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I encourage you to look closer at the "in office" section here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

This right here is probably my single biggest complaint with modern computing. It's a phenomenon I've taken to calling, in daily life, "tools trying to be too damn smart for their …

That is perhaps the most insidious property of all when it comes to microplastics--it's incredibly difficult to work that out. We don't have control groups, they're found in virtua…

I haven't used Tidal yet, myself. I've got a mind to, though, especially as it seems much friendlier to artists than most--I'd even consider publishing my own music there, whereas …

Personally I've had loads of issues with YouTube music, largely in that it regularly makes a point of inserting various popular songs into playlists and radios of otherwise very ni…

It would appear to be a conversation between an experienced OpenStreetMaps contributor and a course designer for the golf video game PGA 2K23 discussing some in-depth technical det…

Along with other issues stated, I already keep my dryer lint as an emergency tinder supply for survival situations (or the occasional campfire mishap).

We go through... a lot of eggs in this house, and I have other uses for waxes as well (such as waterproofing, candlemaking, and sealing wine bottles). This is genius, I'm stealing …

My favorite is to cover a wadded-up paper towel or two with a splash (or spritz, in my case) of vegetable oil. Dirt cheap, using things I already keep stocked in quantity in my kit…

That logic follows... right up until the leap to arboreal lifeforms with opposable thumbs being an inevitability (or even a prerequisite to tool use!). Opposable thumbs are not a g…

I usually do. Problem is, to do that at all, I usually have to buy men's clothing. I buy men's jeans by default, because they have pockets and the fit and comfort aren't my biggest…

It... really doesn't, though? Cooking is hardly by any means trivial, and achieving recipe-quality results based on a quick skim and winging it from there is certainly more difficu…

So I'd like to think. In reality my skills don't exist on paper save for basic helldesk work, and even that's been a crapshoot. Loving the positivity, though. Should probably throw…

That's no guarantee either, especially with increasing consolidation of land under larger corporate umbrellas. I recently moved away from Columbus after getting on the bad side of …

Straight from the PuckerButt Pepper Company! They're the ones who bred the Reaper and offer seeds, mashes, and sauces alike.

It's not the liquid helium that limits JWST's lifespan (as that's in a closed loop), but rather the propellant needed to keep it in a stable orbit. I'm no rocket scientist, but I d…

A lot of that seems to actually be down to the fact that he now runs a New York Times column with a similar premise. Would still be nice to still see posts to the site, or even a m…

They also make a fair bit of money selling geofencing services to law enforcement agencies.

That one wasn't just a switcharoo -- r/worldnews got compromised and became a complete anarchy zone for a while. The other sprung up in response to replace it and just sorta stuck …

Except peoples' equipment would most likely all be breaking down at the same time, because everyone is harvesting at the same time.

It does when a massive portion of your supposed profits are eaten by a 4-5 figure monthly rent on a flat.

Somebody should probably fix that typo [Plannd -> Planned].

Or even neither! Much faster to find upper and lower bounds and essentially construct a hash table than to manually sort a whole list of non-trivial length.

It wasn't the title of the HN post itself that was changed, but rather the discrepancy between the title of the HN post and the title of the article. As for the title of the articl…