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Right or wrong, you can get around the sales tax using B&H's Payboo credit card (for use on their site only): https://www.bhphotovideo.com/credit-cards

This looks interesting, but it's the software that will make or break the experience. Software aside, this is expensive ($479 when you select the pen with the eraser and the book c…

See also https://librivox.org for free public domain audiobooks.

Yes, yes, and yes. It's in his FAQ: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus

The FDIC limit is $250K: https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/faq.html

This is a fantastic piece of writing that is worth re-reading. Neal Stephenson just appeared on Tyler Cowen's Conversions with Tyler Podcast: https://medium.com/conversations-with-…

Oh, that's not so bad. American nuclear missiles are running software from the 70s, loaded via 8-inch floppy disks. https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nucl...

I've seen this same trick done with macros in BSD kernel code from the 80s!

Could you share the puzzle?

I came here to post this link, too. :)

Islam dates to the 7th century. According to its doctrine, it is the ultimate and final refinement of Abrahamic faith. Muslims believe that every prophet going back to Adam were ta…

Linear interpolation.

This interesting blog post argues in the affirmative: http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm

By trading tether issued out of thin air for BTC.

They acquired lidar company Strobe in October: https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-were-solving-the-lidar-probl...

In the device_read function, len — ; should be len --;

`brew cask install font-hack` works great :)

This is the relevant change: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0556e26273f704db73df9e7c...

Facebook's ZStandard compression library appears to be both faster and better at compressing than zlib. Is there any reason to continue using zlib for new projects that don't need …

For one, AppDynamics contracts are usually three years.