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The reason why is interesting. Since the test ban treaty of the early 1990s, the US can no longer test its nuclear weapons by exploding them. Thus they have to simulate them explod…

What could possibly go wrong? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105190

Good point. I'm amazed that people are out there buying new Jeeps and Ram trucks. But I'm equally amazed people are out there buying 365 too.

Until this administration which is actively canceling wind projects with taxpayer money. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314

Microsoft is the General Motors of software.

Because those other groups are not privileged. Criticizing the people in power is always okay and it should be encouraged.

This makes no sense to me. The entire point of Schmitt triggers is to not switch back and forth constantly without a good reason. Something is missing from your explanation.

What's the current state of web apps on IOS? Does Safari yet support local databases well enough to build useful web apps? Pretty much every app I can think of building for my fami…

Let me predict how Kinney management is going to react to this fiasco: They're going to call it a PR problem and say they haven't done a good enough job of selling the benefits to …

There's also a part of the US where one must drive on the left: The US Virgin Islands. Driving there is more difficult than "normal" left-side driving (such as in the UK or Japan) …

Thanks. There's one of these in Santa Fe, NM and I didn't know it had a name. I find driving on it odd but it works.

Another reason many people rejected heliocentrism was that you could get excommunicated (or worse!) if you professed to accept it.

That's true but it's not the most important aspect of macros. Macros let you define a new language that describes your problem solution more directly than you can in raw Lisp. In o…

And that particular threading macro looks a lot like monadic code in Haskell, which looks a bit like Forth, which looks like a shell command with pipes. Macros let a domain program…

> reminded me of the intertwined nature of DNA, RNA and proteins in Biology My analogy is how a changing electric field generates a changing magnetic field which generates a changi…

Tail recursive functions on a tail-jump optimized compiler can be as performant as loops. If the compiler was written by someone who has read the Steele papers, it generates the sa…

Same here. This situation is so mind-bogglingly ridiculous that I don't know how anybody takes GrapheneOS seriously. I mean, let's say I wanted to buy a big airplane but I don't li…

This explains why I'm seeing commercials for Life360 now for the first time ever: They've developed a new revenue stream by selling everybody's location to advertisers. Now deleted…

This is both a bad and a good idea. First the bad: Helium is very expensive to extract and store. You'd need a lot of venture capital. And you'd have a tough time competing with Qa…

This USB-C toothbrush is something I've been looking for so I don't need to bring a special charger. What would be even better is an electric toothbrush that doesn't contain a batt…

Likewise usurping Ctrl-F with their own shitty global search function rather than the perfectly good page search provided by the browser. Looking at you, Confluence.

And of course you often cannot paste a 6-digit number into these fields. You have to type all 6 digits by hand.

React was invented to make multiple DOM changes quicker and set up DOM event dependencies declaratively. Fine. Some websites benefit from this. Most do not. Since React's invention…

I haven't bought a Sony product since 2005 when they put a rootkit on music CDs. Apparently their customer-hostile attitude hasn't changed much.

I think of C as more of a dark side language because it's basically a portable assembler. Lisp at least prevents you from doing the stupidest things like overrunning array bounds o…