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A similar thing happened in a first-year CS class at Purdue this year: https://thecheatsheet.substack.com/p/432-cheating-at-purdue-... .

Or not a Golang bug at all but rather a new Golang feature that the developer chose to use rather than trying to be backward compatible with some older Golang versions.

Congrats to the author. I plan to do Oregon -> Virginia next year but I'll take more like 80 days than the author's 51.

He probably started out wanting to make just one pipe bomb but you know how it is, you get a great discount if you buy the ingredients in bulk. So he made his pipe bomb and then he…

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Destroy it now.

"Moreover, even for those who would like to rightfully consider Airbnb results positive, there’s a huge price on culture companies managed this way have to pay. We can get a glimps…

Or perhaps Elon is not personally involved in what network protocols they use on their Dojo AI supercomputer.

For you cyclists, the Great Allegheny Pass trail and the Chesapeake & Ohio towpath meet there.

You're suggesting one of the developers went through all the trouble to create a browser, then allowed someone to add assets to the repo without the developer reviewing them first?…

Just playing back what you said because it's surprising. You're saying that explosion was not caused by water that was superheated by the supervolcano below the greater Yellowstone…

My experience: a lot of the confusion in technical conversations is due to two parties using the same term for different but related concepts. Relabeling the concepts to clarify th…

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All of that. Plus, wrap your head in aluminum foil.

I guess that's what the article meant here: "This particular Pi doesn't have a real-time clock. The very newest ones (5B) do , but you have to actually buy a battery and connect it…

The GAP trail from Pittsburg to Cumberland is especially awesome. It’s well-maintained, the trail towns are welcoming, and the scenery is fantastic. The folks who live near the tra…

Moka pot rubber gaskets are replaceable.

In at least some Mazda models, you can replace the firmware in the entertainment system to eliminate that message. I’ve done it.

Even better would be closed source firmware with an annual license fee.

I had COVID a few weeks ago. You will remember.

I would not have guessed any of those were mastodons.

Bruce Schneier made a similar point in his book, “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World“. Quote: Society needs defectors. Groups benefit from the fact that some m…

What would be an example of a non-bullshit form?

I see Morning Edition and All Things Considered on KQED's weekly schedule ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrFgenUlR9TW8bZJ26LopRObTuB... ). KQED pays NPR for that content.

Anyone have a non-paywall version?