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I agree in general, but this article claims that the unionized tech workers now have pay increases, cheaper health benefits, and layoff protections. There is also a discussion abou…

"own" in the sense of "be responsible for the consequences". Not in the sense of "be able to grant reproduction rights".

Your link talks about how hard it is to define science fiction, so in some ways, I'm just putting my opinion out here on the internet as a data point. I'd say the Left Hand of Dark…

Having something like another planet or alien biology is necessary but not sufficient to make something science fiction. There is some fuzzy amount of focus on science/technology, …

It's great that works for you but there is a reason we have these labels. I've definitely had the experience where I want to escape into some hard sci-fi, and so there's a reason I…

I've only read "The Left Hand of Darkness". It's a very well written book, but it didn't emphasize enough technology/science/engineering for me to consider it even soft science fic…

Excessive amounts of emojis in generated README.md and sometimes in printed/logging outputs. I don't whether this is still an issue because I have a "Never use emojis" instruction …

I'm actually pretty thankful that the GP 5000 is a solid consensus recommendation for general road racing. I see some others being mentioned though, I think Pirelli Zeros? Contrast…

NPR/public radio has been doing a decent job without much obtrusive third-party advertising.

Lol, the description text is so dramatic.

It also really bugs me when I've put more time into reporting an issue or setting someone up for success than they've spent working on a solution. You would know best, but it struc…

I had it process a photo of my D&D character sheet and help me debug it as I'm a n00b at the game. Also did a decent, although not perfect, job of adding up a handwritten bowling s…

Obviously. The point is that settling a lawsuit in this way is also a worthless indicator of wrongdoing.

The next sentence under the headline is "Tech company denied illegally recording and circulating private conversations to send phone users targeted ads".

As long as you hold the copyright to your "validate" project, you can dual license it. So can release it under the (A)GPL and also use it in your closed-source commercial project. …

Ah, you meant "sharing my e-mail addresses". Not the actual emails (the email contents) themselves.

I gotta say I'm skeptical of Gmail sharing emails with third parties without permission. Was there a breach? Govt court order?

Any idea if there is an argument for moving it if it obstructs sidewalk traffic, whether or not it sustains damage in the process? I feel like you can't just leave a washing machin…

I've seen a few in Lakeview but my experience hasn't been entirely the same as yours. I haven't noticed blinding lights at night. They seem to move relatively slowly and cautiously…

I use Firefox Mobile Nightly on Android and appreciate it for the dark mode extension and ad blocking. There are some issues but the benefits outweigh them for me. I don't even hav…

Kinda related, I wish there was an easy way to exclude dependencies at pip-install time and mock them at runtime so an import doesn't cause an exception. Basically a way for me to …

I "open image in a new tab" and can then pinch to zoom in the new tab, too.

"Yes, coffee is mostly water, with standard black coffee consisting of about 98% to 99% water..."

Yes, but also "An... entity may not provide... therapy... to the public unless the therapy... services are conducted by... a licensed professional". It's not obvious to me as a non…

In another comment I wondered whether a general chatbot producing text that was later determined in a courtroom to be "therapy" would be a violation. I can read the bill that way, …