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iWear if it didn't clash with the watches. iBorg / "I, Borg" would probably not land well with Trekkies. iPiece?

I get what you're trying to say, but the paperwork isn't just to not get arrested. It's also to make sure your rocket doesn't flatten a building when it comes down uncontrolled, do…

That stink has been etched into my mind ever since a night ten years ago when I spent an hour waiting for someone at a Shanghai subway station that was within wafting distance of a…

Twitter won't automagically stay online. A complex system needs dedicated and experienced engineers to maintain it, apply updates and troubleshoot issues, and that's if you're not …

They didn't come for the opinions. They were published and are (I assume) still available on whatever Mastodon instance the author used.

So you got to share your stupid opinions and got pushback on them? Sounds like the system is working then.

Shorter bits, but with an industry-standard diameter. You can use third-party bits.

I visited Persepolis (and the tombs) in Spring 2019.

When you visit Persepolis, you can rent a VR headset and see certain parts of the site reconstructed in VR. It's really impressive and drives home the scale of what was built.

He is free to voice his displeasure at sharing a platform with an ill-informed blowhard spouting dangerous bullshit out of every orifice. Spotify has no obligation to platform Roga…

The reason it's "better" for international transfers is because it has decided to ditch all legal and financial safeguards that have been introduced, often with good reason, in reg…

STM32F7 with a Cortex M7. I don't think they've announced what they are moving to, except that it's a variant with better availability.

You hit on a point that bothers me in all the discussions of cryptocurrency. Not having access to banks is a real issue; quicker bank transfers a less critical, but still real conc…

If there is an incident because an employee was sloppy, the fault lies with the hiring process, the evaluation process for this employee, or with the process that put four eyes on …

Existing dashboards showed the services as being up, since the frontends worked fine - as long as you did not try to authenticate.

A Python fork bomb was my first major achievement in college. Four lines of code took out a server. I'd like to claim it was a great achievement in hacking but nope, just trying to…

The free market can work - if certain safeguards are in place to ensure the race to the bottom doesn't negatively impact either the safety and suitability of the products and servi…

You may want to think twice before marketing this to anyone who speaks Dutch.

They are far from 90% of the quality. The production standards at Lego are decades ahead of anything a Chinese company has produced so far in terms of tolerances, durability and qu…

What would be the point? It won't teach the perpetrator not to commit the same crime again. Malice only breeds malice. If it is deterrence, you're too late as the act has already b…

> If you drop a normal brick on a hard floor the brick is likely to shatter. If they shatter, they are defective. You can contact Lego[0], mail them the broken piece and get a repl…

The choice is not between Netflix and piracy. I can't speak for the original poster, but for me Netflix' appeal was that I had a wide selection of content available for a single pr…