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On the settings page of the extension, I got a popup to allow "ib.adnxs.com" access to browsing data. What is this?

Good to know there's an OSS alternative.

A programming language that offers no mechanism to handle memory allocation errors is not a system programming language. I have yet to come to a conclusion on the merits of Rust, but this claim about system programming always ticks me off.

The most disconcerting part for me is the fact that the attackers gained full access to one of the administrators’ LastPass account. I would love to know how that happened.

Watched that episode with the dead dog once. Almost cried. Never watched it again.

I think there is a straightforward solution to the housing crisis, and it’s not building more houses and squeezing more and more people into the same limited space. At least for Big Tech, which seems to be the focus of the problem, the solution would be telecommuting. As a software engineer, there is no reason whatsoever for me to go to an office. I can do whatever I do from anywhere in the world as long as I have a decent internet connection. Yet I’m forced to live in an expensive place just because of some old pre-hitech mentality that expects me to be in an office.

Usually this happens on weekends when I go on long rides. Smaller roads without a bike lane are worse than bigger multi-lane ones. Places outside Seattle proper are the major offenders: Bellevue, Issaquah, Renton, Enumclaw, to name a few. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m wearing a cycling kit that ticks people off.

My commute to work is usually uneventful, about 10 miles mostly on dedicated bike paths along with many other commuters. It’s a few miles longer than it should but it’s definitely the safest route to work.

I recently moved from the Bay Area to Seattle. I was looking forward to the move because I love cycling and Seattle was rated #1 in bike infrastructure last year [1]. While the infrastructure is indeed somewhat better than the BA, I was shocked by the widespread hate for cyclists everywhere in Seattle and surrounding areas. Getting honked at is a regular occurrence here, and people will actually stick their head out of their cars to make sure you hear the insults they are shouting at you, while simultaneously giving you the finger. It gets worse: a couple weeks ago somebody hiding behind some trees threw a rock at me while riding on the Burke Gilman trail. Fortunately they missed me. The rock (fist-sized) shattered a few feet in front of me on the trail pavement. The hate is incessant and I definitely understand why people don’t feel comfortable riding.

[1] https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a23676188/best-bike-cities...

Does it make sense to use := everywhere (can it be used everywhere?) instead of just in conditionals? Just like Pascal.

> At a certain point doesn’t creating a preference for pedestrians and cyclists actually end up being a preference for wealthier people who can afford to live downtown, versus those who need to access the city but can’t live within walking or biking distance?

Reducing the number of cars (and therefore traffic) on the roads will benefit everybody, especially if cars and bikes don't get in each other's way (such as in the case of dedicated and protected bike lanes).

> Note that bicyclists and skateboarders also slow down busses, which are what lower income people use to get around

I don't think this is true. Busy streets and traffic jams slow down buses.

Tech companies complain there aren't enough high-skilled workers. Small businesses lament there are too few low-skilled workers. In the end, they are both saying the same thing: they want more workers for less money.

Take a look at academia.edu. It's basically a social network for the academia. Researchers can post their papers and follow other people's work.

Not a typo. It could have been split into two assignments:

    errno = SABOTAGE;   // 0 or ENOMEM
    p = errno ? NULL : malloc(size);

but this would have made the preprocessor code a bit trickier.