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I assure you I don't have any wishes one way or another. What tickled me into making the comment above had nothing to do with whether adoption rate was used by the author (or is us…

There's another axis on the charts.

> Have you read the graphs? Yes. The title specifically is beautiful. The charts aren't nearly as interesting, though probably a bit more than a meta discussion on whether certain …

It maps pretty cleanly to the well understood derivatives of a position vector. Position (user count), velocity (first derivative, change in user count over time), acceleration (se…

> What is the price of a Carice TC2? > Prices for a TC2 start at €44.500 excluding taxes (€53.854 including 21% btw/Dutch tax).

I think that's nearly exactly what I paid for 2x32GB at a retail store last week. I hadn't bought RAM in over a decade so I didn't think anything of it. Wish my emergency PC replac…

In 2008 I was given 2 offers from a company: WFH or paid relocation to work in-office. I chose the former, which came with a 26% lower salary, and have been remote ever since. Just…

You can use spherical harmonics to encode a few coefficients in addition to the base RGB for each splat such that the rendertime view direction can be used to compute an output RGB…

This is a little off-topic and nitpicky, so I waited a day to avoid cluttering comments while the thread was on the front page.. I believe the term "going concern" means exactly th…

Even the 18 Pro Max Ultra with Apple Intelligence? Obligatory Jobs monologue on marketing people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4

> can't justify buying two watches I managed to eke out a couple more years after Pebbles were discontinued by finding replacements on ebay. If this is a low volume run, I'm contem…

It's absolutely essential to be able to differentiate between gross profit and net profit to establish unit economics, especially as the scale of a newly founded operation may dras…

Re the second quote and response: One pattern I bump up against from time to time is the delta between using a perfectly defensible technique for a given use-case (safe delimiters …

I'd rather have flagship specs in a smaller package. The smallest in the iPhone (SE) and Pixel ("A"?) lines are still too big and tend to have previous-gen specs

> And then it ruined us with implicit returns What was so ruinous about implicit returns? That's one of the things I missed most when leaving CoffeeScript. ECMAScript only partiall…

You should be just as mystified about the 4€ component.

> If there wasn't another ride from the ISS available, would the astronauts be stranded? Yes. Seems like the answer to this would be no. Starliner's risk was elevated, not guarante…

Current generation computers, sure, but I think there's still steady progress toward increasing amount of compute per unit of energy. For phones, that's almost as important for hea…

No matter the prompt, there's a significant difference between how it handles common problems in popular languages (python, JS) versus esoteric algorithms in niche languages or too…

> "With a market this hot" Maybe the title should get a [2021] because it sounds like the market has cooled substantially in the last year or so. The article doesn't seem to take i…

For anyone like me that wondered if "ReAct webapp" was a weird way of capitalizing the React webapp Javascript framework, it appears to be about a Reasoning and Acting methodology[…

I used to work in software sales in a call center. I hated my job and the highlight of my week was the Monday burrito special down the street at a place where the employees shouted…

In a bathroom, a hot lamp is likely intentional. It's typically on its own circuit for use while taking a hot shower.

It sounds more like a building material or geography issue. I've used LTE upwards of 10km off shore. In areas where there isn't good line of sight or if buildings tend to interfere…

Word of mouth, referral. Put another way, freelancing means your job is part your vocation and part sales and marketing. You generally need to be proficient at both in order to be …