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You will be missed, old friend.

Art is also about discovering when to break the rules.

Pretty amazing to think that our position at the top of the food chain is as tenuous as a change in diet. I hope no one ever starts cooking for dolphins.

Oh right, thanks for the explanation.

If the price of the stock would increase tomorrow by 20%, why wouldn't he be able to buy more than a tiny amount today?

might want to check if your potential offshore vpn is hosted in a country with an intelligence data sharing agreement with the united states or any of its intelligence partners

Pretty firmly planted inside the uncanny valley. I think it'll be a while until it's truly convincing, but it should be interesting to follow.

No, I was just referring to how someone can be granted a durable power of attorney, in which case they have license to remove the grantor from life support. Anyway, I support every…

I tend to agree, but where does a 'do not resuscitate' order or a power of attorney fit into that?

I think the irony being implied is that normally when you're shooting video and your camera is jittering, you're effectively losing resolution compared to a static camera because o…

Could be you're a more visual thinker?

Interesting, when you think about something you don't ever hear yourself talking it out inside your head?

There's already a proposal for field declarations, where you can do the following: class Foo { bar = () => { console.log(this); } } This basically puts `this.bar = () => console.lo…

Wow you're right... very very strange. I really want to know what's going on behind the scenes.

I thought I was crazy for a second... I clicked on the link that scrolls into view when you visit the linked page, and it brought me to an article with the same name and roughly th…

Yes, technically you could plausibly run it wired until its charged enough but now there's the extra inconvenience of managing a cable. You have to manage the same cable when charg…

Just a simple typo. The keys are pretty close together if your finger slips, and I imagine they have enough problems distracting them from proper spellchecking at the moment. :-)

The experiments I've read about don't use any additional anaesthetic. They just give people a low but still noticeable dose intravenously. Some people reported mild and transient u…

I'm not sure about this analogy. You can argue that the apparent motion of the wave crests is an illusion being pieced together by our brains when we see the totality of the ellipt…

The speed of light is sometimes referred to as the speed of causality, and it seems like it's more of a fundamental speed limit on the propagation of events or information through …

I hate that you made me notice that and I'll never be able to unsee it! :-) A slash or a dot in the middle would be nice.

"Anti-Mac interface" doesn't seem to be pejorative in this context.

> Huggies tried to make a similar sensor to detect when the diaper is full of shit, but it proved impossible to distinguish from normal activity on Twitter. See this is why we need…