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I've been an avid backpacker for about 20 years now, and my go to for paper maps has always been USGS 7.5 minute quadrangles. As the article mentions, they are the "gold standard" …

I have a friend whose wife is from the Netherlands, and she confirms this nearly has in-joke status among the Dutch - "we speak English better than the rest of Europe because we're…

Really? I take this as evidence indicating basically the opposite - fundamental human nature, as reflected through our communications and business practices, hasn't changed signifi…

Not gonna lie, pretty much the only reason I clicked the article was to see a video of rats driving tiny cars.

I also teach computer science (part-time adjunct, I have a regular industry job too), so the quality of computer literacy in the incoming student body is on my mind pretty regularl…

A much repeated myth regarding the Gros Michel is the reason that artificial banana flavoring tastes so "strong" to the point of being "obviously fake" to modern consumers is its b…

There was a 2012 documentary on the subject of dying alone with no next of kin, titled "A Certain Kind of Death": https://youtu.be/ErooOhzE268

>Unless your code is compiled, deployed to a rocket, and fired off the Earth never to return, the question of “what is my platform?” is meaningless in the context of writing good C…

I found it an amusing excrcise, if not terribly relevant, even as someone who spends 90% of his dev time in C. What rubs me about these sorts of articles is they make some presumpt…

Ha, so I work in embedded too, and I was definitely one of the oddballs when I explicitly set-out to land a job in systems out of college. Now I'm a bit older, but I still remember…

As someone who's "getting up there in the years", I really want to believe such a shift will come to pass, but somehow doubt it will, at least for my generation. Partially because …

Yeah, this gives me temendous nostalgia. SDF was my first introduction to Unix, must have been 12 or 13 years old at the time. I'm almost giddy when I find these sorts of early int…

He did a talk at Google where he asserted basically the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI Great talk by the way, he's an incredibly charismatic and well spoke…

This makes a lot of sense and seems obvious, actually. I'm surprised the author didn't make that connection, especially while pointing out that sometimes the fancy motorbike would …

Being funded by the military, I imagine this study is predominately towards the goal of keeping soldiers / pilots awake on long-running operations and/or mitigating combat fatigue …

The title of this article, while technically accurate, is a little clickbaity and seems to be appealing to the bandwagon of sentiments about Zuckerberg. Land rights in Hawaii can b…

Yeah, it seems likely the author is just in that majority class of people who cannot conceive of any living arrangement outside the conventional stick-and-mortar dwelling bound to …

I guess this article just resonates with me as a member of an organization in the process of "transforming" itself by migrating to a containers-and-services architecture with the g…

Can someone summarize why one would particularly want a distro which lacks sysyemd? I failed to find thier reasoning in the About / FAQ and don't know enough to understand the rati…