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> ad networks on a lot of faith based websites

I hope there's a special circle in hell for people who use religion to prey on people. They can be a vulnerable group because once you use their enough of their shibboleths, you're not just trusted, you're assumed to be a good person, so your motives must be good.

I have no qualms with taking people's money with crypto scams, though. That's preying on greed.

This is just goofy. Timber-framed structures do well in earthquakes, and while they catch fire often enough during construction, once fire sprinklers are installed and people live there, serious residential apartment fires in modern construction are really rare. The most recent fire that comes to mind is Grenfell Tower, but it's larger than you'd normally use wood for.

Dunno about the "best," but it's a very good material because it flexes under load. Unreinforced masonry is probably the worst.

These two things are subtly different. If most people are incompetent in their roles, then both statements can hold.

> Finishing is a skill

I've also heard "it's better to finish something than to start something." At the same time, don't fall for the sunk cost fallacy. Finishing a dead idea only makes you feel good.

I recently stumbled across healthchecks.io. It's a one-man SaaS that does cronjob monitoring.

I like Protobuf, but think that for the volume most operations deal with, you're better off with how well-support and understood HTTP is.

I wonder how true this really is, and how many attempts by women were mostly just looking for attention. Not to downplay the seriousness of it, it just might be a different class of self harm.

My theory is that nature runs experiments with males to varying degrees depending on species, mostly in mammals. The continuation of the species only needs men to provide sperm, so the species can afford for unfit males to not have offspring. Females have a more important role, so you should optimize for consistency and reliability.

I wonder what efficiencies look like for making hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2 and water.

I work for Big Tech. It has its faults, but blaming a design monoculture on it isn't fair. Design trends are bigger than a single company, and while there are definitely enough companies to see some amount of variation in UI and style, they tend to look similar because of tech's ubiquity. You don't want to be the company big or small that goes off in a different direction and can't get traction because you're using design patterns users aren't familiar with. It's like the metronome synchronization experiment: even a fully democratized space can trend towards monoculture.

Doesn't the Chrome updater use binary patches?

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...

The patch, of course, is covered by a separate copyright.

Apparently they were using ROT26. Twice as secure as ROT13, they say.

Seems safer to sell it on the dark web for some sweet monero and wait for the statute of limitations to expire.

I hadn't considered that meaning for "repeat a year"

It doesn't matter what you call it, people will know what it means. Look at how special ed turned special into a euphemism for disabled.

There's a case for some amount of equity with special ed so special needs kids can grow up to be contributing members of society, but equity at the top end will just stunt national achievement, putting a country at a competitive disadvantage compared to countries that are less concerned with "social equity" and more concerned with being the global semiconductor leader in 20 years.

Makes me wonder why they removed Hearts from Windows 8

That lets you decompile and likely publish a patch, not publish the complete derived source.

Remember when they made a point about how they had a blue background and were on the right rail? Then they got moved above the organic results, then the blue changed to yellow, and every PM working on SERPs shrunk the size of "sponsored" and made the yellow a shade lighter for the next 5 years and got a nice bonus for it.

The abuse is worse on the merchant's side, but on the consumers, it's more like getting a cab to go to Morton's Meats, instead they take you to Shelly's Steaks (because they got a kickback), then say they'll take you to Morton's for no extra charge, but tell you how great Shelly's is, and you're already at Shelly's, so is it worth the extra effort?

It's not a tax, it's a protection racket. You wouldn't like it if someone looking for Williams Sonoma saw results for Sur La Table, would you? Pay up.

My joke was that Windows phones home too much for good opsec.

> otherwise silent Linux distro

So not Windows?

> It's hard to imagine how one would be able to work on such a project, without any background that could be tracked.

You have to remember how obscure it was initially, and it's not like it involved terrorism or obviously a thread to national security.

https://www.piliapp.com/screen/red/ looks legit

LCD display red should be pretty close to 670nm

Toyota really doesn't want to build a full electric car, do they?

I'm not sure if it's changed or not, but use this as an observation as a reminder that technology is more interesting when it does something for people, otherwise it's an academic exercise.

What if Facebook is a mirror that amplifies the best and worst parts of humanity, and we like attack it because it's easier than accepting that it's reflecting us.