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> First of all of there are others with regrets they are most likely also found there. Second to warn others. Thirdly to vent. I don't find that the least bit credible. The proposi…

The survey was just 21 people "exclusively contacted in BIID internet forums". How many people who cut off a limb and regretted it would stick around the forum that fed their compu…

I also avoid those platforms but that also means self-exclusion from entire communities. I've seen large groups (DnD groups, gaming/sports clubs, obscure tech forums etc) being swa…

Also you can use the official Bitwarden clients with a free open source self-hosted backend, like vaultwarden [1]. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/

> unfortunately the alternatives to Google are usually not any better in this respect. I don't that's necessary true. Google (and maybe Facebook) are unique in the size of personal…

I also have Youtube left on my list. I also find it a little too addictive. Instead of using a browser, I use RSS to subscribe to the channels I'm interested in. From my RSS reader…

It's difficult to overstate how bad things have been for the past 1.5yrs. Automotive and Industrial microcontrollers and components in particular are impossible to source. I have a…

Hiring lawyers is probably going to cost more than the 7000 dollars taken from him. Large companies probably spend that much on their legal teams per hour.

People the British government don't like and who they have subjected to torture and extra-judicial killings, the biggest example being people in Northern Ireland opposing Union wit…

If the requirement to be narrow and time limited is not codified in law (which afaik it is not) it is pretty much guaranteed such broad searches will happen. All it takes is convin…

There isn't a threshold for copyright violation. If you copy a 3 line function from a GPL library, you have to comply with the licence. Tools like BlackDuck will pick it up. Snippe…

> I’m deeply disturbed that you think this form of plagiarism is universal This thread is an eye opener for me too. Do engineers not get trained on their legal obligations? My comp…

I don't think that's true and, if it was, it would be the death knell for open source. Code Plagiarism is taken very seriously by every company I have worked with. Multiple compani…

> Instead of marvelling at the human ingenuity that went into creating it, they sneer at the audacity of openAI to do something without first asking their permission. Something bei…

I believe the previous Python support extension started out as an independent open source project until Microsoft hired its main developer. > It’s baffling. Vendor Lock in? Same re…

> Insult charges apply when an individual insults another in public to damage their social reputation. This is a gift to the rich and powerful to punish and gag whistleblowers and …

Isn't that what certification is? COMPTIA etc?

> We needed healthcare reform. What we got was the ACA. > What we needed was them to bring back Glass-Steagall in the wake of sub-prime crisis. What we got was ????? Wealthy powerf…

> but with a surplus of sovereignty. And not even that. Similar agreements and compromises on shared standards, data transfer, compliance etc still have to be made to enable trade.…

Is Jaguar an interpreter and Toit the scripting language? How does it compare to MicroPython? Can I link in C drivers?

Testers are fascinating. I worked on firmware for a part under test and was amazed that tests are often literal vectors of bits and that interfaces (UART, JTAG etc) are bit banged.…

Surnames are a direct indication and to a lesser extent place of birth I believe.

Yes, we are literally trained for that - to keep distance with cars ahead of us, expect the unexpected and so on. We are also told not to drive cars without proper maintaince (and …

It's honestly like a black mirror episode. "I have to have maintain a mental model of how my black box ML car AI will act so I don't die or kill other road users... and it can be u…