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How would you ensure things like industrial farms use a more expensive multi-antibiotic approach instead of a cheaper single-antibiotic one without effective regulation?

People who experienced a stable childhood seem to have a natural tendency to view the period they grew up in as, if not a golden age, then a safer, simpler time. Which makes sense:…

For most people and companies, yes. But for Apple? They could have used their money and influence to campaign for patent reform.

This is often quoted advice, but like many things it’s only true in moderation. People who take it too literally come across like therapists or interviewers. Some people are not co…

There are also getter (and setter) properties that can be backed by private fields: get name() { return this.#name; } Half of this article seems to be based on the author’s unaware…

For biology, Synthace supports designing experimental protocols using DOE, executing them on robotically automated lab equipment, then performing analysis on the results: https://w…

The principle reason I've stopped using Stack Overflow much, which I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere, is that its content has become too dated. Most of my questions relate to web …

As I said, as a developer working on a software project for your employer, you often inherit dependencies you had no say in. Nor can you force your employer to negotiate a contract…

I agree with the article in general, but the wrinkle comes when you encounter a bug in a large, popular open source project (naming no names, but any of the major web frameworks fo…

This is an exasperating article. Where is the data on who these 2.6m people are, demographically speaking, what their reasons are for not seeking work, and how they supporting them…

Which is not an answer to the question “Was The Washington Post the tipping point where Amazon started to collapse?”, which you were responding to. I don’t eat at McDonalds, but th…

I hate to tell you, but that momentous setback has not yet caused Amazon to collapse.

While it's true that a LAB gradient will produce a more perceptually uniform gradient, it doesn't alter the article's point that sRGB isn't a colorspace. It has an associated nonli…

> The keywords async and await should give us the same intuition that the then does in the third. But I’ll wager for many engineers it doesn’t. It does.

Supposedly because at the time of the acquisition, "Canyon Bridge was licensed and regulated by US law." but "Since then it has moved its headquarters to the Cayman Islands and as …

I am very excited for this. For those unaware, Ron Gilbert was the creative force behind The Secret of Monkey Island 1 and 2, but then left Lucasarts and the subsequent Monkey Isla…

Yeah, I can't think of a single real app or website I've seen that uses this style. It seems instead like a single designer doing some self-promotion by inventing these new "trends…

What are you talking about? The setInterval example is completely idiomatic React hooks. It is literally given in the React docs: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#what-can-i…

Having used Copilot for a while, I am quite certain it will replace me as a programmer. It appears to me that when it comes to language models, intelligence = experience * context.…

Elon Musk trying to save humanity from going extinct as a "one planet species" and in the process causing us to miss a near-Earth asteroid whose impact wipes us out would be rather…

The best I saw was one that completes docking in 16 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwWccjAD2i8 Given that this simulator supposedly maps closely to the actual interface o…

While I do think many media sources have an obvious self-interested bias against Facebook, I think Luckey is biased himself in how he portrays this affair in his tweets. He talks a…

If you asked people what was special about Einstein, most would say that he had important new ideas. Even the ones who tried to give you a more sophisticated-sounding answer would …

If you don't want all the ports at once, then it sounds like modular ports is perfect? You can just attach whichever combination you need on any given day / moment. Or am I missing…