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Badger Badger Badger originally is a flash animation. To properly archive this, both the flash animation and a machine definition which can run that animation (eg: having a browser…

“Then there is the % address operator: user %domainB@domainA is first sent to domainA, which expands the rightmost (in this case, the only) percent sign to an @ sign. The address i…

Please don’t terrify your contractors. They fix your place, and you want them on your side doing a good job.

This should be my new screensaver

Also: Fix every bug twice: Both the implementation and the “call site” — if at all possible

Personally, I’d start with divide and conquer. If you’re working on a relevant code base chances are that you can’t learn all the API spec and documentation because it’s just too m…

Correcting the correction: > When you connect 2 9000 mAh cells in series, the resulting battery has 2x the voltage but the same mAh capacity. In parallel, the battery has the same …

Same for me. I wanted to contribute, but the amount of dependencies needed to get a local build to run was a major hurdle.

Except that the argument here was about bass, and the paper shows that age dependent hearing frequency response varies mostly in the mid-high range.

And you are? The one who deals out the stereotypes?

Not saying you are wrong, but this is anecdotal. I’d rather try to interpret crash statistics than use my own experience.

All of this. Plus the exhaust gasses and tire wear pollutants causing early deaths. The noise (bigger) cars make disrupting quiet places like parks and porches, balconies, bedrooms…

The counterpoint to that article is: US Big Tech could also abide to EU laws and avoid fines altogether.

Although I like this interview question, it has a big downside. You make the candidate spend quite a lot of effort while you as an interviewer don’t learn much. The answer to “Can …

With AI closing in on general intelligence, using just binary numbers and some calculations, I’m going to place my bet that quantum entanglement is not necessarily for general inte…

T3e is no b4r w1y to w3e t2t w2h l2g w3s t2n to n10e t2m e8e! > perl -C -pe 's/(\w)(\w+)(\w)/$1 . length($2) . $3/ge' Or for the less o4e among us, this v5n will only n10e words wi…

It was eight years ago when Google delivered the gadget-man’s wet dream: The Google Glass. My company at the time had a pair so we could try them. It was immediately clear that gla…

> "So you plant your saplings and then you have to maintain the forest for 100 years. That's multiple generations of people. How many companies last 100 years these days? How on ea…

Also, the EU government is not hugely popular in the public opinion. Years ago the EU government was popularly known for creating nonsensical rules (and there are indeed examples o…