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Gateway timeout, 504 host error. My mattress is stuck foot-side up.

Japanese is full of loanwords precisely because those good folks on the other side of the world find so many things about Western culture fascinating. My Japanese father-in-law eve…

I reckon these official converters were instrumental in Tengen's work for reverse engineering the NES to run "unlicensed" games. It turns out that another blog post on this site ex…

I don't see how being compensated for giving your organ to someone else is worse than being told you can either give it away for free or not at all. Imagine if billionaires had to …

You're right, but it still sucks that my car now depreciates as fast as my Macbook. I don't think batteries will ever hold their value though, and those things constitute at least …

It seems the once "Great" Britain cannot let go of its grandiose delusions of ruling over and "civilizing" the entire known world. I've always held onto the suspicion that the dist…

Reminds me of a time-honored aphorism in running: A marathon consists of two halves: the first 20 miles, and then the last 10k (6.2mi) when you're more sore and tired than you've e…

I don't care if there are some special privileges unlocked at higher "karma" levels, I hope my "karma" stays at 69 forever because of this thread.

The OP's article does a lot more to disprove such a hypothesis by instead offering a more credible alternative explanation: Neurons found in the CNS have tubles large enough to all…

How many 2025 dollars will it cost me to take a nice lady to the candy shop?

Only if you earnestly give a rat's ass about all of the above. Again, you're thinking of an "agile" stakeholder- not a "stakeholder capitalism" stakeholder. Why is this so difficul…

That's the magic of action potentials. As sodium ions (+1 charge) propagate, they dissipate throughout the cytosol and sometimes leak out of the cell membrane, but they also trigge…

Like I said, that's the engineering context of the word. In business managerial side of operations, "stakeholder" is definitely a weasel word. The word "stakeholder" in "stakeholde…

Not to be pedantic, but I think you mean "shareholders". In the context of software, the term "stakeholder" means anyone who will use the project being worked on. In the context of…

A lot of those design decisions in OSes were influenced by hardware limitations of home computers in the 1970s and 1980s. UNIX may have been around since '71, but Windows NT was de…

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people being billionaires "in theory". If someone makes billions of dollars doing something that adds $10 of value to my life, then God b…

"I would like C++ would be a little more "batteries included" in some ways, like having a basic standard for signals, networking (just handling sockets would be a huge thing), and …

Lol. Yes.

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All you did was link to the main page of a wikipedia article and copy and paste the first sentence. Your response is so lazy, it doesn't even deserve a response, but I'm putting th…

Just a friendly reminder: The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. Of course he doesn't want people to think that tariffs can bring back middle class manufacturing jobs, and nat…

I still cannot believe the Geneva Conventions allowed this. This should have ended with John Kerry and Jen Psaki in a Swiss prison for at least 10 years, if not Barack Obama himsel…

On a related note, I'm skeptical of the feasibility of their 2035 EV-only mandate. They haven't made any meaningful progress toward building up a grid that can support as much elec…

That is a good point I completely overlooked: your international flight can get redirected to a country you never intended to visit.