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I'm extremely interest the general feeling and views societies had in the past: how they perceived the present and the future, as a whole. Objectively life has become better and mo…

Seems pretty silly? It has opened a bunch of issues and is harassing devs on github repos complaining about missing SECURITY.md files? https://github.com/search?q=%22Issue+created+…

It's a slightly different flavor of the same thing. VS Code is an amazing tool that's getting huge adoption because of how awesome it is, and how open source and community centric …

I thought OpenAI was originally supposed to be some kind of for-the-good, non-profit institution studying AI and its safe use in particular with an effort to make it more accessibl…

Emailing patches is a classic git flow, used e.g. by the linux kernel. Git even includes a command to format emails and send them. Nothing wrong with it!

That's not how timing attack mitigation works: just because you're doing some other stuff too doesn't mean the timings can't be exploited.

You can't even use Linux on Intel Macs properly, no chance it'll work on the M1 anytime soon. The kernel might boot in some form, but last time I checked, even the SSD wasn't worki…

Ah, that makes sense! I always wondered why any search term would just return 8 year old stuff at the top.

Or the case where you work google which goes down and then you can't possibly duckduckgo it, that'd be too humiliating.

I had a hand saw in mind...

A more apt comparison would be to using a saw vs using a saw with gloves on. With gloves it's safer and more comfortable, but you're not quite as in touch with the wood as you woul…

They're a public employer though, no?

Advertising? Have some articles be part of the bundle as a "preview", and most articles behind an individual subscription? This idea of building your own newspaper sounds kind of i…

I think he's referring to the standard, non-hidden microphones.

The social networks are offline. Universities are great at open collaboration, it's just not a kind of online collaboration where anybody can walk in and partake. People spend a lo…

I've heard of mathematicians being frustrated by physicists who use fancy stuff without full understanding of the underlying principles, and sometimes they just manipulate the nota…

What do you mean? Mathematics is all about formal verification, i.e. proofs.

Pitting code review against trust and responsibility is just disingenuous. The point of code review is not that you distrust others. It's that everyone makes mistakes and often som…

The OSM style is here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto There is an issue about converting it to vector: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issu…

Doesn't need to be OMT though. That's just the de facto free & open source tile generator from OSM data.

Yes, you can render raster layers (tile sources). https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/map-tiles/

No, but they will pay 2% more to fix something if it means 5% of customers don't write them off as "awful, unethical, big corp" and not buy stuff from them. There are plenty of exa…

Auction design is a very active research area and what the "right solution" is, is not so easy to figure out. This has huge applications in... adtech.