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Exactly - assessment methods that are difficult for the sake of being difficult benefit nobody. They’re only marginally more meaningful than FAANG interview questions. Employers, s…

> when adjusting volume in the status bar the UI dragbar position is very jumpy I've noticed this as well. Qualitatively, it seems to be worse when external audio output devices ar…

> Most important is good bread Having lived in Norway for two years, and resorted to deep frozen baguettes from Meny (an upscale supermarket chain) because the fresh bread was so b…

In addition to "the quick and the dead", it also appears in the idiom "(cut) to the quick", meaning to cut someone deeply - usually emotionally. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut_…

Transporting goods inland was hard because no way had yet been found to use horses to provide motive power without strangling them, hence "It remained cheaper to transport heavy go…

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Useful to note that parent's Ref. 0 has been peer-reviewed and is published in JHEP, a respectable high energy physics journal. Sadly, articles like those linked often do not check…

In a sense, not putting their eggs in one basket was their downfall: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/nokia_ui_saga/