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My uncle (John Monsour) worked on this movie as the “24 Frame Computer Sync Engineer”. Because film cameras and CRT monitors have different frame rates, you needed to use specializ…

Ben & Jerry's actually adds/discontinues like 5+ flavors / year. I was told that flavors don't go to the flavor graveyard unless they have an interesting story, but it seems like t…

The standard tax deduction for car travel is $0.70 / mile in the US, which accounts for things like insurance, gas, maintenance, and depreciation. So $500 / month is around 700 mil…

I used to feel this way. In the early days of "ride sharing," I preferred Lyft and would sit up front so I could have a conversation with the driver, which they encouraged. It was …

They're not, at least not really. From Wikipedia: In April 2016, Rovi acquired TiVo for $1.1 billion.[8] In December 2019, it was announced that TiVo would merge with Xperi Corpora…

If everyone is using LLMs to write new code, and LLMs are trained on existing code from the internet, that creates an enormous barrier to the adoption of new programming languages,…

People were saying we would all be getting in our cars and taking a nap on our morning commute. We are clearly still a pretty long ways off from self-driving being as ubiquitous as…

The story of the bank built from bricks sent through the mail reminds me of the time I completed a move from Austin to Boston by packing all my possessions into rubber tubs and sen…

I don't know about the author's case, but often asset purchase agreements will make the principals / shareholders party to the agreement personally with specific liability provisio…

This usage of "learnings", while certainly more common in "business jargon" today, was used by Shakespeare: https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view....

Take it up with Shakespeare? https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view....

Maybe because JS files (specifically add-ons) run from the local filesystem are given escalated privileges compared to normal usage, perhaps for ease of development. I'm just specu…

If you're interested in these challenges (and trust me, these things all seem simpler than they are in practice), consider coming and joining us at Philo ( https://about.philo.com/…

Ha, yes — I haven't been at Facebook since well before they acquired Instagram, but you're right to note a certain amount of irony in the situation! Of course, I don't mind the com…

Yeah, totally, there are some pictures of the process and the final result here: https://community.glowforge.com/t/little-painted-lady-little... It shows some of the design element…

We have a Little Free Library ( https://www.instagram.com/paintedladieslibrary/ ) that we painted/decorated to look like our house using a laser cutter and a lot of wood glue to mi…

At Philo, we believe so strongly that people need to take time off to do their best work, that we took it one step further — we pay people $1k / week to take at least 2 weeks off d…

If they were going to do that, why wouldn't they just put it in the same bill? It would be extremely naive to assume that they are going to do anything on top of repealing the curr…

From your post: It makes more sense for Congress to come up with a lasting solution that isn't subject to regulatory bounce-back, and this is what the bill being described in the a…

I actually took this course in person when Professor Schocken visited Harvard. It is a fantastic course that is extremely valuable for everyone from those who only have basic progr…

I have pretty much moved to using CoffeeScript exclusively over JavaScript. One of the minor complaints I have (overall, it is magnificent) is that the looseness of the syntax some…

Actually, it should be "Scott Adams's Controversial..." ( http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp )

Actually, Python does use a Boyer-Moore-Horspool variant internally for substring matching (I'm not sure about Ruby, though). See: http://effbot.org/zone/stringlib.htm Here's a lin…

Yeah, the title is misleading because really the problem described in the blog post is to store some unknown number of ints between 1 and 10,000. The better solution than a straigh…