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Then maybe stop commenting about contentious topics in US politics?

> you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash/zsh/fish The reason in question is that not that long ago, people said "you really need to have a sp…

The first four words on that page include the name of the author "Dave Liepmann" which != Tufte

Your definition is definitely the historically more common one. But see the final definition under the verb here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interdict#English (transitive, US, …

A lot of my friends are professors or lecturers at universities with "motivationally-diverse" undergraduate populations; LLM-based cheating has become so common that they often rew…

That Wiki page even has a section about the RH: > The Riemann hypothesis is noteworthy for its appearance on the list of Hilbert problems, Smale's list, the list of Millennium Priz…

I am generally open to this idea, but this particular way of defining what bundles are allowed or not seems incredibly weak. Take Adobe's Creative Cloud. There is almost no one in …

The Republic of Gilead is named for the biblical name "Gilead" for a region in Jordan[0]; the shot is presumably named for the Balm of Gilead[1], also named for biblical Gilead. [0…

At some point the test stopped being fizz buzz and started being "reproduce Brent's cycle detection algorithm from memory or from first principles if you have forgotten what it is"…

Marijuana remains Schedule I in the US: > 7360 Marijuana, including cannabis resin > 7350 Marijuana extracts; cannabinoids The alleged rescheduling to Schedule III has yet to pass …

The thing that makes them "caustic or acidic" is that they are acidic (~3pH), by virtue of having dissolved carbon dioxide (ie carbonic acid) + acidic preservatives in them. You ar…

OP's "cannot be used for bezos yacht" problem is about discriminatory licenses. If you don't care that eg Amazon can use your software, there is nothing at odds with what OP sees a…

For anyone wondering why this is here, I just found this: https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-li... > Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clau…

Yeah, not sure where the other figure came from. There is literally a project to build unmanned craft to visit Proxima Centauri sometime in the next 50 years or so: https://en.wiki…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockdown_resistance I don't know if this has appeared in ticks but it has appeared in mosquitos.

Not OP, but Mautam in bamboo is another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam Some other interesting links: - On bamboo in particular (semelparous and allochronic like cicadas): ht…

The 3 things mentioned so far are governed by very different regulatory regimes: - Using a camera drone to spot game will fall under the purview of both Federal and state level Fis…

Occasionally I want to pick up a new tool or alter my config for an existing one and typically need to read the docs to build a config myself or find examples piecemeal. Is there a…

As William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

I clicked thinking it was going to be about one-time programmable memory.

> registration If you purchase a firearm from an FFL anywhere in the United States, you are required to fill out an ATF form 4473 and do a NICS background check. There isn't a gian…

2 up quarks, so 2/3 * 2 -> 4/3. And then 4/3 - 1/3 = 3/3 = 1

> [W]hen we find a (fast) way turn CO2 back into gasoline The more salient point than fast is cheap, preferably something with a net profit, which seems... unlikely.

Right, but they will know what "chai tea" refers to, ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_chai

The Flipper Zero is a small-form computing device that is immensely popular, not particularly niche. > Any(sic) incredibly small number of engineers and scientists would ever use t…