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It’s honestly not great. The security guys are completely exasperated at my job, we’re wasting time having with these. You take the scam really, investigate for a bit, write up a D…

The Philippines have some news for you…

I 100% deserve getting flamed a bit for skimming and shooting off a comment when not paying enough attention.

No mention of the Romansch, that's quite disappointing. But learning more about Romania and Romanian culture still made for a wonderful read, kudos to the author.

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The solutions that look like a pinwheel are oddly satisfying, that was a fun little exercise. Thanks OP, I needed that diversion.

Guitar amps are all about getting the right kind of harmonic distortion, so of course the guy had opinions. But tube rolling is madness, avoid it at all costs.

The best jokes all have a kernel of truth at their core, but I think a lot of Yudkowsky's acolytes missed the punch line.

Honestly, I think they don't have many active users. They're offering me $45 to install it as of this week.

It's not really a genre, per se. This sort of comes from Opera, and was generally referred to as Incidental Music. Music written specifically to accompany the action on screen or s…

Oh man, in Java world it used to be all over the place. You had a pom.xml for your builds, and you had configs in XML, and your API requests in SOAP, and you had SAML auth, it was …

You need Congress to make clear, explicit changes to laws on the subject. Not just to add additional restrictions, but to make changes to liability. Right now, a lot of violations …

To quote the order itself: > This order does not apply to military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public sa…

> What I've learned is that since Switzerland has 3 official languages Everyone always forgets Romansh...

I worked with an ex-Kodak guy, and he related the following story to me from the 80’s or early 90’s. Xerox was kicking their ass, they were completely owning the copier market. But…

Read section 4 of the law, especially the automatic exemptions. Lots of stuff isn't covered.

> IN GENERAL.—This Act shall not apply to classified source code or source code developed primarily for use in a national security system (as defined in section 11103 of title 40, …

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There’s two things going on here with there average person that you need to overcome: That when Tesla dodges responsibility all anyone sees is a liar, and that people amalgamate al…

The Wikipedia article[3] is not entirely clear and has a shocking failure to cite sources, but it claims the the Texas grid connects to the Eastern grid in two place with DC lines,…

Frankly, it sucks. I had so much fun with new tech when I was younger. But many companies, and FB in particular, have managed to crush my expectations time and time again.

The intent of GP's comment is to imply the hack is a Snowflake hack that happens to compromise Ticketmaster data. If this was a compromise of a Ticketmaster account that managed th…

Alright, since I did a quick skim over the article liked by @JonChesterfield and didn't find any discussion of how they calibrated their fMRI machine or if they did any Multiple Co…