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I play mostly with the aforementioned wife and kids! We were shocked by how early our kids could pick up board games, including many of the ones mentioned in this article. Our 2 ol…

> it feels like Mac's UI is optimized around the assumption most users won't expand windows to fill the whole screen, but rather leave them half-sized somewhere in the middle IMO, …

At least based on some of the things he's written in some of the anthologies, it seems like a lot of that disillusionment was not just because of age, but rather because of his bat…

> Gurobi solved the new model to optimality (i.e., the bound became equal to the value of the best solution found). Ah, I was not aware that that's what this language indicated. Th…

Unless I missed something, though, the highest bound the author reported for the relaxation was 271 2/3 moves, which is obviously significantly higher than 218...

Genuinely interested in being educated here: If Gurobi's integer programming solver didn't find a solution better than 218, is that a guarantee that there exists no solution better…

Any chance she's going to write anything about this when she's done? I'd love to read somebody's account of this experience. Very cool idea.

If you find this interesting, definitely consider checking out contraction hierarchies. One of the early algorithms used by mapping software to enable calculating fastest routes be…

To make matters worse, the title and featured image make it very clear that they have confused "macaroons" and "macarons." Macaroon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon Macaron:…

Used to use some of this data for analyzing cellular service coverage. The info on cellular data (e.g., LTE) availability is provided by the cell providers and is usually... very o…

Google still does this! They seem to use some sort of generative neural net to produce fake names, descriptions, and even reviews for the trap locations. You can report the locatio…

It's worth pointing out that the conventional bombing raid of Tokyo on March 9, 1945 was deadlier than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, depending on whose counts you use...

The objection I've usually heard is less about farm land being used for pasture instead of growing crops, and more about the amount of crops that have to be grown to feed the cattl…

Lemur Pro owner here. I personally have super-mixed feelings about the machine. Pros: Battery life is excellent. Used it for 12 hours while walking around a factory doing an IT sys…

I'm not even convinced that there will be a "marginal increase in mining required for battery production," nor that there will be an associated increase in localized environmental …

Noteworthy comment: > It is unfortunate that in the public mind, hydrogen as a lifting gas is associated with the Hindenburg disaster. Actually, hydrogen filled airships were extre…

"Remain there" indeed. As anyone who has ever switched from an iPhone to an Android device will tell you, iMessage makes the process extremely painful, and in totally unexpected wa…

This doesn't seem to explain how it would happen after plugging in a new keyboard, or trying to use the on-screen keyboard, though...

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wr…

For those who (like me) didn't get the "toothpaste company" reference - it seems to be a reference to Intel trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of an old architectu…

Also worth mentioning that U-haul trailers are very handy for this. There's at least 3 U-haul dealers that I can think of within a 5-minute drive of me. The one I prefer is probabl…

My company style guide explicitly specifies this. https://github.com/republicwireless-open/sql-style-guide I think Mozilla's does as well.

Even for planning for personal travel, it's worth noting the massive difference in the amount of tourism between America's top 5 or 10 National Parks, and the countless other Natio…

Yeah, likely part of it. I think there's also been a rise in non-denominational and "seeker-sensitive" churches that just don't have any concept of membership at all...