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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value#Marginalism

I don't know Olin Shivers but I've read enough of his writing to know that this acknowledgements section was written with tongue in cheek, and in fact it's a funny enough piece of …

I guess the author was thinking of how cat's original purpose is to concatenate multiple files, not show just one file. (But I certainly don't think using cat in the latter way is …

(1) lack of primitive hash tables (2) lack of primitive arrays I'll note that if there are primitive arrays and the compiler optimizes arithmetic, the rest of the hash table can be…

http://productionadvice.co.uk/no-stair-steps-in-digital-audi... The “stair-steps” you see in your DAW when you zoom up on a digital waveform only exist inside the computer. [...] W…

This all sounds like it would make an interesting blogpost/article if you're into writing one.

I'm surprised people put up with them I don't like them at all but I do most of my Netflixing on my iPhone, where it doesn't happen. (When I do go to the Netflix site in a web brow…

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

“[A]lmost anything ending in ‘x’ may form plurals in ‘-xen’ (see VAXen and boxen in the main text). Even words ending in phonetic /k/ alone are sometimes treated this way; e.g., ‘s…

I upvoted this because it seems to make some good points and I think the topic is interesting and important, but I can't understand why the "Then, why some free software projects u…

That is what it means. Note that the lines ("edges" in graph theory terms) can cross each other. Nelson asked: What is the smallest number of colors that you’d need to color any su…

I'll look into xmllint. I currently use HTML Tidy for this: tidy -xml -indent -wrap 0 or tidy -xml -indent -wrap 0 -quiet

Formatting the quote like this makes it too wide to be readable on my phone without repeatedly scrolling right then left. Even in landscape mode the first line ends with the "b" of…

The efficient-market hypothesis is an idea that already has a well-known name. In the article the words are a Wikipedia link.

RFC 2392 Message-ID values are supposed to be unique, but they may not be if the software generating them is buggy. I remember reading somewhere about some email program that assum…

Esperanto has many many more speakers! (People joke about Klingon having more but it's not true.) Really accurate numbers are hard to come by but even based on estimates, it's no c…

It would be nice if Go made a new i for each iteration of the loop. Lua 5.0 made just one loop variable per loop, like Go apparently does. When I first ran into this behavior, I th…

I use forward slashes a lot on Windows but tab completion in cmd.exe only works with backslashes.

I have talked to other people who found CGI Peter Cushing convincing but I did not. I'm confident I would have picked him out as CGI even if I hadn't recognized him as a long-dead …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

Wikipedia says that MP3's last patent expired in the United States last month: If only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding has been paten…

Ah, last time I looked at this I thought, "This is cool but it's too bad it doesn't have EQU or some other way to give symbolic names to constants." Now it does! define appleL $00 …

Unfortunately I can't find a source for this but I saw someone saying recently (and it makes sense) that a lot of congress fax numbers just convert the fax to an email message rath…

I'm talking about 8-bit microcomputers in general, from the late seventies to the mid-to-late eighties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer#Notable_home_com... EDIT: I owne…

There are spots where a vertex would have two hexagons at it rather than three. For instance, look at the border between the upper left and lower left islands. In this picture, tho…