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It seems like billionaires somehow develop a deep resentment and drive to change the world, whilst not spending any of their money to do it. (I wrote before remembering that lobbyi…

What is the use-case for a WAF/proxy/etc. to block unknown HTTP verbs? It feels like a pathway for obsolescence with no actual security benefit?

"Ports of Half-Life to unusual platforms generally lean on Xash3D, an open-source engine compatible with Valve's GoldSrc"

One of the main points of CSS was to decouple presentation from markup — trying to maintain a separation of concerns. Over the years, the HTML standard has deprecated nearly all pr…

I was reminiscing with some mates about LAN parties when we were younger — pushing mattresses against the wall to make room for folding tables so you could pack 20 people into a ho…

"Search without JS" and "static site generation" doesn't make much sense. Without client-side search, you'll need a search product or back-end search functionality? (both of which …

When we talk about an artist being overrated, we're talking about whether their works are deserving of the reverence, praise, and patronage that they attract. Its largely subjectiv…

Firefox — Everyone loves to play armchair CEO and dictate the ills of the company. But I think they do so because Firefox is largely the only independent rendering engine and with …

"First-mover advantage" — its not a guarantee of success. But its more of a guarantee than the guy trying to vibe-code a copy.

A novel idea. Once the tumour is gone, I'm curious as to whether any of the C. sporogenes byproducts would be toxic if they were to get into the blood stream (or maybe they'll be i…

Then you go to jail (penalty is 6 months for impersonating a person and voting on their behalf.) It's not like polling locations don't have cameras. (A few people voting more than …

Australia has a system where you are anonymous and can prove that you only voted once: You have to be registered and must vote within your electorate, so your name appears on a cer…

There were two reasons the Court of Appeal hearing held that the complaint could be heard in UK courts: 1. They relate to alleged harm caused by decisions and policies made central…

I'd still lean heavily on Sass for CSS development. Nestled rules is a particularly big feature in Sass, but not the only one which streamlines development and improves quality. (W…

Probably the best Duke3D ever got was the ROCH series. They really pushed what was possible with the engine, and must've been so slow on the Pentium 100. (Hard to remember the name…

Blast from the past — I made the EDuke32 logo when I was teenager back in 2004. (I still have the PSD sitting around somewhere...) Back then there was quite an active community on …

Despite being depressing and I imagine a lot of damage can be done in a short time without these protections. But I would wager long-term large-scale changes to investment/spend is…

Infinite life, finite resources, comes immediately to mind.

An annual salary of £85,797 in London for a junior is impressive, too.

Not the concept, how it can be profitable given the price of their acquisitions.

I don't understand this model. Such significant layoffs would indicate that there is no real appetite for expansion or growth. Their goal might be be to acquire, dramatically cut c…

Both are available on Steam and GOG. (But you'll need community patches to run it on modern hardware.)

I think the biggest issue, what lead to the toxicity, came down to the question/answer format not suiting the problem it was trying to solve — The answer could only be as good as t…

Given AustralianSuper is, as its name makes pretty clear, a superannuation fund, I applaud any risk management which protects the retirement savings of their members.

Largely, no. AI would need to 1. perform better than a person in a particular role, and 2. do so cheaper than their total cost, and 3. do so with fewer mistakes and reduced liabili…