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Grumble about the graphics choices: dark-grey-on-black-with-other-dark-colors is a terrible color scheme, that renders the borders nearly invisible. There's a reason print maps hav…

Remember that there was a "one-time fee" exception for "favored clients" (read: friends of Trump), who could pay a single lump-sum of something like $1 million, and then apply for …

That may be, but the government doesn't need to declare Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" in order to just not do business with it. A simple clause in all RFPs is all that is need…

Uh. yeah. Can you imagine her dragging herself up and reaching for a keyboard - "I'm ... not ... dead ... yet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOW9QrLs0o

So that's where the Stig went off to.

The problem with describing the "spending" like this is that it only counts money that's donated to specific candidates or their PACs. What it doesn't count is the literal billions…

> I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist. > Maybe some of them are just trying to make a livi…

Good question. The "ultimate zip bomb" looks something like https://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD - this produces the infamous "42.zip" file, which is about 42KiB, but expands to 3.99…

Not these fighter planes. They literally need both the propulsion and an active flight computer to fly stably. Without the flight computer, they are uncontrollable. Think balancing…

Unfortunately that's not how it plays out in most large organizations, which have separate network, hypervisor, security, etc., teams. Everyone works off a playbook, whose origins …

I think the hardest thing about books like SICP, or the Knuth texts, for "casual hobby programmers" is the need to tear themselves away from thinking in the idioms of popular langu…

Looks like someone's summer internship project. A tasty, tasty project.

Time for "Will nobody rid me of this troublesome priest?"

Depends on where he filed. If he had filed in the US, he would have no chance at all. In the UK, he has a much stronger chance, but then, in the UK, HP did win a civil lawsuit agai…

They almost have to, because ACs are so power-hungry. The utilities situation in India hasn't improved in 50 years. Back in the day, in the summer months, it was routine to see: * …

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Situation: Wow. Why three languages like this? Solution: We should come up with a combo language that does it all. New Situation: Wow, now we have four languages to deal with. http…

You could, instead, ration the amount of electricity that you can consume for an industrial facility (at least at "normal" or long-term negotiated rates). Every additional KwH need…

Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox . A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a deliver…

Arnold the Tank Engine.

The same issue arises over and over. Like the destruction of antiquities by religious radicals in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's good to round up antiquities at risk and export them, b…

And while you're carefully dragging the "man" over to the street you're interested in (an interesting multi-hand challenge with most trackpads), Maps starts wildly gyrating and sli…

I wonder if they're staring at rainbows, and calling them UAPs because clearly it's some Gay Alien Agenda.

"Becoming"? It's been happening for 20 years now.

If PID 1 exits, the system usually panics immediately and restarts.