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The trade off is not installing Little Snitch.

No need to wonder. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818327945/israel-begins-track... "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's Shin Bet domestic spy agency, usually ta…

For most scenarios where estimates are asked of development, there's usually an alternative approach that will yield better results. Cost-benefit analysis scenario: Request: We nee…

I wonder if they were inspired by https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3321612

Regarding cybersnowflake's comment, I think this is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

> The algorithm is secondary to the user group. Neither is secondary; both are essential to the socio-algorithmic evolutionary process. The algorithms are intended to optimize towa…

Amen! My last three companies were moving from a monolith to microservices. In every case, the rationale for the move was little more than "monolith development is slow, therefore …

>HTTP was initially designed for transfering static files and static data over potentially unauthenticated connections. It may be more useful to view "transfering static files and …

It's an issue with the responsive layout. If the window is wide enough the overlap goes away; narrow enough the TOC goes away.

> what happens if two users modify different fields/properties of the same resource at the same time? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.8 6.5.8. 409 Conflict The 409 …

What you describe could also be used to argue that prices are higher than they would be in a competitive market, i.e., that for the 30% ratio it's not that the numerator is too sma…

> an unreasonable number of independent codebases must have identical bugs Entertaining[0] badpun’s skepticism, it is not necessary they have identical bugs, only that their bugs y…

The electronic strip search machines are still optional; they'll (eventually) give you a pat down instead.

Hitchens responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM

> 3) If I'm in a hurry and the author is available I grab them and do an over the shoulder review. You might be surprised how much time this saves. One concern here is you may ask …

Yikes! Demanding a bug fix also remediate unrelated, extant style violations is a good way to ensure nothing improves.

I think the author and many folks here have an unhelpful understanding of code reviews. I suggest code reviews' primary purpose should not be to catch bugs or trivial style issues;…

"[T]he English language... becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."

> I frequently have a driver who is obviously different than the one pictured in the app. Do you continue the ride? Do you inform the company? > Talk about an industry that needs r…

>We need to get between grams and a count of molecules, that's the number. I think that number is only true for carbon-12. >but then we would have some other arbitrary constant we …

> In practical terms, the mole helps chemists measure stuff. It helps express the amounts of atoms or molecules in a chemical reaction. Cause a half-mole of oxygen molecules (O2) t…