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and the C# is missing the `async Task` boilerplate

How did the soda get from Costco to the machines, how was the cash collected? Might be low effort but don't think you can call it passive revenue.

sWW26on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app

I think your talking about a different app, KakaoMap, which you're right isn't totally localised. KakaoTalk is though.

sWW26on Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary

If you're referring to the 1.71m = 5.6 feet. It's technically correct but confusing, 5.6' != 5'6".

sWW26on The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet

They do count them and they do report them.

See "Rejected ballot papers" https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-w...

sWW26on Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data

He can't just choose to pay the $1bn to get out of it. It's basically a fine he'd have to pay if he is unable to complete the deal due to his financing falling through or a couple of other extremely unlikely things.

sWW26on Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense

How does it give you privacy when all your transactions are visible to all on chain?

sWW26on South Africa is running out of Marmite

A slice of toast with peanut butter and Marmite has been my standard breakfast for the last few years.

sWW26on Diving into BoardGameGeek

I built a recommendation engine[0] using the BoardGameGeek data with the methods described in Significance[1].

I've also extended it[2] relatively recently to have a tweakable ranking system which my father explains here[3]

[0] https://trythesegames.com/ [1] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.... [2] https://trythesegames.com/rankings [3] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2728398/flexible-boardgame-...

sWW26on About the Urgency of Building Web3

What happens when someone's private key is lost/stolen?

sWW26on Elevated Error Rates at Reddit

old.reddit.com still works fine

sWW26on 50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic

Where did you get the information that they've blocked people traveling from anywhere with Covid. You can still turn up now from Europe and be let in, they just ask you to install an app and report your health status daily.

sWW26on Space: The Integrated Team Environment

That's weird because I get your ideal update flow in the apps of theirs I use (Rider, Webstorm & Datagrip) i.e. a notification that there is a new update with an update now button that downloads and installs the update. Maybe it's a platform specific thing, I'm on Windows.