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That commenter you're replying to knows that. The original commenter before them wrote "pulled the plug" which is different and doesn't quite apply here (actually implies the oppos…

Layperson here: what is special about Go's runtime, aside from the GC?

If those bugs are only present in the Linux port, then yeah, Linux users cost more to support. But if a significant amount of these bugs affect all platforms, then you could argue …

If the car you're driving has achieved super-intelligence and is capable of evolving and self-replicating, then life, uh, finds a way.

The poster you're replying to was asking about wheat vs rice protein, not whey.

Even worse for Icelandic ones. Keychron used to show the Icelandic flag on their Nordic keyboard page, despite that layout not including Icelandic-specific characters (Ð / Þ missin…

In the U.K. they even use the term "give evidence" for the act of testifying in court.

My native keyboard layout is Icelandic so I'm not holding my breath. I ordered one with a blank ISO layout.

>Why hasn't anyone made a hybrid car that uses a gasoline-powered turbine generator to charge its batteries instead of a piston engine? The current engine formula (2014-) in Formul…

>Luckily Init7 took them to court and they are now back peddling. You mean back-pedaling. Peddling is something different.

This crash was also covered on an episode[1] of the Black Box Down podcast. [1]: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-2020-7-30

Drivel. Dribble is what you do with a basketball.

>I'm not sure what you mean by "sound the same", but just by comparing a simple change from major to minor is quite a dramatic change That's because OP is not talking about the dif…

In finance, MM is a shorthand for millions: https://www.orsurety.com/blog/is-it-m-for-thousand-and-mm-fo...

Like the commenter alluded to, it allows accurately constrainted type-ahead. If a query starts with "SELECT FROM my_table " and expects one or more column names at that point, your…

You might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Police

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Broo…

In an asynchronous medium like Slack or IRC, the effort _isn't_ wasted, because the question will stay there, allowing people to see it later who weren't even around when the quest…

>True, but if you're having two windows side by side, the wider 16:9 will give you more horizontal space to do so. I don't know about you, but I don't read two pages of text at the…

Nobody keeps anything close to that kind of amount in a savings account. They put it into various asset classes that appreciate by a lot more than 0.06%/year.

You might want to add a slash at the end of "trash", or add a mkdir before that command. Otherwise, doing this on a system where ~/.trash doesn't exist can still make you lose file…

>I was in uni around 2007-08 and realised it was using a serious amount of my time and energy. The first public version of Minecraft came out in May 2009.

It's more about the small effect sizes of 8 people vs 1. Still a lot of room for noise in the result.

Drastically different? It looks almost identical to a map of the U.S. where each dot represents a town: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-population-density-...

> The average person in the northeast spends 31 minutes commuting per day [2], for simplicity that's 0.5 hours,* 2 commutes a day, * 5 days a week, * 50 weeks a year (assuming 2 we…