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For popular threads with a lot of comments, collapsing a top comment leads to high CPU usage and can cause browsers (I tried in Chrome and Vivaldi) to freeze up. For example, this …

Maybe it's just me, but I find that older hardware will sometimes get "sticky" after just sitting around for awhile. I've had it happen to mice, and to the palm rests on my old Del…

Having extremely little knowledge about the abbreviations (ITAR and others) in this article, reading this as a layperson, this reads like it amounts to a tax break to defense contr…

From the About page: Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed pa…

abandannad https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/emt4cyy

In the past I've used a text or html editor to change that text before clicking "I Agree," and then saving off a local copy. Seems as reasonable a way to negotiate the contact as t…

Cool. I'll check them out. Stripe definitely seems to be the "thousand pound gorilla" in this space.

I am starting a site that charges customers for the use of an API, Web UI Components, and some other things. There is a monthly base price, and then there is monthly usage fees. Is…

I use RSS (via Feedly) every single day. It's how I found this article, in fact. It was on my Hacker News subscription in Feedly. Every website I've tried to subscribe to has had a…