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> especially since the images are stylized / colored anyway The thing that I don't like about the new images is the abuse of star flare effect. The colors are okay, but the flares.…

That's an interesting way to illustrate the myth of meritocracy: random luck is enough to create a society of rich and poor.

Amazing! I'll try it with my kids. :) Suggestion: create an app so we can see the results immediately.

Excel is great for simple use cases. For complex problems, you should look at Jupyter notebooks. https://jupyter.org/

So, you are re-implementing Altavista, Lycos and other old search engines. They used the naive approach: you searched for "steak", and they would bring the pages which included the…

I searched for "giraffe evolution" (without quotes) and received the following links on the first page: - Evolutionist scientists say the theory is unscientific and worthless - Sev…

Differently from most countries in the world, Colombia allowed corporations to buy and distribute vaccines to their employees. The result? Hunger Games: Food Delivery Company Givin…

> I can understand where the author is coming from, but this is the cruel reality of the world. This article was written in 2015, when this kind of dilemma (who would you save) was…

That's one of the coolest programming demos I've ever seen! Suggestion: make the completed rows fade asynchronously.

Before Present? (Just guessing)

The first part of the article can be summarized as: 1. Initiate as few attacks as possible 2. Let your enemies break up each other’s continents; 3. Take only one country per turn T…

> What thing that violates a type check would be "perfectly fine to do"? A typical example, in dynamic programming languages, is to treat numbers as strings and vice-versa; evaluat…

Your conjecture may only hold for tiny ( But when you deal with big problems -- millions of lines of code, written by hundreds of developers over a period of years -- you'll defini…

How about `npm`, `pip`, `cpan`?... We have seen bad updates breaking the entire Javascript ecosystem, but they were not intentional. All it takes to inject a bad dependency is a bu…

...which happens all the time in the free software world, when you type `apt-get|yum|brew update`. What are the odds of one dependency being taken over by a shady anonymous entity?…

> Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity... That's something that worries me, whenever I install a software with trusted priv…

Can AI generate a better tutorial? To test my theory, I asked the OpenAI API to complete the following sentence: This tutorial will guide you through writing the "Hello World" prog…

Exactly! The author assumes the reader doesn't know what a terminal is, and goes from a "hello world" to a cross-platform graphical "hello world" using GTK-3 without explanation. "…

The problem with philosophy is that you can't tell the difference between an honest effort to seek the truth and a frivolous attempt to display erudition to win the debate. Science…

That's the coolest thing I have seen today. Thanks! :) Suggestion: replace the blue button text ("I have completed the level") with something simpler, like "Run", "Check", "Test" o…

> Some signs that the candidate is good in communicating: > 1. They number each point. This helps person replying to address each point separately. I disagree. For me the most impo…

> I recommend hiring at least one person who actually knows how to get the job done. I totally agree. Having "strong writing skills" is a plus -- but it is way less important than …

First of all, writing skills != good communication. As someone else said, hire the person who actually knows how to get the job done -- even if they are not great writers. (I don't…

Thanks for sharing this. TIL Linus has a little brother called Rerun.