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We know that intricate machines are designed by smart people; they don't just happen by luck. The idea that living things, which are far more intricately organized at every level t…

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The worst situation I've encountered is after a large conference when everyone is leaving the hotel at once. An elevator quickly fills up on the way down, but then wastes time stop…

The Big Bang is an almost infinitely malleable story, contorted to comport with almost anything we observe. But how is this useful? The predictions of this theory continually fail.…

Instead of questioning whether the Big Bang assumption is true, astrophysicists prefer to perform endless "gymnastics" to try to make the mounting contrary data fit their theory ab…

Only if the union is against the unethical request. In some cases the union may be for it, which makes it even harder to push back.

You don't need to join a union to push back against unethical feature requests.

I've been building PHP Handlebars, a spec-compliant implementation of Handlebars in pure PHP: https://github.com/devtheorem/php-handlebars I've also been developing Cropt, a zero-d…

This can be done with curl_multi_exec(), or with $client->getAsync() in Guzzle. https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-multi-exec.php https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quic…

In my petrol-powered Prius I average 52 MPG, so at the current price of gas ($2.60/gallon) I pay $0.50 to drive 10 miles - less than the listed cost to drive an electric car the sa…

How would the photosensitivity and wiring to muscles come about at the same time?

What benefit is an eye unless there is also the capability of processing and using the information? How would both evolve simultaneously?

According to the timeline it took more than a week just for Filevine to respond saying they would review and fix the vulnerability. It was 24 days after initial disclosure when he …

My guess would be so they don't have to embed an IP address or hostname in the malware to send secrets to, which could then be blocked or taken down.

Someone could be tricked into giving their npm credentials to the attacker (e.g. via a phishing email), and then the attacker publishes new versions of their packages with the mali…

I can testify that steamed stingy nettles with gomasio (toasted sesame seeds and salt) is very delicious.

One option to make it a little safer is to add ignore-scripts=true to a .npmrc file in your project root. Lifestyle scripts then won't run automatically. It's not as nice as Pnpm o…

Bun also doesn't execute lifestyle scripts by default, except for a customizable whitelist of trusted dependencies: https://bun.com/docs/guides/install/trusted