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4 times brighter than the moon doesn’t sound very dangerous.

Sounds a lot like a rich kid pretending they're not a rich kid.

Drugs are bad, mmkay

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Data centers in space sounds really stupid until you consider how hard it is to get a data center built on Earth.

I really hate this trend of turning every piece of software into this kafkaesque monstrosity that demands you jump through 100 hurdles to do the simplest thing. I mean yeah its goo…

That doesn't appear to be stopping the current administration. That's why I think you should be more concerned about the tools of oppression existing rather than the laws that gove…

These tech-bro public resignations are so tedious. Ostensibly he seems fine with the existence of AI mass surveillance and AI powered murderbots but he just never envisioned a scen…

God punished the Romans by turning them into Italians

I think the addresses are a big issue. The address space is just stupid big, I don't understand why we need to prepare for every grain of sand on Earth having a WiFi chip in it. Mo…

40 bits would've bought us a lot of time and would've kicked the can down the road several decades. People from the future would be much better equipped to design a new protocol be…

I was saying adding a byte to the address so its a 40 bit address which would be two bytes to the header. Obviously it would still have the same issue where hardware and software w…

Literally all we had to do was add a byte to IPv4 and we'd be done but noooo we need to overengineer the next protocol and make it as painful as possible to adopt.

If someone modified the original dataset and it was discovered they would be held accountable. However if you have a departmental policy of modifying the data for "privacy reasons"…

So "differential privacy" pretty much sounds like someone gets to modify the results of a census and how it gets modified is entirely up to their discretion. Seems like something t…

Thanks for chiming in Young Sheldon

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Whenever I read about some troubling news in the world I always take time to look at my funko pop collection and contemplate the question "What would Spider-man do?"

I'm sure there's a barely functioning business critical app that runs exclusively on Windows NT in their administration that would beg to differ

Do you wear a condom while you’re programming too for maximum protection?