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All but one state (in '19) was under single party control. https://twitter.com/ncslorg/status/1060137062853160961?lang=...

Do you have a source pointing at that common definition? I lived a majority of my life in the West US (ID, MT, WA), and have never heard North Dakota referred to as the West. Maybe…

Is biweekly twice a week or every two weeks? My previous gig had grooming/internal grooming every week. We had stand ups twice a week (biweekly). Almost all of these meetings were …

What's a suburb? Depending on the level of density and sentiment about public parks (poor people's lawns v. a public good), some relatively low density places are better about publ…

I actually still use it all the time. Just a habit from when I started using what was then OS X in '08.

Not quite the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance .

Never felt quite as old as watching that.

Indolence when you get don't get more out of extra work is a logical response.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/407177/windowserve... started happening in Big Sur to me.

Property taxes can go to _those people_ who can't afford to live in your burbclave.

We're using https://next.yarnpkg.com/features/zero-installs , and it gets rid of one off issues like this (unless you have native deps which require an install).

Typescript works perfectly well without classes, even better sometimes (see decorators and Typescript). The shape of data is more foundational than classes. An object without a cla…

In German, the vowels between schwül and schwul were really difficult to do for me as an American English speaker. I couldn't ever hear the difference between rounded and unrounded…

Almost certain that macOS opens everything in my default browser of choice when clicking on a link in AirMail (Firefox).

Voiceless phonemes(?) tend to become voiced when they're between two vowels. Boise natives hypercorrect to say Boy-see, when most folks from outside the area say Boy-zee. Historic …

https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/ shows how OCaml's influence is part of hooks too.

QWERTY is awful for programming. I use https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ . which puts control characters on the number row. `&[{}(=*)+]` is 1 to 0.

Starcraft II had a grid (I don't remember the actual name) mode keyboard layout that worked perfectly with Dvorak without having to remap keys. Other games like the Java version of…

macOS is macOS because the latest version is now 11.2.3. They could have gone with OS XI though.

French food is generally a different level of prestige than pirogis and gobs.

As someone who is fourth generation Polish in America--basically all that's left at that point is food and people butchering your last name--is that even though pirogi is plural in…

It does indeed. Thanks!

Is there a similar source that would let you compare MSAs for building of housing units? I'd be interested to see how Boise's MSA lines up with the Bay Area. Most Californian trans…

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Boston does this better, where if there isn't traffic, sirens aren't run. At night, sirens are relatively rare. Especially compared to Seattle and Boise where I've also lived. In G…