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You can set it to not be diagonal.

I knew a guy who was selling his art online, he was making tongue-in-cheek, technically bad art but it was very deliberate as part of what he was trying to get at, he had a real ar…

Dua Lipa has amazing arrangements for example. There is a great podcast called Switched on Pop, which delves into music theory behind pop hits and their songwriting and arrangement…

> Antimemetics remains a top 10 all-time though. It's good, but didn't leave that big of an impression on me, maybe because I didn't know all the SCP stuff beforehand, I just liked…

I actually think the ending of it really prevented it from being that (at least for me). It started good, then the second act was like "Whoah, this is the most amazing sci-fi I've …

That is the first programming environment I ever used. It was an amazing starting point.

I know/knew a few, they usually balance things like teaching, magazine writing, maintaining social media accounts for brands, copywriting for ads, and tech jobs.

IIRC Leonard Cohen started performing his poems as a singer to make a living.

These are the same trees known as Cum Trees, right? My neighbors have a couple, I didn't know these before moving to the US, and the first time I smelled them was... something.

I haven't used Linux as a desktop in over 2 years, and I really miss Gnome.

How is it charging as fast as a charger 3 times more powerful?

Same here, I actually started to buy some at $30 for the heck of it, but the process to buy then was so involved that I gave up and wanted to get back to it later, and never did.

Bloom Filters are already lossy compression, so depending on how sparse they are I'm not sure you'll get too much benefit out of it, but maybe I'm just thinking of much, much small…

One example: I personally used it to deduplicate recently viewed ads in an app, to avoid spamming users with the same ad too much. One interesting challenge there was that we neede…

What would happen if a 1g probe traveling at 10% of the speed of light hits an inhabited planet with an atmosphere? The kinetic energy is insane, but will it just burn out in the a…

This is pretty great, I used to love this game as a kid. I played it on a PC in the late 80s. Besides being a fun game, it was probably the first game I've played where you could d…

> It looks like Critque is a branch of Gerrit IIRC Gerrit is an open source re-implementation from scratch of Critique.

Reminds me of a funny story - the first day at Google (2018) I got a chat from an SVP, I forgot who, saying "Hi!". At first I was blown, wow, what a company! SVPs greeting new engi…

This needs 2021 in the title, but it's actually really out of date and might as well have 2011 in the title. Redis has modules which can provide a bunch of extra capabilities that …

* When RSS was a thing but in my country a lot of news/content websites hadn't adopted yet, I wrote a service to quickly define scrapers that turn those sites into RSS feeds. * In …

Probably, this conversation took place about 10-15 years ago but I'm guessing these myths persist for years so it might be a relic of the 90s.

This is totally ridiculous, but a lot of time there is a grain of truth behind some of these myths, that is just diluted by retelling from non technical people. I had a serious mus…

This has to be the most annoying thing in MacOS. My laptop, soundly sleeping in my backpack, takes over my bluetooth headphones all the time.

Not using a water flosser as well. It always looked to me like some novelty shopping channel thing. Then I got one and OMG this thing cleans so well, way better than normal flossin…

Pretty sure the first monitor on my first PC (~1988) was amber, later replaced by black and white that did not "smear" as much so was better for games, and later replaced by a colo…