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> having variables with different names can be colored differently

This, too, is entirely personal preference. I've tried it and found it resulted in too many colors for my brain to assign individual meanings to, and then I couldn't even benefit from syntax highlighting anymore because those colors also blended into the rainbow of text.

Where did you find a savings account yielding 4%?

Which ATS do you use that doesn't accept PDFs?

I can't decide how I feel about NAT. It's a ridiculous hack that shouldn't exist, but it also probably had the side effect of saving us from a world where ISPs charge per internet-connected device, because there's no obvious way to do that in a world where they have no visibility into your LAN routing.

You render it to PDF and upload that. You don't just send people a latex source file.

The entire Wikipedia: namespace is a bit more relaxed, and often amusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_...

If you look at it with enough vagueness, I've seen some form of this at every job I've had: someone has a problem to solve, and has an idea that is fun to implement, unnecessarily flexible, and possibly Turing-complete. It's a way of getting the "I did a cool hack" dopamine hits that we nerds love so much, while still doing our jobs. Depending on how well they did at keeping their actual goal in mind, you might wind up with a very useful embedded scripting engine, or a very bad ad hoc build system for a project that did not need its own build system. (I've seen both.)

I would expect there's a large overlap between people who think Lisp and/or Prolog are cool, and people who are prone to doing this sort of thing. Non-trivial knowledge of either of those correlates strongly with being more into programming than the average developer.

People have different usage patterns. I don't think I've ever sent or received a video.

> Is there a way for a company to implement sufficient privacy protocols that would appease the most privacy-concious users?

The trivial way is to just not send data back to the internet. Nothing you listed here is impossible to do client side.

If this was one group studying itself, maybe. Academia is big and has frequent disagreements about itself. Treat it as one group studying another.

(Though one can still make mistakes and misrepresent data when not studying oneself, obviously.)

That's still by chance.

Good thing the rest of the document is dedicated to pointing out all the specific things wrong with it, then?

Advertising is inherently manipulative. That's the entire point. Here, it's biasing toward Expedia, who profits if you use them regardless of which country you travel to.

Depends on whether it's the kind that's just glasses when turned off, or the kind that's just a VR headset with a camera on the front.

Yes, but not because of type conversion: Python's booleans are a subclass of int.

Oof, yeah. I'll pay $1500 for a nice thing, but I want the nice thing to be mine.

> The map data from robot is communicated to app via local wifi.

Good, this is the kind of thing I was getting at. Lots of companies would say "we do all the data processing locally" and then upload the map to their server to get it to the app, because that's technically not "processing".

... no? Python's == never does implicit type conversions unless one of the types overrides it to do so (neither str nor int does)

Standard question for new home electronics: which things don't work if it doesn't have an internet connection? Local sensor processing is a great start, but I've been burned by carefully worded, technically accurate denials before.

It's like the thing where light bulb brightness is rated in watts, but it's not the amount of power actually used, it's how much power an incandescent bulb of the same brightness would use.

Numbers all become meaningless around 2029 and CPUs are now sold as "as powerful as a 7 GHz CPU". No attempt is made to specify anything else about the hypothetical 7 GHz CPU.

I have literally never had this problem.

I don't mean that in a "so you must be wrong" way, but "there may be something up with your situation besides the smoke alarms themselves".

"Comfortably" doesn't refer to comfort zones here, but is used in the "without major difficulty" sense (that is, one's needs are met to the point they're not stressed about food/shelter/medical care/etc.)

Can I replace the window manager with i3/sway?

> it’s on by default in any recent Windows which supports it

A tech that just works automatically without having to learn it seems even better.

But I suspect it's not actually that hard to find; users just have no reason to care.

Everything can be disabled physically.

At a previous job, I made a joke about expensing a $thousands Windows Server license and installing it on my laptop to get a relatively clean system.

One of the sysadmins responded with something like "lol" followed by a screenshot of an Xbox app on a production server.

What do you mean by "trash SIMs"?

I tried it. It took some iteration and explaining to get it to do what I wanted, but here was the final result:

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Building a bridge over a lake using only toothpicks would be extremely challenging due to the limited strength of toothpicks. (70%) However, it is possible to build a toothpick bridge by using a truss structure. A truss structure involves using triangles to distribute the weight of the bridge evenly across the structure. (80%)

To build a toothpick bridge over the lake, the first step would be to create a design using a truss structure. The design should take into consideration the width of the bridge, the width of the lake, and the strength of toothpicks. (90%) The toothpicks should be laid in layers to increase their strength. (70%)

To estimate how many toothpicks would be needed, we would need to determine the spacing between each toothpick and the number of toothpicks needed to create the truss structure. The number of toothpicks required would also depend on the thickness and quality of the toothpicks used. (80%)

Given the width of the bridge is 20 meters and the width of the lake is 200 meters, the toothpick bridge would require approximately 10 layers of toothpicks to span the distance. However, without a detailed design, it is impossible to estimate the exact number of toothpicks needed to build the bridge. (60%)

Overall, I would say I am 70% confident in the correctness of this answer, as it is based on theoretical principles and assumptions about the strength of toothpicks.

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It's... okay, not great. The blatantly wrong part is marked 60%, which is the lowest certainty it assigned to anything, but that's still really high for how wrong it is.

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Salt was "monosodium glutamate". One of the ones I forgot was "quadrangular" or a similar word, but I couldn't find it by brute force.

As of right now, none of these are registered. I did kind of screw this up, might be good to try again another time and against more registrars (and maybe not post about it in advance in a thread where the CEO is known to be watching). But currently I don't see any evidence that this is happening, at least not with Namecheap and not for every domain.

I think the most likely explanation, if anyone is doing this, is an employee watching a log file and doing it on their own for domains that sound particularly desirable to them.