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I assume that budget restaurants with large menus make heavy use of freezer and microwave. So a short menu is usually a good sign.

I understand that NTFS has its own case folding table which is written once when the volume is formatted. This does seem to have stood the test of time and enormous usage so maybe …

That paper is a beautiful thing: 86 pages full of hand stippled line drawings.

How does even N2 not crack and warp the packages and boards? If I plunged my TV into liquid nitrogen I would expect it to not work - in a violent way.

Someone who only eats when the telescope is observing FRB121102

That's true but most people would pay that once or twice, which puts potentially small beans if it increases your productivity. Plus it's fun

That game is a labor of love by someone - I spent weeks playing it. So much fun solving puzzles and learning at the same time. If I had a criticism is that I'm not sure much has st…

It doesn't say whther the intervention was assigned randomly (and those assigned all stuck with it). Home environment and parental support has a huge influence and also those who g…

It's unclear they even exist..or work..our could even theoretically work now we have digital. Their true enforcement strategy is to harass the small minority who don't pay the lice…

This is part of the reason we still use plurality voting.

Is it conceivable that the clock signal could supply the power in a CPU?

Doing stuff outdoors or by other means staying apart

What if your employer did the same as Twitter etc and declared working from home was allowed forever. Could you imagine moving somewhere you’d love to be - with excellent internet …

I have a couple single friends in your position who were getting dangerously lonely. They got a cat in one case dog in the other and it hasn’t fixed anything but it’s given them a …

That’s an over simplification. My job is owning part of an open source stack. There’s countless fun projects in that which aren’t a necessary part of my job but are fun to do out o…

There’s an ad when you return to the app. Since you’re expecting a full screen video to auto play, they often aren’t out of place. You can skip them immediately as well. Besides ad…

With all the energy drained from job +commute it can be hard to have much left to care about the planet and our community. It’s easier to be angry and isolated and fall back on tri…

Barely related, but if you haven’t learned how to tie shoelaces instantly, you should: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm I’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years.

What makes it truly hard (speaking from US location) is having a team in both directions. If you’re an Eastward team, or Westward team, but not attempting both, there is enough ove…

It’s worked better for me in teams that work on open source. Such projects tend to be intrinsically asynchronous and conducted via email, chat etc which is what you need to make a …

Is this a negative result of mono repo? There’s no natural boundary physics.

And not so good if you want to do O(1) indexing

Or use modified randomized response technique [1] Roll a die and multiply (salary - 100k) by the spots on the die. Share that value publicly. Sum all such values and average them t…

If you know who is senior, who is junior etc you can identify their values