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As someone that just lost everything I own to fire I think this is a bad idea. The fire is a problem, certainly, but a secondary problem that killed all my paperwork was the fire s…

I understand the technical part: they are unlocking the extra power electronically. What I don't understand is what is different between the headline saying that you can pay $60 fo…

I'm confused as to how those two statements are different?

You might never get a chance to wipe it. I had a cop whip out a loaded gun and point it at my head to take my phone out of my hand. I didn't even have a lock code as there was noth…

Ah, I too had to settle for Tomy after drooling over the Hero range as a child.

In theory that is how it should work. I promise in practice that you will get absolutely nowhere. Most prosecutors seem local, either municipal or county, but in actuality are Stat…

It will eventually become one of the most significant technologies in history, alongside AI, in my opinion. People are confusing bulky headsets with the general concept of VR. If I…

Just want to say thank you. Great article and really enjoyed your other about flexbox vs. grid.

I've been a web designer since 1993. It was nice in 1993 because you didn't even have a background color. The color of your page was the default color of the window on your OS. Usu…

If you discover law enforcement or prosecutors committing crimes, who do you report it to? This is a serious question. You can only report it to their peers, and I promise you, fro…

Lol the water from the fire service did more damage. Fire proof, but not high pressure water proof.

The examples on the README are extremely compelling; the state of the art has been raised yet again.

My entire storage building just burned to the ground with my safe in it, all my paper codes, my laptop with all my auth on it. Luckily by sheer fluke my phone was saved which has m…

As someone who worked in transcription last year I would say the biggest reason for transcription job losses in the West is competition from India where English speakers are willin…

Now I have to compete against AI for my username: https://chirper.ai/kingcharles

I heard the pirate shipbuilding unions are celebrating.

This is far more important than it initially appears. Current AI image generators let you create pictures of your wildest dreams and desires. The logical conclusion of this is the …

If anyone wonders what it is like to be born British, this is the answer. We can't help ourselves. This is the burden we live with on a daily basis.

I ran a web site and our e-commerce all ran through PayPal, about $2m a year. One competitor would email PayPal on a weekly basis to tell them we were selling CSAM which was a real…

Last night I needed a really hard regex and I'm terrible at reflex so I would have spent literally hours browsing the web and testing expressions, wasting energy in the process. In…

Thanks, that's a great resource.

Lol. My friend and I did the same with a local DVD vending machine. If you brought the disc back within a few hours the price was ridiculously low, so we had the laptop in the car …

Microsoft broke the ground. Their DRM that opened the door for legal music sales came out in 1998 I think. Certainly by 1999 I was using it commercially and had the first labels al…

That was after. That was closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.