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One of the best ways to ensure you have energy is to reduce use and dependence. A huge amount of energy goes to heating and hot water so insulation and shorter showers with on dema…

Probably thin so it can make a foldable screen. That seems to be the thinking around this because nobody really cares about thinness after a point. Also, a bonus, thin/small genera…

I think what Apple is pushing for is computing efficiency. It still gets faster but with much less power. Focusing on performance solely would be the wrong way to evaluate these ch…

A lot of bash errors are not understanding possible cases due to white space.. which shellcheck catches. After using it for a while, I don’t even really worry about white space bec…

Also, use shellcheck. Incorporate it into you editor. Fix all warning and don’t ignore them. This will push you deep into bash syntax rabbit holes but you come out better the other…

BASH is like Obi Wan. It isn’t the most powerful or flashiest, but it survived a long time, where others didn’t, for very good reasons. Bash runs basically everywhere. It has many …

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I’m chemistry, tiny changes to structure or single atoms can produce drastically different properties.

> It’s an easy time to fire a bunch of people.. Totally agree. This is just cutting in places they’ve probably wanted to cut for a while. They’ll hire back in a year or two as thin…

Agree on the economic approach and with a preference for cap and trade. Create a certain amount of emission billets and auction them off. Then restrict the amount each bullet allow…

Agile is to Lenin as Agile processes are to Stalin. Read the Agile Manifesto. That’s what Agile is. All else is either: - (good) trying to implement the Agile Manifesto, or - (bad)…

Mine cuts off at 35F and I have to manually switch on the oil. I live where winter is normally below 35 at night. Very annoying system. (I didn’t pick it)

Fukushima, Kyshtym… those are the other bad ones.

The stage of testing is important here. Early on, I agree with the author. Catch code/config bugs early with no wiggle room for retries. But later, testing in a live system that li…

This is a scientific article and the terms are used with precise definitions. If translated to a more vernacular venue, the language would either be different, or the terms defined…

I bought a used book online, and it had a person's last name and a book club in it. I was able to trace it back to a woman in the Carolinas that died without family. Her obituary g…

Corn? Must refer to something else besides what we call corn today. A different grain? Or “corns” of salt maybe?

Passive sonar picks up bounces. A mountain bounces background noise plus currents flow around it which would show that something was there (currents create temp differences and aff…

Borax is incredible stuff. I used it as an insecticide in Florida. I could puff it into places behind cabinets and appliances. It doesn't kill by chemical means, but by getting stu…

If you've ever eaten freeze dried, canned and dried foods for extended periods of time, you'll know the joy of something crisp and fresh. Leafy greens are spot on what you'd want. …

Agreed, and that is the heart of it. - Someone fixing their own code fixes the codebase. Someone fixing someone else's code, generally only knows enough to make a fix at a single p…

My SO did not want a traditional diamond gold engagement ring due to normative ways, consumption, global diamond trade, etc. but it’s hard to not buy such a thing number one, and t…

Agreed. I have it built into my vim editor, running after saves. Not only does it help catch errors, it catches potential errors, poor formatting and has become an amazing learning…

That does sound fun. Formal systems approaches and automata always seemed more applicable to embedded development. State machines, statecharts, etc always seemed like something I w…

Completely right. You are correct in what you should be focusing on. Only very large systems will see a return on investment in optimizing a system for hardware costs (bad code and…