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Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:07PM (#49636946)
Most people don't know the traffic laws both of your stats are way to low.
Re:Clinical Failure Rates over the Decades: Yikes on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:34AM (#49055638)
If failure rates went down wouldn't that increase the number of clinical trials until the failure rates go back up.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:58AM (#48903932)
I am so building an arc furnace in my yard.
They have a monopoly on disks for the PlayStation.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Sunday June 14, 2026 @07:54PM (#48534469)
It's always CSS.
Yeah 70 years ago right.
Re:NIST gives up enriching most CVEs on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:09AM (#47813528)
The classic we need a 3 month approval process to update software but at the same time use SaaS that updates daily and breaks every other week.
This post is propaganda. You don't own the phone. The term "buy" is defined as "revocable anytime lease".
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality on Friday March 20, 2026 @09:27PM (#47463118)
Windows is notoriously slow at opening files. So a common optimisation is to store all game content in few package files.
Re:You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you? on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:44PM (#47370375)
The number one feature which would resolve this is. A list all resources page.
Re:GPT-5.4 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:15PM (#47267393)
Gmail was in beta for 5 years, until 2009.
The cheapest way to make hydrogen is to use fossil fuels.
Re:Micropayments as a reality check for news sites on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:24AM (#47085226)
The payment in mobile games are a one button click. Browsers will never support this, as they're all funned by advertising.
No at 310k you get $1 dollar at 311k you get $0. But you know like you have 999 more dollars than before. Assuming Post tax income.
Re:GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack on Friday November 28, 2025 @05:56AM (#46077503)
I think the correct solution is to use a keyring. On Linux there's gnome keyring and last time I worked on a IOS app there was something similar.

This does mean entering your keyring password a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Keyring

Re:The Cloudflare outage was a good thing on Monday November 24, 2025 @12:38AM (#46030723)
It's a tragedy of the commons. Even if you don't use Cloudflare does it matter if no one can pay for your products.
Re:Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:47PM (#45766290)
Always use theses in testing don't ask me how I know.
No it's a neoliberal thing. Rather than the government doing the thing. They hand out massive subsides and hope it gets done.
Developer time is more valuable than user data. The market is being efficient.
Can we get "HTTP 402 Payment Required" working now?
I think it's software is made with the American market in mind. And local businesses use it as is and profit.
Re:The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @03:27AM (#43742157)
It's malware it does something malicious.
Parse this JSON correctly ```json { "data": "XXX", "sig": "BAD", "sig": "GOOD" } ```
Re:We're Charging Our Cars Wrong on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:03AM (#43263734)
I agree, but there are aggressive subsidies around electric vehicles and general graft. Similar things happen in most countries but in dictatorships things can go to absurd levels when it aligns with the current policy.
Re:We're Charging Our Cars Wrong on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:49AM (#43263629)
Dictatorships don't care if things are practical.
Re:The cost of Go's panic and recover on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @07:24PM (#43261197)
Writing transaction code wrapping a user provided function which can error or panic is a real pain to get right. If the user code panics there is no error if the user code succeeded there is no error. So you have to call recover on success.
Re:Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 Hallucinate for Everyone on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:25AM (#43228494)
The trick to coding with LLMs is not caring if the code is correct.
Re:The $100T Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:29PM (#43226947)
+1 this has been my life experience.
Re:400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:35PM (#43214557)
The great thing about Azure is not the security it's the reports about how you are secure. The later is legally required the former is only visible experts.
An unscrupulous individual might even send malware.

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