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The show makes reference to "Midnight in Chernobyl" in its epilogue, I think it's safe to say it was one of the main sources of information for the show (though of course they took…

I agree there are some claims in this article that should be further scrutinized but it's true that the levels of radiation were not as high as one might assume. The direction of t…

It seems that in practice no it's not possible based on what I've read from people much closer to programming language design and compiler work. "In practice, the challenge of prog…

It is truly risk free. You always buy the call using the customer's money but you only give them the call if every part of the parlay is correct. Assuming they charge a commission …

It was chosen to be implemented as a generic type in this design because the way that uncertainty "pollutes" underlying values maps well onto monads which were expressed through ge…

The desktop background reminds me of some screens that MEPIS OS used [0] back when I was first getting into Linux in high school and the idea of live distributions blew my mind. I …

I don't agree with the conclusion put forward in the article. I'm reminded of my time trying to get into Urbit many years ago or DAPs. That certainly require me to think differentl…

I've done a number of text-based slide presentations with `marp` and I've been pleased with the results. Mostly it's just plain markdown slides but if you want to get into the weed…

If I'm understanding the parent comment correctly: a fact may have political implications but it doesn't depend on politics. In other words reality is independent of our interpreta…

I'm glad to see more sites giving visibility to long-lasting products. This reminds me of https://buymeonce.com/ but I like the community driven aspect of this. I'll definitely be …

2FA isn't double checking to make sure you meant to log in. It's verifying that you are the person logging in. Alert fatigue is a real issue as you point out and we need to make su…

One of the issues ignored here is the nature of cascading failures that happen during a breach due to password reuse. If a user is compromised through an active credential forwardi…

The core message of this article is that it's possible for even large groups of people to be wrong about things and that those people won't think they're wrong (they're wrong about…

Reading about this I was reminded of this blog post by Backblaze when they announced they were raising their prices. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-computer-backup-pri...…