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That’s a fun design that brings back some old memories.

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> For many people, just having the function signatures is documentation enough. You make a fair point about a documentation gap. The first step is always defining the problem. Want…

If that’s your mission and especially if you’re mechanically inclined, experimental is highly compelling.

I understand that imposing the restrictions may have involved great amounts of wishful thinking as to the outcome. Even this is not so certain because certain politicians were able…

Some means at least one.

GitHub is still the only option on their download page: https://ghostty.org/download

This is essentially the situation in the general aviation market for certificated aircraft, and it sucks. Costs are triple or more compared to the experimental market. Finding a de…

“The purpose of a system is what it does.”

Is it your position that private pest control could not achieve the same or better result for at most the same cost? Are you an economic calculation problem denier?

If they’re using Python, performance isn’t high on their list of requirements.

1a. They may have thought they knew what they were doing, but their work product shows otherwise. 1b. They may have thought they knew what they were doing and spoke confidently eno…

This is a surprising result. With structured inputs like source code, I’d expect grep to outperform semantic search, but natural language’s errors and inconsistencies seem to leave…

What about the wizard hat?

The distinction is subtle. Someone learning to fly may be described as paying careful attention: to every little sound, vibration, and sensation. A common tactic by student pilots …

The circumstance doesn’t have to be that dramatic to be abnormal. Landing after a merely unstable approach, too many significant changes too close to landing, increases risk. Landi…

The FAA describes taxi, takeoff, landing, and operations other than cruise flight below 10,000 MSL as critical phases of flight because of increased risk. The aircraft is closer to…

This is an example of risk compensation. When people perceive greater protections around themselves, they tend to become more aggressive at the margin, such as with the driving hab…

> “It would not be an exaggeration to call these criminals capitalists,” he concludes, “even if their idea of making money was more literal-minded than the bankers whose notes they…

A step-by-step patient playbook for paying what's fair — and not a dollar more.

Slowly lets you meet pen pals from your smartphone! Match with someone that shares your passions, write a letter, and collect stamps from around the world. Speak your mind—one lett…

The Dead or Canadian category on its own was surprisingly tricky. Remote Control was fun TV.

Unlike Jevons, [Carl] Menger [(1840–1921)] did not believe that goods provide “utils,” or units of utility. Rather, he wrote, goods are valuable because they serve various uses who…

You know that Voight-Kampff test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself?