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That's why I love my induction range: all the benefits of gas (near instant heat control and response, even cooking, etc.), none of the asthma or benzene!

TFA mentions s/Philosopher/Sorcerer/ in HP, which I confess to having confused me greatly (are Americans THAT ignorant that they are unaware of the concept?) and pleased me, since …

I'm largely unfamiliar with his work, but in reading the article and viewing a few works online, I was struck strongly by the resemblances between his work and that of Alex Colvill…

In these days of concerns over digital sovereignty, I cannot help but wonder if they would be best served by moving to a privacy-protective European state, e.g., Germany or Switzer…

They don't discuss a "why", so much as present data on the "how" and "when". If this work is valid and reliable, then it will be up to later research to propose and test hypotheses…

> Is this positivism? My understanding of positivism is, in a nutshell, that its goal is to reduce everything to physics, including social, inter-personal interactions. My read of …

Because it leads us down seemingly useful paths that are in fact dead wrong. There is only physics, but at some levels it more convenient to ignore the physics (what is happening i…

Not at all. As the fourth paragraph from the end states, we experience qualia. Rovelli is simply saying that qualia are simply physical processes described from a salient perspecti…

Not at all sure why this is downvoted, since this is essentially a five-word tl;dr of the article.

Ah, our geography. I live in Arnprior, about half an hour west of Ottawa (technically, my house is a couple of clicks from the Ottawa border, but we don't really start counting unt…

I may be wrong, but on a correctly-configured system, one would have to have root access to act nefariously. Since this is intended to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities that …

Clever! I know some will say it's like closing the barn door after the horse left, but having this in place to mitigate future vulnerabilities will be handy.

All organizations above a certain size have a Sarah. This I've learned first and second hand over decades (the second hand was a spouse whose job at one point was finding, intervie…

I love that! I am inspired to create Terry, Tizzie, Topé, Bubba, and Roxy (the three Ts are in my office right now), the last two are no longer with us but for the hole in my heart…

I guess I am showing my age, but no, the Internet was never "a place", for me and my ilk. The Internet was just another network, albeit one that worked more reliably (most of the t…

Congrats on the work, but have you considered another name? Naming is hard and always will be: When I first scanned the headline, my initial thought was "that's an interesting area…

One quibble with the article: the notion that CRLs have to be large. When I was with Entrust our first releases targeted early Windows versions with limited memory, back when most …

> there is no other way to resist US military power I'm struggling with how to articulate the idea that seems to be in so many Canadian heads, regardless of their military experien…

I've been doing this almost 40 years and have never had to pay for either. Now, if you don't find gcc and neither of vi (and later vim) or emacs usable, well, let's not go there. A…

Thank you for forcing me to clean my keyboard. :->

Site renders great for me, iOS Safari with blockers; text selection works fine. Yeah, I know, karma hit coming, but the other comments are so counter to my experience (I quite like…

What if they are? Why should people attempting to browse securely be punished?

Looks pretty good, but would love to know this compares to bottom (btm), featurewise. Thanks!

Especially when you drizzle them with balsamic vinegar!

Fascinating. Anecdata, sample size 1. If it works for OP, fantastic. Definitely does NOT work for me. My recipe, such as it is: 1. Be gentle with myself every morning. I may wake v…