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Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but is this the "extend" step in "embrace, extend, extinguish"?

This was my first thought as well. It is linked to from a .gov website, though: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/notices/facebook-privacy-settl...

It's fine as long as bike paths are physically separated from cars and are maintained to the same standard as roads. My college had a network of pedestrian/bike paths that they plo…

Here's Seattle's network of protected bike lanes: https://i.imgur.com/vEDhqoz.png >. Note that many of them are flawed in one or more ways: * There are frequent car crossings at bl…

The "trekking bike" and "safety" profiles seem to work pretty well. The safety profile produces routes I would take any time of day and the trekking bike profile produces routes I …

> WTF is a bike doing in the middle of the road? I used to ride as far to the right as possible on roads without bike lanes, but then I got hit by a driver trying to squeeze past m…

What are some limitations of OpenCASCADE that are holding back CAD tools built on it?

It appears to use C3D as its CAD kernel, which is proprietary. You can't build it without a copy of C3D. I'm guessing the source will be available for inspection, but the binary wi…

In about:config, change browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl to an empty string.

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The trackballs are listed as "completely open-source" on their website, but the mouse is listed as "open-source firmware". This is consistent with what's available on their GitHub …

A journal can publish a retraction. The website Retraction Watch[1] aggregates these retractions and provides a database that you can query. Reference management software like Zote…

It depends what I'm doing, but I typically use one of the following (starting with the most frequent): 1. IPython with Pandas if I expect to do any in-depth exploration/manipulatio…

> Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. "dirty money") appear legal (i.e. "clean"). Someone should let FinCEN know that their definition is inco…

I'm just speculating (and haven't read the paper yet), but it may be possible to achieve similar speedups on GPUs by pruning the smallest 20% of blocks of size ≥K×K to produce bloc…

The following instructions are for Linux or macOS. It may work on Windows too, but I'm not very experienced with Windows. No special hardware is required (you can run it on a CPU; …

My experience corroborates this. I worked at two small ISPs, each with a fiber network spanning a few US states. They had their own databases to track this information, but as far …

Yeah right. They'll find a way to sell it while claiming they don't share it.

It's not the case that malloc always works under Linux. It may return NULL if the memory is not available. Try it out! Write a program that allocates half your memory, fills it wit…

I had the same issue. I disabled them in xmodmap for several years, then eventually decided I was never going to use them and cut out the rubber dome. Here's what it looks like: ht…