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And the fact that determining the true lat/long of one's location was best done by using mapquest.com (ah memories...). Unscrambled GPS for civilians didn't come along for another …

This is a fantastic explanation.

The UK also gives people 6ish weeks (5 weeks to take when you want, plus 8 fixed bank holidays). I grew up in the US and am American more than I am anything else. I've lived in the…

At $WORK, there's a process for automatically scanning docker images for packages that have CVEs against them. Any docker image that includes glibc instantly shoots to the top of t…

> If you want to stop polling from a server response you can respond with the HTTP response code 286 and the element will cancel the polling. Oh wow, it gets a lot worse...

It's typical to use "to" rather than "in" when discussing odds. So the odds of getting a 1 on a 10-sided dice are 9 to 1 against (odds are also typically specified with the larger …

It's less about pure random chance, and more about our uncertainty. Compare it to a weather forecast that says there's a 10% chance of rain tomorrow. In the same way that weather f…

My guess (for men, at least), is the still only partial eradication of homophobia from society. Before the 1970s or so, it was not threatening to be naked around other men because …

AFAIK vanilla GNU emacs uses NeXTStep APIs, which are also implemented by the GNUStep project[1]. So if/when X11 (and the many libraries that sit on top of it) learns how to do col…

Universal grammar is a theory about how the human mind processes language. AI and ML don't bear on it at all.

Is it open source?