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If someone is charged with and found innocent of a crime, you can't just remove that record. If someone else later finds an account of them being accused, they need a way to credib…

Isn't that what I said?

1.7x more is not the same as 1.7x as many.

Some TypeScript features are only available through JSDoc. The one I encounter most often is `@deprecated`.

There's a Kingdom Hearts joke in there somewhere, but I don't know enough of the lore to make it.

We're all suffering from the curse of dimensionality.

In-band signaling can never be secure. Doesn't anyone remember the Captain Crunch whistle?

The search deals were already not exclusive. The real impact will be the other businesses (especially GenAI) where Google will be barred from having exclusivity clauses in its cont…

I don't think that blueflow is being obtuse at all. If you assert that genes have an intended way of working, then the questions > How do we know how things are intended to work? (…

> …as intended. Genes and biology in general do not have "intended" purposes.

Unicode support in Ruby has been great since the beginning.

Ruby has been extremely slow and deliberate in rolling out frozen string literals. They added a magic comment to opt in to them on a per-file basis all the way back in Ruby 2.3—alm…

I guess "esoteric" is in the eye of the beholder, but Promises seem a lot easier than the old callback style we used to use for asynchronous operations.

Promises in JS make this stuff much easier (at least to my mind): const lockify = f => { let lock = Promise.resolve() return (...args) => { const result = lock.then(() => f(...args…

By following the work of authors that you trust and getting recommendations from people you trust, you can reduce your need for recommendations from machines and companies. Then yo…

I guess they expect you to set all your repos to public before applying for a visa now. Maybe your Venmo history as well?

The xenophobes making these decisions don't care if they create problems for US citizens traveling abroad.

The picture at the top of the article seems to be a bad (AI-generated, I assume) illustration of the Gartner Hype cycle. There are supposed to be five stages, but the text at the b…

Computers keep getting better at acting like humans, but humans don't get any more obviously human.

I was looking at quarterly revenue numbers—it seems like a dollar value to me.

Apple should abandon the console model for iPhones (and iPads, etc.). It's corrosive. By my back-of-the napkin math (subtracting an estimate of Google's quarterly search payments f…

Despite all the data about climate change, the thing that is actually shifting us away from fossil fuels is that solar panels are cheap.