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Indeed, it's a pity that the author placed so much focus on a cool looking font that they forgot to take basic properties like "good readability" into account. Form should follow f…

This is far from meaningless, because if you are too far below those 3.5%, you'll fail to make a change for the better, despite having a good cause with no real opposition. Those 3…

Note that the article's link to the UUID v7 standard is meanwhile outdated. You should instead head directly to RFC 9562: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9562 (which wasn'…

Okay, fair point. But then, why prescribe the most expensive placebos where you co-finance societal harmful behavior, rather than just prescribing the "harmless" placebos that are …

To those who downvoted: Would you dare to explain your disagreement?

Contrast this with advertisement, which actually does work even when people know that it is ads, and which still does work on people how know how ads work. Also, contrast this with…

This is an incorrect summary of the placebo effect. The placebo effect does require the patient to either believe it is effective, or at least not knowing clearly it is ineffective…

While I hear this argumentation a lot, I still struggle with this: If you have "mild problems, which would normally heal on their own", buying no medication at all would be even ch…

To me the "natural way" has always been to write portable code in the first place. From time to time, you'll find that parts of it are not portable, so you fix it, and along that w…

I'd recommend starting "from scratch" for the simple reason that the official PostgreSQL manual is excellent: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/index.html You'll quickly find whic…

I have always suspected this to be the case, but it is great to see it confirmed and well-explained in detail by an almost-authority in our field. I wonder if in the near future we…

From the announcement: > "We will continue to improve this new solution and are already working on an IPv6 only solution for cloud servers, too." I'm eagerly waiting especially for…

It took a while for me to fully appreciate the OpenSSH approach to portability: They primarily develop OpenSSH purely for OpenBSD, using all (including non-portable) facilities of …

Put a public Jitsi server.

If you haven't been aware of the great work of the European NGO "noyb", this should grab your attention. Facebook's GDPR violations are not just tolerated by the Irish DPC, they ar…

If you haven't been aware of the great work of the European NGO "noyb", this should grab your attention. Facebook's GDPR violations are not just tolerated by the Irish DPC, they ar…

PostgreSQL allows for all of that: User-defined types with user-defined index structures and whatnot. PostgreSQL is great and flexible, yet transaction safe and fast. You should re…

Congrats for this simple and beautiful website! I wonder how you manage your overall style, though. Is your design set in stone, do you never change it or fix quirks? If you e.g. c…

I used to use a lot of SymPy, but finally switched to Sage. This is Python as well, but has some syntax extensions and sensible defaults that reduce many quirks of Python. For exam…

> The fact that its default chats are not end-to-end encrypted and are stored in plaintext on its servers is a concern. "Concern"? This is a deal-breaker. > Everyone who talks abou…