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Teachers can weaponize CPS reports and absolutely cause legal problems. I know someone who dealt with that. Their kid's doctor put the kid on an ADHD medicine, he had a bad reactio…

I agree with this. I've been writing a new internal framework at work and migrating consumers of the old framework to the new one. I had strong principles at the outset of the proj…

Some of them rocket scientists double down on the accent in Hunts-vuhl. Sadly, the You Must Be Ignorant lot is as ignorant of that conclave of cosmic capsule constructors as it is …

As one of those supposedly higher level ICs, I agree entirely with the assessment. A decade or so ago, the high level ICs I interacted with were much more technical. They were the …

I had a Southern accent and had to train it out because my northern colleagues kept making fun of it. I noticed that I was perceived as "smarter" without it. My story is not exactl…

Pulling weeds by hand works for a lot of weeds and is the most environmentally friendly solution where possible. It's what I've done, for the most part. I will say for some weed sp…

Can't do that in cracks in a sidewalk, between pavers, on a wall, etc. where plant growth can damage them.

Some weeds are quite unpleasant, such as sticker burrs. I'd rather not have a dog and children covered in those. Some weeds can be damaging to property, trees, sidewalks, etc. or a…

The problem with that "decipherment", from what I've been told by others who are far more educated than I am, is that it does the equivalent of deciphering Anglo-Saxon runnic texts…

There have been attempts to recreate (vulgar) Latin from modern day Romance languages, as well as using older forms of these languages to reconstrct what's known as Proto-Romance. …

>...farming those risks out to institutions seems to be the current way most societies have decided to mitigate those risks Unfortunately, those institutions --be they governments,…

On the other hand, avoiding peanut exposure can cause an increase in allergies, so there's a feedback loop at play. The children who now have allergies, but wouldn't with past expo…

It's a bunch of small things: command line flags, whether a command line tool is even present at all, compiler built-ins / differences in behavior, headers possibly being in differ…

MacOS is only licensed for use in Apple branded hardware, as I understand it. Even running it in a VM could be problematic if that host isn't running MacOS.

I'm guessing "the edge" is doing inference work in the browser, etc. as opposed to somewhere in the backend of the web app. Maybe your local machine can run, I don't know, a model …

We used to, until they canceled that trust

The story of humanity can be summed up as: "what if we changed our environment without understanding it?" with both wonderful and wretched consequences. The same fires that poison …

Considering that Houston is significantly bigger than Austin--metro area of 6.6 million vs 2.2 million--one could argue it _is_ handling a significant influx of people better than …

Part of the issue is that Go has a variety of design choices / limitations that conspire to produce different design patterns in this area than what you might see with e.g. Java. F…

I strongly agree. Map / filter isn't included, but a fair number of the various utilities are included in the standard library in the `slices` and `maps` packages. `context` also h…

It's difficult to explain, but having children triggers something deep--primitive, even--inside of you that unlocks another level of fulfillment. And self growth, for that matter. …

Feelings are part of what makes us human. We love our parents, enjoy the company of our friends, like listening to music and so much more. Not everything in life is logical.

From an outsider's perspective, it seems "move fast and break things" worked well enough for SpaceX. Boeing et al seem to be following the "move slow and hide problems so we don't …

To this American, "half six" sounds like a roundabout way to describe the number three and not a way to says it's 6:30 (or 5:30 for that matter). I've never heard anyone say that

Algebra, from Arabic