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Which parts of their actions should be protected by law? They stopped doing their job, interrupted the work of others, and were in parts of the building that they did not leave whe…

Sounds like a meta Turing test... after conversing with an AI, how would you describe their personality and mental state? Presumably we want to tune somewhere between "unimpeded AD…

I work on a project at a large (although not Google-scale) company building a collaborative RTE. The short is answer is no, there are very few universal truths about how text editi…

Keeping the metaphor, it's responding to the question of "Do you know Joe?" with "Yes, and that guy Bob over there says Joe is a pedophile" whenever asked.

This is a completely circular argument which also happens to completely miss the point. 1. They want to show personalized adverts 2. So they collect and process the data to do so 3…

If the breach of contract is by the seller, then how does that result in illegality on the part of the buyer?

Chrome does give access to localStorage/sessionStorage in Incognito and this can be used to communicate between tabs on the same domain, but just like cookies and cache this data i…

The CSS for HN is very terse, and aside from a mobile-specific set of rules it doesn't really do any variation. Is it possible you had set the zoom level previously, which the brow…

I can imagine that works fine for fresh-out-of-university candidates but I can't imagine a time in my career where I could (and would want to) take 5 days PTO for a job interview. …

Often "impossible" is based on constraints like "0 downtime" "100% planned rollout, rollback scenarios" etc. These constraints get thrown to the wind when the downtime is already h…

No true Pole?

pożyczyć is both borrow and lend :) In English there's a difference of direction. "Kuba pożyczył moj długopis" - Jakub borrowed my pen "Kuba pożyczył mi jego długopos" - Jakub lent…

Maybe you mean in the wild? A high-profile death-by-Orca occurred at Seaworld [1] but I think this was more of an intentional revenge rather than accidental playfulness. [1] https:…

Microbes are actually around 1 micrometer! Whilst I'd generally hate for a 1 meter bee to exist, it might be worth it just for the nerd joke. So purely factually, a microbe is only…

That's what a linter is for!

Looks like another round of W3C bike-shedding an existing easy-to-use and well-understood community standard until it's godawful to work with and half as useful. Gotta love standar…

Standard Darwinian competition wouldn't matter here - people generally finish breeding (ages You could consider in the same way as the explanation for altruism - that families and …

That first one made me think of combining Pokemon with Slay The Spire - each Pokemon has a deck (themed towards poison, electric, etc), and the Player has a deck (utility, healing,…

“Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who t…

Windows 10 is only good compared to Windows 8. The terrible product decisions are all still there, if slightly more hidden.

I think the electronic maps were limited more by technology than vision. Google Maps (any many map systems even today) used pre-rendered tiled images, which means you could only zo…

This seems like the most obvious candidate for Occam's Razor, although stranger things have happened. Part of me wonders if it's easier to 'invent' a comet strike or otherwise impl…

The alternative (as in, current reality) is "Whoops. I hit ctrl+entry while copying my secret and no-one noticed for a month. Guess all our data is leaked now!" It's also up to eac…

So I split my packets up into smaller chunks. Now you need to rate limit DNS. But you still need to allow regular DNS traffic somehow, or you break the internet.

Note that the "offline" mode in devtools doesn't kill any websocket connections. It may have other holes i'm not aware of also.