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Progress comes at the cost of your regular expressions. Every time the Unicode consortium releases an update with new linguistic blocks and modifiers,…
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To safely send binary files through text-only channels, this encoding translates everything into basic alphanumeric characters. The tragic irony is that doing…
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An absolute nightmare for string validation. The letter 'A' in the Latin alphabet looks exactly like the Cyrillic letter 'A', but they possess completely…
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Storing and transmitting billions of daily emails requires massive data centers. The electricity used to power these giant servers generates global emissions…
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Even if your GPS is fully disabled, how can retail stores track exactly which aisles you walk down?
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What behavioral trick allows tech giants to collect massive amounts of your data without you fighting it?
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