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I mean, it _is_ a really nice SSH/&c client.

"It boggles my mind to think this game even exists" Does it, though? Remember that this was only a couple of decades after half the country was willing to kill the other half or di…

Or... maybe don't tell your doctor how to do his or her job.

Surprise! An institute named after a megadose vitamin-C whackadoodle is pushing the idea that large doses vitamin C reduces illness duration. I'm shocked. I mean, it's possible, bu…

The answer to your question is "Because it makes business sense to do so". Whether you can understand their reasons or not, the best indicator that Netflix has good reasons to use …

The wastefulness of large bureaucracies has been a running joke for decades now, whether fair or not. That being said, I don't think you're going to find that Hacker News is a good…

Rephrase the question: "Why should mithril.js be popular?"

Any idea whose premise begins with "[Group] is the enemy" is pretty much guaranteed to be stupid at best, dangerous at worst (I say this more about the comments than the initial tw…

A marriage counselor is someone who is trained in dealing with your particular problem. Would you walk into, say, a car dealership and ask for programming advice? Or would you talk…

Don't ask the peanut gallery. Go see a marriage counselor.

They remind me of Material: https://material.io/design/

Why would it?

https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html#x64_mac https://jdk.java.net/11/ Don't bother with Oracle's builds anymore.

A 5-year-old article about program that's been abandoned for over a decade. The only resource you need for compression comparison is http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html The author …

Is this really a thing? How do these people find partners?

The only problem is it's guaranteed to fail for any non-trivial workload.

So, an XML-like language is the future of XML-like HTML?

Is godawful rainbow design the new thing now? First Mozilla, and now Dropbox?

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/20253/why-we-cant...

Recent Java versions did something similar, allowing underscore characters, e.g., 7_000_000.

It's not really an annual fee, though. You're paying for a product with Amazon prime -- besides free movies, photos, shipping, etc, you can now get a special card with no annual fe…

Many noodles used in ramen are simply made of wheat, which is a simple carbohydrate. Beans/legumes are a good source of protein (among other things). If you use real yakisoba noodl…

Real ramen is good (e.g., https://imgur.com/gallery/KkLvG ). The packaged stuff you buy from the store is pretty much guaranteed to be awful for you.

Companies make products to make money. As the saying goes, if you're not paying them, you're the product.