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Did anyone else solve the puzzle after finding a bug in today's puzzle where on step 13 the circle you were trying to match didn't change, but should have? Oh, nevermind, it appear…

Cleaning up of feature flags was something that I excelled at failing to do. If you are the one cleaning them up, then you sir deserve a raise. Don't question it. It's a service.

Now if your site was named wafflehurricanetracker.org it would have probably survived trademark issues. The scraping issues would have been better if they were anonymized - it woul…

It's also worth noting that in systems that get as large as Google's that you end up with commits landing around the clock. It gets so that it's impossible to test everything for a…

Have you tried Luau - Roblox's open source compiled Lua with Types? Someone made a debugger for it that plugs into Visual Studio Code. https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/ https://gi…

You realize that you just gave hacker news gave enough details to commit some satellite controlling backdoor into their system... It's not like some of us aren't going to be like: …

"At first, the senior director didn't outright tell me I couldn't stay in the old domain, but made it very clear it was in my best interest to move to the new domain, where there w…

If a whale got hit, would the whale be able to file for damages?

I read through a whole page, wondering when we are getting to legal stuff, before I went back and re-read the title. "Contact" not "Contract"....

I am a native speaker and got the gist and saw the paradox, and found the phrasing a bit tortured by the triple negative. Thank you for explaining that this was a colloquialism. No…

Hmm. Why only 2? Why not 3 points? Can you find an interesting curve produced by a constant product of distances from N points? Maybe even in higher dimensions, for 1 point, you ha…

How many other domains were knocked off by this AI reporting? Seems to me that if you make claims that have business repercussions, you need to be suable for fraud and face civil a…

Legit question: By _removing the MIT license_ from the distribution and replacing it with the AGPL, how are you not violating the copyright and subject to a lawsuit? The MIT licens…

I donated a kidney to my father 10 years ago. It took about 4 weeks of recovery before I could get on a plane to fly home. Even 10 years later, I have not recovered to the same ene…

Alas, it's a nuclear option. People are going to stay or leave based on random criteria. Your company is going to be left with various deficits and it will take a long while to sor…

The simple answer to this: Tax the #### out of the greenhouse gas emitting energy sources. If we as a planet need to be using better sources of power so that our planet literally d…

The classic time space tradeoff question: If I run Antithesis for X time, say 4 hours, do you take periodic snapshot / deltas of state so that I don't have to re-run the capture fo…

Didn't this exist conceptually anyway as the C shell (csh) where the scripting language was "closer to" C? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell It seems like you are on your way t…

Funny. It worked just fine when I was in college, back in 1997. You could use VNC to share either direction, or X11 to share one-way. Also SSH/SFTP, and SMB all worked. There were …

They were lucky the forum still *existed* or the ban logic was still in place after 10 years... So many sites like MySpace have gone defunct or others have changed their systems, e…

That's all well and good, but I don't endeavor to write good code; I endeavor to write great code!

Historical footnote: The teams of people weren't killed with VizAct. They just moved around a bit. Some of them went to PowerPoint, and others went to Windows. PowerPoint 97 gained…