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Remember the whole "how many r's in strawberry" thing? Yeah, not really fixed: https://imgur.com/a/counting-letters-with-chatgpt-7cQAbu0

I remember in the early 90s seeing 8 GB hard drives being advertised for sale, and thinking "who on earth would need 8 gigs of hard drive storage?" (Me, that's who. I now have 63+ …

I have wallpapers on my desktop and phone, but honestly hardly ever look at them. Even on the desktop, I pretty much always have various programs maximized or nearly so. If I feel …

hopefully not too dumb a question, but why put this on html instead of body?

Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites). Some I'd recommend: * Ambient 1: Music for Airports * Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror * The …

Yeah, I played around with this a little bit. It seems like Notepad knows the document has been changed, the bug is purely that the title bar isn't updated in this one case. Which …

Many of these are on YouTube as well, just search for "James Burke Connections"

I think the problem is that "payment required" is an issue that's better dealt with in a layer higher up the protocol stack. One can simply respond with the appropriate redirection…

The only time I ever watch broadcast TV anymore is for (NFL) football. And in that case, I'm usually also , participating in chats and discussion forums, following box scores, and …

Not sure if the site is meant to be strictly Linux/Unix or not, but on Windows, cd without any path just prints the current directory and doesn't do anything else. (Although "cd ~"…

> Just a series of unconnected errors at big companies Except that "at big companies" is basically selection bias, problems at little companies don't get noticed because they're, w…

Here's another way to look at it. This link ( https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/ ) says "traffic crashes [...] account for 2.2% of all deaths globally." Which mea…

According to Wikipedia [0], the number of MV-related deaths has been right about 10 or 11 per 100,000 per year for the last ten years. Which makes the opening claim "Americans are …

The linked article discusses this in the first point: * Changing the visibility of a variable requires changing its name, everywhere it's used. * It also cuts contrary to some very…

I thought one of the basic lessons we learned from the last 70 years of programming language design is that it's a bad idea to make semantics depend on lexical structure. I'm reall…

To add on to zaroth's remarks, here's a list of records set or tied in the most recent (and IMO not very remarkable) 53rd Super Bowl: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/03/patriots-ram…

* Your time is worth something, even if your employer isn't making the best use of it * I'm surprised he waited 7 weeks before submitting a bill (especially given the hurry up and …

The sequence beginning at 1:58 is (I think) a still from the Hard Day's Night movie. The sequence beginning at 4:29 uses the Help! album cover

Or you could alter the recipe. I've made baking powder biscuits any number of times (flour, salt, baking powder, milk, and butter) with very serviceable results.

An annular lake is a circular lake caused by the impact of a meteor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_lake

For me, the problem with the Fermi paradox is that we only have one poorly understood and incompletely documented example of a planet with intelligent life from which to draw concl…

I feel like the actual moral of the story should be "don't underestimate how trying to scrimp on a vital resource can result in horrible logistical complexities and a nightmare UX"…

I have it pretty much for the no limit two day shipping feature. It'd be great to have a "shipping only" version at a lower price.

Back in those days I wrote my own assembler for the C64 (and later the C128). Probably my single greatest moment of joy as a programmer was when it successfully assembled its own s…