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Presumably if you're driven by paranoia to buy or make a Faraday box you will be paranoid enough to try putting your phone in it and calling it

What would the rough timeframe be for seeing adoption of this into the language? I was considering introducing the OneOf library into our codebase, but if this is < a year or so aw…

When the machines rise up and start taking prisoners you might wanna make yourself scarce, my man.

I remember reading part of a study a few years ago that noted that youtube was the only social media (in the study) that didn't negatively affect mental health. In fact it had a sl…

That was their position once NATO had expanded eastward. Here's an extract from a NATO report[0] in 2000. The whole chapter is genuinely worth a read: > Nevertheless, in August 199…

I don't know who this Mearsheimer is, but your comment is essentially ad hominem because you haven't addressed the point. If it helps you, the same thing has been said by others e.…

It'd make for a good TV drama wouldn't it?

Astronomers could ignore newly spotted supernovae if their timestamps would be unfavourable to their lottery chances, no?

>a tax on people who can't do math. The national lottery in the UK sends about 25% of the money to charities, so for some it's a form of charitable giving. Also what the other comm…

When I visited Morocco I discovered that haggling is seen as an intrinsic part of a transaction. A lot of tourists aren't used to haggling or are afraid to do so out of a perceived…

Somewhat unrelated, the typography and use of color on this article are sublime. No cookie popup either. What a joy.

I was given a fresh copy of Windows at work the other week and had to install all tooling afresh. I decided to take the opportunity to try meld. The first merge I did, even after r…

>call Putin's nuclear bluff. And what do you think would be the outcome?

Milka, Nutella, Lindt, Kinder. Kinder Bueno is a good example of what I'm taking about. I know it has hazelnuts in. There's no bitter cocoa 'kick', just a sticky sweet taste. It's …

European chocolate is rank and tastes like hazelnuts.

Are wikis and subreddits hallowed ground or something?

I see. It was the ambiguity over your usage of 'imaginary problems'. But yes - your previous comments seem to suggest we're actually on the same page regarding patterns.

I put it to you that the OOP concept of a factory exists because in OOP your factory is often (though not always) a type, and types tend to need names. In e.g. FP there are no obje…

>solutions to imaginary problems This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what patterns are. The GOF book is used to this though. A design pattern is someting that will naturally …

I made a WordPress site for a friend through Ionos's managed offering. After a couple of months of the site being up, they decided to detach the database for literally no reason. I…

Yes. The same as almost everyone buying crypto. But hoping that it would become a usable currency.

I bought into monero hoping it would be the next big thing. Fungibility/no public ledger made it seem like it had way more utility, but it turned out 1) virtually nobody buys crypt…

Yes. It's no secret that in the real world justice favours the wealthy, for more than just the fact that money buys the best lawyers.

Prison time is based on harm (or so the theory goes). How much harm is done by any action to its victim is subjective to the victim's circumstance. Calculating harm isn't a maths p…

I recommend an ad blocker. Haven't seen any of that kind of thing in years