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An article that sums it up well for me is "Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk" in Current Affairs (2021) https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/surely-we-can-do-bett...

They keep the train centered by the differential effect. The angle of the cone is very slight, nowhere near enough for gravity to overcome friction to cause the train to slip later…

I think this may be the primary reason why narrow-gauge railways are better at tighter curves: the shorter axle means the same wheel radius difference (caused by lateral displaceme…

Agreed about arg parsing. One day I decided to figure out how to get Python arg parsing in a bash script. The horrifying result: https://gist.github.com/benkehoe/c469ebb76ad80d4540…

I don't think it requires sign-in for content that's not behind the paywall. I think it occasionally prompts the user to sign up or sign in, but you can click outside the box to mo…

I think people don't realize that Medium doesn't require articles to be behind the paywall. There are two ways an article gets paywalled: 1. You opt-in to getting paid for views. 2…

> ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE Sounds about right.

It's even worse when comparing Google's attitude with, for example, Microsoft releasing a dedicated, extensible accessible controller for Xbox https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/a…

Also featured recently on the New Hampshire Public Radio podcast Ouside/In http://outsideinradio.org/shows/coydogs

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Mathematica has the cool ability to do symbolic tracking of numerical precision, for the ability to tell you when, for example, your differential equation solver is giving you mean…

It gets better: https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/123010716162/thesparkofrev... > But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulousl…

It's also more or less equivalent to the Dymaxion map but stretches instead of disconnecting, which is a bit misleading, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

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Yes, all programmers are the same; none of them have different needs or desires.

We are finding that unit testing is pretty straightforward with Placebo [0] (also Mitch Garnaat!), for which we use a common "boto client getter" library that the unit test framewo…

iRobot | Boston area | on-site | full-time As a pioneer in the robot industry, iRobot's goal is to drive innovation, serve as an industry catalyst and change the world by fueling t…

It's hard to take someone seriously when they ascribe floating point rounding error to a language defect.

This still seems more limited than the Mathematica syntax, which includes postfix operators, for example. I also appreciate that parentheses are used only for grouping, not for fun…

And with good cause, I think. Mathematica syntax (both the verbose form and with the various syntactical sugar) is immensely more readable to the average person than Lisp. Of cours…

PowerShell gives a good alternative: the things passed between the programs should be objects. It requires, of course, that everything is communicating with a common runtime, but f…

Trillian still works with Facebook chat: http://www.trillian.im/ They wrote a little eulogy when imo dropped 3rd-party chat support, I'm sure they'd be happy to see Pidgin add FB s…