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Bookmarked and will be sharing this with my friends. Separately, glad to see you, @ctbergstrom and (now Prof) Jevin West still collaborating :). You gave me the opportunity to spen…

A trip down memory lane for sure! I can't help but feel that a list for 2020 has to include the Macbooks with the M1 chip. Personally, the difference between my mid-2017 Macbook Pr…

Thanks for sharing! Are there any good resources describing query planning algorithms (other than the excellent SQLite one that was shared by another comment)?

Great, thanks! I'll check those out.

As much as I'd like to be on the cutting edge of science/math, I (suspect most of us here) don't have the tools to understand, let alone evaluate this preprint. So before we make a…

This is great! Also, check out this easter egg which makes every video rick roll haha: https://github.com/rasguanabana/ytfs/blob/master/stor.py#L12...

That statement is intellectually lazy at best. It is factually correct, but it wholly misses the context of the fact. And that is the centuries of slavery, the decades of Jim Crow,…

Yes, only 1/5 of the prisons, but it could still be that they wield a lot more influence than that figure suggests. There aren't very many lobbying for the imprisoned, so an organi…

This. Before we can fix anything that requires a majority of the nation's participation, we need awareness and acknowledgement that racial inequality is deep rooted in the American…

This wouldn't work for larger projects, but if it's a smaller project, maybe Slack[0]? It has a pretty good free-tier as well. [0]: https://slack.com/

Flexbox has made our life much better. But we still run into a bunch of implementation bugs, meaning that it will take a few more years for the promise to become reality: https://g…

It seemed to work just fine in the fifth element!

Just curious, does anybody know of any studies that supports the OP's claims about willpower? The OP describes it as though willpower were a muscle.

If you want to lift free weights, a great place to start is Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.

i don't play WOW or any other MMOG. But I think that old saying that most things in moderation are good for you, seems to apply here as well. I have no concrete evidence to back th…

Matthew Arnold's essays are very interesting and fun to read. He is from lay 1800s but the writing is superb!

RIP Rudin.