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Ah yes dang. Users who are otherwise constructive members of the site break the rules only on CCP related threads. Not only that, but their rule breaking is only penalized in the m…

Attempts to build constructive conversations in these threads are almost always met with heavy flagging/downvoting. My own personal experience is that any comment that isn’t 100% b…

It always pains me greatly to read writers from times past about social issues whose voice rings distinctly true today still. Because it means that understanding the problem is com…

Check out Célestin Freinet too (also untranslated in English AFAIK)

The question isn't whether you can add a cover to the product after the fact, it's whether you can trust a switch on a product to do what the manufacturer says it does.

Yes, what you describe is trivial - and it would be similarly trivial to design a module that appears to respect the switch (regardless of Linux/Windows) and yet records things sur…

I had a laptop with a physical switch for WiFi/Bluetooth in 2006 or so (with a matching orange/blue light that would turn up when you toggled it). The problem was that this was act…

From a past update: "I launched the site in July 9, 2009 from a small kitchen in Botoșani, Romania." https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/ I suspect that's the kitc…

There are anecdotal reports of doctors/nurses able to pick up certain typical "illness smells" from their patients. Not sure if it's ever been studied more in depth.

Caffenol is a pretty popular technique, you can find many detailed posts online comparing it with other developers. I've used it a few times in a pinch when traveling, it's nice. U…

It all depends what kind of work you do. I do things that touch embedded hardware and graphics and frequently find myself doing exactly the sort of things you described. If you mis…

I originally posted this (in 2013! reposted today prompted by HN's second chance pool) because it struck me how, with very few modifications, this exact article could be republishe…

You could theme your phpBB forum, install mods, add lots of fun flourishing touches (like custom ranks), etc. Some forums displayed avatars and post counts, others didn't . All tha…

I played similar games when I ran forums, but really you're just shuffling the problem around. Bored trolls/extreme ideologues will be delighted to play cat and mouse with your mea…

> I run an internet writing forum that has also suffered over the years despite being a relatively massive forum in its hey day. What changed? I think these are just the affects of…

https://distill.pub is such a platform for articles about machine learning https://explorabl.es is a more general hub. > especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the…

> Aren't they a source of pernicious American influence on this generation's youth? Many countries have broadcast laws around a maximum amount of foreign programming (for one examp…

But you didn’t try anything to confirm/infirm this hypothesis?

Craftsmanship is most visible in mature open source projects who have reached certain stability when it comes to features. The role of developers on those projects is more akin to …

> we see that on average 57 percent, 64 percent, and 67 percent of children born survive to age 15 years among hunter-gatherers, forager-horticulturalists, and acculturated hunter-…

My definition for scripting language is even more basic than the other commenters here - a scripting language is one where the user executes the source file (the script). Of course…

There should be some sort of UNESCO World Heritage Open Source Software selection, and SQLite should definitely be in it.

The variety of fossils we have is stunning, but even that is a non representative, femtoscopic sample of all organisms that ever lived.

But you can pay Sony $60 a year for the privilege of getting your PS4 to update everything in the background on its own! Clearly the free market provides the best player experience…