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Mail delivery doesn't seem to be working, or, at the very least, is considerably delayed. I just sent an e-mail to my primary Fastmail-hosted e-mail address from my secondary GMail…

No you cannot. Copilot plugins are currently only supported for NeoVim, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs. Emacs is not on the list.

>ActiveX just had the nice side effect of only running on Windows and IE. It also had the nice side effect of being the security equivalent of a sucking chest wound. Flash and Java…

ATT has provided the best service of any carrier while traveling, so I will use them. Really? My experience with AT&T while traveling has been pretty awful. In the US, in rural are…

One of the issues with many of those studies is that they track per-pupil spending and track educational outcomes without actually verifying that the per-pupil spending is actually…

I don't think that there will be a collapse. The linked post [1] has this telling line: Because I’m in a very very blue state and city Emphasis on city . Every time I've read somet…

Currently? You don't know for sure. It might be possible to make some guesses by examining how the model responds to various prompts, and checking the output of the model against t…

I look forward to reading breathless thinkpieces in the New York Times about how "techies" are keeping their kids away from AI, written in the same tone as articles written today a…

This reminds me of how NASA would never have a Shuttle in flight during the transition from December 31 to January 1, because they were unsure as to whether the shuttle's computers…

I'm not going to respond to your points one by one. My overall response to you is that the system you're describing, with its multitude of RAID controllers, ancient webcam, overclo…

When was the last time you had to debug an IRQ conflict? I remember when "Plug and Play" was derisively nicknamed "Plug and Pray". Today, it all just works. When I'm assembling a c…

while Java originated the billion dollar mistake By the "billion dollar mistake", are you referring to null references [1]? But null references were introduced in 1965 in Algol, by…

There, you can $$$ your way out of data corruption. You can even loss all the data if you have enough replicas and backups. That's absolutely not true. All the money and all the ba…

Is it just me, or does Ed Huang skip over the most important part of database design: actually making sure the database has stored the data ? I read to the end of the article, and …

Testing delete code against production isn't that big of a deal. If you screw up, the "oops" is immediate and obvious, as is the recovery strategy — restore from backup. The real f…

The only reason Circle isn't bothering with this market is seemingly that they didn't want to deal directly with retail That's actually a really good reason! An analogous situation…

The problem is that the countries that are good for crypto, e.g. Venezuela, Nicaragua, Lebanon, etc, aren't really all that good for anything else .

It would be unavailable in the sense that US entities would be legally prohibited from transacting with it, in the same way that US entities are prohibited from transacting with Bi…

But that relegates the centralized exchange into the position of being nothing more than a "fiat on-ramp" That's actually a pretty profitable business. "If you want to interact in …

That might seem the case from afar, but once you start writing Haskell and start experimenting these space leaks, you will notice that: 1. 90% of the space leaks you write end up a…

>I've never seen a civil engineer say they hate how we built bridges. You must not have spoken with any of the civil engineers I've spoken with. They all describe an absolute waste…

>it’s plausible that learning a healthy way to integrate with your local community is an important life skill that gets disrupted by these online connections and makes the big pict…

>The 1990’s weren’t some dreary hellscape. You can totally still live a '90s lifestyle today. Cancel your high-speed Internet and tether to your phone for everything. Give up watch…

>The weird thing is that I never needed computer assisted navigation until it existed. In my local area I simply remembered where streets were, and when traveling I used a map book…