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There are different ways to create an iceberg. You are probably thinking of a hard chunk of ice breaking off into the ocean, but probably a more common way is glaciers running into…

Yes! Clean code (which is more readable and maintainable) should be a stop on the way to higher performance code. Otherwise, you are optimizing too early.

A food processor is a kitchen tool even though it does many things. A computer is also a tool that does many things and the OS is arguably the important part of how a user wields t…

Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble. But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos. Really interesting investigation!

Jurassic Park had a Thinking Machines CM-5. https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15 "The lights flash just like they do normally, although it's hard to understand wh…

3/4/5G/LTE networks and 802.1x predate their 8 years in aerospace. I worked on some of those 25 years ago. If you're not an EE, maybe you also didn't consider the lead time of work…

You should not be touting magical health benefits on a sample size of one either way. There are already plenty of studies available to be found.

Like a person playing the piano. If your arms are resting, then your fingers and wrists are doing the maximum amount of reaching as you type. If you use a wrist rest you are encour…

Optimal line length is a thing.

This is a way to tell if something is social media or attention media. "Surfacing the best comments" is only a problem at scale. And attention media demands scale whereas your soci…

It's a cost-benefit analysis like many other things. There are limited resources, they should be spent on investigating cases that have a chance of getting closed. Cold cases might…

Late reply, but did your colleague go from ICE BMWs to an EV Model 3? For me, zero maintenance and no more stopping at gas stations (you need a charger at home) were HUGE advantage…

Not saying please or having to be polite is often simpler. Knowing and using etiquette is often more effective.

If we're comparing notes, I traded in my Model 3 for a BMW i4 and I couldn't be happier. It's a nicer car and more fun to drive! JD Power and Consumer Reports both rate BMW above a…

You said: alcohol can be an amazing way to clean screens. It's still true that: alcohol is a very good way to destroy the old glossy screens.

"Universal design" or "design for accessibility" will give you lots of examples of constraints that are not "commonly" needed ending up having much wider application and benefiting…

I felt really silly that the answer is just adding a "-i". But then I tried it and...WHAT?! Git is an endless rabbit hole of complexity.

I think you're thinking about git as a separate thing from the IDE. I love using IJ + git because there are no seams in between edit and commit. For instance, with IJ, I could easi…

You're right. A good postmortem/root cause analysis would START from "unwrap" and continue from there. You might start with a basic timeline of what happened, then you'd start expl…

The diffs are the biggest reason I use it (beside the 3-way diff, I can't live without: blame, optimize imports, all the editor functions inside the diff, diff files/commits/branch…

I don't think the distinction is animate/inanimate. Submarines sail because they are nautical vessels. Wind-up bathtub swimmers swim, because they look like they are swimming. Neit…

Even potluck parties tend to be better on average when someone or a few people are "in charge". In my experience, even when people are just getting together for dinner out, there a…

I think you are restricting social media by defining as what it became (at the time driven by "eyeball" metrics), instead of defining it by what it could or should be.

Nice. What's the app called? Is it available on Android? ;)

I found this interesting: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/