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My two-year-old son had started saying "turn around" in a sing-song kind of way several months back, and thus my wife and I, both babies of the 80s, had to start singing the song w…

And what about containers/VMs, or booting software bare metal? Does my laptop have to pass my age verification to a Docker container? Am I at risk of government censorship (or wors…

One thing that MCP solves well, that neither CLI apps (like the `gh` CLI for example) nor letting your LLM call arbitrary APIs via CURL does, is setting granular permissions per to…

As a vegetarian of 20 years, I like being able to go to restaurants and have something that is on par with what my friends and family are eating (although I do prefer Impossible to…

Avalonia is FOSS (MIT licensed). You only need Avalonia XPF if you are migrating legacy stuff. Moq is largely unnecessary today with LLMs being able to easily generate mock classes…

The last sentence is not correct. ASP.NET is part of .NET Framework which is still supported by nature of being included with Windows, and follows its support lifecycle. https://do…

Yeah, agreed. Anker, if you're reading this - please open source the printer hardware/parts and software if you're truly pulling out of the market!

It seems like everyone is dog-piling on Anker over this, so I'd like to put forward a bit more positive of a take. I have a M5 that I got through the original Kickstarter campaign.…

Azure SQL Database for a long while has been the most cost-effective way of running SQL Server as a PaaS database, and still is if you choose the DTU-based modes, making it a very …

Can someone check my understanding: does this mean they have eight logical qubits on the chip? It appears that way from the graphic where it zooms into each logical qubit, although…

These are the first few sentences of the article: > Cadmium is bad news. Lead and mercury get all the press, but cadmium is just as foul, even if far fewer people encounter it. Nev…

Congrats on the launch! This looks great. I see you plan on making money by charging for the hosted service. Given that, and given recent history in the industry with companies sta…

They now refer to the former as Windows PowerShell, and the latter as PowerShell. The Core part was dropped.

And for organizations, it's only $419 for the first year. It's $251/yr from 3+ years on. It should be noted that $419/year is $35/mo, which is still $10/mo cheaper than the Visual …

> Whether it be the rent-seekers at JetBrains This is a gratuitously negative comment that is unfair and uses an incorrect metaphor. Rent-seeking is trying to charge for something …

> Apple really needs to just build this functionality into macOS already. ... or at least allow API access for third-party/OSS apps to do this without needing full screen recording…

> we're still stuck with the same treatments Take a look at CAR T-cell therapy, used for Leukemia and blood cancers (and mentioned in this article). The first trials were happening…

Gridfinity is an awesome organizational system you can print yourself, customized to your needs. I’ve also printed watch charging stands, a bottle drying stand, games, and gifts fo…

For some definition of "end." Semantically, E2E encryption should mean encrypted end-to-end between you and the person you're calling, without Zoom having the key or ability to dec…

It also seems very similar to .NET's Lazy : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.lazy-1?v...

Almost 7 years later, I am still using an Anker Powerline+ braided USB-C (C to C) 6' cable that I purchased for use with the original Pixel (1st gen) phone in 2016. It's the cable …

Definitely agree with the first and second points above. I absolutely will if I can see it with enough time to safely slow the RV, and the terrain doesn't look like I might blow a …

No, but static code analysis could do a good job at catching this (at least it does in C#).