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I think the cost of paying for a dedicated email service is worth it. (There are plenty of smaller, privacy-oriented services such as Proton Mail or Fast Mail.) They're better at i…

One solution is to use a unique email address for every website, and change the address if the site gets compromised (with the old address getting added to a spam filter).

The last thing anyone wants a smart home assistant for is to purchase stuff. Controlling lights, heating and cooling, play music, find information, yes. But shopping is unexciting …

Depends on how much you're willing to pay and how long you're willing to wait for them to be available. The best carpenters will be making custom furniture and wood panels for mans…

The problem with OpenAI isn't about the license or where it's hosted. The problem is that it's not intelligent. It's a word salad generator.

This reminds me of a story that I heard from a tree surgeon. A customer complained about the cost of removing a tree as it was "unskilled" labour, and he asked them if they knew ho…

Thanks for posting that. People tend to overlook that the technologies we use today have a much older history.

A tool like that won't replace auditing dependencies. The total age of dependencies tell you nothing useful.

Why are you in a worse position? That depends on the changes to the library since, and how and where the library is used. Suppose I regularly generate a CSV file, all ASCII, where …

This also wrongly assumes that newer is better. For example, CLDR changed the UK abbreviation for September from "Sep" to "Sept" and broke a lot of code as libraries used newer ver…

Stack Overflow has been less useful for several years before OpenAI. I find for web technologies it's less useful because the technologies keep change, and what was a good answer i…

There was a paper in early 2000s with some mathematical modeling about that, see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo... TLDR all Europeans may have a commo…

I suspect that enforcement of licences will be based on who owns the licence. A large corporation? Of course. You're not even aloud to talk about the product without paying a fee. …

Yes, it means that the plastic is going to start entering the good chain there. Plastiglomerate rocks mean that there are bits of plastic in the soil, and this will be consumed by …

Sometimes a feature request is considered a bug by customers: this product would be easier to use if we could do X, and the competing product lets us to that.

Deleting old schema migrations is just busywork. It doesn't hurt if they are there. Disk space isn't a problem, and they still take up space in git repo anyway.

The US authorities can deny a visa or even entry for those already have a visa for petty, arbitrary reasons, including the suspicion that you might engage in "immoral activities". …

US law only applies to the US, and what is legal is not the same as what is moral. As for fair use, this is not the same as someone remixing or sampling songs, or writing fan ficti…

No, it isn't. If I publish something on the internet, I am only making it available for people to read. That does not give anyone the right to use it in other ways.

It's not being "woke" at all. Usually "woke" people are accused of accommodating other cultures to the detriment of "Western" culture. But here you're using it to criticize Western…

A significant number of Americans and Europe whose ancestors weren't directly persecuted by nazis, but who fought in WW2 against the nazis and fascists, and they also find the swas…

The symbol is going to be associated with nazis so long as nazis keep using it, and people in the west (especially for places and people affected by the nazis) will find it offensi…

IP-based location is mostly usable for country. I've rarely found it gets the city right, often it doesn't even get the county right.

It makes sense to use geolocation for search. It's not just for searching for businesses, as the meaning of a word you are searching for will depend on where you are. IP-based geol…

"A deadly explosion in Poland kicked off hours of near-gleeful speculation about whether NATO would join the fight against Russia." I don't think it was "gleeful" at all. It seems …