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To be fair, they're operating in a situation (budget vs. volume of material to collect and share with the world) where it's necessary to minimize the human overhead of this mechanism AND to attempt to reduce their legal exposure -- sure they can get legal help from some of the very best, but mostly out of people's goodwill, they don't have the budget to be defending themselves constantly.

(Disclaimer: former IA employee, but I do not in any way speak for IA.)

I'm still waiting for Brendan Eich to apologize for donating $1k to the campaign to to pass Prop 8 which held up same sex marriage in California for five years.

Then there would be the risk that the rest of fb's employees might be exposed to the reality of this.

What's actually wrong with reCAPTCHA is that google has convinced so many sites all over the web to require it to use them, and all that free labor is going to just improve Google's machine learning programs.

There's a remarkable array of ways you can get a crude semiconductor junction. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_bolt_effect

Not the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Identification_in_pl...

I also recommend cable ties (the long ones that won't be accidentally swallowed).

Having both, I'd say that the indoor sensor is not worth it. It doesn't have both sensors so it isn't equipped to test them against each other. I do like the outdoor sensor though.

I think the real way to see this is as "who is being taught how to think and who is being taught how to do mindless busywork in minimum-wage jobs?"

No, it is not like touch-typing. That is a skill that won't be obsoleted when a vendor decides to change the user interface on a whim with the next OS release.

Learn how to understand who the "customer" of your software is and how to deliver what they need. Learn what you're inherently good at and not so good at (and develop strategies to work around your weak points.) Learn that code reviews are discussion of how you did something, not an attack on your ego. (or at least they shouldn't be.) Find mentors you can trust.

It seems that what changed is that sometime in recent years it became much easier for shady gateway providers to remain in business. In earlier times, it would appear that originators of fraudlent caller ID data where shut down rapidly.

How has apple managed to make iOS as bad as Windows 95?

I was casually wondering the other day if Intel had hired some Oracle lawyers recently :)

Such things were possible with core memory, bubble memory, and FRAM. None are really fast enough by today's standards, though you can get some microcontrollers and battery-backed SRAM replacements made with FRAM.

Kind of like what they've done to shipping costs!

Ironic that Tyler Cowan's book The Great Stagnation was the first book I read on Kindle.

as a start, try "man -k systemd"

On the other hand, I find white noise exhausting. Not sure if this is a neurological difference between people.

I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the privacy implications, or that of a future where a Visa/MC duopoly collects a tax on all retail.

No it's not, it just seems that way to the vast majority of us who haven't developed the proper intuition.

Some casual googling earlier suggests to me that fiberglass ladders are fiberglass/polyester, not fiberglass/epoxy.

As far as I can tell after some brief googling when I saw this article earlier today: 1. Fiberglass ladders tend to use polyester resin. 2. polyesters tend to have a glass transition temperature (i.e. where the polymer starts to become soft and lose its shape) in the 75 to 125C range.

Wood combustion temperatures are typically about twice that. Also, incidental heat contact can char the surface of the wood and leave it mostly structurally intact.

At least be honest that you are implicitly stating an opinion that abortion at 9-15 weeks is equivalent to infanticide.

200-2000 employee companies have a lot less bureaucratic bullshit than 10000+ employee companies, and they also aren't as big of a life commitment as startups.

I think something which hugely benefited the appearance of Nixie tubes in hobbyist use was the incredible supply of surplus electronic components (frequently industrial / military grade parts) from the former Soviet Union that have become available through eBay over the past two decades.

Furthermore, whether due to reasons of preparation nuclear war (EMP) or due to relatively poorer expertise at manufacturing semiconductors as compared to the west, there's a huge amount of rather recent (1970s-1980s) tube-era parts. (The avionics of the MiG-25 are mostly tube-based, as I understand it.)

I don't know if it was true when the article was written, but at least today some of what the author writes in http://catern.com/posts/docker.html#sec-4 is untrue.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/security/#linux-kern...

It looks hard to clean and does not look like it uses a lot of common off-the-shelf industrial parts. I'd want a very impressive service contract to go along with it.

"At OneTaste events, attendees often played communication games prompting them to share vulnerable stories. Former staffers say they took notes that might help them sell later—maybe a student was recently divorced and lonely—and senior staff assigned subordinates to home in on wealthy students who seemed attracted to them or had experiences in common."

Eww.

What's disturbing is that this automated process did not verify the termination with his manager or an actual human in HR.