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Clown-car cluster sounds like it'd be a good name for a compute product.

This seems like the perfect thing to implement as a browser addon. If you think you need it, install it. Otherwise, the code doesn't touch your install. Much like the container tab…

When I read "wasn't entirely correct", and "probability of a crash was about one in a million", I wondered how you'd work that value out. Predictable statistics screams RNG, to me.…

The 'lower total cost, higher unit cost' problem is one of the reasons I love the way the EU mandates advertising prices. i.e. anything sold needs to have the price you actually pa…

I got myself into the habit of opening transactions before doing anything that could alter data by hand. Huge panic-saver. Even earlier, I got into the habit of typing the where cl…

I have no idea, but I'd guess it was the client generating a random number to use as a unique ID, with insufficient length. AFAIK, anything UUID-sized or bigger doesn't have this p…

I came here to reply to the parent comment's remark about "irreversible interaction like aerobreaking, but this dwarf planet has negligible atmosphere." by mentioning lithobraking …

I've seen this turn out the other way on a road contract near my house. (rural Ireland) Some Italian construction company underbid, and slightly later went bankrupt after finishing…

> Heating water with electricity is the literally last thing we should do. Would you consider electric showers an exception? They only heat whatever water you're using. I've lived …

> Someone has uploaded the source code to GitHub Anyone else think the smartest move for microsoft here is to leave it up, unless another copyright holder complains? Not only has X…

This occurred to me after looking at the Wikipedia article [1], and seeing the different "versions" and the rationale about not leaking data in the ID. In general, if you want to e…

4chan is a bit special when it comes to government orders. For example, they have a (heavily limited) de-facto warrant canary. Since damn near all of them specify that no data shou…