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Societies often try to address low-probability-high-cost risks. City fire departments, car seatbelts, motorbike and bicycle helmets, video doorbells/home CCTV, car steering wheel l…

> The funny thing about data center concerns in Chicagoland, where I'm hearing it, is that data centers are better neighbors than almost any other commercial real estate. Data cent…

> The amount they are spending on Gemini is probably shockingly low IDK, haven't Google been putting Gemini front and centre in pretty much all of their products? I'm seeing Gemini…

The filter you want is named 'uBlock Origin' :)

> I'm wondering what people expect these companies to do? Human moderators? They could just set the minimum ad spend at a level that makes moderation possible. Let's say it costs $…

IBM is also still going, believe it or not. 260k employees, 200 billion market cap, $67 billion revenue. I'm not sure what they do these days - it's about 20 years since I used an …

> Pilots were so used to "the plane won't make a mistake" that they were not aware Of course there have also been crashes where pilots wrongly dismissed sensor data. In the Kegwort…

The Boeing MCAS stuff was a travesty, no doubt, and the 346 deaths in 2018-19 should not have happened. But did you know for 'General Aviation' (small planes flown for recreation a…

> So what is this conflict all about? Is there bigger geopolitical price tag attached to victory in Iran? Or US is just besieged by corruption to the extent campaign finding from I…

Yes, the current standards did arise out of a lot of questionable behaviour. It's awfully tempting for a war photojournalist to pose the group of tearful women in front of the bomb…

There were problems, but they were problems of a distinct and different kind. Back in the early 1990s you'd get Microsoft Office from the store, as a box containing 10 floppy disks…

> To be fair, the problems you describe existed before AI To an extent, I guess? But in the past if one wanted a diagram and didn't care about copyright they'd grab an image like h…

Some use of hero images by bloggers is a deliberate style choice, to emulate the norms of professional journalism. A lot of traditional news outlets have a style rule that every ar…

The most important thing to keep in mind, when considering AI images for helping to illustrate or explain the actual content, is that AI-generated images have a big trust problem. …

Imagine a YAML parsing library that can cause an out-of-memory exception if you give it a YAML file greater than 3 megabytes. If you're an online service where untrusted users can …

SOC2 CC7.1 [1] requires a vulnerability scanner, findings tracked with tickets, assigned severities according to a documented risk-based system, severity-based SLAs for remediation…

Presumably they hope to provide richer data (i.e. photograph of the library) that OSM isn't interested in.

It's bizarre, isn't it? I work in a warehouse, and if you type our address into Google Maps, it puts the maker right on our building. But they also label the building as a pub, two…

At least in my area, the price of the land is a huge fraction of the value of a house. Imagine a house-sized plot of land costs $250,000. That means a builder can offer buyers a $2…

In the UK market architects are kinda common. For a lot of building projects you need both pictures to send the government to get permission before you break ground; and also evide…

As the poster is saying "certain keys weren't detecting presses less than a month later" it's almost certainly a manufacturing defect, rather than a wear-out issue. Keychron say th…

> The worst thing about exceptions is that you can't tell from the type signature of a function whether it might throw one. In Java exceptions can be part of a method's declared ty…

In the UK there's a standard(-ish) form [1] the seller competes, before contracts are exchanged. So if a seller wants to keep their smart doorbell, or their curtains, or to take al…

> there may be periods where lots of people come to park at the same time. At least in my country, airports under-provision infrastructure and ask travellers to arrive 2-3 hours be…

> It seems like there’s not much throughput for something like this. I can’t see how this could handle a constant stream of people wanting to park their cars. Assume your car park …