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How reasonably can German cuisine be described as a single unified thing? My mother was from East Prussia and my father from Swabia and their "home" cuisines were pretty dissimilar…

GenX here, and yep: this is what we were promised.

Today I learned that "senior director" is apparently L67. (I guess it's not a title you typically see on product teams.)

Nothing brings home the Orwellian nature of USA 2026 more for me than the word "warfighter".

Isn't that "88" a little too on-point?

Watching the CNC lathe cut threads in the toolpost lever was a thing of beauty.

It's clearly a typo for "inevitability".

One thing I always notice after trips abroad is the extent to which American newscasters are practically yelling at their audience. This is a stark contrast to many European countr…

Anything that prevents Peter Thiel from doing what he wants must be evil.

Even if true, it would only be for one of the narrowest possible definitions of "crime". What can Flock do about mail fraud? About domestic violence? About wage theft? About falsif…

In 2009 I made a note that Excel's main date parsing function was over 1000 lines of code -- not including helpers.

Similarly, buildings 40 and 41 were (at least pre-remodel) roughly mirror images of each other. Roughly a week after moving from 41 to 40 -- long enough to start navigating based o…

These were taken between 2014 and 2018, because I seem to recall that the "accent walls" were painted in fall of 2014 and the buildings were emptied for demolition in 2018.

Why look, if I take my five data points and fit them to an exponential curve, it shows there will be exponential growth in the future.

> The net worth of the mean American household is $1.06m, according to Shame on any publication which uses mean instead of median to talk about wealth.

In the United States, anti-nuclear activism predates both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamshell_Alliance and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab…

The first comment asks the important question: Why, "despite all of this prosperity, do so many Americans still feel angry, disillusioned and frankly, even cheated"? One thing whic…

The blog specifically says that they're getting the SQL AST so presumably they would not execute something like a DELETE.

Ever heard of a guy named "Samuel Slater"?

I predict they'll argue that because he lived in Mexico from ages 1 to 16 that he effectively relinquished citizenship. Which is BS, of course, but I'm reminded of the Sartre quote…

Control-F Privacy. Hmm.

That's nice. Now when's the next Chtorr book coming out? (Rothfuss and Martin have nothing on Gerrold... .)

FWIW, the approach described here is what services like Databricks, Snowflake and BigQuery are already doing. It's also an implicit reminder that while PostgreSQL is both great and…