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"Smart men go broke three ways: liquor, ladies, and leverage." -- Charlie Munger (Which is not to imply that these are smart men).

"I'm glad our homes aren't shrieking at us at all hours." We have phones to do that for us.

So to fill a typical 20,000-gallon pool with this water would cost $2.4 billion. That might even give a trillionaire pause.

Actually, 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect. It's a human-calibrated scale. Though why 32F instead of 0F for frozen water...I h…

I thought the status of Go v2 was that the devs weren't saying it will never happen, but also were not working on it. There was some momentum that seemed to sputter out once generi…

I don't know if Ed Zitron is right about allhis analysis, but it's nice to have an alternative, well-argued narrative to the gushing torrent of AI company propaganda.

Interesting how people like it use sympathetic terms (“public media”) while those who don’t use pejorative terms (“state-owned”, “government-run”). I’m not saying it’s good or bad,…

"a Win10 machine for testing on my left hand side here..." Well, the Latin word for "left" is "sinister", so that tracks.

Ten minutes later, I'm still trying to figure out the role of "thus" in this headline.

I don't doubt you, but my experience is different. Every company I've worked for (mostly F500s) has had an onboarding document you sign in which you're notified that everything ins…

"Companies may only destroy unsold clothes and shoes in limited cases, such as when items are unsafe or damaged, counterfeit or infringing intellectual property rights, or are reje…

Having experienced the SO culture, I like to think the culture caused it - schadenfreude - but it was probably inevitable given AI. Even if SO was the most wonderful friendly place…

Another side effect of deleting 10 million rows in some databases (e.g., Oracle) is that the database writes out 10 million rows' worth of undo, which can swamp the disk space set …

This article states multiple times that spinning up a process is expensive/very expensive. Is that really true? I ask out of ignorance. “Compared to other ways of doing parallelism…

Or Perl. Or Python. How many environments have only bash and not awk, perl, or python?

"The year 2024 is closer in time to Cleopatra than the Egyptian queen’s life was to the construction of the pyramids." It's truly astonishing how old Egypt is. The sphinx is 4500 y…

Solving the safety problem by making it loud does not seem like a great solution. Fast forward and everyone is driving nearly silent electric vehicles. I wouldn’t want loud Vespas …

Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" s…

That quote from Heat (1995) is so deployable in so many different contexts.

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I remember in the 70s and 80s people on buses and subways reading magazines and newspapers. The idea that electronic devices have ushered in some age where humans want to interact …

I have an unusual name, and have published a book with some minor fame (which is the first google result for my name). Querying ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc. gives a reasonably accur…

"If emacs is not installed on a system, I use sed." Bill Joy (creator of vi) once said that if he sits down on a foreign system, he reaches for ed [1]. To be fair, both emacs and v…