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The instant cascading worldwide deletion upon closing or deleting a subscription sounds like a recipe for disaster. Why not mark it for deletion and delete say... a day or a week l…

Treat this as person's own contribution. If the quality is bad, means the person has allowed it, or the person's quality of work is bad, and it doesn't matter whether they produced…

Since Doom renders the image with vertical columns of pixels (floor, lower wall, portal if exists continues rendering the other sector, then upper wall then ceiling) and since brow…

This should have been in the title :)

I don't get it, do we keep the pitchforks out, or do we stash the pitchforks?

Just checked my Windows (i have latest). It has Settings -> AI components tab. It has "There are no AI components currently installed". I will let it stay this way till i need it. …

Amazontalk: We will save you costs Human language: We will make profit while you think you're saving the costs Amazontalk: You can build on to analyze complex documents... Human la…

There is a bill, it is paid, too. Russians leave a LOT of papertrail on all their operations, including military and secret service, you just can't always see (aren't allowed to se…

The Russian wikipedia article sheds a lot light on why this exists. With it operated and maintained by the army, and the majority of messages transmitted in the working hours, this…

This is something i'd prefer to save forever. Who knows if i need it in 5-25 years and the website is not there anymore.

You get what you're paying for. Choosing hosting providers mainly by their price, will get you to the cheapest one. Guess how they make it cheap? By cutting on staff (also by movin…

As you click the date picker, it updates entire page for that incomplete date, and it QUEUES dates for more update, even if you manage to click the correct year, it continues slowl…

Cost of the traffic is: hardware (staggered cost covered over many months), and running costs (subscription to higher tier internet carriers, electricity, rent of the premises, sal…

Businesses may be not constrained with the link times, but they for sure are worried with growing executable sizes. And large dev teams rarely reduce the code size, they just keep …

The statement about battery not being replaceable is false. They are replaceable. But the phone body is sealed to deliver the water and dust resistance rating from its technical sp…

The used font is great for text but atrocious for programming uses: 0 looks same as O, and the article is full of hexadecimal codes.

This is about locus of control: if twitter wants to do something about users hopping to and using a competitive platform, can they change some settings in twitter? Yes they can. Ca…

Believing that they are uncorrupt by the government secret services is naive. Everything in Russia of any value has eyes of secret govt service on it. If the state men ask you for …

Kaspersky labs have this curse of trying to be good guys, while operating from a dictatorship state with all state security services having hands up theirs, firmly holding them and…

Hair trimmer set to shortest length will make your face like shaven 2 days ago. Costs nothing. Needs no foam, no aftershave gel, creates no irritation or red skin, just splash of w…

Looks like clickbait. Rust and Python are FINE.

Consumers tolerating this and just trying to block the ads locally in their house — this is like ignoring the fact that the manufacturer has stuck a huge sex toy in the center of y…

Virtual machines use pointer tagging in least significant bits, as most of the data is 4x or 8x byte aligned, and you can assume that zeroing those bits will always give you a safe…

Google Maps, click business name, see opening hours. Only businesses that matter. Online-only businesses should have hours published on their web page.

Such a fancy way to ruin reputation outside China and lose market share.