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In the case that you're providing an explicit id as an argument, yes. If it were a query, no. It's dangerous to use an empty value for all failed lookups, as you can't differentiat…

deactivating and/or closing your account just gives them more datapoints imo, and the number of people who do it is so small that it makes a great metric for fingerprinting.

It's not the size of the change that's a problem, it's that the change doesn't address the problem at all, and that the only metric for success for these changes is how angry they …

It looks like yet another cosplay of 20th century labor politics, but with the typical 21st century twist of diverting the fight from those who wield power to... the paying custome…

To give an example, I'd rather not have votes count from people who are upset about this one particular method of ranking. I might start using this view more!

So it's "everything's better with bacon" for the 2020s? Gross!

absolutely wild to me that Real Engineers (TM) complained about this in JavaScript for years only for it to be called a "newbie mistake" in Go.

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140,000 fintech companies

PiHole has a web admin UI that's pretty slick. It has options to disable the entire thing indefinitely/for a set period of time if you need to, and it can log all DNS queries, so y…

Worth noting that PiHole also resolves CNAMEs and blocks them if they're on your filter list.

I'm obsessed with that Siemens HighPrint 7400 manual cover.

The problem, as mentioned above, is that the public understands exactly how science works, and it makes the scientists (and the companies paying the scientists) very upset.

But that's what "theory" means. It is, in fact, a guess; a guess that could be flat-out wrong the second a piece of contradictory evidence comes to light. But, instead of acknowled…

No mention of funding of scientific studies and the ongoing replication crisis?

This whole rant is a bit of a non-sequitor for a minor performance bug with a working fix.

This is incorrect. The richest 10% of the population causes 49% of climate change. The poorest 50% of the population causes 10%.

Facebook offers libraries for iOS (and Android) developers to add features Facebook login, but which include other features like native app analytics and drop-in widgets that serve…

unless...

Sorry to have to be the one to tell you: sometimes architectural decisions are driven by factors other than YAGNI. Right now you have throngs of young developers paying $50k+ a yea…

It seems like you could get most, if not all the way, there with an "isomorphic" Redux store on client and server side, along with a custom Redux middleware (very easy to write and…

I used to love reading A List Apart in the 2000s and associate it with rise of Web 2.0 apps, so when I saw the domain, I wondered why I stopped reading. After reading, I almost lau…

Is it really necessary to invoke the spectre of the Holocaust just because you don't agree with direct stimulus payments?