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typo in title: “patters” should be “patterns”.

This article is nearly 10 years old. Is this still true?

That album is more challenging to appreciate for listeners new to jazz, while Kind of Blue is immediately accessible to mainstream listeners.

Am I the only one who saw the title and thought OTP was "one time password"?

Coincidentally, not ironically. Perhaps clairvoyantly or prophetically. Definitely not ironically.

As per https://layoffs.fyi/ , Twilio laid off 1500 people on 2/13/2023, 17% of its workforce.

I would go so far as to say it isn't worth your time to catalog them. If you can find a 2nd-hand record store that will take them, accept whatever they offer. Otherwise, throw them…

Judging by the condition of the records shown in the picture, and by the description of the records as "late-70's to mid-80's", a not particularly collectible vinyl era that produc…

“Almost” and “easily” are subjective and open to interpretation. My point is, that this is not a rigorous standard.

In English, the exceptions to the rules are arbitrary and numerous. English is also a moving target. From a logic problem perspective, English grammar is more of a practical brute …

What’s the threshold of special cases allowed where the problem is considered solved?

Perhaps my impression that this grammatical problem should be treated with logical rigor, where even a single counter-example invalidates the solution, isn’t the way this is being …

Well how would you know that if the rules of grammar are not fully resolved?

> Employing this interpretation, he found the Panini's "language machine" produced grammatically correct words with almost no exceptions. If there are exceptions, I would think the…

I only read the abstract because the rest of the article is behind a paywall. So I didn’t see this. However, it too, seems somewhat inconsistent with the idea put forth in the titl…

One of the often repeated pearls of wisdom from How to Win Friends and Influence People[0] by Dale Carnegie, is people like to talk about themselves and they’ll like you more if yo…

Sturgeon’s Law[0] states that “90 percent of everything is crap.” [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

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> My dad just bought a new Toyota Civic and ... Honda makes the Civic, not Toyota.

Occam's Razor. It was most likely a lost human from a distant land, speaking another language, traveling in an exotic looking vessel. This is a simpler explanation than invoking ex…

> More sustainable > Validators don’t need energy-intensive computers in order to participate in a proof-of-stake system – just a laptop or smart phone. This will make Ethereum bet…

Is this post actually research for an upcoming paper on apologizing to the open source community?