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Nice one! (Just as it is.)

Slack threads seem designed to ensure you can't follow a conversation without branching off into numerous sidetracks, which are hard to find when you're directly addressed.

I'm sure this is well-intentioned, but it seems also true that using this tool will give a third party, however benevolent, identification of your vulnerable website.

"Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness." - William L. Watkinson

Computing, much less AI, is not a hard science. Computing is an art that gets practical results in limited domains.

Well, read on a little. The text quoted clearly blames monarchy on the Heathens. Paine then recounts the history of monarchy in the Old Testament, with an example of god Himself sp…

To be sure, the Declaration of Independence has a litany of wrongs committed by the English king, but that is hardly what it is remembered for, and "blamed monarchy on the Jews" se…

How can actual people use Julia symbolics?

If tomatoes come in a plastic box, can I eat the box?

There are other possibilities than "they lied". The most likely explanation is that the branch in India used tactics that were specifically forbidden by corporate policy formulated…

I have a problem getting to his point when the examples he shows at the start are so unlike what I see when I enter the same search phrases. "COVID-19 trends in Palm Beach" didn't …

MacOS won't let me run alda by default, and I'm not sure they're wrong. There is an open source alda project, but these are binaries downloaded from alda.io. Who vouches for them?

If he were actually "calling" executives in other companies to get them to agree to lower wages and benefits, that would be illegal activity in the US. Companies are not allowed to…

The "path hint" sounds a lot like a cursor. Since a lot of b-tree traversal is ordered, knowing the last position in the tree is often valuable information.

"the courts"? More like "in the state or Federal courts in King County, Washington". This probably isn't the equivalent of a patent troll insisting on a trial in East Texas, but th…

Someone writes this every six months or so. tldr; Europeans don't wash their eggs; unwashed eggs keep longer. But they would keep even longer if refrigerated.

This seems unworkable. Gaining attention is intrinsically commercial activity. Attention has value; you can't stop it bleeding into the rest of the world. Some examples and questio…

Just got mine. I like it. Short and sweet. No ads. More like that!

I don't understand how Gödel showed limits of AI, or even addressed AI in its modern incarnation, which has little to do with logic. Perhaps some more knowledgeable reader can eluc…

Backing up just a bit, what right does a state have to declare a web application a public utility? The jibber jabber about how Google might affect Ohio businesses seems just a dist…

This is a terrific example of a permission that should be opt in.

I agree. When I buy through Amazon Prime, I can safely buy with one click because I can see the exact price I will be charged and, usually, the exact day it will arrive. For next d…

I think it became the standard because that's the way to cook. No surprises. You don't want to get halfway through mixing up fruitcake dough and discover you need dried fruit.