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> in this case, facial recognition tech was unreliable entirely because of the people running it. Wrong. In this case the facial recognition tech itself was arguably not unreliable…

What requires them to get approval from the FAA for something outside the FAA's jurisdiction?

> I find them useful as I write code because they allow me to state my intention (in plain English), translate it to code, then compare statements and see how well I’ve achieved my…

> All employer / employee relationships have this dynamic Wrong, no employer relies on a newly hired employee the way they rely on a senior knowledge silo'd engineer with a decade+…

Exactly this. If you are a single point of failure knowledge silo, the business sees you as a liability since if you decide to quit, their business is then screwed. This is why tur…

Meaning your employer now has all the more reason to replace you as soon as an opportunity presents itself

> No, you just make yourself disposable. You might be making yourself disposable specifically in the context of your original role which you are basically making redundant by docum…

> It's true that Apple have a better track record of keeping data private, and there's been no Cambridge Analytics style atrocities You seem to be completely unaware of the multitu…

> If you’re looking for a way to share logic between front-end and back-end code So... exactly like isomorphic/universal JavaScript? What exactly is the practical benefit in this, …

Most Kiwi accents I've heard noticeably pronounced other vowels as "i". e.g. "dick" instead of "deck", "tinnis" instead of "tennis"

Or if any of the students are from New Zealand

> The interesting question to me is, why is it that they are literally the ONLY large tech company that is willing to offer me this tradeoff? Maybe other corporations consider it u…

> No. It is the domain. No one else in this business has a short pronounceable *mail.com Except for, oh, I don't know, maybe https://mail.com/ ?

> Spam filtering is a a very difficult thing to do well and Google's implementation was very good, very advanced, and trained on huge amounts of data. Something a normal person cou…

I prefer to think of it as wisdom is what you know intrinsically, education is what you have learned, intelligence is your capacity for learning

Every tech company I've worked at used Linux for servers as well, however that doesn't mean I'm ignorant of the huge number of (predominantly large enterprise) corporations relying…

> Actually, my memory is essentially that the IE team was doing decent work. Yes for a while there they were doing a great job of implementing Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extingui…

Reddit is still accessible on mobile via browsers though, so even if Apple imposes rules on the native app it's easily worked around. AFAIK the discord webapp only works on desktop…

> I had to check that this wasn't an April fool's day post. Linux powers a large proportion of servers on the internet, and has done so for a long time now. The popularity of Git i…

I would argue requiring your whole team to learn a new framework-specific templating language and patterns is not simple, compared to using something that is plain JS/TS which the …

Pretty standard Microsoft strategy really. Once they decide they dominate a market they figure there's no reason to invest another cent into improving their product offering. See a…

I really do not understand the appeal of Svelte, it seems to be making all the same horrendous mistakes as Vue (bad templating/DSL that shoehorns control flow and bindings into DOM…

> using electron app for something available as a web service lol wut

Skype was always garbage software, even long before Microsoft bought it

What I would find really interesting is if someone used this exploit to hack into the accounts of Sakari staff and sabotaged their service, deleting all their infrastructure from t…