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Engineering is not a regulated term everywhere.

I bought an early framework 13. It cost a little more. I’ve since upgraded the main board to get a faster/newer experience. The overall cost has been less than 2 laptops. Some of t…

In the 1920's of the US the idea of making people not content to stimulate buying gained popularity. This is still used today. The culture is directed at making people not satisfie…

Two thoughts.... First, being intelligent (as defined in the article) doesn't relate to being happy. There is nothing inherent about being intelligent that means happy. Second, our…

I don't think about this as much for professional or amateur photography. I think of verifiable images as something for legal purposes. So much is easily made up with AI. Having ve…

There is a lot missing from the articles on this whole space. The farmers are getting squeezed for things like profits. For example... 1. Seed prices - there is a lot of patented G…

> That died last week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction. If the issue is one of jurisdiction, did they file t…

This has nothing to do with Git. A symlink can be packaged up in a tarball and shipped from one system to another. An attacker would need to create a malicious Chart.yaml file and …

The attacker creates a symlink (e.g., using `ln -s`) to another file. The attacker needs to create the malicious Chart.yaml file and symlink that the Chart.lock file points to.

> So why did the cockatoos gravitate to drinking fountains in the first place Some species of birds, like cockatoos, like puzzles. They like to figure things out.

Imagine the time we would have if.... Instead of doom scrolling on social media we called a friend. Instead of binge watching another meh show, we had friends over to play cards or…

People have admitted in news interviews to destroying government data to prevent others from knowing what the government was doing. That’s likely criminal. This is a legitimate rea…

Setting aside legitimate (thats a matter of judgement)... Some previous attempts for DOGE to get data has resulted in data being deleted before they can look and requests for judge…

To play devils advocate here, a thought comes to mind... Should the US be the one to handle the CVE database globally? The current administration wants to see other parts of the wo…

Which distro do you use? I've run a mac and Linux laptop and the Linux setup keeps sending me back to Mac.

For those building applications with FIPS 140 crypto the primary concern is compliance rather than security. There are many organizations (e.g., US federal) that have requirements …

According to crunchbase, Automattic has taken just shy of $1B in funding. Yes, that's a B as in billion. I wonder where those investors are on returns on that investment and the ki…

The author of UBlockOrigin should contact the PayPal legal department (in a legal manner). That might be a more direct path dealing with the Honey business.

They do have a right through representative government. The powers one level of government doesn’t take trickle down to the next. Since the state level took those powers, the local…

If someone is a software developer who has done non-trivial things and linear algebra but not recently and needs to be refreshed, do you provide time/training to refresh on the mat…

The court isn't tasked with doing what right. Who defines what's "right"? The court is tasked with judging based on the laws at hand. If those laws are flawed or wrong but legal, i…

In addition to politics is how they interpret the job of being a judge. Is it to judge a case on the laws that are written given the context they were written in? Is it to interpre…

How would this work for the majority of people? Most people live paycheck-to-paycheck. Even those who make more than enough not to. It's a habit. If health care isn't baked in, wil…

If there is no permanent damage to your body, then Type 2 can be reversed. I've known Type 2 diabetics who no longer have it because of diet change.

I've heard the people behind Mastering Diabetes [1] talk about diabetes in general. The authors of the book are diabetics with advanced degrees they put into this topic. I've known…