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A warning about the linked copy: this isn't the standard text of Bradbury's story. I compared it with three other circulating copies and this version is only about 1,016 words vers…

The date filters seem to be ignored for certain search terms and not others. Searching for, say, "dune before:2019-04-05" filters as expected, but searching for current events prox…

Yes, have a look at the work of Erb, Schwander, and others at the Max Planck institute on the CETCH cycle, for example. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6314/900.full http…

Are the touchbar Macbook Pros still experiencing widespread screen delamination? I thought that was specific to the previous generation.

Or if you'd rather not fork, check out this write up of an approach to getting Orgzly to sync via termux and Tasker: https://2li.ch/home/syncing-org-files

Hairspray won't do it alone, but hairspray mixed with lipstick and perfume will be toxic, and untraceable.

I wonder if this proposal will be remembered by our successors and their counterparties when the time comes.

Blue Origin has actually been around longer than SpaceX. Both companies were also rans of the first XPrize.

Would the increase in time critical public awareness had that thread not been deleted have made a difference? Perhaps the chance that it could should outweigh the urge for propriet…

Check out Greg Egan's Permutation City in which sort of the opposite happens.

Every time someone important to the community dies, there's talk of hoisting the black bar and questions about why or why not, the ultimate decision being left to the discretion of…

What astounds me is that this project is called LiMux and not Munix.

The distinction between comments and link titles feels a little false because there's no obligation to link to the root of the primary source document chain, if there even is a can…

I wonder if the disdain is for the idea of machine made Turkish coffee, or because there's some factor creating variance in the bubbling times for which the machines aren't compens…

Here's a little something in Python that I spent the last few hours writing: def unfalse_poem(): (None is True) and False for subject in [complex(True,False)]: subject is not objec…

Does anyone have experience with corporate policies regarding the movement of data through airports? I'm curious about the prevalence of the wipe everything and repopulate the hard…

I feel the same way about my bash history.

The difference between this and the Southwest Airlines example is that the latter comes off as touching loyalty to one's employees, which is nice pr if the anecdote becomes public.…

A design that has to rely on the objectivity and dispassion of the collective Media, that has to be taken in the appropriate context as one part of a complicated "identity system" …

I'm disturbed by how emotionally indignant both the Aurora and Garret articles are in contrast with the original Ted Tso remarks. My personal expectation of a community of technica…

My best bursts of rapid learning are almost always project/puzzle driven. I didn't, for instance, set out to master FFT directly, but it seemed like something that could improve my…

This was two months ago.

Consider the spin of any electron in the room. Do not measure it.