Similar to "password reset", isn't this attack trivially neutered by not telling the user anything about the success or failure of signup directly on the web interface?

Window dressing.

I've worked in the tech industry all my working life - 20+ years now, and I've actually never seen it. That's not to say I don't believe you, but it varies widely from place to place, both companies and geographically.

In fact just yesterday I was amused at how one of the teams I'm working with has a majority of women. That seems to be a rarity in general, but not so in certain regions. Specifically, in Ukraine I've now worked with several teams that have a significantly higher number of female engineers than elsewhere.
Where I am (Belgium) it's less so - even back at uni there were only two women in our total group of 13 in the year.

Yeah can we please stop with this "introverts are hermits" stuff? Some of us like being around people, colleagues, friends, family, and can run an in-person meeting quite well, even enjoying it.
It's just tiring, and by the end of the working day we need to be left alone for a bit to recharge.

It's Apple themselves making that claim of being faster than 98% of PC laptops by sales volume, hence it's Apple themselves who want to be compared to rubbish Chromebooks. However, I'm also fairly sure that it would make a lot of people a lot happier to have the Macbook Air than a PoS chromebook. My 2013 MBP still keeps up just fine with what little I do with it (kids' remote learning & digital homework, up yours COVID-19, I hate you) and it looks/works like new. The "netbook" I bought a few years earlier ended up an expensive Frisbee in much less time than that.

My 2018 Dell XPS 15 and custom built 4u 19" i9 (32GB memory) run rings around it for my own specialized workflows, but not many people do complex signal processing and software development for 8 hours a day and would never really see the benefit over a base Air.

It's all gone pear-shaped.

I find it a bit funny when devs wade in on tabs vs space assuming everyone's using fixed width fonts for coding....

I've never worked in a place where using tabs was actually allowed, and after 20 years it's ingrained so deeply that I see a tab and wonder how it got there.

Plus, you get tired of explaining to new developers what a tab character even is, they've never seen one in the wild.

And lastly, probably most importantly: almost *everything else* in coding and formatting is more important than the stupid tabs or spaces debate. If you've got a significant number of other people working on the code for significant amounts of time, lint and automatically reformat to something consistent, and everyone who wants to do something different locally can figure out how to fit it in the system (the tab/VI guys are usually smart enough to figure that one out, and the rest just don't care enough).

Ah man, just go all out and overload the comma operator.

Over here in Belgium (which is in complete lockdown) they know that. Unfortunately, there was no testing capacity (it's slowly improving now), so the response had to be "brute force" - which here basically amounted to the government mandating the shutdown of non-essential shops and asking people nicely to stay home. Unfortunately here, as in other "advanced" western countries, confirmation bias got the best of a lot of people and all they remember is the initial reassuring sounds of "it's only a bit worse than the flu", and haven't been taking the measures seriously enough.

I live very rurally for Belgium (Luxemburg province, a stone's throw from the French and Grand Duchy borders), and even in my local village (population what, 200 or so?) we've got a case, the physical therapist. Without contact tracing, we're looking at 8-12 weeks of social isolation with the only trips out for food shopping. I'm pretty damn glad we've got 1700m2 of land, a veg garden and plenty of space for the kids to run around in. And my job was always work-from-home so the only impact is having the kids around 24/7.

I think the point is looking at places like Italy. Italy is definitely doing something. People were saying that Italy was overreacting around here just a week or two ago. Now Italy has a skyrocketing infection and death rate and a completely demoralized health system. That's apparently what happens if you are slightly late or your measures aren't as effective as you hoped. That's scary, because nearly all places were / are doing *less* than Italy, including where I am, in Belgium, where case rates are still increasing (albeit closer to linear than exponential so far). Fingers crossed that after the weekend it starts flattening out, which means the measures taken from Friday are working, but I'm not supremely confident.
My family and I will be fine from Covid-19. We live in the middle of nowhere and are introverts for whom the quarantine has meant very little change in our daily lifestyle (besides the kids being home). What I do worry about is my 3-year old daughter who has a ureter mutation, and is therefore at risk of severe infections, needing hospitalisation again somewhere during this crisis and there not being any urgent care available (or the infection becomes the "underlying condition" that makes Covid-19 dangerous to her).

Here you go, very fresh: The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence .

What matters here is how much more likely someone is going to end up distracted when they have to do nothing vs. when they actually still have to do the driving. I can't find any actual info quickly, so it might be one of those "we're only implying it because we don't have hard data" things, but I remember Waymo cancelling tests because their drivers would very often get distracted if they started trusting the self-driving, even though they were explicitly told never to take their hands off the wheel or eyes off the road..

Sheesh, don't change units halfway through a comparison, it makes my head hurt. Corrected: Tesla Autopilot: 0.34 accidents pmm (per million miles), rural average 2.56pmm, urban 5.14pmm.

I had a recent Peugeot 208 courtesy car that turned out to have some lane-assist system in it. That car actively tried to steer me into oncoming traffic. My best guess of why is because the sun was low, and the long straight shadows cast by the regularly spaced fenceposts next to the road diagonally across the road surface apparently made the system think the light/dark transition was the edge of the road. Scary? Yes. The first couple of times I had no idea what was happening because the garage nor the car had warned me about this system. I thought perhaps I had a flat tire or there something about the wheelbase of that car fitting exactly with some road deformation. I eventually figured it out because of some additional obscure dashboard light-ups that showed that the car thought I was too close to the edge of the road, but hey, I wasn't looking at the dashboard because I'm looking at the road, 'cause, you know, driving.