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Back in the early 2000s I had a job that required me to enter a certain phone companies' datacenter. But, I couldn't, because I was a consultant and it was an employees-only area. I had perm…

> Teaching to _think_ is just as important as teaching to code, but this is seldom done Oh, the arrogance of thinking that the other person doesn't think.

The ridiculousness lies entirely on the US having sponsored professors.

The "verification" nodes don't do anything to prevent censorship by miners. The threshold isn't quite 50%+. If one of the 49% nodes mines a block with a would-be censored transacti…

Free Internet was a very bold proposition. I used it a lot, via roaming, from a country that was in the very-expensive-roaming lists.

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This is a very low-quality comment. Amnesty International published a substantial, well-researched, well-sourced study. Your comment is low-effort Internet skepticism based on ignorance and a straw-ma…

qemu is a treasure and reading its source to learn how computers work is very fun.

The community already enforces this. The question is if a rule is necessary for clarity/fairness. I don't know, probably no. Just like AI-generated images were everywhere for a while, and no…

> niche theorem prover As opposed to popular theorem provers.

Overdue for Steam to forbid the practice.

English is being weird by having three terms then? Inteiros - (...-2, -1, 0, 1, 2...) Naturais - (1, 2, 3...)

Im sharing some saved Kagi searches: best waterproof midi synthesizers reddit https://kagi.com/search?q=best+waterproof+midi+synthesizers+... best waterproof midi synthesizers https:…

The test is known as papanicolau in my country, but so many people think it's named after one of the ancient popes called Nikolaus ("papa Nicolau")...

> Any evidence of a language being stamped out by a despot? Brazil had a couple of instances of that. In the 18th century, the Marquis of Pombal implemented a program to extinguish usage of Tupi as…

*derivative work

The fact that it is free software shouldn't make things different since it's a matter of copyright law. It's fine to copy the interface - the implementation not really. There would cert…

Kinda? Historically there were indeed concerns about reimplementation and copyright. One of the ways that the GNU Project tried to fight claims was to reimplement the tools using dynamically-allocated…

Nubank used floating point - not in their real backend systems, but somewhere in their app. It was a bit amusing when people on Twitter found out certain very specific, arbitrary-looking amounts were …

This is considerably more interesting that the original link...

Only a tiny fraction of people in my country even had a PC but somehow the Windows 95 launch was a MAJOR event, it was everywhere on the news. I don't think anybody managed to match that marketin…

"Doom Guy" by John Romero is great. And the audio book is read by himself which works really well. It goes against some of the things in Masters of Doom (which is still also great).

Federation is its own thing. I use Lemmys and Kbins but I follow the communities from my Mastodon account, so the number of extra accounts I created is zero. It's super-neat, actually.

I think it syncs very well to the point that it is so hard to believe it's a coincidence - there are so many points where it lines up. It is NOT a soundtrack for the movie. It does not have the s…

"Do something in a limbo for 5 years then find out whether you will go to jail or not". Great system.

You would look for a thing and the first five pages were random mailing list discussion archives discussing how the thing was 5 years before... Altavista was impressive, but there is a reason why it w…