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I can honestly say that has never once been a problem I have had, and I've had git information in the prompt for over 10 years. Also how is "enter" less convenient than literally a…

And in the spirit of the Uncomfortable Ruler, this has the same frustrating design flaw: the scale doesn't start in the corner so you can't butt it up against something and use it …

Assuming an architect doesn't have the right kind of workshop needed to make them herself, the capital outlay to tool up any of those objects except the broom and the fork (for whi…

Git information is extremely useful to me. I notice colleagues who don't have that tend to struggle using git on the command line and use git status nearly every other command (muc…

Honestly, sounds low. Technical debt is just like real debt: a useful tool to allow you to borrow against the future to get things done today, and an existential threat if not serv…

That's a funny one too me, because they do some very good journalism that spans many many years on many people up to no good. Frequently, they're the only ones doing anything more …

Does that stay true when exercising? At rest, with a tidal volume of 500ml ish, lungs are least 5/6 full of stale air, round down to 3% ish CO2. When exercising, the tidal volumes …

I believe the 1979 original read "...Therefore a computer must never make a management decision". https://constelisvoss.com/en-gb/pages/a-computer-can-never-b...

WiFi backscatter "radar" is another one that is surely going to find uses all along the useful-innocent-seedy-nefarious-malicious spectrum.

Wayne Gretzky's post-retirement career in semiconductor engineering may not have been expected, but seems to be going well.

It is. William Boeing's father was German and was called Wilhelm Böing. Source: entered "Böing" into a search engine.

> algorithms governing that were closely-guarded secrets Do many lifts have fancy algorithms in practice? I don't think I've ever had one go backwards to pick up a nearby floor, fo…

The Nam-shub of Hockney?

They're not different codepoints, they're being rendered as mathematical markup by MathJax. This rendering includes using a LaTeX-esque font rather like Computer Modern. Arxiv does…

It's not irrelevant to why Eindhoven is how it is today, in the same way that HP is a split-up shadow of what is former influential self, but it's partly why Google now is in Silic…

Plenty of things that used to be Philips are still in Eindhoven, like NXP (semiconductors) and Signify (lighting, including Hue). Philips has been a huge part of what made the Eind…

There's a fairly large advanced hi-tech industry hub in the Netherlands. Philips and ASML are big names, but there are very many more. As they're all fairly near each other on the …

Seems completely nuts that you have the "shuck" entire assembled computers for this. Reminds me of the story about the Soviet factory ordering tractors just to remove some componen…

> it's far easier to change the workflow than it is to fix the software This is just something software seems to do. There's a mature and fully-fledged industry in modifying entire…

Some BMW 5s can do regenerative braking and use it to charge the "normal" (well it's a big stop-start one these days I would think) battery instead of having the alternator load th…

Indeed. Could you understand "unexpected item in bagging area" in, say, Russian or Arabic? Hell, I have no idea how to translate "bagging area" from/to my second-best language and …

It was an interesting (to me) footnote to the point that even if you massively overspec your audio stream to the point of physically being unable to record the audio at that qualit…

But if we put it on The Blockchain, you can mint PodCoins by listening to podcasts! Of course, to ensure you're really listening, you'll also need a secure cryptographic module ins…

If the sample clock edges aren't very (very very very) regular, on a sample-and-hold ADC, the waveform isn't sampled evenly and that manifests as noise that swamps the detail provi…

Right, but in the context of an audio stream, it's not going to matter these days. Even a hugely overkill uncompressed 8-channel, 32 bit, 192kHz sample rate audio stream[1] is unde…