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I'm not very tasty to mosquitos to begin with. I used to have the usual reaction to mosquito bites (slight bump, itching). I grew up near a wetland in Minnesota, so I was no strang…

I'm pretty sure they were trying to avoid that exact spoiler by hiding the fact they were talking about the null set. Spoiler alert: do not read parent comment.

It's psychoactive, but not euphoric. Promoting wakefulness is a psychoactive property.

> .. women reaching out against their abusive male partners. Which IS an issue and IS statistically more likely. Be careful about your phrasing there. I hope the implied subject on…

Does your parent need to graduate to be considered a legacy? My dad went to 3 different undergraduate colleges each of his 3 years of undergrad, kicked the MCAT's teeth in, and got…

Vastly under-estimating the magnitude of the task is how the crazy things get done. Christopher Columbus wasn't unique in believing the world was round, he was rather unique in his…

Thanks for this. I initially went with xfs back when there were license and quality concerns with zfs on Linux before btrfs was a thing, and moved to btrfs after btrfs was created …

For the completely randomized algorithm, my initial prototype was to always download the first block if available. After that, if fewer than 4 extents (continuous ranges of availab…

But if you have a single board computer with 1 GB of RAM and several TB of ZFS, will it just be slow, or actually not run? Granted, my use case was abnormal, and I was evaluating i…

How are the memory overheads of ZFS these days? In the old days, I remember balking at the extra memory required to run ZFS on the little ARM board I was using for a NAS.

> No serious person designing a filesystem today would say it's okay to misplace your data. Former LimeWire developer here... the LimeWire splash screen at startup was due to exper…

> AFAIK the ObjC compiler can do this step even during compilation so that no method string names are included in the binary, but I'm not sure. That would be possible for static bi…

Taiwanese or the family having emigrated from mainland China prior to the PRC adopting pinyin (which includes possibly prior to the Chinese civil war).

I believe one rewrite of Python's dict was the first mainstream use of this sort of hash map as a default implementation. I wish they provided a sort method to re-sort and re-index…

I agree with you, but would phrase it differently. You want some indication that any leak of your current password actually hasn't been mitigated. A failure message that your passw…

As long as it survives an autoclave and doesn't leave behind any debris in the site, it seems fine.

I lost a few GMail accounts because I changed countries and computers since I created them. I tried logging in, Google said my password was correct, but both the device and the IP …

Right. Government-mandated access to proprietary data isn't how the US breaks up monopolies, but somewhat along those lines, it might make sense for some government to provide some…

It was a collaborative algorithmic optimization exercise. There wasn't a "right" answer I was looking for. If they noticed something I hadn't, that would have been great. Collabora…

The problem with Hypercard is that it used an extremely restricted subset of English constructions. Once you got used to the limitations, it was fine, but could be very frustrating…

I used to ask how to find the 10th percentile value from an arbitrarily ordered list as an interview question. Most candidates suggested sorting, and then I'd ask if they could do …

I think it would stabilize via a combination of electron capture and positron emission converting most of the protons into neutrons.

Don't forget electron capture and positron emission converting some of those protons into neutrons.

Disclaimer, I work for a market-neutral fund, and have close friends high up in prop shops. Presuming all strategies have a curve of diminishing marginal returns as assets under ma…