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Adding a single element from each other office would be a neat way to tie them together. For example, the new wave wall with a single lavalamp, hanging rainbow, and dual pendulum.

"Kuszmaul remembers being surprised that a tool normally used to ensure privacy could confer other benefits." It was surprising to me too! But reflecting on it more closely, most p…

It's an example of "non-euclidean" space, and yes, it is a bit different than the article.

There was an example of this in the classic 'Duke Nukem 3d'. It had a level by Richard "Levelord" Gray, 'Lunatic Fringe'. https://dukenukem.fandom.com/wiki/Lunatic_Fringe This leve…

I love that this is a common enough problem, that there's a full domain website for it: https://0.30000000000000004.com/

That is a simple but clever technique. These sorts of approaches feel like they will be part of a more formalized software engineering profession.

There are a lot of crazy people in industry, unfortunately. Not as much at the big flashy tech startups or places you hear about in the news, but there are still plenty of 'work a …

Jail time for bugs that should have been preventible and caused harm to users. Mistakes and bugs happen, but we also have methods of mitigating them. Standards, quality controls, t…

software bugs cause mass harm. We can't ask people to never make mistakes, but we can ask that they have appropriate practices, standards, quality controls, and care. Not taking ap…

Not the op, but meaningful fines, executive jail time for gross negligence and especially for intentionally taking inappropriate risks, breaking up or closing companies that are sh…

For me, in Chrome, I could not find "Show In Viewer", but the static preview image on the left side has a "launch" text splash when hovering. Clicking it opens a player with play/p…

Have we actually seen the real interface? There was the first round, which was a mockup many were told was a 'screenshot', and a follow up that was a second mock up that was closer…

The cue I learned for that was "the stick man is standing on the line | and leaning forward / or backward \ " (Which is of course western reading direction sensitive)

This threw me off for a bit. The \1 is from the original puzzle, and refers to the value of the first (capture group). I ran into this issue while filling out the puzzle. The \1 is…

This is a wonderfully complicated mix of in game rewards, but they aren't DLC, some have exclusive in game rewards you can't get elsewhere. You can buy some Amiibo retail, but othe…

Play! This aspect of learning is crucial for children too, but as a developer nothing pushes learning like playing around with things that interest you.

They absolutely care if you call, if you show up to town hall meetings. It matters. They are elected officials, and they do ultimately care and worry that if they do unpopular thin…

I also love that one. I am not yet finding the specific citation in the actual linked repo. I would appreciate it if someone could point it out!

I had heard good things about mint, and I liked the 'dashboard' screenshots and such. Then I looked at how it worked, particularly "provide your bank credentials" part. It didn't t…

Yes, good point. It was discussing in past test in the context of "DeCOMification" mainly. It would be interesting to have some insight into new component creation vs use of existi…

COM is the Component Object Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model This was how a lot of system and third party libraries provided large amounts of functionali…

For the other side of that laugh, see Richard Feynman's "I want my dollar!" story: http://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/71262/33/Feynman_-_Sur... (Find "I want my dollar!" toward …

Seconded, "performed a lithobraking maneuver" is now on my list next to "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

Your Mac updates are indefinitely truly avoidable despite the constant nagging. You declined 875 times, and you can decline 875 times more, and forever after that. Windows 10, in h…

I love the clarity and readability of these errors. You can work on UX at lower levels, and it looks like this. Beautiful. I'm not even a Rust dev, I'm mostly in C# land these days…