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To play devil's advocate here, imagine a world where the exact opposite has occurred: physical media (CDs specifically) is the norm, and there's no DRM, so the raw data can be copi…

I'm with you but I see a bigger problem. I'm not sure if you noticed but there are threads of low desire within our society. Young people, in particular young men, increasingly see…

The rhetoric of this comment seems to imply that this is a bad thing, but is it really? If it becomes more difficult to make money through creative endeavors, then that leaves us w…

Zen of Python in 2025: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Python String Formatting in 2025: - t-strings - f-strings - %-operator - +-operator - s…

I'm surprised that there's been no mention of Operation Paperclip, neither in the article nor in the comments here. Seems like a huge part of the story to leave out. https://en.m.w…

I'm going to leave this here for anyone who wants some good focus-time music: https://youtu.be/Do5_wU9X1pc

It's about writing code that your peers can read. "DO NOT SUBMIT" is clear as day. "ASDFASD" probably does not mean "this is a debugging string" to most people.

I live in California.

I live in an apartment complex that uses RealPage. My roommates and I re-signed the lease earlier this year, with a projected 15% rent price increase. We then walked to our leasing…

According to the article, he disappeared in 1976 (48 years ago). Apologies for the pedantry.

There are plenty of projects smaller than the Linux kernel that have developed and employed DSLs (to varying degrees of success, I'll grant). I wonder, are there any languages out …

I gained a a few years of experience in SQL-based OLAP systems at my current job. In this time I developed a strong appreciation for SQL, especially for its composability. Recently…

Remember everyone, your bubbles are green because you have an iPhone, not because the person you are texting has an Android.

For the mixing and mastering aspect of music production, look no further than Dan Worrall: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6e8wfdmIuLEDpO3rd5jO... https://www.youtube.com/p…

Oh, I'm not arguing that using checksums, SHA for example, for integrity verification is a bad idea. That's what they're designed for, after all. However, I do think it's a bad ide…

I wonder if this incident will encourage our industry to build more robust forms of artifact integrity verification, or if we will instead codify the status quo of "we guarantee re…

Per the post, this was a change to git itself: https://github.com/git/git/commit/4f4be00d302bc52d0d9d5a3d47...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220726030213/https://worldsens...

There's more nuance to it than that, so let me try to clarify again. Like you said, the accelerometer shows the difference between the casing's reference frame and the internal's r…

There's a difference between accelerating compared to a coordinate system, and accelerating compared to an inertial rest frame. If you set a fixed coordinate system relative to the…

While falling, the cat is in an inertial reference frame, so it is not accelerating. The ground is actually accelerating upward at 9.8 m/s2, counteracting the flow of spacetime. Th…

The pattern of holes technique in that link (MURA) is also used in UV lithography for IC fabrication (example: https://youtu.be/8eT1jaHmlx8?t=1543 ).

Just to note, for this specific example, Go supports this with type definitions: // UserID and PostID are distinct types type UserID int type PostID int

It's not too surprising that there are fewer unique products for a geometric progression, because subsequent terms in a geometric progression are found by multiplying by the common…

Quite often, I accidentally press the space bar eagerly when typing git commands: $ gi tstatus To fix this, I've added the following to my .bashrc: gi() { args=("$@") args[0]=${arg…