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A lookup table of normative specifications for every API call is Reference material. But a tour of API concepts is not (that would be Explanation). Nor is a Tutorial that introduce…

> ...where I'm still left wondering "what's the difference between a tutorial and a how-to guide?" I don't find this question difficult. Without looking anything up, a tutorial exe…

I disagree. I see shell syntax as an “inversion” of normal quoting rules. Normally quoting is the default but to achieve anything special you have to use an escape. Conversely, in …

One consolation is that you can use proprietary cloud based AI to make software that you can run locally and then depend upon. As long as you ensure that the software meets the qua…

> Notable are the endorsements, which are balanced over all three options... I don't think this is notable. The process requires five seconders, so you're just seeing the set of pe…

Email seems like an odd choice for sensitive messaging where you're in the position to manage the technology on both ends. Private XMPP or Matrix with E2EE has better privacy prope…

That's interesting, thanks. For me this feature is mandatory, and I won't risk buying a car (second hand usually) unless I see it working with my phone first. I drove 200 miles to …

Please could you share the name of the manufacturer, so the rest of us know who to be wary of?

> Revocation should come with full refunds. That's not enough. If I purchase something, I expect to rely on being able to keep it. Its value to me could well be much higher than ju…

If an attacker can do that, they could also do that with my real birthday had I used that. My birthday isn't a secret against anyone who wants to look hard enough. Therefore this m…

I like using a date of birth of 1 January. It's plausible but also hopefully suspicious how many people seem to be born that day if others do the same.

What if you have young kids? It might be worth the suffering for their benefit.

I think this is a backwards way to set up VMs. "Installing a guest" is the wrong concept. Use a VM image pre-prepared from your favourite distro to skip that step. cloud-init is th…

Adding contraints makes it take longer to deliver a result. I probably cannot install today's engines SDKs and related tooling for example. I'd have to write my own. Doable, and wo…

> For example, aerated autoclaved concrete has better structural strength, doesn't need additional insulation, completely non-combustible, and is cheaper to build. Apparently it ag…

Copyright law is an artificial legal construct, not a moral code. I think appropriate attribution is a moral code, but I am not able to attribute every idea I have to all those who…

I don't pay for my mind to absorb the world's information, either. And when I publish to the Internet, or give a talk, I also typically don't charge. Even when I publish under some…

Better: set up a git diff driver so you see the semantic changes, not line-by-line changes.

Placing various artifacts (eg. build artifacts) inside the source tree always seemed like a historical mistake to me. It leads to various accidents such as people checking in their…

Arrests seem like overkill. Ask them to stop, issue a fine, whatever. Sure I get you're asking for any enforcement at all. But hyperbole has a polarizing effect on discourse we sho…

> that has hired 3 brazillians back to back I've seen this kind of thing happen not through bias but because good people know good people, where by "good" I mean highly competent. …

The paradox of tolerance applies though. It helps to keep the intolerants at bay.

All the items being discussed are useful things to think about and cover in the commit message. Certainly if after reading a commit message I do not know what was intended (eg. “is…

> sometimes resulting in arguments with authors that the editors need to smooth over This is an understatement. A friend of mine is a published author in a field that requires corr…

> However, with some of the shenanigans that the Linux distributions are pulling around age verification/attestation... You've been misled.