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> The situation is tragically optimal--we've achieved some kind of multiobjective local maximum on a rock in the sewer at the bottom of a picturesque alpine valley and declared vic…

Well, in the early days of infrastructure growth, when designing bespoke monitoring systems and protocols would be relatively low-cost, it's still nowhere near the highest-ROI way …

I struggle to see the difference between "bringing an extra battery" and "bringing a power bank". Except that the latter has more functionality than the former, and should be prefe…

Grand solutions require broad coordination, and they often devolve back into a modified-but-equivalent version of the previous problem. :( Stream-of-bytes is classically difficult …

This reads like satire, but I've been feeling that a lot lately.

All China has to do here is stay in the game and wait patiently while the US and EU press pause on data centers. See also: solar panels. We're making this way too easy. The rationa…

If benefitting the victims is a goal, then clearly sending them money now is more valuable than sending them interest-borne money later. If the victims don't benefit from the money…

I think you're wrong, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't operate on the fringes of fraudulent behaviour, so I might be miscalibrated. But my premise is that there is benefit derived …

Similar situation here. My take on it is that frequent users perceive apps as desktop launchers/shortcuts. They don't care about the difference between app and web, per se, but the…

Android and iOS both require user permission for apps to access contacts or location. Are there other platforms that can't even manage this basic level of user protection?

In the time it took you to write this comment, you've thought more about the abstraction than most of the people who are confused by it -- and it will never succeed to coax them ou…

Credit agencies do not report income to the IRS, so there's no tax relevance. Credit agencies are not party to your obligations to the IRS at all. You can lie to credit agencies al…

In the US, I regularly see bathrooms and kitchens without GFCI. I looked up the history: 1961 GFCI invented by a professor at UC Berkeley 1971 Added to NEC code for outdoor outlets…

A great deal of pop music, performed by teens-20yos, is written and produced by seasoned professionals who are in their 30s-40s-50s. The exceptions to that pattern are remarkable.

If an app can make an HTTP request, the app can know the user's public IP address and the geolocation derived from that. This data has well-known limitations, but I think it is the…

No one is trying to go that far down the path. https (specifically the CA chain of trust) is imperfect, and can be compromised by well-placed parties.

LEGO does it too, with "mystery minifigure" packages. I watch kids squeezing the polybags trying to find an identifying bump or edge, hoping to either get the one they want, or at …

3. A Memorial Wall for those who have mistaken ChatGPT for a therapist

In the US states that I know well, a residential tenant may perform necessary repairs to bring the space up to health and safety codes, and may deduct the cost from their rent. The…

When we've had "too many" hens, we've had multiple large salad bowls full of eggs on the countertops. And that's after overwhelming our friends and neighbors. They will easily last…

Fair point, and totally agreed. I literally LOLed at the idea that purchasing a consumer product, at retail, could include stipulations on my future employment. And at the hubris o…

That's a bit anthropomorphic though. When LLMs become able to reflectively examine their own premises and weight paths, they will exceed the self-awareness of ordinary humans.