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These kind of coordinated efforts come from think tanks, lobbyist groups, etc. If you look around you'll see a lot of nearly-identical bills introduced in several states more or le…

America's Test Kitchen actually does suggest adding water to reduce the amount of time needed for caramelization--and not an equivalent amount of water, but much more than the amou…

The game High On Life used Midjourney to create additional environmental art like posters and advertisements.[1] The twitter account for the remake of System Shock used Midjourney …

It's a doable and fun project. I did it a few years ago, designing a small set of instruments in Fusion 360, 3d printing them, using stepper motors and an arduino to handle movemen…

I have one and use it probably a few times a week. It's become a necessity for flight sims for me, I no longer play them outside VR. Flight sims aren't terribly mainstream, sure, b…

He leaves behind a complicated legacy. It's important to note that credible allegations of domestic abuse lead him to sell SA in the past year, and this can't be set aside. At the …

My job is split between maintaining a giant legacy perl codebase and doing new dev work in python. I vastly prefer python overall, but perl's still the best when you need quick one…

Rents are only a part of inflation measurements and can easily outpace the general rate. California's recent rent control laws caps rent increases at 10% or 5% + the yearly CPI inc…

One note that seems relevant to the grandparent comment, Ravel is now owned by LexisNexis.

My office has at least a few hundred thousand lines of perl 5 (v 5.8.0) running on legacy systems, though we've switched to python for new development. We won't be using perl 6, an…

I absolutely agree with you--there is no threat of anything resembling revolution in the US today. The issue is not the self-obsession or lack of engagement the ancestor comment de…

I'd argue that taking to the street and protesting is also just giving people the illusion that they're doing something useful. The Iraq War protests were some of the largest in hi…

Many people have no choice in their broadband provider[1]--of those that do, their choices are often between corporations that also have significant interest in TV and cable TV (ev…

Agreed with this. I wouldn't take a 4-day weekend to do interviews and a homework assignment unless I was desperate or already out of a job.

It's a nebulous definition as far as I can tell. For what it's worth, I don't deal with these in any sort of legal capacity, but my day job does involve a lot of work with federal …

Can't speak for the author of this site, but all of the information I've seen on it is freely available on congress.gov or gpo.gov.

His work remains incredibly influential today in the current renaissance of modular synthesizers--a number of important eurorack designers (e.g., Make Noise) take a lot of inspirat…

It's not at all clear that only individuals would go for the cheaper alternative. We also already have cheaper alternatives in e.g. studio apartments, and we currently have familie…

The article has something of an issue in that its ever-escalating apartment prices are never bound to any material costs--i.e., it doesn't directly acknowledge that some significan…

I'm not sure it's right to conflate arguments about the possibility of new technology having other-than-positive effects with arguments about the moral decay of society. I'd argue …

Russian names are generally given name then patronymic (i.e. 'son of' or 'daughter of') then family name. A person is formally addressed by their given and patronymic names. In thi…