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The same thing happened to me. Escalating levels of non-response from my system, starting with the browser slowing down and culminating in Process Control stopping. I think it may …

Genuinely curious -- is there a reason not to exploit someone who voluntarily enters into that relationship? I always assumed 'exploitation' meant forcing people to do things they …

Yup, here's the problem [0]: def calculate_backlinks( pages: Dict[str, Page], attachments: Dict[str, Attachment] ) -> None: for page in pages.values(): for link in page.links: link…

I think that the UX could work really well for mobile with one significant tweak. A typical design pattern on mobile is that if information is obscured for some reason, you click o…

It also pulls in about a hundred separate Haskell libraries along with it. Not really complaining, but it's funny that pandoc accounts for about half the programs on my laptop.

Let's run the numbers! The speed of sound in an ideal (calorically perfect) gas is given by a = sqrt( gamma * R * T ) where gamma is the ratio of specific heats (thermodynamic prop…

The classic is How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie -- highly recommended. If you're young and looking for something more helpful in romance, watch Before Sunri…

Interesting article! Given that subtraction isn't closed on the natural numbers, I wonder if it would be possible to implement subtraction as operations on a new type (Integer, Z):…

That first result re: tires is simply wrong. Wider tires don't have a larger contact patch; the size of the contact patch is determined by the weight of the car and the air pressur…

You can link to posts. I imagine this feature is mainly to have images to use in blog posts that do not become standalone pages on their own.

Yes, along with seemingly every other building in that corner. Caused me some confusion at first.

I played four games; in each scenario I chose to "lie down and accept death". The only one I didn't survive was when I forgot how to breathe. Seems like the AI has a bit of a savio…

I agree, and would extend your point even further. Drafting people into the army against their will is a grave harm, for obvious reasons. But the existence of a "volunteer" army th…

I agree, it seems the same to me. They have the allure of "we do it different" along with the promise of "we do it well". Unrelated, but a "costumer" makes costumes. I think you we…

Yeah, the lights in the back of your car can warn of exactly four things: - The car is going to turn left (one blinking yellow light) - The car is going to turn right (one blinking…

I was hoping someone would mention the variational properties of splines, so I'm glad to see you bring up their energy minimization. In Strang's Intro to Applied Mathematics, he br…

You may have overcorrected a bit; 300 Kelvin is written 300K, not 300 °K. (The system is a mess.)

Better than "event" would be "state", as in theoretically measurable arrangement of things.

The "paradox" is really a contradiction of the axiom of unrestricted comprehension: To every condition there corresponds a set of things meeting the condition. Unrestricted compreh…

Noise pollution and collisions are a much, much larger problem with cars, since they're constrained to two dimensions while drones can use three. Plus, cars tend to kill people whe…

Wa! is my absolute favorite chili oil. I put it in and on everything. A simple bowl of rice, with some Wa! (and perhaps an egg), becomes an entire meal.

Great series! I liked your addition of inter-process communication, and the last one was a treat.

MechE here. The way strain gauges work is with a long conductive trace that loops back on itself like a snake, or a radiator. This creates a conductive line that passes back and fo…

I waited in the airport for 6 hours before learning that my flight was cancelled, and had to rebook... I was flying to New York to see my family, so I didn't really have any altern…

(in (is "prefix notation" (and "alive" "kicking")) "all lisps")