That's not quite what code smell means. It comes from the common idiom that "something doesn't smell right" (https://www.englishidiom.com/glossary/something-doesnt-smell-right/) and in the context of code it refers to the feeling that an experienced developer gets when looking at a piece of code and can see that it 'looks wrong', without necessarily being immediately able to identify the specific problem. Possibly it ends up just being sloppy coding style, but often sloppy coding is an indicator of sloppy thinking, so there is a correlation, there.

Spotify is Swedish.

The proposal only affects companies with more than 500 employees. Probably for exactly this kind of consideration.

My favourite is "11 new co-founder openings at [company]". Wut? Really?

Not everyone signed up to Slashdot the day they hit puberty.

Aaaah! So that's what happened! https://m.slashdot.org/story/4...

When you write any odd number in standard English (cardinal form) the final word will be one of those five words (or a compound that contains one of them), so an "e" is unavoidable.

Clearly false: eleven


Reasoning model, much?

I assume they mean coding in the sense of categorisation. It could also have been a coding error in a bot that was deleting content, thereby deleting something they didn't intend it to delete. I doubt it was a programming error in the website itself.

I think that if the agent identified itself properly in the user agent string rather than trying to masquerade as a person, there would be less of an issue. However, it is being deliberately deceptive. Hard to make any kind of argument from that starting point.

This seems to be what Common Crawl is doing. https://commoncrawl.org/

The standard also incorporates support for NFC Digital Product Passport specifications, allowing single NFC tags embedded in products to store and transmit sustainability data throughout their lifecycle.

You've got to be shitting me! Their solution to sustainability is to embed an electronic chip into every single thing?! Man, this planet is truly fucked!

I think predictions are hard, especially about the future...

Yeah, that's much harder than predictions about the past.

Sorry, $80m. My maths was off.

From the figures in TFS it appears that only $70m of the $100m is accounted for. Where did the rest of the prize money go? Was it sequestered in basalt, perhaps?

Yes, including the environmental costs of mining and transporting said rock.