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"mkcert is a simple by design tool" No, it's a simple-by-design tool. Hyphens: They're not that hard.

Data compression isn’t the problem. DYNAMIC compression is. And it makes data compression worse, because when EVERYTHING is loud, sounds that should have been masked by others are …

DYNAMIC compression. And it is, by far, the worst problem affecting media today.

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So a movie is not a movie until a critic reviews it?

If you somehow missed the fact that there's an airport in the area you're moving to, then that's your fault, not your realtor's. "remember that the loudness and frequency of air tr…

Or, more likely, they're NIMBY assholes (or, more accurately, fake-NIMBY assholes) who seek to boost their property values by destroying public airports and stealing from the rest …

Buried for not being about audio noise filtration.

Fuck off, L.A. Times.

Learn to line up your braces vertically, and you’ll be fine.

The GPS can't account for winds, which can reach hundreds of miles per hour.

Exactly. It should be illegal to charge different patients different prices for the same service.

Especially since the solution that fits everyone is so simple: Have the Control Center honor the settings that the user has set up in System Preferences. If the user has gone to th…

The term is "win/win." But I agree.

It’s “key/value” store, because it holds two separate things in each entry: a key and a value. A key-value store would only hold key values.

Yelp is bullshit because you can’t downrate clearly wrong, fake, or useless “reviews.”

Good. Yelp = assholes

And the fact that these jagoffs stole contacts from your address book and spammed your family and friends with fake “invitations” that seemingly came from you. They were caught pul…

He forgot DISABLE ZOOMING on mobile browsers!

NextDoor isn’t exactly technically savvy. NextDoor is a glorified mailing list, but they don’t understand basics that mailing lists have handled for 20 years. For example: When a u…

How is that a “rant?” It’s an orderly, reasoned-out analysis of their post.

Google is worse. The “Play Store,” which should be only games. Google Video... we all know how that turned out. Google Plus: Not only a worthless, idiotic name; but Google actually…

The term is “key/value store.” It doesn’t just store key values, which is what a key-value store would do.

“Traffic calming” = pandering to NIMBYs who want to create a de facto gated community by stealing from everyone else