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Regarding the idea to have some macros that expand to null when unwanted -- I have some "developer" macros that, in day-to-day use, do things like showing TODO items. The most usef…

I don't know anything about literature. You know what you like -- which is enough, especially if you are reading for pleasure. In my experience, discussing a work, or reading about…

It seems like it would be a lot easier to just have students call, e.g., `ta_fork()` rather than `fork()`, and then provide an implementing file to be linked with their program. Th…

This site compares a few text-based diagramming tools, including Mermaid: https://text-to-diagram.com

being a janitor often pays really well When I was a kid, maybe 5th or 6th grade, my family was driving out in the country and came upon a burning farmer's field. We stopped to help…

Alex Jones reminds me of the Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night" -- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

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Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocked. I had a colleague whose surname, Sextro, was part of his email address.…

You don't put science on your name if you're a real science Having flashbacks to when a close friend was getting an MS in Political Science, and spent the first semester in a class…

Another example of selling the same space twice is cities moving from fixed parking meters, to meters that print out a parking receipt. With the meter stuck on a pole at the parkin…

This [0] helpful resource distinguishes between tutorials, reference material, how-to guides, and explanations. [0] https://documentation.divio.com

"Numerical Python" by Johansson was an exception for me.

It sounds like you're thinking about the mat-vec operation in terms of "Grab one row of the matrix, take the dot-product with the vector, and repeat for each row of the matrix." Bu…

> Now I just curate interesting videos and the kids have to watch it with me. I also curate content to watch with my daughter. It started long before she had access to a computer, …

For professional reasons, I have long been fond of the following fact about giraffes. Their heads are so high that their hearts have to produce higher blood pressures than any othe…

Pandoc is great at bridging the gap between science-oriented data control needs, and management-oriented reporting needs. I was on a modeling project that used scripts to generate …

Not the OP, but for what it's worth, the overall flow of the book just didn't work for me. "Modern C" takes a staged approach, going through + Level 0 Encounter + Level 1 Acquainta…

Hard-coded file paths for input data. File paths hard-coded to use somebody's Google Drive so that it only runs if you know their password. Passwords hard-coded to get around the a…

One thing I appreciate about John D. Cook's blog is that he doesn't feel the need to pad out what he wants to say. Here, he had a thought, and he expressed it in two paragraphs. I'…

acknowledgement of all the undeniably great things about the App Store from the perspective of users and developers As a user, I shudder anytime I have to interact with the App Sto…

Don't discount your volunteer work, especially if you have done it as a young adult (i.e., from personal conviction rather than due to home/school pressure). A lot of people will t…