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Other lecturers have replicated this experiment, sometimes with the subject (often a student) simply standing still, rather than standing with their head against a wall. With no re…

Anaconda has been a lifesaver, because it can be installed and managed quite easily without root privileges (it even installs pip). Some of the sysadmins where I work are slower th…

I hear a strict, nine-month regimen of acupuncture and veganism can work wonders for your health... especially if you are trying to beat pancreatic cancer.

Just because a repo starts out private, it doesn't mean it has to be private forever.

> Sirens, rooftop fans, construction and upstairs neighbors who clomp about like a team of clog-dancing Clydesdales are common conditions of city living. It's amazing how oblivious…

#1 through 3 are all saying the same general thing #5 no longer matters because there are online dictionaries that let you draw the character you want to look up #7: What's wrong w…

Agreed. I quite liked the level of detail in this article, but probably because I'm already interested in the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. In general this rambling style is a complete tu…

I still can't believe there are some jurisdictions where you are legally required to let the cops sneak up on you.

A lot of the best graduate textbooks are pdfs of lecture notes. 40 pages, no nonsense.

Applying the Wadsworth constant often helps as well.

> I have uniformly replied that she must bear our misfortune and fight the fight out to the end, that the children were the first consideration, and that I feared they must bind us…

As evidenced by some of these HN comments, E-prime encourages a voodoo-like approach to writing, in which you can magically make bad writing better just by doing a search-and-repla…

I tried Inbox for about month, but I ended up turning it off. It was slower than the standard gmail interface, both on my computer and my phone. There was a noticeable lag when try…