Error correction helps a scanner account for portions of the code being obscured/unreadable, whereas a bad background can make a code not even recognizable as a code in the first place. (depending on the algorithm used, how bad it is, yadda yadda)

The COFA states are very strongly aligned with the US and pretty much always vote with them. I don’t know much about, say, Tonga, but I’m guessing it’s a way of signaling cooperation to the US as well.

The resolution has declaratory power only but provides international backing to those countries that want to take additional steps against Israel.

Finally, the lawyer dog

Here’s the full quote:

Case in point: in addition to having to pay a guy who he bet $5 million couldn’t prove him wrong $5 million after that guy proved him wrong, and after he went to court to try to avoid paying the money, Lindell will now have to pay some of that guy’s attorneys fees, which were incurred in court.

There’s nothing technically wrong with it, it’s just really awkwardly worded.

Actually, those benches are kinda uncomfortable. Still a nice rest after you’ve been walking for a couple hours, but not suitable for anything else.

Source: grew up going to the Columbus Zoo

Why do advertisers want you to have tools that help you detect covert advertising?

Apparently it ended up being 12. You can look them up here:

• Don Bacon, Nebraska
• Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
• Andy Harris, Maryland
• Jaime Herrula Beutler, Washington
• Richard Hudson, North Carolina
• John Kakto, New York
• Nicole Malliotakis, New York
• Daniel Meuser, Pennsylvania
• Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa
• Bill Posey, Florida
• Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey
• Frederick Stephen Upton, Michigan

This is from 2022. It’s worth noting that in this vote it was bundled with a Marijuana decriminalization bill, which is probably why the Republicans voted against it.

Git is not a blockchain. Most importantly, it’s not distributed. There’s a singular git server that all git clients for that repository connect to and use as a source of truth.

“required to prosecute all crimes to the fullest extent of the law”, taken literally, requires prosecutors to prosecute everyone for every crime all the time. After all, you don’t know what might turn up in discovery, anything could potentially have happened! Obviously, there has to be some judgement call made, where there’s just not enough evidence to prosecute me for drunk driving even though I stopped an inch past the stop sign. Ultimately, that’s just prosecutorial discretion again, and while it could be reformed and limited somewhat, it will always exist and be abused.

Hm, 8.8.8.8? That was 5 years after Gmail.

Docs, Sheets, and Slides were all acquisitions. I guess Drive and Forms are good.

Since it specifically says sexual orientation and not romantic orientation, I think asexual would be the correct answer in that situation.

This is not totally a coincidence. A lot of cities were built on more or less the same central plan.

Copyright violations ≠ conversion. Those are two completely different sets of laws. If you’re going to argue that legal definitions back you up, at least make sure you know what they are?

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No, it’s a status symbol. iPhone users look down upon the green bubbles, or so they say.

LLM is a form of AI, specifically the text AIs like ChatGPT that have suddenly made “AI” a dinner table term. AI in some form or another is almost definitely being used in your device - even for things like filling in gaps in low-quality voice calls, and probably has been for a while. But the problem is that unlike those “old” AIs, LLMs require some significant power to run, so running them on phones will probably require meaningful trade-offs. But the increased security is also a meaningful benefit.

I think they mean gamesindustry.biz

It is unfortunate, but there is also reason to be optimistic. It’s clear that they want to make use of existing items, especially under-utilized ones from previous releases. It’s something that they’ve repeatedly talked about over the past year. It’s even one of the design principles from Jeb’s internal handbook. Take copper: added in 1.17, used for brushes in 1.20, and used for copper bulbs, doors, grates, and trapdoors in 1.21. They even briefly played with copper horns in Bedrock. Or tuff: also added in 1.17 as a totally useless block, with variants fleshed out in 1.21 that makes it surprisingly useful for building. Not to mention the crafter and potions of infestation/oozing/weaving are entirely made from existing items, or the new paintings that don’t require any new items at all. Even completely new items are tried to have as many uses as possible from the start: wind charges have tons of different applications. I think Mojang has been paying attention to this trend for longer than most of us have, and we’re finally starting to see it shift how they approach update design.