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Since everything is a car analogy... A driverless vehicle doesn't require me to add a driver to reach a destination. A serverless solution doesn't require me to add a server to ach…

The tragedy of the commons is as pervasive as it is overlooked.

Some ambience from Quakecon - https://youtu.be/SVfdVXxTOj0

I disagree. I think that what college offers is more than an increase in salary. For hyperbole’s sake, you could use the argument of ‘my trust fund is already paying me more than y…

The friction coefficients in rain aren’t bad if you’re riding at posted speeds, outside of solid metal and painted lines. It’s riding right after it starts raining that you want to…

Why is this? Camcorders in the 80s weren’t weird. Home movies weren’t weird. Is it solely because the device has other primary functions? Because it’s not clear that if you’re poin…

I don’t remember being able to do this at school while in a classroom. So I guess that part is new. And likely a problem if that’s the only venue for required learning.

Because if you face the back of the boat the sides reverse. It’s similar to stage left. When you can’t afford to be confused, one name is better than a conflicting argument between…

Indeed, and this is why they continue to downscale the number of people doing such tasks.

Yep, these videos have been around for some time. Good stuff! https://youtu.be/RqC7QpNrprg

Guarana flavored soda is the original flavor of Bawls energy drink, based in the US. Pretty tasty.

The use of acronyms without definition is exhausting. A three letter one which has multiple uses all the more so.

Hearthstone has two main game ‘modes’. The constructed Magic: The Gathering is card packs, the battlegrounds auto-chess team building auto-battler is subscription (although arguabl…

The engine and rules are the same, but the track is different. You change enough things you get a different game - you don’t change enough, and people get bored. I’d compare F1 to …

I don’t mind paying for content on a monthly basis when it keeps the game fresh. To each their own though. I feel like Hearthstone for example is reasonably priced for what you get…

And those they can’t, they can tag. Hence the article.

There is a business where you take picture, glue it to cardboard, cut it into pieces and then sell it to people who try to put it back together. Sometimes a puzzle is fun, and that…

My spouse and I regularly do a Wednesday night dinner. One person cooks, everyone eats, and the cook rotates. People get a small break from the weekly grind while leaving early eno…

You’re conflating human work and machine work. I think that’s the real argument here - it’s fine to study someone’s work and learn from it as a human, because that takes impossibly…

It’s always interesting to find what businesses will do to lower these. My favorite is Converse sneakers. https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-converse-sneakers-...

I would imagine sonar coupled with water pressure could measure thickness (or however a sub measures its current depth). Surface temp is done via IR satellite imagery, although clo…

Many people cannot react to several frames, it is usually a predictive choice instead of a reaction. A great example of this is the Millie Blocker written in flash some time ago. I…

There’s something to be said for native support in a library, and Axios having it for interceptors makes me fine with using it instead of fetch.

It’s odd. I could argue it’s to keep eggs in stock, considering what happened with cream cheese and bsby formula recently. Small drop in supply, media scarcity coverage, many peopl…

Is it? I would argue if you have live data in some large amount, you’re not going to be keeping that in sync with your dev environment (and it should be sanitized, which has its ow…