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You don't get to call it "stepping out of line" if there are no consequences for doing so. See for example how the My Lai Massacre was handled[1]. The pattern continues when it com…

That description does not match the RCA 1802 [1] perfectly, but it is probably the best known microprocessor (not a microcontroller, though) without a dedicated program counter. Th…

Forcing everyone to use ourFetch is rubbish, but forcing everyone to use axios is clean and elegant? You might want to elaborate just a little more.

> Honestly, if coerced sideloading is a real attack vector , [...] I don't believe that it is. I follow this "scene" pretty closely, and that means I read about successful scams al…

UTF-32 allows for constant time access to code points . Neither UTF-8 nor UTF-16 can do the same (there are 2 to the power of 20 valid code points, though not all are in use). Whil…

No, the worst outcome is much worse than that. You need to keep track of what is going on around, or you won't be able to account for you surroundings when you start moving again. …

In Finnish you might use "kuunteluttaa" . You start with "kuunnella" , "to listen" and inflect it in the way that turn a verb into "make someone verb ". This particular example is …

SMS does not support images either, and email supports HTML. I'm not all that familiar with Word, but I believe it supports some formatting options too.

What definition is that? Merriam-Webster: "the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person" and "ideas, fa…

I worry we're veering very much off topic, so let me state, for the benefit of anyone thinking that this is still about the original comment, that I consider the quote provided by …

You will notice that the provided quote is not from the submitted page[1] but from another page[2] on the same site. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one on this page that assumes …

And conveniently, Hacker News supports hyperlinks, so you can easily provide a source for your quotes so that everyone reading your post don't need to search for it again.

"The people living at this address might be pedophiles and sexual predators. Not saying that they are, but if your children are in the vicinity, I strongly suggest you get them bac…

Responsible for what? If the government does not mandate any behavior, what basis does it have to incarcerate anyone?

That's not really what happened. The European Commission made gave the manufacturers a choice: they could sit down and come up with standard that they voluntarily accepted to follo…

Not so, but if you're to pick one company over all the others as being the most deserving of your ire, EA seems like a rather strange choice compared to, say, Nestlé [1], Chiquita …

You keep on asserting that, but what are you basing it on? According to Wikipedia[1], "In 1990, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined (software) reve…

Developing a reusable launch vehicle is not needed for a fast launch cadence. The expendable Soyuz family has had 2006 launches since 1957 [1]. That's one in just over 12 days, and…

That seems weird. I would expect optimizer to be able to do anything a rapid fire joystick could, so if the simulation code could be tricked that way, should it not have become app…

If you happen to have Randal Munroe's what if? [1] on your bookshelf, look up the chapter titled "Sparta". It should convince you that the story of arrows blocking the sun is proba…

You might want to check out The Amazing $1 Microcontroller [1] which explores multiple microcontrollers that could be had for less than $1 (when buying a hundred of them) in 2020. …

How much better do you think public transportation is in the US (35 people per square kilometer) than in Finland (16 people / km²) or Sweden (24 people / km²)? While you're checkin…

Why, do you live in a hospital? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike )