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There are probably many reasons for this, but here’s my take: the GA community is largely self-policing. There are dozens of regs one could break — whether it’s 8 hours bottle to t…

Woof. At the rate packages get updated these days, and the amount of dependencies between them, that just isn't sustainable for any reasonably-sized project in server and -- especi…

I wonder what monetary loss in productivity was due to this change. We noticed this issue a bit before noon, tracked it down to GH, sent out company-wide comms notifying others of …

How would anyone (outside of GH) have known this? The checksums have been stable for years, and this issue resulted from an internal update to the version of Git being used. It als…

This is a weird take, and I highly doubt retention is the primary reason they choose to limit the use of their web interface. In fact, I’m generally suspect of the hand-wavy specul…

Just this afternoon I was working on reversing a closed source library that wasn’t working on M1 under Rosetta, using Ghidra. If you get the chance, you should do a post on how you…

You go into a private booth with a curtain where no one can see what you’re doing. If coercion is at play, I don’t think a ban is going to stop you. That said, check the edit. This…

Big Ron can ask you to take a picture of the paper ballot as well, so regardless of mechanism you’re in a pretty sticky situation. It’s not a perfect system, but I would personally…

There’s actually a pretty interesting approach in which: voters can see that their vote counted, everyone can tally anonymous votes, and it is resistant to DoS https://people.csail…

The complexity is not the depth of the problem, but rather the scope. Matchmaking — while complicated — is a very small subset of the domain. Pricing, demand forecasting, routing, …

I think that ultimately a “second brain” system belongs at the OS level — as opposed to application — as it can greatly reduce friction from an interaction standpoint (e.g. double …