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Hello. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota. In January of this year my city was under hostile armed occupation. I volunteered for weeks packing boxes of food for people who were afraid t…

I am a resident of the Twin Cities and I agree wholeheartedly with this perspective. I found reading the book Waging A Good War very educational about the deliberate, strategic use…

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4

It seems relevant to this article, and its portrayal of librarians as dangerous, that the national Institute for Museum and Library Services was recently essentially destroyed by P…

Are there any structural or systematic changes that should be made to how the site works right now, so that remedies such as this do not need to be hand performed one-offs?

Kotlin has a syntactic opt-in for tail call elimination (the "tailrec" modifier).

NPR reports that President Trump seeks to "end asylum entirely", according to officials within the administration - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43650/trump-inauguration...

FYI a tungsten carbide ring, although it cannot realistically be cut off your finger, is brittle, and can easily and safely be snapped with a pair of locking pliers (locking to avo…

Ada Lovelace wrote what is often considered the first computer program, a set of instructions for the (unbuilt) Analytical Engine to calculate Bernoulli Numbers. Appropriately, if …

"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

Speedrun - Monopoly 0:21 (Any%, RNG manipulation, glitchless)

Ken Libbrecht was my undergraduate advisor and I worked in his lab for a couple summers (in fact, growing snowflakes in a tank and measuring their growth rate at different temperat…

In my day (ca. 2000) there was no "forced to give an F" and in fact it was very common for exam-takers to draw a line, write "everything below this line I did after the time limit"…