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How much and which brand do you take?

This is only tangentially related, but because you are all leaning on this pyramid analogy so hard, I thought I would mention that many scholars now believe the pyramids to have be…

In case anyone else like me wants to know what these plants look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa#mediaviewer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieffenbachia#m…

By "can't waste your money" do you mean that buying them is not a waste of money or that I shouldn't waste my money on them? Also, thanks for the link to the article.

I've been interested in type theory for a while, but haven't found a good avenue for getting into it. Could people here list any resources on type theory that comes to there mind? …

> I don't know why GPU manufacturers are so paranoid. I've read the reason for the paranoia around GPU drivers has something to do with modern GPUs needing so much controlling soft…

I consider moving a business from WiFi to wired ethernet a challenge. If the business was larger than micro (25+ employees) and renting office space, then converting from WiFi to w…

If Apple allows writable and executable memory blocks in the future on iOS then LuaJIT has a good chance of becoming a good alternative to Objective-C.

> Some researchers have seized upon blogging as a great way to ... reach their peers ... I am sure the audience here knows of many ... Will the audience with such knowledge kindly …

ARM promise comes from this tweet: https://twitter.com/luajit/status/36094933609746432 Also, first release with FFI support.

Do you simply mix cocoa with cold water?

Currently, this seems more interesting to me as a GCD[1] technology demo. Looking at #initialize and #open in the code[2] shows how easy GCD can be to use. Create a queue and add t…

I don't see microdata as markup pollution. It is semantic information that is closely tied to the data it is representing. Rather than just telling the browser you have a paragraph…

This is only interesting if you look at it the right way. The way I see it is that there are many manufacturers of Android phones, while every iPhone is manufactured by Apple. Also…

This is exactly the kind of reply I was hoping for. Much appreciated.

The theory of the brain presented in your third and fourth paragraph interests me. Can you recommend a book, wikipedia article, or white paper on the subject?