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It's a shame grandparent's link gives a 404 now, I'd love to compare the two.

> Regardless of your political views a tool is a tool at the end of the day. Attempting to anthropomorphize a category of objects in order to shift blame all for the sake of furthe…

You'd still be walking around as a free advertiser for their stuff, simply by owning Google-branded hardware. And of course the hypocrisy of having a Google phone to avoid Google s…

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Java and C are older languages which have either solidified (C) or are very careful about breaking compat (Java). Most languages nowadays are indeed in the "move fast and break thi…

> Also you get to do cool SQL shit nobody understands and you become invaluable =) Goddamn right!

The people involved in commissioning and funding nuclear power plants don't understand nuclear physics either. The customer doesn't need to understand how the solution works, as lo…

So much is missing from this story. Did they report it to the relevant data authority? Did the fix they said they applied actually fix anything? Etc.

I think before, it was easier to spot. Before, the effort spent would often show in the volume or consistency of the writing. Now, one can create a big, wordy and convincing-soundi…

I realize it's been "written" by an LLM, but the content could have been written by someone I know. It's eerie how this person thinks exactly the same way. It's never their fault, …

Exactly this. The question states it as a fact, so why would you go back and point out the inconsistency?

Also, car companies have a lot at stake and are a clear target. The scammer is hard to even identify, and has no reputation to worry about. Of course in case of a sold extension, t…

S7 is very cool indeed. It also comes as a single C file, which makes it easy to embed. As a CHICKEN maintainer, I'd love to hear what the author was missing in the FFI part of the…

Good point regarding registrar. Thinking a bit further, there's also the top-level domain: if that's under US control (eg .com), it could still be yanked away from you.

My blog is at https://www.more-magic.net , mostly about programming (with a focus on Scheme) or adjacent stuff.

> - Force better labeling, like the Nutri-Score in France and EU NutriScore is mostly useless, to the point of being misleading. The system was cooked up by the industry, which exp…

Then you should support the Free Software Europe's "Public Money, Public Code" campaign: https://publiccode.eu/en/

Yeah, investing it in bitcoin sure beats selling the power to India at bargain bin prices during summer time only to have to buy it back in winter time at premium rates. I think th…

Tourism is not really a growth sector. There are too many hotels already, with hoteliers complaining they can't get bookings at a decent price because there's too much competition …

Same with the big Crowdstrike fail of 2024. Especially when everyone kept repeating the laughable statement that these guys have their shit in order, so it couldn't possibly be a s…

> When someone uses my name in conversation, it makes me think less of them, because it's so unnatural and clearly they might be doing it to manipulate me. Oh man, I always find it…

Sounds like the best type of place to work for me. Instead of being a replaceable cog in a meat grinder that doesn't even pay well, working with boring tech, you get to work with t…