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CGP Grey did a fantastic short video titled 'This Video Will Make You Angry'[1]. I'd recommend that anyone who is interested in this thread take a watch. The central knowledge shar…

It's a reference to the quote "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar" by Thomas Marshall

The Golden Record acts as a good thought exercise about how we'd go about communicating with an alien species. It's also a good public outreach and educational tool. It inspires aw…

I don't think it's fair to consider the updaters for either Chrome or the OS to be simple.

Here is Microsoft's implementation of map in the standard library. I think of myself as a competent programmer / computer scientist. I couldn't write this: https://github.com/micro…

> “if regulations are created based on ideals, it is regular users who are the ones who suffer.” As opposed to the bystanders who are suffering from every ICE vehicle sold? Make be…

I believe ludjer is referring to S3 Storage Inventory. This is a daily, or weekly, file produced containing metadata on every file within a S3 Bucket. It does not use the synchrono…

Interchanging USA with NYC is misleading

Quality contribution to the collective knowledge of humanity by the installgentoo wiki.

Configuring emacs isn't a test of intelligence, it's a test of investment. I wish the mindset that conflates intelligence and investment would go away. Software is going to continu…

Think databases which run across many different machines. Distributed databases are often conceptually modeled as a state machine. Writes are then mutations on the state machine. W…

https://archive.is/TDV3T

Looking around on Google, I see that each child in Oakland has a cost of around >10k/year of education ( https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti... ). These Ch…

Internet connected devices absolutely need active maintenance. Especially so for a device which will be used by children.

I think there is some confusion here. HTTPS is secure. Even with MITM attacks. This is because the MITM will not have a valid certificate to provide authenticity for the public key…

The app doesn't shows advertisements right now.

Creating a minimal product that customers love is far harder than created a bloated app that has the kitchen sink approach. It's impressive to me that the devs were able to pick an…

Outside of purity, why care about this? The functional requirement of a social media app is that it has a large and active user base, and this needs to take priority over non-funct…

The problem with brokers is that they can charge 1-2 months rent. That means you can easily be left with a 8k bill for moving into a new apartment. The job literally could not exis…

> (4) The evidence of fraud detailed in our report almost certainly represents a mere subset of the evidence that the Harvard investigators were able to uncover about these four ar…