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Godot's recent announcement spelled something out clearly: when a mid-tier rando contributes, you can provide feedback to that person and possibly help them grow into being a senio…

I mean that's still basically what they tried to do at the time. They were trying to get them through web standards committees and everything. IIRC a big reason it didn't end up wo…

This is why we're clear-cutting forests to build new data centers? Not even for "real" productivity gains, but just for the sake of using the tokens.

The difference is that early-bird pricing is transparent and predictable. There is a written, known policy of $X discount during specific hours. You can plan for it. It's never a s…

> which seems to directly oppose the CCPA. I have some background in data privacy compliance. It sounds like they are claiming to be a Service Provider under CCPA, which is similar…

My personal conspiracy theory is that in some cases, the "loser" is in on the graft to. It's a way to launder bribes.

That still begs the question though: There are existing tools and solutions that do this. Why not, and would this being AI make a difference? "My boss would be more likely to appro…

That type of experimental set-up is forbidden due to ethical concerns. It goes against medical ethics to give patients treatment that you think might be worse.

The Gaussian integers usually aren't considered interesting enough to have disagreements about. They're in a weird spot because the integer restriction is almost contradictory with…

They weren't "just" raw dumps of internal C structures. It takes careful design work to dump raw memory in a usable fashion. Consider: You can't just write a pointer to disk and th…

HIPAA is not a privacy law, nor even a healthcare law. It's an insurance law. It does not cover medical records generally. It deals strictly with how doctors bill insurance compani…

> If it only exists in some hardware, how should the standard deal with that? Generally seems to me the C standard makes things like that UB. Signed integer overflow, for example. …

It very much is something that exists in hardware. One of the major reasons why people finally discovered the provenance UB lurking in the standard is because of the CHERI architec…

GDPR does not currently have explicit business size thresholds. Its provisions are all framed as personal rights of the data subject, so its provisions are always in effect. By con…

Yes it does. If a user can say "here's my IP address, what data do you have on me?" and you can answer that question, then that's personal data under GDPR. It's pseudynomized, but …

We passed the tipping point where bot traffic outnumbered human traffic fifteen years ago . LLMs are an order of magnitude worse by most first-hand accounts, but it's just a contin…

> You also have to remember that individual countries fining on global revenue runs the risk of fines "duplicating" each other for the same or similar behavior, again bankrupting a…

Per a reddit comment, modules are allowed to have circular dependencies while crates are not.

That website is not authoritative and should not be given more credence than your median tech blog.

GP are wrong about which law applies, but they are applying that law correctly. The ePrivacy Directive requires consent to read or write from the user's terminal device, except whe…

It depends on the jurisdiction and law, but a "data breach" is when data is accessed by a party who is not authorized, or who should not be authorized. It's not just hackers. Sendi…

I have some sympathy for people who are blindsided by surprising difference between a new tool and their old one. This post is not eliciting sympathy. They're data consultants, who…

At least you're using the actual months. I've recently had to deal with 4-5-4 Retail Calendars. Explaining to my coworkers why the data for September includes dates from both Augus…

GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF ISOPERIMETRIC AND SOBOLEV-TYPE INEQUALITIES Suspected to be flagged for the trigger word "inequality."

PageRank relies on pages from one domain linking to pages on another domain as the main signal of quality. But no one does that anymore, because of PageRank . Most cross-domain lin…