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It’ll be a licensing/copywrite concern. Large corporations using GenAI have guardrails and indemnity from their providers to protect them. Taking external contributions is more pro…

It might be switched off after each use in your household but it’s definitely not in others. Neither is the toaster, nor kettle.

The lack of any subject level standardised US high school certification to prove skill-level for matriculation still boggles my mind. I realise this is fundamentally a curriculum i…

Yep, and it now features as a supported language in their latest database version. That might be another reason they continue to protect the trademark.

If you don’t want IOT for the bed warmer/chiller then there’s this: https://sleep.me/product/cube-sleep-system It works rather well, I’m tempted to reverse-engineer the remote cont…

Not any longer, they sold it off in 2020 and only retain a minority share.

It’s a declarative language and it’s compiled into an execution "plan", and parameterised queries (bind variables, prepared statements, whatever you want to call them) are passed a…

I hope they’re eventually prepared to legislate against one-time pads, as they’re bespoke and sophisticated and equally impossible to crack.

I bought an XBox HD-DVD drive expressly for the purpose of, err, "preserving" my movies once the format died. It works well connected to a PC.

Similar etymology, I would suppose “All mans” https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamans

It’s German meaning “commons" - communal lands.

This is very reminiscent of the m:n thread support of Java on Solaris. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19620-01/805-4031/6j3qv1oej/inde...

Yes, I gave one to my son when he was 5 years old. He's still playing with it even now he's 10. I bought it used from an eBay seller. They're remarkably physically robust, even aft…

For Java there’s the Omniscient debugger ... http://omniscientdebugger.github.io/

From my experience, large corporations have standardized job roles (e.g. SE5) and these have descriptions attached to them, describing the role in the numbing HR verbage shown in t…

Yes, the UK does have something like FDIC. It's called FSCS http://www.fscs.org.uk . Moreover quite a few EU countries have something similar too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depo…