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>async doesn’t go well with scale, Sync is even worse at scale. I had the pleasure of attending standups in a 20-person team. It was a nightmare where I said two sentences and then…

I must be very clumsy with my phone, because it takes me a painfully long time to make a move on my phone (i estimate it to be a bit under a second), while with a mouse I can click…

I never tip because it's not a custom in my country, but out of your two contradicting stories I believe the other one more. Does the driver even know the tip amount before rating …

"Please accept the [tech word salad] popup to verify your identity" Maybe this won't fool you, but it would trick 90% of internet users. (And even if it was 20% instead of 90%, tha…

1. create a working (moderately complex) ghidra script without hallucinating. Granted I was trying to do this 6 months ago, but maybe a miracle has happened. But I'm the past I had…

You wouldn't do them intentionally, but they're there waiting to bite you in the foot.

You are getting downvoted but it made me wonder (I visited CERN a few years ago). I guess there are two aspects in play. One, the pile is massive, which naturally inspires awe, esp…

I'm pretty sure EU would love to hammer them with fines for that. Unless they ban F-Droid in the US but not in the EU - similar things have happened in the past, but nothing of thi…

You link says the opposite - the change was very annoying for people that use non-english languages (like me), and: >By default, qvm-copy and similar tools will use this less restr…

>In my opinion, there should be 3 Linux distribution. That's all. Initially I instinctively agreed with you - certainly there's too many fragmentation in the Linux distro space! Th…

This won't stop the heat death of the universe, just prolong the life of one particular solar system a bit.

>But this has been the norm for a while, no? I can't remember the last time I didn't utilize credit at a restaurant or retail store. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I want to high…

It's clear that this extra 0.5% is there, because the company hopes to make it up on late payment fees extracted from less financial savvy people, or the high fees.

>This is an area where government regulation is actually required, all transaction fees should be disclosed and charged as a surcharge on the base purchase price, whether it's a cr…

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Only if we assume that the existence of BNPL won't change consumer habits. I think food is easy to buy impulsively ("I'm hangover and hungry - let's order some pizza delivery"), an…

Why only poor though? There's plenty of middle class people living above their means by abusing credit too. They can deal with the consequences better, but it's equally financially…

"completely solves" is a bit of an overstatement. Imagine a curl-like library that allows you to make requests by URL. You may only ever use HTTP urls, but code for all the other s…

This is a pretty wild thing to say. Pope will probably never - or at least for a very long time - be replaced by AI, simply because he's a symbol first and foremost. Actual decisio…

>Nobody would care otherwise. As long as it's a work computer, what does it matter if it's his current computer or not? Remember that we're talking about an infostealer, it got his…

>reasonably good evidence that you are doing something wrong. No need for multiple leaks, just one is enough. And I wouldn't say "do something wrong", just getting infected with an…

Yeah, sure. Seeing a conspiracy and 4d chess in everything is a proof of having an enlightened mind. I work in this space and many actors, including nation state actors, are just i…

Is it? If I buy EvilCorp stock from you for $1000000 how does that help EvilCorp? Assuming just a few rational actors, stock price should (in theory) stay roughly the same, near th…

>Google received requests for user information for about 900,000 accounts I'm responsible for a few of those btw. All for e-mails clearly related to malware operations, to help wit…

Does it undermine the whole idea? You can just assume that everyone with a @gmail account may be compromised (just like people with work email don't really own their mailbox), and …