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I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. If I want to find a family doctor, there is a list of 3 clinics with doctors taking patients, in a metro area of 325,000. Older people ha…

To execute what amounted to a no-op on the EVM global computer, this individual deployed this [1] smart contract, and then ran it [2]. The compute cost involved, measured in so-cal…

The problem is interruptions, not my ability to focus. The problem is Product demanding estimates, not my ability to estimate in the midst of uncertainty and ask questions to reduc…

"New focus on economics": It was bad enough seeing terrible clickbait in the "Recommended by Pocket" section displayed on every new tab. Now I have to go into settings to opt-out o…

Tedious to set up, tedious to maintain. January 31 of this year I got an email telling me that my LE client used the older ACMEv1 protocol, not the newer ACMEv2 protocol. They gave…

End-to-end TLS is dead. It started with PCI compliance. Next up was Corporate IT making sure idiots weren't signing up for Dropbox with their LAN password. Schools: Well, they alwa…

Too big to fail: It's not just for banks any more. If LE is compromised a few times and some fraudulent facebook.com or google.com certs leak out, how long before Firefox/Chrome/Ed…

> They absolutely do, but batteries have physical limitations that result in lower power output over time. The same can be said of SSD media. It's well-known that flash memory is u…

I agree. I'm instantly skeptical of any "X has never occurred" claim: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Let's see some Taleb-esque "skin in the game": Not just the au…

Opening up the Network Inspector when loading a single issue in the "new" UI shows a dumpster fire of 128 requests, 5 MB transferred. It's like the paradox of the heap: No one requ…

Would that be similar to how you've "stolen" and re-licensed code from Instagram-API-python[1]? I don't see the MIT licence with Lev Pasha's copyright notice in your repo anywhere.…

Don't worry, if you purchase a domain with a .biz (or 300 other junk-tier tLDs) extension from Amazon Route 53, Gandi still gets paid[1]. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/la…

I see what you're getting at. A story like this one: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-marines-isis-inspired-... You would ask the question "How far would he have gotten if an …

How about the 2009 New York City Subway plot[1]? I suppose it's possible that Zazi was a patsy, but if you take the Wikipedia page at face value it seems pretty damning. [1] https:…

I'd hazard a guess that 0.1% of Java developers are aware that on some operating systems Object.wait() can awaken spuriously. Heck, it wasn't even in the Javadoc until 1.5. And don…