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By "decompress," "eliminate deictic language," etc. are you trying to say "speak simply and clearly?" Eschew obfuscation...

Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammati…

Trying to buy this on Amazon seems to trigger a bug. If I do "buy now," I get a strange text-only "out of stock" page. If I add to cart and try to check out, I'm redirected to the …

Not at all. I for one welcome our new overlords.

Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation.

I think the complaints attenuated in the last in the last 10-15 years because javascript itself became a much better language. Things really started to change with ES5. The introdu…

Ah. I was expecting some technical jargon. You do you, man...

Ok, I'll bite. What's "foxwork"?

Interesting, the linked article does say that. Pretty sure I learned the effect was the opposite (high CO2 --> slower respiration). Note that that was ~15 years ago when I would ha…

EDIT: ignore this; I was confused / misinformed It's about pH. CO2 creates carbonic acid when it dissolves in water. Your blood pH, in turn, controls how much you feel like you nee…

Aaand now OP has fixed it in the HN post title. Still wrong in the linked article.

Argh, autocorrect got me. Thanks, fixed.

It's "Galapagos" or "Galápagos," not "Galapogos."

"This article is ... spellchecked with AI" ??? Why on Earth world you use an LLM for that instead of a spell checker???

There is actually no legally available English version of this ebook now, so if you want the ebook piracy is the only option. Presumably Amazon still has the rights to sell it, but…

I bought a Kindle copy of Steven Baxter's novel Ring. One day, I decided to re-read it and downloaded it to a new device. It had changed from the English edition to the German tran…

Except actually real whereas Frank Abagnale fabricated all of his supposed cons (read The Greatest Hoax).

Contains unwarned spoilers for The Good Place.

I don't think this reductionist view of colleagues (dividing them into categories rather than discerning individual strengths and weaknesses, team-building, empowering) is very suc…

"good riddance"? What went away?

Actually, what I usually do in Github is set the PR branches to delete when you squash-merge the PR, but then the PR always has an "undelete branch" button you can use forver in ca…

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Github default squash commit template & merge strategy makes it easy to go from the squash commit to the feature branch. So you get best of both worlds -- clean master and granular…

You'd probably be interested in Curiosity's AEGIS system if you aren't already aware of it.