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Really? I think we have exactly the same problem in the UK. Granted, my eyes are more susceptible post laser surgery, but headlights are definitely getting brighter and higher as t…

> And yet there have been several recent studies that show the younger someone is, the more likely they are to be scammed online. I think you are misreading the post. Pretty sure t…

One big difference is that there are lots of reviews for $CommonPosition. With this, you'd have to expect that most reviews are the only one for a given property/landlord

I find that storing the jars upside down works surprisingly well.

From the article: > Unfortunately, if you’ve been observing the p-values, you’ve noticed that most have been very high, and therefore that test is not enough evidence that the tips…

4.5L of 0.5% ABV beer would not make you drunk. For comparison, this is equivalent to less than a pint of a typical mainstream beer. Indeed a 0.5% ABV drink can be branded alcohol …

Love the game. Couple of nits on the site: - changing puzzle size seems to break the back button - scroll behaviour is a bit strange (Pixel 5, Chrome, if it helps)

Excellent article. Faceted visualisation is an incredibly powerful technique. Something the author hints at but isn't quite explicit: manual inspection of individual examples from …

Not to be pedantic, but that's a bit of a non-argument. _Of course_ you can do it with xargs and shell, but imho parallel is generally more convenient, especially for remote execut…

I don't get this at all. What happens if they reply to you - maybe hours later - when you are the one presenting?

I think it's on you - as the receiver of a message - to appropriately deal with your messaging app of choice such that it doesn't interupt your flow. Otherwise, you are placing an …

I assumed the intention is to alert a driver who really needs to take a break. I don't see what other use it has, other than to annoy me when overtaking a cyclist.

The refusal to lock was probably that you'd not fully switched off the engine. I've had this on my Qashqai. The fuel-saving system that automatically turns off the engine when you'…

Really interesting. It must take such discipline to collect this data for 3.5 years. Trying to answer the question of "does work make me happy?" is much more complex than comparing…

An overblown title -- non-protein-coding genes have been known about for a long time. However, the transport of micro RNAs on sperm is a pretty cool mechanism - hope it is correct!…

I find it odd that they refer to this as dynamic pricing. I know someone in this industry and they've been doing 'dynamic pricing' for decades - specifically pricing for expected a…

So did they compare the total number of steps in the 2 groups? Although the 3x 10 minutes only counted for 3,000 steps, the participants in that group could easily have walked 7,00…

Whether or not the speciation is "complete" is not really the point - the title of the article says they are "...caught in the act of becoming new species" - in fact the article hi…

If you haven't discovered issues with your language of choice then you haven't used it enough

It's interesting that a few people are relating this to team work. I think that is a misinterpretation. By 'others' I would infer something more like 'competitors', though I mean t…

Yes, you're absolutely right. I missed that. Apologies.

>please take this time to at least consider GPL varients (A/L/GPLv3) for as much of your tooling as you possibly can. (perhaps CC0/CCBY/CCBYSA for content) I'm sorry but Creative C…

>We have a perfectly healthy cab ecosystem in my city, app-driven and with fare competition and city regulation Sure, but that doesn't exist in the majority of cities. The user exp…