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> That acknowledgement was tacked on well after publication. The original title was "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'". https://web.archive.org/…

You'll have a much harder time breaking into the market with things like a new OS because you have so much more ground to cover today than you would had you started back in the 90s. It's not…

Full title: Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors I don't get why they did this, Ark is such a great resource. If there is any cost to keeping the …

Do you not send thank you cards for birthday and holiday gifts?

I had to file by mail because I moved to a new state and got 2 W-2s for the same job, of which the W-2 for the former state left the federal fields (1-13) blank. This weird W-2 apparently makes me ine…

Being able to take pride in your work also helps a lot. In academia, my work may not be the most well compensated (it's perfectly reasonable for the area but I'm not going to be retiring ear…

For decades, the US could be counted upon to fund things with little immediate benefit but massive long-term positive externalities. I don't think its likely that the republican party will "…

Same goes for a lot of TV shows shot on film vs tape vs early digital cameras. Tape and early digital cameras have a much lower quality ceiling than stuff shot on film.

Any model we can create of human intelligence is also likely to be incomplete until we start making complete maps of peoples brains since we all develop differently and take different paths in life (a…

GPS trackers and immobilizers (aka "kill switches") have also made repo work a lot easier. If you buy from low/no-credit ("buy here pay here") lots, you probably have at least…

That assumes the conservative press will actually cover this scandal for what it is. I checked Fox, OANN, Breitbart, Newsmax, and Infowars. Of those outlets, Newsmax is only covering the attacks thems…

The last time I tried updating an HP printer, it locked up and printed half a ream of jibberish before I pulled the plug on it. Now, I just put printers on a firewalled VLAN and call it a day.

It's like an internet argument spilled out into the real world, with all the posturing and bravado to increase perceived expertise. Except it's gambling with an entire nation's fortune,…

Given enough time, you'll end up with a lot of legitimate users who follow a huge number of accounts but rarely interact with more than a handful, similar to how many long-time YouTubers have a v…

The only real market (that I can see) are shady data aggregators. Governments just file subpoenas, and abusive megacorps can file lawsuits (all the anti-SLAPP statues in the world can't prevent y…

I haven't seen any streamers who officially put their sub emotes on BTTV/FFZ/7TV and enable them in their channel, so if anything they end up supplementing the sub emotes rather than pr…

In a similar vein, I remember reading somewhere that creating shows for direct-to-streaming is liberating because, although it is quite similar to TV in that it's telling a story in chunks (usual…

It downloads and executes a Python script to update the store page? Log4j/log4shell, anyone? Just build a JSON API! It's not that hard! You don't need to RCE your game every time it l…

If a codebase is fragile enough that libc++ changes have to be assumed breaking until proven otherwise, why take the risk? Presumably the application already has a "standard" way of formatti…

One way to check could be to insert the serial number into various printer manufacturer's warranty check pages to see if anything pops up. Some companies (like Lexmark) require a model number fir…

To be fair, Trump is far from the first to practice selective enforcement. As long as cannabis remains schedule 1, the DEA could raid every dispensary and farm in states that have "legalized"…

At this point I have to wonder if judicial intervention will have any effect; a court ruling only matters if the administration decides to obey it. There's a lot of frozen funds which legally can…