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I think they meant to put a period after raided.

This one was fun: https://www.thebroad.org/visit/mirror-rooms

I prefer an e-bike over an escooter because I have a lot of prior experience biking in traffic that it feels more natural to be biking. I also find I can't really take one hand off…

I think there was a software update allowing multiple vehicles per switch. The Karts were on sale pretty significantly a couple months ago: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com…

Longitude - nonfic by dana sobel About a scientist/engineer who developed a sufficiently accurate clock to calculate longitude on an oceangoing ship in the age of sail. Which was o…

The author of this article, Sara Kliff basically did a smaller version of that for ER visits when she was a reporter at Vox. The reporting did end up affecting policy.

In my experience there were two manufacturing issues with my car and they came to my location and fixed them for free. Obviously, it would better to not have them in the first plac…

I had a lot of fun using this to catch up with some colleagues I haven't seen in a while. Very cool! I have some feedback: It would be cool to have some really interesting sculptur…

In the cited article, the only statistic I see on weight specifically is that 74% of critically ill UK patients were overweight or obese, which makes it a risk factor but not the b…

You may be thinking of Tagrisso: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/10/astrazeneca-tagrisso-stu...

My favorite pithy insight on this subject is from McConnel's code complete (mangled, most likely): "Code is usually read more times than it is written."

Interesting question. I guess it all depends on how much he jumps around between files and different parts of files. There's a scene in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson which is si…

It's actually cheaper to have two desks, two monitors, two keyboards and mice. Especially if you already extra gear lying around. I have this setup at work and find it faster/easie…

Fertilizer actually has pretty decent margins, especially lately what with cheap natural gas. In any case, I suspect it would behoove whichever company had the necessary access to …

Forget about the VCs. How much would Potash Corp pay to be 20 years ahead of their competition?

Good luck with your plan. My advice on the subject of side programming gigs, is to start now. I've found, when doing any kind of freelance work, that things generally ramp up slowl…

If the MIT technology described in this story actually existed, its effects on the world population would be incalculable. A third of the worlds population is sustained by fertiliz…

How strongly does a RNA binding protein bind to each possible sequence of RNA?

The example English surname they chose, "Micklethwait" is the name of The Economist's editor. Just a little inside joke.

"...textbook example of a frivolous lawsuit" - Yelp I have to agree.

Does anyone with experience with this IDE have an opinion about whether it is superior to pycharm?

Code Complete second edition

It has saved me ~two dollars so far, namely on this: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:45262

If the software dev was really good and the story was interesting and constructive.

Testing is just one layer or defense against poor quality.