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Could you explain the first step, "Manually Labeling Colors ? What did you manually label? I didn't quite follow. From the way the article is written, it sounds like you presented …

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So now there are two mutually incompatible versions of YAML that silently apply different semantics: both do implicit coercion but _different kinds_ of implicit coercion. YAML 1.2 …

Approval, not ranked-choice. Ranked-choice reduces transparency and understanding of the vote-counting process, disenfranchises an alarming percentage of lower-income voters, obstr…

Whether they are sentient isn't even relevant. I agree with you that they aren't, but sentience is the wrong thing to focus on. It's also the sort of hairy, sensational question th…

The important indicator is "I spend more time on this than I myself want to." That applies equally well to games or anything else.

I like this approach. Specifying the requirement in terms of measured impact is a good strategy because it motivates the app companies to do the research and find effective ways to…

I don't think the same of them because they are not the same thing. Can you not see that the potential for harm is far greater? You can't simply ignore the potential uses of the te…

When you generate real-time video of realistic-looking talking characters, the definition of success is fooling people into believing they are talking to a real person when they ar…

The primary purpose of generating real-time video of realistic-looking talking people is deception. The explicit goal is to make people believe that they're talking to a real perso…

Renaming files from a window title bar broke some years ago and has never been fixed. I most often want to do this in Preview, but every other app with clickable filenames in the t…

My thought exactly. The sampling circles only enable you to (awkwardly) solve a problem that was fabricated by using circles in the first place.

That's a legitimately run _election_, which is necessary for but not the same as a legitimate democracy. For a democracy to be legitimate you need an impartial judiciary, an enforc…

What does "be a lifeline" mean? If it means "rescue them every time they have a financial emergency", is that an infinite commitment?

Please, consider a better name. It's really hard to promote something with a name that no one can pronounce or spell.

Are you able to understand the difference between taxes and slavery? If you can, try your hand at explaining why taxes and slavery are different. I'm am not merely asking rhetorica…

Can you explain how these work? Does the server send small subrectangles of the large grid when the user scrolls to new regions of the grid? Does the browser actually have a two-di…

Goodness gracious, that font in the new logo is the most hideous font I've seen in a very long time.

> This is incredible. Government telling me how to backup my data. Incredible. No more incredible than the government telling you that you need liability insurance in order to driv…

Code can show you HOW something is done. Only documentation can explain WHY it is done that way.

Interesting. According to https://www.wiz.io/blog/s1ngularity-supply-chain-attack the initial entry point was a "flawed GitHub Actions workflow that allowed code injection through …

Also wrong. You can always destroy value by making a mistake. Trading and then realizing you made a mistake, just like investing labour and then realizing you made a mistake, does …

It is indeed misleading. It is showing an untruthful value, and an untruthful change in value, on purpose. A small lie, perhaps—but nonetheless a lie.

You have a strange idea of what "right" means. Showing a true reflection of the actual, irregular, progress is getting it right. It's honest and informative.