide end user customer support, varied pricing models ("unlimited" data vs pay by the GB, etc), and so on. It allows the common carrier to focus solely on t…

If it takes 1 hour of effort to save 5%: - Doing 1 hour of effort to save 5% on your $20 lunch is foolhardy for most people. $1/hr is well below US minimum wage. - Doing 1 hour of …

Nine times out of ten, I've got more valuable problems to solve than a theoretical future change of our vendor/stack for telemetry. I'll gladly borrow from my future self's time if…

The article contradicts your exhibit A: "Additionally, women, who naturally produce much less testosterone, reported an increase in sex drive, when given testosterone supplements."…

Agreed, but in this particular case the blog writer was running private servers, rather than being Valve. They had no control over payment processing etc.

GDPR isn't a blanket ban on cookies. You don't require a cookie notice for strictly necessary cookies, which you have a "grounds of legitimate interest" for: https://commission.eur…

At the time of the events in the blog, CS:GO was NOT free, and yet there were still cheaters that apparently had access to 80+ accounts.

NYT has had click to cancel for a few years at this point. Were they later than they should be? Yes. Are they bad now? No.

What makes you say that? In my experience, the spam button works fantastically. There is a gym of some kind that has me on their mailing list, refuses to honor unsubscribe, and sen…

"Stick to a calorie budget" is the HARD part, and it's the thing that drugs like Ozempic help people with. People aren't obese just because they can't figure out how to count to 15…

So, eras of food scarcity?

Minimum thresholds, and exceptions for less liquid assets (private equity) - ideally, again, coupled with thresholds. The same way we have exceptions like CA Prop 13 for increasing…

Why would there need to be a carve out for home/auto loans? 1. No one really borrows against the value of their (paid off) car. 2. Property taxes already, generally, are against th…

I firmly believe that monolith vs microservice is much more a company organization problem than a tech problem. Organize your code boundaries similar to your team boundaries, so th…

Based on the other comments, is that true? The top comment here implied that the puzzle explicitly had a private key with all 0s except for 66 bits, so that lock was definitely wea…

Even 4 can be generalized to "be deliberate about what you do with a failed function call (etc) - does it exit the command? Log/print an error and continue? Get silently ignored? H…

Seems similar, except that this is built-in to sshd vs having to install a separate tool. It's also enabled by default here in sshd.

You can control the block size for this, though: https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config.5#PerSourceNetBlockSize

Because it was used as BOTH an identifier AND proof of identity, for a long time. If it were used properly as simply an identifier, you'd be right, but there are still many cases w…

The article doesn't claim that you should make a language and actually use it - the author focuses on the learning experience. He makes valid points. No, it's probably not the righ…

The site also indicated that "Adherence to F/TAF and F/TDF was low" which means those that got infected most likely weren't taking their pills on a daily basis, unfortunately.

Agreed. If anything, github should remove the option to change a repo from private to public or vice versa. Force creation of a new repo with the correct settings.

You can't reach out to any machines that have pulled down that commit and forcibly delete it, either.