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The secret to wrapping errors is the erros.As and errors.Is special interfaces called out only in the documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/errors#Is You must build a Directed Acyclic …

This is creepy.

You conflate seeing the future, and wanting to improve it. Microsoft very likely tried to subvert the future. See the Halloween Documents: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/hallowe…

Nowadays cable TV targets ads too. If your diabetic grandma connects to your cable provided wifi router, you will get ads for glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Targeted advertisi…

We really need these things to be Closed Circuit by law. Want the data? Get a warrant and seize the device physically. Centralized databases of surveillance information needs to be…

> we all know and love No, we don't all love the spyware app called TikTok

You can have a monopoly and not abuse your power, or you can have your monopoly broken up. The Sherman Antitrust act still exists. Law still exists. There are already multiple anti…

It's long past time to regulate social media like a phone company, natural monopoly, or common carrier. The DOJ needs to break them up for violating the public trust, then limit th…

Yes the timing is good, the Artemis program is heating up and needs to disperse grants for the 2024 moon missions. You will have a much better supply of labor to choose from than o…

> gaping hole where United States leadership should be I've seen this exact wording a lot recently. Is this the new propaganda line everyone parrots? I must have missed the previou…

Thank you Apple. This was needed! I have a bricked 2017 MBP that I don't want to fix. It's too expensive to fix and not worth it breaking again.

They are jails for breaking the law.

Human carelessness like allowing this crap in the first place?

The problem with deep fakes is a hostile nation taking over your phone/facetime calls and sounding exactly like your own parents. How can you tell if they can do it in real time? A…

If you want a real answer, it's because people are trying to discredit "mind control" studies. The cat is about to be let out of the bag that the media is a mind control factory.

Yes, which makes the Gov dumb for letting them get away with it. That's why he became president, to fix dumb things (in his opinion) in government.

> When U.S. President Donald Trump’s critics have demanded to know what his supporters got in exchange for voting for the genital-grabber-in-chief, thus far those supporters have h…

I use the national base reflectivity radar. https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/RadarImg/latest.gif

Checking the radar. In the midwest, weather comes at you from a long ways away, so I wrote a script to set my desktop background to be the current national radar mosaic every 15 mi…

During Hurricane Matthew, Fedex delivered a package to my door while the island I live on was under a mandatory evacuation order. The package got destroyed. My advice is to contact…

`vimtutor` is where most people should start. It's bundled with every vim installation. Vimtutor teaches the absolute basics in an interactive manner so you'll remember the lessons…

The web design is indeed ugly, but at least it is functional. Here are some easy to implement design suggestions: You should change the title of the first heading so it's not the s…

Yes, it was killed for this reason. Singular hotkeys that drastically alter state are a horrible UI design decision. When commanding, controlling, or altering a program, the trigge…