Many mothers I know do restrict reading parts of the Bible, yes. This is normal.

If a principal removes Playboy from the middle grade library, is he censoring?

So, let me rewind this. From all Viking calls, 87% were from gas powered vehicles and 13% were from EVs, right? Well from all vehiclles in the US, there are only 0.8% EVs. IF the failure rate was equal, there would be 8 calls for EV vehicles for each 1,000 calls but according to their stats, there would be 130 calls. This means that the failure rate of EVs is proportionally 130/8 = 16 times higher than those of gas.

Brazil has a software to input and file your tax return since the 80s I believe. But the tax code in Brazil is much simpler, which is a statement in itself about the mess that the US code is in.

It is so interesting that in 2024, we are debating if calls for genocide consist of harassment or not.

True. My first job as a H1B was to work on a DoD project to provide high resolution displays for Command and Control rooms in battleships. I had access to a lot of stuff.

I have been severely punished for doing tough reviews at one Wall Street firm/bank. The guy was from a team from India outsourcing work for us. We used them to get small support code done as the hiring there is very volatile. Still, we depended on their work to get things done, in particular overnight. One day this guy checked in a gigantic refactoring that had absolutely zero to do with the ticket he was assigned. Worse, inside that code there were at least two time bombs that if ever executed would segfault the process. No need to mention, there was no unit tests, as it was clearly mandatory in our README. I reviewed, made my comments and called it a day. Next day when I get in, this dude had emailed personally my manager, the heads of all trading desks we supported and his manager (in India they by law have to have local managers) had made a meeting with me, him and human resources. I was forced to apologize (!!!) IN WRITTEN to the guy, allow the check-in to go through without changes (to give him credit) and close the ticket. We had to delay our releases until my team in the USA had to skillfully undo all that crap (we could not roll back either) while adding proper unit tests and making sure that mess worked. As a result, a tremendous amount of tech debt was introduced, one that took me 6 months of waiting to undo. I was denied promotion the next year as my review had a serious comment from the head of HR from one of the business lines and my bonus was also cut off by half of what should have been.

NPR and PBS are the most ultra-left wing websites I know of. They went from educational websites for kids to radical Marxists in 10 years.

And facebook/youtube/reddit/twitter will take down all pro-Trump or conservative content. There were catholic pages in Brazil with over 2 million followers that were shut down by Facebook for supporting the current president.

This post is SO CONVENIENT to Google and other big tech monopolizing the video distribution business that I cannot help to think it's paid advertisement

If Tesla knows WHO is charging then it can "tweak" the app or the charger to display the correct numbers if the person is someone from the government. It makes it much more difficult for government officials to oversee the operation. They would have to create fake profiles and buy burner phones, which might be illegal. It is not a technicality.

That is not factually true. British English is today a Latin cognate language and has lost all its relationship with German. Old English was German-like, not Middle English. Try reading the Beowulf (classic of Old English) and you will se it is completely unrelated to modern English. In 1066 England was invaded by the French Normans. England spent 300 years under the French rulers where the French language became official and English was only spoken by the peasants, never written. English lost all its grammar and vocabulary. So much that when English was again the official language of England by 1200 they needed to borrow heavily from both French and Latin to the point that 60% of the English vocabulary today is Latin-inherited. And as far as grammar and structure based on German, it was all lost in that period.

I dont know a single person who denies climate change. Climate has been changing for billions of years.

Talked to the glibc maintainers, VERY helpful actually. Adhemerval Zanella and Andreas Schwab. These guys rock. It seems that it is a tradeoff for the type of application. Fortunately this behaviour can be tweaked with a call to mallocopt(), setting down the threshold for which realloc() will defer the realloc to the kernel. I found 8k to be a much more reasonable setting for my type of application than the default 128k.