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yeah one of the trackmania games -- which feature a nominally deterministic physics engine, allowing for replays from a recorded sequence of inputs... except the physics engine rel…

it has become unfortunately common in marriott hotels in the (western) US, specifically the current generation of residence inn; and i think i've seen it in new towneplace suites a…

if you're up for a road trip, then cedar city utah is an option from southern california. the mountains on the east side of town have plenty of fall colors (lots of hiking options,…

the article claims the playlist is "scientifically verified" ... but doesn't seem to cover the science behind the list construction or verification. is there a background article s…

FWIW the peakbagger app (android, ios) includes excellent fire and smoke layers. andrew has added these features over the past few years as fires have complicated the quest for pea…

yeah i dunno how people live in the PNW, i was totally depressed the 8 months i spent in vancouver BC! it would be kind of cool to have calendar software which has a "bad weather" …

i would prefer sunny days off, and bad weather days for meetings.

well i guess i won't be moving my music to spotify: i'm on google play music right now, and so i'm in the market.

> Some past, present, and potential clients include ... i'm having a hard time reading past the word "potential". that suggests exaggeration to me.

i'm not sure i agree. $100 of gas gets you about 24 gallons at california average prices, even at 20mpg that's 2x what you need to get to reno (218mi), on the way to reno you trave…

this pleases me in so many ways. as a former public radio listener, who grew increasingly tired of finding something else to listen to during the all-too-regular fund drives, i ver…

for a long time i used a variation of this as an interview question for performance analysis positions at google. instead of focusing on I/O costs i was focusing on cache miss cost…

the news article left me wanting to know more about the hike, and i discovered this ropewiki article[0] which seems to be related, and link to a more detailed trip report[1]. i'm m…

flying heavy components in a location where the winds are strong enough for wind power generation might pose some exciting challenges.

since C pretty much requires a stack, and a stack requires "RAM" of some form, it used to be necessary that the memory system be trained prior to executing any C code. however once…

named ranges and DGET "sql-like" queries are in google sheets as well. (or perhaps what you meant is that few people know about these things, and don't use them, so you end up with…

motherboard features such as x16 or 2x8 are achieved with "pcie mux" chips. these are devices which select which of N pairs of differential wires is attached to the input/output di…

the article seems to suggest that this is a port of the original (not web) google earth app to webassembly ... but what i'm seeing is another version of the web app. the desktop ap…

is there technology around this? i mean i can imagine an API where the CC# itself is only necessary in the first transaction with a new vendor, during which the vendor makes a (sig…

unfortunately there are still many "land locked" public lands among those protected lands in california: public lands which are encircled by private lands, with no easement. in the…

is it possible that airlines have arrivals quotas or limits in certain airports, or pay per passenger which arrives at an airport? this could cause what looks like "batshit" pricin…

taxes, airport fees, etc.

more clos advantages: - simplified operations: can service/remove/add ToRs without affecting global routing or the forwarding capacity of the fabric. - tor uplink flexibility: if a…