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Eh, idk, I wouldn't classify these fixes as hacks nor as technical debt. It's labels that only work from a partial perspective. IMHO a solution that expects perfect compliance is n…

Well.. it was ~6 years and ~10 billion payments ago, the clients have been fixed but the "hack" is still there, it has caused no harm as far as I can tell. Worst case scenario it's…

IMHO it's more: fix problems, or at least mitigate them, regardless whose problem it is. I've been in this situation, a clientside bug meant that different requests arrived with th…

It kinda works both ways, just yesterday I tried to play the Linux native version of 8bit.runner and it didn't work, I had to install the Windows (beta) version and run it through …

Don't you find it excessive to imply the above regarding a G7 country?

When I upgraded my PC to the same CPU, I had the same problem of crackling/buzzing speakers on my USB DAC (externally powered, but from the same strip/outlet) when the system was u…

This is also my experience, it's not necessarily Apple fans, people just get used to some garbage but necessary workflow/ritual and forget they are doing it. I witnessed multiple c…

None of my claims disagree with what you just said. People posting the "gotcha" also likely don't disagree with you. In fact, I suspect that most hate firearm-related violence and …

One could argue that advocating against firearm control and regulation has resulted in significantly increased societal harm, which could also be identified as not fair, if not eve…

It's being posted as a gotcha because he fought against firearm control and he was killed with a firearm. His death, like many firearm-related others, would have been significantly…

IMHO the incentives are disproportionately in favour of everyone doing something that hurts consumers (= "something that I don't like"), thus regulation in favour of consumer right…

I would be very surprised if bit flipping and ML were really used here, do you have any source? While for sure there's a lot of signal and value in monitoring auth rates per BIN pe…

Yes, the article focuses on GPP, which is more on the gaming side rather than the compute side. CUDA was clearly ahead and I think AMD still hasn't quite caught up, however, call m…

I'm of the opinion that NVIDIA raced ahead thanks also to shady anti-consumer tactics ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/03/08/repor... https://youtu.be/H0L3OTZ13Os…

>"I want to be clear: best practice, ideologically-pure end-to-end apps like Signal absolutely face the same ratchet. What I’m mostly trying to understand here is why Telegram and …

I agree that testing can reduce the probability of having huge problems, but there are still many ways in which a QA process can fail silently, or even pass properly, without givin…

It's quite handy that all the things that pass QA never fail in production. :) On a serious note, we have no way of knowing whether their update passed some QA or not, likely it ha…

While I agree that under-engineering can be a problem, it's generally very easy to fix by doing what's now clearly identified as missing/needed. Fixing over-engineering is always a…

>Moreover, I noticed that some merchants refuse my payment when I use e.g. Google Pay with my Amex instead of my MasterCard. In my experience this is normally due to either how the…

I think this bit in the baseline section applies to the Java one too >Note that that’s a best-of-five measurement, so I’m allowing the file to be cached. Who knows whether Linux wi…

I think that enforcing what you're suggesting is incredibly hard and I don't think can scale, it's what PCI-DSS and similar are meant to tackle, it really doesn't work in my experi…

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Uhm, yes, I think it is a problem because unfairly losing isn't as fun as fairly losing or fairly winning. Ignorance about the fairness of a game may work in a few instances but wo…

I think that there are very few tasks in competitive multiplayer games that humans perform better than machines[1], I don't think your statement holds true unless you exclude a hug…

Probably not worth anyone's time to remove ads but I can't convince myself that the premium subscription is worth buying, I feel like many are in a similar situation and struggle d…