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The slowness is a feature, not a bug. It gives your brain time to chew on it a little bit, digesting the information and storing it away instead of just copy-pasting. Speed-hacks l…

Also, MS Word auto-corrects - into an em-dash just like it fixes quotes. Depending on which software was used to write it, it's very likely that's what happened. I'm never suspicio…

I'm just picturing me watching their stupid ad, then opening the door and permanently disabling the locking mechanism, with a sawz-all, if necessary.

> ...you can't control what others send you. Of course not. You can, however, control what you then do with said data. If a courier accidentally dropped a folder full of nuclear se…

PyInstaller-made executables also used to have a habit of getting flagged by security software as malicious (maybe that's why you couldn't run it?) -- apparently, so many malware w…

> The most successful exception I've seen are books by Joe Klassen (of I Want My Hat fame)... If you haven't read it The Dark[1] (his collaboration with Lemony Snicket) is also gre…

In the article, they mention that they are working with the crawling company to be reimbursed for the download costs. Naming and shaming the company while you're trying to work wit…

Seinfeld was "a show about nothing."

I would argue that the fast part isn't optional for web apps (where "transpiling"), but it can be in many other instances. I write a lot of data-pipeline code in Python that mostly…

It's not necessarily wealth that governs price changes, but access. Anyone with a car and 'enough' money for gas can go to the store across town if it's cheaper, but if a store is …

I think it's more that once you get rich, the political machine becomes obsessed with you and your donations. That attention can be kind of addictive.

I worked for a power company that had something like this. Except it was two F4 Phantom jet engines (modified to use natural gas) per generator. I believe there were two sets in th…

It's not just Moonlite and Owensboro; it's common further downriver too. I end up in Paducah at least once a year, and I always try to make it to Kountry Kastle for a mutton sandwi…

> Many tools shipped python as an embedded scripting language. I had dabbled with Python before encountering it (in its embedded form), but once I started using it inside ESRI's Ar…

Or Firefox Focus, which is what I use. It does a pretty good job.

That was impression I got from the article as well.

> I wind up revisiting it every year when the derby comes around As do I. It's tradition at this point.

Bingo. I find the styling of Teslas to be so boring and same-y. I also hate the design laziness of "only a central display panel", and I really, really want buttons and knobs.

Out of curiosity, are the GIS dependencies the proprietary ones ( cough ESRI cough )?

There is the Planet Gemini [1]. My understanding is that the company was founded by some ex-Psion folk, and the keyboard on the Gemini is supposed to be pretty close to the one on …

I've made a few "games" that go a step further, including images as SVG or base64 encoded binary. I use them mainly for learning / testing new (to me) concepts.

Cupping is probably a better analogy. Also, there was a long stretch of time there where we didn't use leeches, at least in part due to the stigma associated with the older practic…

Lucky. When I was in Engineering school, the Mechanical Engineering department had one catalog. We couldn't get any more - something about limited numbers printed (though, I'll con…

I want my Psion Series 5 back.

Odd; when I do that it just rotates the same map (back and forth, between a horizontal alignment and about 30 degrees). I do agree that hijacking ctrl-r is not ideal.